Chris's log

Guess who's back, back again, Chris is back, tell a friend. hopped right back into 8:05-7:50 pace again, training for winter but first one last cross race on November 30th, footlocker regionals. It's going to be my breakout race. 

No one else could show up for different reasons so I warmed up and did some drills,no strides since I just wanted to leave. 

Did a reverse Zozo's run and went inside at the school side door. Feeling sluggish is all part of getting back to it. 

Jay joined me today, did a warmup mile then drills and strides. Felt a little sluggish just from not getting enough sleep but strides got me awake. 
Did 4.85 miles going from school to my route from home, 8:00 to sub 8 pace felt good with quite a few hills. 

Woke up at 8:00 went out at 9ish, 4 mile run in 30 min. I left the watch at home and just ran by feel clicking off 8:00-7:50 easy miles. Felt a little bored and legs were sore from leg day yesterday but still a quality run.

Windy and cold, went out feeling a little tired and my big left toe has some sort of splinter. First mile in 7:49 even with the wind then 7:56, I then went up the hill by the glen to extend it to 5 miles, and came back down, but had to pause and fix pants since I'm too thin for them now. Then resume pace so it was 7:59. Next mile my pace dipped so I picked it up with 7:52 then the last mile I was just clicking along saying my comfort zone is discomfort and finished with the uphill down the block from my house and swung around for 7:16, solid run that was a semi progression run.

Easy run without watch, plantar started to hurt I need new shoes. 

Few easy miles with Jay and Matt

Some easy miles with Jay, it was cold out today. Betsy was supposed to run with me and ditched. 

Woke up a 5:55 to run, 23 degrees out but I bundled.

Legs were feeling tired, still managed six easy and didn't feel too bad

Warmed up then just went into the run today, felt pretty good. Did 4 strides after.

Warmed up then tried to time trial the mile, but I got nervous and gave up at lap one. Pretty embarrassing but I think I'll try again tomorrow 

Really shitty mile time trial, warmed up and my dad said I needed to warm up less shouldn't have listened. Also really didn't feel up to it unlike yesterday. pretty fucking windy too especially on the back stretch splits were 1:08.70, 1:27.34, 1:32.90, 1:25.81. Really bad wish I had done it yesterday 

Light rain, did mile warm up then six miles. Felt pretty good today. Last run as a 16 year old.

Off for my bday

Felt lazy so walked home then ran from 4-5

2 easy miles then up the Glen hill I did a progression run and went a mile and a half, turned around and went back, last mile downhill was flying. 37:0x for the first 5 then the next two were easy. Good run and felt comfortably hard but should've pushed more. 

Felt crappy but when I got back turns out I still kept about 8 min pace because I had some pauses at traffic and to tie my shoe, so 56 min out total. 

Rainy wet day, pretty mucky. Went out to do 10 easy but got lost twice since I was by my dads house, ended up doing 12. Still a solid long run and towards the end I felt like I was gliding 

AM 2 miles easy shakeout, pretty damn slow at 9:12 and 8:30 miles, legs are still tired.

PM 2 mile warmup then drills and strides. After that I ran into one of the alumni sprinters Evan. Then I did 3x1mile with 2-3 min rest. 

Mile 1: 5:56 

Mile 2: 6:10

Mile 3:6:14

Then did a mile cooldown, tough but solid workout and it wasn't till the third one that I started hurting with my stomach churning on the jog recovery inbetween. 

Went to bed near 11 last night, needed to recover from mile repeats so I slept in today. 7 easy after school.

So damn tired

Easy run, lil bit of a slog.

Pre race and strides

Shakeout, then warm up. The race wasn't that great since I've been eating the last few days, lol. 6:04 first mile, 13:48 2 mile eww, 21:xx finish rip. Felt like I was gonna shit at the finish stretch.