One Who Runs

ran the region course today. I need to be more focused and stretch directly after the runs. I was a bit better about it today. I hope to not be doing two miles ever again and only continuing to increase my mileage and be much better than last year. 

We did the 6 min vVo2 Max test to day. One mile warm up with equal cool down. I went 1427 meters.

I only did one park way loop.

Some nice hills in Coral Canyon today.

We did the 15 min vVo2 Max test to day. I feel like I should have gone faster, but it's all good. I went 2 miles and 227 meters. 

We did the big 30 30s today. My distance was 122 meters, and I did 31 reps. After I got all cooled down, I thought I should have done more, but I think I'm fine at the moment. I need to start really getting all my mileage in. All in all, a very formidable, but good workout.

I did some pretty easy thousands today. I ran with some people that had to hit similar times. Personally I had to hit 5:26 three times. By the end of the third I was starting to feel it, but that's probably because my first rep was about 40 seconds faster that what I needed, and both reps afterward were below time.

We did the grass run today, which I have noticed that it is slowly but surely moving closer to Monday. I ran with the majority group of guys (level 2/3) and had a good bout of striders. 

I think that the 30/30s were lots harder today. But we were told they would be harder because of increased recovery distance. I really need to stretch! Not being good about stretching is probably going to hurt now and later. Good workout though, I managed 24 reps. Which is quite different then last time, but that was to be expected.

So I kind-of gave myself a bit of a weekend (you know, like two days in the middle of the week).

Morning--We did the thousands workout up at the dirt mile. I did four reps and felt pretty good about all of them. I beat my target time by about 20 seconds every rep. But this time I could feel more strain then last time, probably the extra rep. All in all, really good workout, and I hit 5 miles total.

Afternoon--We had our first afternoon run today. Destination; Arctic Circle. Temperature;  hovering around 102. It was a bit hard, to be honest. The heat was a bit of a shock. But, it was fun. And we were introduced to a new lift for our hips. fun (ish).

Morning--We did our grass run today. I did four miles followed by 8 striders. Kids club went well today. Thanks to the coaches for helping us.

We did the 30/30 workout today with a one mile warm up and cool down. I did 16 reps(which is 8 less than last time). I was supposed to cover half of my 122 meters on my cool down, but for the first 6 or 7 recoveries we where going much to far. I just need to learn how to pace myself early on no matter what everyone else around me is doing. I know what I need to hit, so I need to go out and hit it. But, being in a good group is much better than being alone in this workout.

Morning--We did thousands today. The level twos were upped to five repeats. I had an interesting run because I had not stretched enough beforehand, but everything turned out alright. I wasn't running with the main group of level twos, but I beat my time every repeat. I just didn't beat it by 30 or so seconds this time.

My legs were pretty sore and tight today. Definitely need to stretch. I did 2 for the grass run today plus one mile striders. Kids club was pretty fun today. I was excited to see all the kids who were interested in the Red Rock Runners team.

I did 15 30/30s + 1 mile warm + 1 mile cool. Kids club was cool. I was glad most of the kids were having fun too.

P.M. was a bit late coming to practice but I caught up pretty well. I never quite caught the main group. My legs didn't feel so awesome, and the last half mile was really slow. But swimming at Coach's house was really fun!

A.M.  We did a hill workout today, I did 4x1minute and 4x30seconds. I thought it went great. My legs only hurt for a bit at the beginning, and I felt I pushed the workout nicely.

A.M.     Did some good Thousands(6 repeats) and I was hitting my, slightly lowered, times. 6.25 miles

P.M.     Our first run up at camp was a good 4 miler. the first two were on a slight down hill and we came back the same way after us level twos broke off from the level threes. It was a good way to kick off camp.

A.M.     We set out on our long run for the week (level twos were going 8). It was a really good run up through the woods. It was a bit hard, but I felt good afterwards.

P.M.      3 miles out past the lake. I felt bad in the legs, but some stretching helped. Then went back to the lake.

A.M. We did our long hill for the week and went 5 total. I definitely felt a lot better going down.

P.M.  This was a 3 mile trail run down into a valley and back. I felt like I was flying going down and it was really pretty on the trail. Going back up was the hardest part, but I made it. (Thanks Andrew)

I went 4ish miles. we went up a road that was kind of hard, and coming back, I fell a bit behind and didn't quite take the right way back across the stream and accidentally took a short cut. But I kind of rounded it out by running back around into camp with Coach. It was a great day to end an awesome camp.

A.M.     I did thousands today. I had to do 6 reps with our percentages bumped up to 85%. Looking at my times, I saw that I pretty much was a bit too fast for all but one of my repeats.

P.M.     It was hot... I finally got my brother out to weights and had to show him the ropes. and we did plyos for the first time. 

Our 30/30 workout morphed into a minute on/minute off workout, and I did 9 repeats.  I'm excited for the time trial tomorrow. I hope for a PR. The time to beat 13:50.

Today was also our last day of kids club, and it went really well. It was cool to see all these kids run this year.

We started from the high school for the first time for morning practice, and I went on a 1.5 warm up and was feeling ready to race.  The race went well overall, but I think that I may have been able to do a bit better. I meet my goal, witch is awesome!!! Then went on a 1.5 cool down, and did a mile of striders.

We went out to the Little Valley Fields park and did a grass run and that felt nice. Then we went out to the hill over by there and I did 5x1 and 3x30sec. I, along with a few others, were surprised at how far up we got on the first minute. we got all the way to the top of the second hill. It was a good workout overall.