GOING THE DISTANCE

pm -  I ran 6 miles today.  While the team was doing their repeats, I picked it up a few time with them as they went by to do some fartleks.  Got in the weight room and lifted.

pm -  We drove in cars over to Chuckawalla trail head and did Chuckawalla trail.  That was pretty fun.  We were cruisin on the way back, and I love going fast on trails.  I think we did about 6 miles.

Pm -  Today our workout was an AT tempo on the track.  Me and Paul worked together great, switching off every lap and hitting consistent 5:35 pace for 15 minutes.  We do work when we run together good.  We ended up with 12.75 laps for the tempo, and I ended up with 7.25 miles on the day.  

Then we lifted.  I can feel my whole body getting stronger.  I'm where I can easily bench 135 pounds.

Pm -  today's workout was 10 200's at 1600m race pace.  So my times for these was a 33.75.  It was really hard for me to hit my times, I kept going like 2 seconds too fast cuz it was just so cheese.  So it was a nice easy workout.  6.5 miles total

Am -  2.5 miles in the morning.  I haven't ran in the morning for about 2 weeks so it was kinda nice.

Pm -  We did a pretty cool run that none of us boys had ever done before.  We went through Middleton, the by this ghetto trail park in the industrial area north of the freeway. We went through the desert, then came out near pioneer park right by the animal shelter.  The we went straight back to the school.  Doing a new route I've never done was dope.  We were all shirtless today and got lots of shouts and whistles today.  The loop was 8.25 miles.  We did 8 barefoot striders after.

Am -  This morning our school held a fundraiser 5k for a kid with some sort of disease.  So a few of us XC guys and girls went and ran it.  It was a pretty good race.  I split away from everybody a ways by the time we were at half a mile, so the rest was pretty hard to stay focused.  I will still able to run a 16:07 all alone so that was pretty good and i got my LT tempo done.  

After the race I went over to the grapevine trails and finished my run on church rocks loop.  It was pretty awesome; the weather was absolutely perfect.  There was literally not a cloud in the sky.  I ran 5.3 on the trail and got 10.3 total on the day.