Track, week 8

Total Miles: 47

Sunday, 2/24
Ran on the south field barefoot with Ian for 30 minutes, felt kinda tight afterwards... but i think it was more because of the cold than than the races yesterday.

Monday, 2/25
Did Lower Arroyo plus casting pond. I stopped to shit by the pond and some creepy old guy who i saw outside walked in while i was crapping and looked at me for a second.... creeeeeeeepy. Came home and kept the whole run totally chill.

Tuesday, 2/26
Warmed up down to allen and back. Stretched and did a few striders before doing 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 1200, 800, 400, starting every 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10, 7:30, 5, 2:30. I ran 74, 2:29 (74,75), 3:43 (74,74,75), 4:57 (73,74,75,75), 3:40 (73,73,74), 2:26 (73,73), and 67 to finish up. I felt totally smooth through out this workout and kept thinking of how it was completely just money in the bank. At the start of each interval I felt tired but was still able to get my legs moving at that same pace without trouble. I'm super stoked about this workout and think I'm easily ready to go sub 4 and possibly P.R. at Oxy.

Wednesday, 2/27
Did about 6 laps warm up then ran Huntington at a mellow pace. Stopped on the way back to shit at lacy. Once back, took the guys through abs. Didn't feel sore at all from yesterdays workout, maybe a little slow/tired, but not sore.

Thursday, 2/28
Warmed up to Lacy, did a 20 minute tempo with mark. Started out for the first mile at 5:40 pace, the dropped to 5:35, then 5:20 till the end. Felt fine aerobically. My foots been hurting the past few days from that damn sore I got while running at Pomona 1 1/2 weeks ago.. Oddly, it didn't hurt at until a few days ago, and it seems to be getting worse and worse. I suppose I might take tomorrow off as a result, or just jog a few super easy miles.

Saturday, 3/1
Took yesterday off to make sure my left foot was doing fine, it had started hurting a lot on thursday night and i could barely step on it. Anyways, I'm up sitting the U of Oregon for a few days so I finally found a few hours today to get out and take a nice long easy run. Crossed the river and ran on this wood chip trail for several miles, also ran on an off shoot that took me past I-5 and into the neighboring town of springfield. It was a great run despite the fact that it hailed a few times and rained a bit. The only thing that heavily depressed me about this run was that in less than 15 minutes I was yelled at twice. Normally this doesn't bother me much and I just smile turn the other cheek (moon them) and keep on running. On a side, mooning really does seem like the appropriate response to me in most cases since these ignorant jackasses are usually making inane comments regarding the length of my shorts. The alternative I offer them is that I wear no shorts. I regress, it really just irked me that even in one of the track and field/running capital's of the U.S. or even World I experienced this. That really goes to show you how much of an absurd past-time running is becoming. But that at the same time its a cult following in which all runners form a family and we can always relate to each other through that.

Track, Week 7

Total Miles: 58

Sunday, 2/17
Woke up feeling a little regretful and quickly left to go do an hour easy. Just jogged up and down orange grove. Could feel some pain from the bruise I'd gotten on my foot during yesterday's race.

Monday, 2/18
Left for an afternoon run from my place headed the west on orange grove and ran to the rose bowl. Did one lap there, saw susan, came back. Didn't push the pace at all since I expected a difficult workout for tuesday.

Tuesday, 2/19
5x1200 on the track (without enough rest (starting every 6:30)). Ran an easy warm up around the track followed by a warm up 400 at a cruising 78 (felt super easy). The first 1200 I decided I would really chill on. I went out in 76, 76, 74 (3:46), 2) 73, 74, 74 (3:41), 3) 72, 73, 74 (3:39), 4) 72, 73, 76 (3:41), by the fifth one I felt really tired so I just took it easy (intentionally) and ran 78's. This was followed up by a 400 at 72/73. To finish up we did 3/200m. I ran these at about 28/29 and felt pretty quick. Overall I think this was a good workout and such. I think another week or two of something like this will be very useful to me before oxy. In addition the week (or two) before, I really think I'll need a sharpening workout to help with my turnover.

Wednesday, 2/20
Ran a few laps warm-up then crazy tree. I stopped to piss in the tree. After getting back we did 4 striders and abs.

Thursday, 2/21
Felt kinda full for some reason and a little lethargic, but not really tight or tired. Ran 3x 800 on 2 off with mark. We did the first one at about 6:00 pace, nice and relaxed and followed up with the next two around 5:40 then 5:20. These felt kinda relaxed, but quick. After I didn't feel too tired.

Friday, 2/22
Prerace, super slow, thought about my races the next day a lot.

Saturday, 2/23
1200 in DMR: went out a really relaxed 66 in the middle of the pack. In the middle of the following lap I tried to move a little but couldn't much since I was boxed in. Just moving with the pack gave me a 64 on this lap. Realizing that to get a good time I would have to break the pack on the last lap I wend into lane two on the back stretch and changed speed from 64 to 60 speed quickly. Held up my kick through the finish easily and came through in 3:11.

Track, Week 6

Total Miles: 46

After this weekend, I feel somewhat invigorated with the realization that track season is here in nearly complete entirety, races and all. So I really feel its time to buckle down and lose about 5 pounds or so and work on core strength for the next few weeks or so, with abs and such. However, I really think I just want to maintain my upper body strength as its already doing fine. Naturally, keep the workouts going strong and I can hope to run a PR or close to one at distance carnival.... until I start racing heres this..


Sunday, 2/10
Ran around the infield in 5.0's w/o socks for about 4.5 miles, felt very relaxed just trotting along with mark and Ian at a nice slow forgetful pace. today kinda made me miss such relaxing runs. I really need to take this kind of a run every sunday. Did some core work.

Monday, 2/11
Lifted before practice, for about 1/2 hour trying to compliment the stuff i did yesterday. After, I jogged around the track stretched and did the lunges I owed Scott from last thursday. We ran Lower arroyo + casting pond. Overall, I really felt quite sluggish during this run. I think this is on account of me still getting over being sick, but I'll pay attention to it over the next few days.

Not to be too worrisome, but I'm cautious about what I should race in these coming weeks, and more importantly whether I should double in distance races or not. For this week at Pomona, there is a 3000m which I plan on doing. On top of that there is an 800m at 1:45 and a mile-ish (or 1500) race at 2:40 or so. Lastly, I should do the 4x400 in any event... opinions?

Tuesday, 2/12
Ran a mile warm up then did two miles at pace. The first one was quicker than i wanted, about 5:08. So I slowed down and ran a much more moderate and controlled 5:30 for the second mile. Both of these felt really easy but I think that what I'm really lacking for my training so far this year is a partner. Having someone out there going the same pace as me would be a big help. Any ideas? Afterwards I felt like I could have easily done two more miles at 5:20 pace or better but held off since I had a 400 to run for the 4x400 of interhouse along with an 800m tomorrow. Ran my 400 split in 53.5. Felt rather easy.

Wednesday, 2/13
Interhouse track meet. Ran the 800m. Warmed up for a while, didn't feel that good, ran a 28 followed by a bunch of 30's to come through in 1:59 low. Felt like I was entirely warm and could have used warmer conditions.

Thursday, 2/14
Huntingson. Ran slow the first 1.5 miles, then got bored and decided that a little tempo work today wouldn't be bad. Worked the next 2.5 to 3 miles at about 6:00 pace or so. Felt fine, chilled for the last 2 miles or so.

Friday, 2/15
Pre-race, felt easy, kept things slow. Did 6 striders afterwards followed by abs.

Saturday, 2/16
Pomona All-Comers. Ran the 3k with the "don't give a shit" attitude that gives me good results sometimes since I don't go out too fast. Ran the first few laps in 73, 73, 72, 73 (4:51), felt fine at the mile, not tired at all, but about 3 laps or so into the race I realized that my shoe had come untied. Something that hasn't happeend to me in who knows how long. I kept running decidign that if it got to be too much of a problem I would stop and take it off. The second mile went fine as I repeated 72, 75, 72, finished in about 9:10. Felt good, but i really think that if I wasn't marred by my damn shoe coming untied and hurting my foot so much I could have easily broken 9:00. After this race I warmed up for the 800m, but during some striders decided that it wouldn't be good for my foot. Thus Mark and I went for a medium run up and around the arboretum then back down and around the colleges to catch the mile.

Track, week 5

Total Miles: not many (15-20ish)

Spent the entire week sick, jogged around the track here and there.
I finally felt significantly better on saturday, but I still didn't race.

On an up note, I'm feeling in amazing shape. My legs feel really good from this rest I've given them and like they're ready to put in some nice hard training over the next few weeks.