Today all I really did was run and watch the track meet. Kind of a down day. Legs not bad but mentally in letdown mode.
5 miles.
Great dinner at Excelsior Inn restaurant with Patrick Todd and his family.
Well it’s been a while since I really dove into an entry. I apologize about that. Simply put, its been a busy couple of weeks at a point in the year when I would like the most free time. I’ve also had fairly little alone time, which personally suits me fine, but cramps my ability to write. It’s weird, now that I think about it, I can code under any condition. I can even have brief conversations with people while writing a function and 5 minutes later realize I have no idea what was said. The same is not true for me with writing. Music about as much stimulus as I can handle. If someone’s making a sandwich 10 feet away, it would seem I’m far more interested in their choice of condiments. Continue reading »
3 miles
2x100m strides
Went to Hayward today. Did a nice little run with Donnie and Matt Elliot. 20minutes. Then to the track for strides and some dynamic stretching drills. The strides were only 90% cause my achilles and calves still felt a bit sore.
Weather here has been awesome. 60s and sunny.
4 miles
Really didn’t feel that awesome. Legs tired from the travel I hope.
Last workout before nats. All that’s required is to touch on race pace and just see how I feel.
2 mile warmup. Spiked up. Did a few strides and leg swings.
4×400. 60s RIB. (59.9, 60.3, 59.1, 59.7)
2×100 (13.3, 13.1)
1.5 mile cooldown. Continue reading »
Legs waking up pretty sore actually. Hammies especially. Too much stretching last night I’m guessing. I held stretches for 2min at a time, or 1min40s longer than usual…
3 miles easy
Some balancing drills
Easy 3 around Frohring Meadows
Really down day today.
Nothing in the morning and only
4 miles
Balancing drills
in the evening.
I honestly had no idea what to run today for the workout. It took a vast collaboration of ideas to come up with a plan that made sense. Everything else was “too fast” or “too long”. The idea that finally made sense was to focus on a little speed play. Some race mimicking situations. I was going to run a tempo 800 as is becoming usual and then a 700, 600, 500 with different parts fast and slow. Continue reading »
Oh sooo glad I ran this morning. It felt awful when I started but back to normal by the time I was done the 20min run.
3 miles
Balancing and hip drills
Something about doing those drills, taking the time to flex and stretch for even 20minutes really helps me. It keeps being reaffirmed every time I do it. So why don’t I do it more?…
Not feeling super good today. Combination of longer yesterday and a decent workout on Tues?
7 miles
Got roped into one session by a frustrating day of work (which has also kept me from updating my log promptly). Oh well…
Hit up Westwoods with Donnie today.
10 miles
We ran a little longer than we wanted to but we got a good view of one of the natural attractions in our area, Ansel’s Caves.
Today I wanted to touch on those systems that I haven’t worked in almost a month now. The long rep, 10k pace stuff. Nothing terribly taxing (don’t want to be sore) but enough to get me really working aerobically. I also need the confidence of knowing that system is still tuned up. Donnie and I had some ideas but we asked around a bit too. The two of us collaborated with Vig and Jesien to come up with the following: 4xmile, 90s rest 5:00 cutting down. 3×300 46-44-42 with 100 jog rest. It was a perfect night out and with Donnie leading the long stuff, me leading the short, it worked out really well. Continue reading »
After waking at 10,I immediately dug into the stack of emails awaiting on my digital desktop. Finally, 4 hours later I was ready for my “morning” session. It turned into an extended affair and I honestly didn’t really stop with the activity until 6. Continue reading »