Life Liberty and the Pursuit of a Shiny Gold Medal

Rested all last weekend and I did three without pain. Things kinda started to hurt later in the day, but just a little.

1st mile pain free. Last 4, tight and painful. Met with a Chris Romney. I guess I'm out until the end of next week. No running. Taking a supplement that he gave me that helps with tendonitis. I'm getting ultrasound treatment to increase blood flow and icing and stretching after adding a bit of heat. I wish I would've had this available earlier in my career. The only problem with it is he's a chiropractor so no deep tissue massages or anything. I'm confident with the time off and rolling it out I should be good without paying the $40 and going to see Dutch Workman and having him working it out. I definitely will look into his treatment if I'm not good to go by the beginning of the week after next.

20 miles on the bike and the ultrasound treatment among other things. I'll be swimming later today.

5 miles on a bike before I blew my tire.

1 hour of swimming.

Patched the inner tube and popped out again in the first block so only 1 hour and 45 minutes of swimming. Triathlons are tempting.

Ultrasound treatment. Iced tons. 1 hour swimming 40 minutes aqua jogging. Heat and stretched.

1 hour aqua jogging, 1 hour swimming. Various and assorted things to make my injury go away and make me faster.

20 mile bike ride. Ride to canyon view. 1x800m canyon view hill sprint+1 mile fake flat hospital hill=1 rep. 4 reps. Rode home.

Easy 30. Well an intense 30. On a bike.

3 miles running. Pain somewhere between a three or a four. 20 miles after on a bike.

Tired and motivation is low. Pain between a 2 or a 3. Will do more biking later. Eccentric exercises.

Close to 15 miles. 1:03 minutes. Finally starting to get a hang of this biking thing.

Got new shoes. I figured that the altra zero drop thing was making it worse. First 3 felt pretty good. Pain was a 1-2. The last mile was a little sites tho. I would say a 3 or maybe a 4

Ran in the new New Balance Fresh Foam 980's today. I now realize that shoes wih drop CAN feel fast and awesome. Pain was a 0 to a 1. a 2.5 at worst after the workout when I was running on the grass timing the guys kick workout. No biking or swimming because of the homework load and how physically tired I am. I am in desperate need of a good nights sleep.

Paced group #2 for a three mike tempo at just under 7 minute pace. Felt relatively easy. 7:00 6:45 and 6:13 were the splits.

5 easy

4x200m @ 5k pace (37.5 average ooops)

pain mostly gone first three and then a 1-2 after

Carvel ran fast so I obviously had to best him. It felt incredible to run fast. So much happiness rn.

Pain worse. Maybe a three or a four today. Still gonna run tomorrow. Gonna have to be careful tho.

1.5 before SUU race 1.5 after

I was pretty stressed but got it under control before the race started. The first mile was great although I was hoping for more of a tight pack of 5 guys, not 5 guys in sight of each other but its improvement. At a mile I considered goin for it and latching on to that dhills group but Luke was still with me so I was just trying to drag him along. I lost contact with Luke at the bottom of the big loop and kinda kept cole the same distance away throughout the rest of the race. I just kept pushing through. Kinda kept things comfortable through the middle loop and then both Cole and I hit the last 1k hard. Passed the 2 cv kids and goggles I barely outkicked. I was pleased with the result for putting forth such a mediocre effort and not having run full distance for the past month. I think the guys can be closer for more of the race and I think I could get be up there with Nick and Nephi and them in the next couple weeks. My goals are still to get the team to a trophy finish at state and for me to learn to love xc racing. A state title would be cool too but I have to get healthy first.

No pain!!!!! Slight tinge at the very bottom of the last forever long hill but it didn't develop into anything and I felt freaking amazing.

The team did a shortened kick workout after but I cut it just in case. We were just supposed to kinda stay relaxed and together and then pick it up when we hit the hotels coming back from the left frontage road. I gradually picked up pace up the final climb and hit lap on my watch by holiday inn and timed myself back. Id already dropped everyone so it was just me cruising. 5:40 pace for the last 1.34. Completely relaxed. So easy. Proof that that race was really a cake walk for me. Ha!! I cruised a pr on that course. Big things coming if I can stay healthy.

A little over two mile warm up

6x800 course loop (actual distance about .52ish) 200 meters in between

2:42

2:37

2:35

2:33

2:32

2:26

Mile cool down

Probably pushed harder than I should've for my first workout back. The pace were awesome considering the weather (15mph with very very strong gusts). I wasn't even planning on running that fast. 2:50 to 2:40 was the goal. Slight ache in the Achilles between reps and a 2 during the cool down. Basically my whole calf was just a bit tight.

Achiness past mile 3. Felt incredible before running tho.

Blue water tank.

6x200 goal was just to stay relaxed. Achilles hurts and it scares me.

4 mile out and back tempo. I was supposed to sick with the team and do a little under 7's up and close to 6's back. I went 6:30's up (felt like a jog) and then spent the first .5 coming back with the team going 6's and then gradually dropped it down to 5:10 pace for the last quarter mile. Average about 5:30's on the way back. I feel incredibly relaxed running crazy fast. My endurance wasn't what it was before the injury and my speed isn't near what it was during track but with the cross training I was doing I can run remarkably fast relaxed. The 2+ hour bike rides helped a lot. I'm ready to go. Injury was better than yesterday.

Accidentally slept through my alarm and had to haul to get to Harris's house before the guys left. 6.25 in 40 some odd minutes. It was pretty easy and close to pain free which is good. 

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