Training Log Archive: Gswede

Run on the rail trail. Got out there and went on auto pilot for 70 minutes. Really beautiful day out. A mini horse leading a carriage carrying an amish girl passed me. The mini horse seemed to be very scared. I must look intimidating to miniature horses.

Normal routine. For some reason I was finding it very mentally difficult to do a lead leg drill with my trail leg, that is every time I would approach it I would instinctively jump off my other leg. I eventually got it down.

I got that good course feeling on this one.

Warm up and cool down.

Sunday Middle - Red - Splits

Decent long course. I wasn't getting my good course feeling but when I finished it seemed like it turned out alot better than I was thinking.

Warmup

Core O'clock

Saturday Long - Red - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XIV - U S Interscholastic Championship
 

Easy morning run at Duck pond. Really nice to have cooler temperatures after this heat wave. Felt alot better at the end of the run then I did at the beginning.

Warm up and cooldown for workout. Felt really good on the warmup.

Workout day.
This didn't turn out to be a good workout. The plan was 4x200 @34, 4x800@2:30, 2x400 @69.
The wind started picking up ALOT. On the homestretch it was gusting to about 30 mph with a constant of 20 mph. so it felt like I was running uphill on the flats. I tried to be a little ambitious and keep hitting my paces. If I had compromised a bit more it probably would've turned out better but I was stubborn.
Times:
30
32
31
32
2:31
2:32
2:33
1:19(This is where I pulled out because I was really struggling to do this 400 and I knew I was going to deathmarch the rest of it. Coach told me to leave it there so that's what I did)
I'm frustrated that I had to pull out of the workout but I can't give what I don't have. I really put the effort in but for some reason my body was not responding today. I felt good at the start but not at the end.

Possible reasons for hurting so bad:
1. I've been very busy lately so sleep has become a little harder to come by.
2. Allergies, pollen has been very very high lately.
3.Weight lifting, a new stress that I've picked up which I can actually feel in the workouts and daily runs. I think that I should pick this up at a time of year when I'm not doing workouts and racing but rather a base training phase.
4. Obviously, the wind. This made it very very difficult. I was surprised I was able to run into it at all and hit my paces. I feel the equivalent for an 800 with out this wind would've been 2:19-2:21. Very fast.
5. Heat and humidity, when I was running with the wind it took away the natural convection that I had so I started heating up fast. Not a good combo.
Conclusion:
Can't control heat and wind. Will stop weight lifting until this summer. Hopefully this will also give me more time to sleep.

1 set of 20 for the normal exercises.

Core O'Clock. Delayed due to large amount of work last night

Warm up and cool down with last 12 minutes barefoot.

Very very hard workout in the heat and wind today.
Workout was 10 minutes at threshold pace(5:28) 400 jog, 4x400 @ R (69) on 400 jog recovery 10 minutes @T 400 jog, 4x200 @R(34)
The 4's and 2's were easy in the heat but 10 minutes of threshold running in the heat today after a full winter was amazingly difficult. First ten minute segment I hit my pace no problem, second segment was a different story I fell off about by about 15 seconds which is pretty good considering the guy I was running with had to call it at 8:30 into the ten minutes. He started the interval leading it and couldn't hold the pace by 3 minutes in but he kept trying and then decided to stop that one early. Everybody was struggling today and a few guys had to stop the workout completely. I'm glad I finished it.
Times:
71(My slower times were mainly due to the guy I was running with being unable to hold the pace, he was doing his best so I let him try it out.)
69
70
68
34
33
34
32