do or dont there is no try

7.5mi conversational going down into Medford coming up McAndrew's Rd. and back home. I felt good and I ended up doing about 7:30's average. 6x30sec strides on the cherry lane hill.

6.5mi conversational on the Coal Mine Rd. loop. I felt pretty tired and groggy, my legs just weren't feeling great.

Got a ton of sleep and felt energetic in the morning. Ran 6.5mi at about 7:15 pace on the Coal Mine Rd. loop, got home and felt good so I did 6x30sec strides on th cherry lane hill.

Spent the night at Enoch's and didn't get much sleep. We woke up in the morning and went to run at Britt Trails with the team. We were supposed to do 50min cruising but got lost so it ended up being a bit longer. Overall it was good, I just hate the super steep parts, especially coming down because its hard on my knees.

Ran the 6.5mi Coal Mine loop and felt great. I truly love getting to run on my own all summer, especially in places as beautiful as this.

Ran for almost 80-90 minutes at a progressively fast pace today. We ran at Sterling Creek Trail and I was with Gabe for most of the time. The run was pretty quick, we definently sped it up a ton on the way back but overall if felt good. I'm just glad this week is finally freaking over.

Today was my first tempo workout of the summer, I got out of bed and started running but didn't feel good at all. I did about 2.2mi warmup then started the tempo portion. I was planning on doing a little more, but only ended up doing 3mi cuz I wasn't feeling it at all. Splits were 5:57, 6:10, 6:23 with hills mixed in. Overall, I felt terrible and it was a pretty off type of workout. I was so tired that I could barely get home afterwards! Oh well, I got it done, but I guess today was just another building block in moving towards my ultimate goals.

Today I did a 7.5mi loop that involved a lot of hills including running up McAndrew's. I didn't feel very good at all during the run, in fact it was so hot at 11am that on the way up McAndrew's, I stopped at this one waterfall display thingy and jumped in! haha I felt a lot better after that. The run was 7:47 per mile. When I got home I did 4X30sec hill repeats on Cherry Lane and that was it.

Easy 6.5mi Coal Mine loop today, felt okay. I decided that August 12th I'm going to do a Bear Creek Park xc race as kind of a time trial to seee where I'm at. I'm pretty excited for that, I think it would be nice to go mid-17's. I won't be tapering at all though, my next 2 weeks are pretty hard.

AM: I did 5.1mi moderate easy then 6X30sec strides on Cherry Lane. Felt the best I have all week, hopefully I'll feel good again tonight.

PM: Went out for my 2nd run at about 5 when it was like 96 degrees! I felt really good though and I ended up doing about the same pace (7:30) as my first run for 5.1mi. Today was a really good day of training.