Wage War On Slow Running

On Monday we ran the reaper, as always. I did a 2.13 warm-up, then ran the 1.3 miles up the hill. I ran a 9:30, so not a personal record but still a solid time. I finished first on the team, only behind Brady who is an alumni. My run down the reaper and cool down totaled 2.66.

My coach is running a small clinic for young runners and I helped out with it, getting in a slow 1.75 miles. My total for the day was 7.84.

Not the best run today. I think I ate too much junk food much yesterday and I didn't sleep enough. I ran 8.78 miles at a pace of 7:09, with time 62:48. We did strides and that added .51, so total mileage 9.29.

PM- We had our first afternoon practice at 5. We did a mile warmup, and did six exercises with five fast 400s in between, then a mile coo down. We also did an ice bath after. I afternoon workout mileage including the excercises (200m each) was 3.99.

Today we did a speed workout. Mile warmup and then 5 800s with 3-minute rests in between, followed by a 1200 jog, and then 5 more 800s with 3-minute rests in between. With my cool down it was 8.03.

I also helped with the clinic again, which was honestly tough because only 4 people came and it was very slow. It was suppose to be 3 miles but I stuck in the back and made it 1.87 before my coach picked us up.

PM- I saw Casey and Carson Clinger doing a recovery in the evening, and then I saw Tyler doing one as well, so, not to be outdone, I ran four miles to Manila pond and back. I listened to the album Wilder Mind by Mumford & Sons, which is an incredible album by the way.

This morning we did a 65 minute and we went to Molly's, but passed the hill instead of going up it. It was tough honestly but I got 8.53 in 70:30. My run was a bit longer because I got lost on the way back and the way back was pretty slow. Pace was only 8:16 per mile.

Our second practice today was buddy 400's. It was blazing hot as usual but we still got several people to come. Mile warmup and then we each did 8 400's. Reed was my partner and we finished about the same as Riley and Matt. My distance was 2.1 miles and my pace was 5:08. We did a mile cooldown so 4.1 for afternoon practice.

Great speed workout today. 1.09 warmup, then we did 5 minutes of our 5K pace, 5 minute jog, all the way down to 1 minute of our 5K pace and 1 minute jog. It was good but my stomach felt gross again so I need to try to eat an earlier dinner and healthier food. Some of the guys passed me at the end. My watch got a little messed up because I think I stopped it accidentally but Tyler thinks we went 4.75. We did a cool down back to the high school which was 2.51 so total distance was 8.35.

75-minute capillary run today, the longest of the summer so far. I started out with Reed but he eventually got ahead of me. I went a little longer than 37:30 out so I could hit 5.5 miles, and I was worried I went out too fast, but I decided I had it in me to speed up on the last 3 miles and my run lasted 75:13, so just a tad over. I ran at an average pace of 6:49 per mile and hit 11.04 miles.

Today was the last day of my ham challenge. I went to every day of practice but one for 24 days, because we had no practice on that day and I did the freedom run. I'm proud of that, and also that I've been pushing the pace. Can't wait to keep pushing for the rest of the summer and into the season!

PM- Did a recovery run because you have to when you do a hard run like I did in the morning. 4.01 miles.