Life Liberty and the Pursuit of a Shiny Gold Medal

5 with the team. Extended dikes. Pretty fast. Sub 7:10's. 

4.75 on my own.  Extended alleys. 8's. Not that I cared. I just don't enjoy hitting anything faster than 7:30's on an easy day. I mean I can and have been able to for years; I just don't think there's any reason to.

Probably the best workout thus far.

6xSUU grass loop @ goal 5k race pace (.6, .2 rest or about 3 minutes)

3:05

3:04

3:03

3:01

3:01

3:00

6x200 @ mile pace (1 minute rest)

35

33

33

33

33

33

It was absolutely incredible 3 minutes=5 minute pace so I was cooking. I hit between 2:30 and 2:33 at the half mile mark on all of these. I negative split the entire workout. The coolest part is I never felt like I was killing myself to hit a certain time, rather I felt like I was running a race. It legitimately felt like race pace. On top of that I did 3.6 miles and I felt pretty dang good all the way through. I wasn't struggling on the 5th or 6th. To make this workout literally perfect I hit 5 straight perfectly paced 200's after forcing my body into pace just once. The fast felt incredible. I would of kept going had I not had been having some minor cramping. The cool down was cut short because of diet mistakes during lunch (3 bananas). Never ran so fast so easily. I've come so far, I honestly believe I'm living my dream.

If you haven't seen my state recap you should go check it out. I would call it my fast running blog master piece. I'm rather proud of it. 

Extended new alleys (not a fan)

8 strides

Traditional 3

Wanted to run slowly but no one would so I hung in the back with Logan and Jensen. Quad cramped really badly climbing out of sheep tunnels. The run actually started out really fun and got really stupid. I was bored and tired. Hopefully the legs feel a bit better tomorrow. 

2 mile warm up

6x400 (lap jog rest) @ Mile Pace or a bit slow + 6x200 (half lap rest) @ Mile pace or a bit faster

400's

73.0

67.7

66.6

68.0

66.7

63.7

200's

32.6

33.2

32.5

30.7

31.4

28.6

3 Cool Down

I was a little concerned leading up to this workout. My legs haven't been feeling great. I'm feeling the higher miles. Seems ridiculous since I've done some really high stuff but after two months of barely 50, 60's hurts. In terms of this workout I'm incredibly impressed. The 73 is no joke. Harris told me to do the first one comfortable so I did, and I was mad so I sped up. I'm gonna be hitting a mile time trial in a week so this was some good pace work. The best part of this workout: I never went to my knees, even on the 1:03. I never hit that serious oxygen debt that I'm so acquainted with. The second best part: I never strained. I was never really comfortable running fast, but the 1:03 wasn't straining and kicking. It was one split. It was doable and reasonable. 

I don't know what it is, but I'm sitting here jamming out to some chill hip-hop and just enjoying life. Things are so great. XC banquet today. Things came off nearly perfectly. That with a cafe rio dinner is perfection. My legs feel great. I'm loving life. I'm living my dream.

7 with the team. We made it 1.7ish up the c trail before I got worried about the guys and decided to turn around. We made up past 7000ft. (Our track is 5900). It was way fun

3 after. Legs are doing better than expected after the climb. 

Embarrassing frankly. Saides and 60 mile an hour winds prevented me from doing literally anything. Not homework, not running, not eating, nothing. Saides was pretty alright but other than that it was one tough day.