So much depends... on the run you do today!

5 with stridders, we ran around sanburgs and jumped in the little lake. it was a nice 10 sec ice bath. havent done this run in a while so felt pretty nice. stridders felt nice and fresh. ended with core excersices

am 3... still feel fresh. hope it keeps

pm: 7. went up to the D mountain. was a fun run, but i hurt my ankle a little but i went away a while after the run. need to keep stretching.

am: 3, well i guess it was the thing to be late today.. i'm glad that tyson was late or that would have been a boring run.

pm: 7.01~ about i guess :) ... we ran up towards green springs then turned right at a random time and kind of made up a run... it was pretty fun and a nice tail, but it had a huge huge hill again. Those seem to be on every run we've been on. felt good but my right knee hurt a bit cause it was bent all day.

ran 8 with a 2.5 mile tempo in between. everyone else did only 2 miles tempo but im just cool that way. Felt like a very easy and nice run. the tempo section took me 100 meters to get rolling, but after that if felt very easy and managible. Glad we are starting to get speed workouts in so i can be ready for the half marathon.

am:3 felt alright....

pm:9; this run was a stinky one for me. all day my ankle hurt (i think from that cartwheel stunt i did yesterday) and on the run i kind of bothered me. Hope my stomache settles down sometime

am: 3, nice morning run with just Casey cause no one else showed up! 

pm: easy 6 with 1 mile stridders, with core lifting. had bad stomach aches because i haven't been eating enough these past couple days, so now i need to bring three meals to school..(wow)

when i came home i went into the old ice bath... coldest one i've had in a while; but well worth it and glad its done for the next 2 weeks.

am: 3, nice run; my legs felt amazing after yesterdays ice bath.

pm: 7, trail run on the D mountain or whatever it's called. I really like these trail runs: had some good conversations and the hills felt very good to go up. I'm good on everything except my driving skills... and my LA skills... why am i not very smart with those things?

am: 3... quiet morning cause their was some tension in the air. coaches fault :)

pm: 6

Longest run of the year so far. woke up just before 5 to drive to the finish line of the dog town half marathon and car pooled up to the start. We ran at what felt like 7 min pace for most of the beginning and it felt fine. But it was pitch black on the trail which made it hard to not stumble over little dips. Went by pretty fast and at the end we threw in 2 tempo miles at about 5:30-5:45 pace.

Got home with enough time to get ready for the ACT. glad thats done for a while.

am: 3

pm: 8 overall. we went out to the Old man hills and did 2 sets of 200, 800, 400, 200. It was our first speed workout of the year so my legs felt like jello. Finished the first set with ease, keeping with the top but on the second set i started out way to fast on the 800 because the girls were pushing us; so i died quite a bit and it pretty much ruined the rest of my workout, then the 2 mile cool down which i hate as usual; although still decent. glad that this first one i can be reminded the death of starting out to fast.... but as i always say: learn and remember or else you forget. :)

am: didn't quite make it...

pm: 8 around parkway. little chilly but it felt nice. my ankle hurt a bit.

am: 3... geez tyson, get more sleep :)

pm: 6 with stridders. felt nice.. prolly cause we were going 8 min pace with the girls (they were going fast). but it was nice to just cool off

weights afterwards.

am: 3, did some major streching, yoga, and core excersices after.. felt very good.

pm: 7.1, did the outline of the course then all over the desert by sanburgs. Felt pretty terrible, cause i feel the flu coming again. my right ankle was a little twisted on it and it hurt. not my favorite run at all.

am: 3

pm: 7, went on a trail somewhere that i don't remember. jacked up my ankle again so it hurt a lot of the run. i'm trying to take some good vitamins to help me not get sick but i still feel week. overall pretty fun run i guess.... rolled and took an ice bath, hopefully it helps.

warmed up 5 miles then used the restroom before heading out to the starting line.

the race started and the 6 of us went out front and got an easy lead. the first lap we went at a pretty easy race pace of prolly 5:30 and us top 4 stayed together. after starting the second loop we pushed a little faster and i got a bad side ache on both sides so i dropped off a bit. but with a mile left the pain went away a little so i pushed back up to devin then passed him with 700 meters left and started breathing on tyson's neck. then we had to weave in and out of people to get on the track and one guy kept moving to the side i was going and it slowed me down a bit but i prolly couldn't have caught tyson anyway and he beat me by 3 seconds.

cooled down barefoot on the football field. Race felt nice and very much like a regular tempo. still felt good after the race and ready for more. My goals are to get a good base time on wednesday's timed mile and get a sub 1:19 for the half marathon on saturday.

am: well earned stinkin nine! We did hills today, so we ran to foremaster (1.25mi) then did 4x400 (all the way up to the top) then 4x200 (half way up the hill). this was a very good work out for me, because each on i felt faster and faster which prolly means they were all the same time. i tried to go faster on each pole and that help me. then we cooled down going the long way around foremaster to get our milage and that was the worst cool down, i felt terrible and sick.

am: 3, felt like i was going to throw up the whole time. 

pm: 6.25 easy one mile stridders. felt ok but my throat was pretty sore and hurt when i coughed. but is getting better and hopefully will rock tomorrows timed mile.

AM: 3, sick so my breathing was quite heavy

PM: 8 this should be thursday's workout and the mile time thing was today.

am:3

PM: 1600 meter time trail. very poor  race for me because i have a bad sore throat. so every time i started to go faster it was hard to breathe so i back off a bit. Poor time but good for being sick.

after the race i gagged a lot so only cooled down 2 miles. Hope i get better by saturdays half

AM: 3

PM: 8.25 didnt feel too hot... better get over this cause i need to push for tomorrow! ended with stridders

this race was a weird one. My sickness was still all over me and during the race i had to stop 3 times to settle my coughing down, it was bad. but the thing that hurt me the most was side aches! i had them from miles 3-10, the worst at 7-10. I had to stop at an aid station and drink water and eat a little to try and settle it down for 5 min but the thing that got rid of it at mile 10 was one of my cough attacks. so once it went away i ran the last 2 miles in prolly sub 10:30 and caught 4 people.

mile 1-2 felt good and i made sure to go slow and steady; 3-4 i started making and went into about 5 with devio. then miles 5-6 hit me and my side aches were coming slowly and i fell off devin into 6th. the rest of the race up to mile 10 was pretty much at 10min pace or worse. about 10 people passed me and i felt like i couldnt move. and when it finally went away i pushed as hard as i could to make up some time. at the end i felt like i ran a long race but i wasn't extremely tired since i only raced 8 of it. I think if the side aches weren't their and i wasn't sick i could have ran a 1:16-17 

went and cooled down 4 miles, which i don't think i was supposed to do then came back and ate. I feel physically fine besides my flu. Longest run in one setting/day of my life!

PM: First day back from being sick. Did hill workout today of 3 sets of 2x200 and 1x800. all the other varsity did 4 sets but i figured i should do one set less to ease in a little bit and feel that was a wise decision. first 2 sets i took a little bit easy to see how i was running then ran the third set hard. only problem was my breathing cause when i have a cough my asthma comes back. otherwise it was a good workout.