80

Miles: 73

80 Miles this week, 1 tempo workout.

Sunday, 8/19
Ran 10 miles up at the Monrovia dam, transportation courteous of katherine (thanks). Felt tired by the end since I did several miles of hills.

In the evening I did a rather quick 3 with Ian before finishing off with another 3 in San Marino. In case none of you knew, San Marino gets really fucking dark at night.

Monday, 8/20
Ran 9 miles, Lower + Ian loop. Took it kinda slow in preparation of an intended long day tomorrow with about 4-5 miles of tempo.

Tuesday, 8/21
Ran down to the arroyo via the south pas. route for a nice tempo run. I stopped by the baseball diamonds for quick weight loss via my ass then trotted to the start of the Ian loops for the guts and nuts of the run. Without much hesitation i began the workout: 3 laps, hard but not too wearing. I went out for the first few hundred meters relatively conservative, hesitant of the mistake I made of going out too fast last week. I had also made it my plan to have four places to check the watch and monitor my progress: 1) the first bridge 2) the second bridge 3) the casting pond 4) the start/finish. Unfortunately, when I got to the first bridge I nearly stopped the workout altogether when I realized that I hadn't even started my watch. In turn I remembered that to the second bridge is roughly 5 minutes. So I decided to start my watch there and just add on five minutes. When I got back to the start my watch read 4:45 (9:45 for the first lap). By the time I got back to the second bridge I was at 9:10 for the first timed lap. Back to the start my watch read 13:48 (18:48, this is where I stopped last week, too tired to continue). Hauling on I came by the second bridge reading 18:10 (23:10). Lastly I came to the finish reading 22:40 (27:40).

Personally, right now I'm really pleased with this time for 8k-ish. Theres still a lot to factor in: proper shoes, better-warm up, race atmosphere, and taper. While some of which would affect me positively others would affect me negatively. Either way this workout left me feeling strong and confident about this coming season and the training I've done so far.

I finished up running full arroyo for a total of 15 miles for the day.

Wednesday, 8/22
Patrician + NF laps for 12 miles in all. Took it slow at a nice recovery pace, felt good.

Thursday, 8/23
Felt good and well rested in the a.m. after 10 hours of sleep. Decided it was still probably a good idea to just run an easy 7 or 8 today.

Ran Huntingson and followed it up with a few laps to round out to 7 miles.

Friday, 8/24
Ran some with mark at some hills. Maybe four miles if i'm lucky.

Saturday, 8/25
An easy 10