do or dont there is no try

Went to Lake of the Woods for my long run today since my parents were going mountain biking. I did 11.5mi but didn't feel very good, the overall pace was 7:50/mi. I don't know if it was the altitude or what, but I really wasn't feeling it. Whatever, still got it done.

Today was just not a good day. I won't go off about anything that happened in my personal life, I'll just say that it was a bad day. My workout didnt help either, we were doing the same thing as last week (8 x 3min hard/ 3min light jog/walk) so I felt like a good goal would be to hit 5:20 pace this week to improve a little. Sadly, that didn't happen and the workout turned out to be 5:37/mi pace and I didn't feel good at all, just like yesterday. If I wanted to, I could blame my poor performance on the wind, heat, the 6mi bike ride to practice, or just being tired the day after a long run. But I hold myself to a higher standard. I'm glad I at least finished the workout, but I need to make sure I'm more consistent for now on. If I want to truly reach my potential, then I need to execute workouts better, stay consistent, and ultimately give it 100% every darn day. Nuff said.

A few weeks ago, Coach Wallace introduced 4 new coaches that will be with us this season. Ever since we've done things a little differently, like before practice everyday, even easy days we will do this super long warmup routine that seems kind of pointless. I don't think we need to be wasting a half hour just to warmup for a friken easy run. Anyways, today I ran with Enoch and we (he stopped at like 5.5 actually) ended up doing about 8mi at 7:25/mi pace, it felt really good suprisingly. It's nice to have him back and running after being gone for a month, I think he'll be pretty darn good this year! When we got back we did 3x300m strides on the track and called it a day. Now that school's started I need to be extra focused and all so I can make sure I have the season I want. Tomorrow is a really important workout so I'm hoping to stay focused and do well!

So today's workout was almost the same as last thursday's, just a little different. We ran to Fichner, did our warmup routine, then started a workout of 1 lap around the park on the path (about .8mi), then 1min jog until we hit 7mi total. I was kind of bummed that Gabe and Branden weren't here to run with (Branden's working and Gabe's having ITB pain) but I promised myself that even if I had to run by myself, that I would still give it hard, solid, tempo pace effort in the heat. The first 2 we ran as a group of guys, but after that it didn't workout anymore cuz the rest time was all messed up since the guys fell back. I ended up running with Cody and feeling pretty darn good until 5.5mi when he dropped, then I was by myself ahead of everyone. I felt really quick and ended up running pretty fast for a hot day and all! I averaged 6:33/mi pace this week which is slightly slower than last, but this week instead of 5min/1min we were doing like 4:45-4:50min/ 1-1:10min of slow jog/walk (too much rest sometimes since the guys were slow getting to the starting line) so really it was A LOT faster. I definently hit sub-6 pace average for the hard portion cuz the watch was reading off like 5:55pace for most of the time, so it was pretty darn successful! And also I was super consistent meaning I went out at a pace that I could keep the whole time. Overall, I'm super happy about the work I'm putting in and I can't wait to get out and start racing!

7 something miles super easy with the team plus 3x300m strides after plus the "warmup" of course. For tomorrow's 2mi time trial I'm hoping to go around 10:30, I think that would be a good spot to be at.

Today wasn't the best day for a race. I got to the track at 8:15 a little late so I had hardly any time to go warm up and run. Before I knew it, it was 8:35 and we were starting. We started and I felt really good the first lap and stuck with Branden, Cody, and Tristan, but we went through in 75 a little fast so I decided to lay off a little. Bad decision. After that, I was running the remaining laps by myself and I wasn't getting into racing mode and I couldn't find the motivation I needed to go harder. I went through 1600 in 5:18 and it felt pretty easy, but by then the 3 lead guys were way ahead. I ended up finishing and regretting that I hadn't pushed myself harder, it didn't even feel like a race. For now on, I'm going to make it a goal to latch on to people in races so I won't fall back and have to do all the work myself. Overall, it was a fun day and I'm not necessarily dissapointed, I just know I have work to do. Next Saturday I wanna really have a stellar race.

5.5mi up Roxy Ann to the power plant and back home in the afternoon. It felt kinda hard, my legs were pretty tired going up.

I think I might have a little injury. Today during our long run this tendon on my inner leg (I later figured out it was where my hamstring attaches behind the knee) started to hurt like 5mi through. I played it safe and ran back to the school so I only ended up doing a little over 7 at 7:04 pace. I came home and talked to my dad and he told me to stretch my hammy a bunch, ice, and take some ibuprofen so thats what I did. It's just a little tendinitis so hopefully I'll be better and able to finish the workout tomorrow.

The tendinitis did not feel good today so I took it off. Big bummer, I was hoping to get in a workout today but I know the best choice is to be safe so I don't put my season in jeopardy. I biked instead to the very top of Hillcrest, super hard and it was fun. Overall its about 12mi and there is almost 1800ft of gain!! I will be icing and stretching a lot to try and get back to running ASAP. I'm still planning to race Saturday so hopefully that will work out.

My tendonitis felt a lot better today, I could barely feel it at all as I went throughout my day. I did another bike ride today, this time up pine ridge which is like 9mi total and 1200ft of gain. I'm planning on running tomorrow and doing the workout if I can.

My tendonitis hurt slighltly in the warm up so I decided to play it safe and not run, huge bummer.

No running today it didnt feel good, super frustrated. And no race tomorrow

no race today. I think its getting better though. Hopefully i'll be able to run next week

20mi bike on bear creek trail with andrew today

tried to run today but after a half mile it started to hurt a little and it felt tight so i stopped. definitely wont be racing tomorrow. ive been doing ice massage, massage, and a ton of stretching and it seems to be helping, but this thing is healing really slowly.

no run but i did a fun bike ride

no run. Hopefully i can tomorrow though.

tried running today but it felt tight and started to hurt after .75mi so I just stopped. Next time i run i think im going to just try to run through the pain and see if it goes away after a few miles.

short bike ride.

bike ride almost all the way up pine ridge. Ive been super sick so ive taken the last 4 days completely off.

Finally got to actually run today!!! I did part of the workout with the team and felt great, my tendonitis hurt a little but it never got worse as I kept running on it so I guess thats a good thing. I warmed up then did 4x800 @ 6:25 pace then 2x1k with some faster guys at 6:10. It felt super easy and I hope I can keep up the running! I'm taking really good care of the tendonitis and I'm stretching and icing a ton.

good workout today, my tendonitis is feeling better and im still in pretty good shape. ran intervals at about 6:10 pace and felt pretty fresh.

today was a pretty bad but fun race. I was in one of the jv races at nike pre nats so i was hoping to place well. I went out too hard the first mile and went through the mile with the lead pack in 5:25. After that everything went downhill, i slowly died off and even got beat by lance!! bummer but im glad im finally healthy

did a nice run today and felt good up dark hollow. im glad i can run again

Finished a workout today!! 7x1k at 3:39 ave with 3min rest in between, felt great. Im glad to be running and healthy again, I think I will gain my fitness back quickly