Sunday - 60 minute run... nothing exciting haha 7.9 Miles

Monday - Easy 50 minute run... Cool thing of the day. When I was running through the woods, I ran across a whole family of deer. The funny thing to me was that they all ran off in like a star shape... took off in 5 different directions. I love when i come across deer it makes my run so much better 6.6 miles

Tuesday - Today i had a 20 minute tempo, ran a mile and a half warm up and cool down. Was able to bring my average down a little on my tempo run, got 6:25 per mile average. Felt pretty good. Also was feelin good enough to start up weights again today. 6.1 miles

Hang Clean : 3 x 5 (85, 95, 105)
Squats : 2 x 10 (105)
RDL : 2 x 10 (105)
Bench Press : 2 x 12 (60, 65)
Lat Pull Down : 2 x 10 (65, 70)
Pull Ups : 2 x max body weight (3, 4)
Push Ups : 2 x 15
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Friday - Easy non exciting 5 mile run :)

Saturday - Well... this workout hurt about as much as i thought it would haha... but it went better than i thought it would. My workout started with a 12 min warm up, 1200 (3 laps on the track), 6 min hard run on the trails, 1200, 6 min hard on trails, then one more 1200. My 1200's felt sooo much better than my 800's from last week. My times were 4:08, 4:01. 3:58... So thats about 5:20 or under mile pacing on those :) can't ask for more than that right now considering i'm just gettin back into the swing of things. After thet I did a 20 min cool down then went and lifted (it was the lifting that turned this day into "death") 8.15 miles

Hang Cleans (3 x 5) - 90, 100, 110
Squats (2 x 10) - 105
Power Press (3 x 5) - 60
One Leg RDL (3 x 10 each leg) - 70
Upright Rows (2 x 10) - 65
Pull Ups (not assisted, thank you :) ) - 2 x 3
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Total Miles for Week: 33.8 miles

My poor body...

So this was a tough week... I can't even lie about it. It's always difficult to have a tough week when you come of a good week (like the one I had last week). But it ended on a good note so I can't be too upset about that :)

Monday - Today I had every intention of running for 40 - 50 minutes, however when I started running my legs felt like they were completely made out of stone. I barely made it around the first loop at the IM fields, so I called it a day and went home. As much as I wanted to try and force myself to run a second loop, I had a progressive run tomorrow and a track workout on Friday... and those are more important to me than the easy run today 2.8 miles

Tuesday - For today I had to run a 30 minute progressive run... and let me tell you I was nervous haha. My legs still arent feeling great, but I managed to muscle my way through it. Averaged 6:35 per mile, slower than I would have liked, but given how i was feeling I'm not going to complain! 7.06 miles

Wednesday - Went for a 40 minute run today, and my legs did feel better than they did on Monday, but i still wouldnt call them "good". After the run I did do 3 sets of X's (running diagonally across the football field, walk across the endzone, then run across the other diagonals... that counts as 1). I'm still praying my legs feel better by Friday... Oy. 5.9 miles

Thursday - Nothing too exciting today, 50 minute easy run around the IM fields. 6.5 miles

Friday - Ok... so first track workout back in over a year off... I knew it was going to hurt! My workout was 6 x 800. It was a nice, cool, and overcast day... perfect for a track workout. My first 800 was painful... and slowish haha. After the first one I literally started praying for the strength to make it though the workout and had to start taking it one at a time. My goal always with a track workout it to drop my time each one and never go back up in times. After my second one, my asthma started kicking in... so that made it all the better! I have to say though that I was excited with my times. My recovery was a one lap jog, then right back in. My times were 2:47, 2:46, 2:45, 2:43, 2:41, 2:38...  so considering I really didnt think I was going to make it through all 6 after I finished my first one, I was beyond excited that I managed to drop almost 10 seconds between the first and last 800, thats 5 seconds per lap faster. As my coach so nicely reminded me
1) It always takes a few reps for your body to kick in and remember what its supposed to do (hence the bigger drops in time after the first 3)
2) I'm not 19 anymore... and when he first said that i was thinking "hold on, i'm not that old"... but really, i'm 6 years over 19... and will be 7 years older than the freshmen in college that I'll be racing at some point... yeah now i feel old! Thats all right though, with age comes wisdom (so I've been told haha)
6.5 miles


Total Miles for the week: 28.8 miles

I'm moving my long run back to Sunday because we are going to try and do my track workouts on Saturdays now, so there was no long run for this week because I'm doing it on Sunday, which is the start of my training weeks.

I'm back! Yeaaahh

Tuesday - So I couldnt run yesterday because I spent my afternoon gettin my car back. Good news is it only cost about $150 to fix it so i'm back on the road now. Today I did a tempo run, and since we're done with volleyball I can actually leave after school and run outside... goodbye treadmill! Did a 10 min warm up. Bumped up my progressive run by 4 minutes this week and did a 20 min progressive. I felt pretty dang good during my run, averaged 6:27 per mile. Another thing about volleyball being over is that I can go back to lifting twice a week like I ideally wanted to. So I'll be lifting on my hard days (today would be one )
5.35 miles

Hang Cleans (3 x 5) - 85, 95, 105
Squats (2 x 12) - 105
RDLs (2 x 12) - 105
Bench Press (2 x 12) - 60
Lat Pull Downs (2 x 12) - 60
Pull ups (2 x max) - 3 [I was happy I could finally do real pull ups again!]
Push Ups (2 x 15)
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Wednesday - Today was supposed to be a nice easy recovery day... especially since my hamstrings were a little sore from weights yesterday. My hamstrings suck haha. Anyways, one of the ways that i can tell if i'm gettin in shape or not is by the fact that when i am in shape, my body starts going on auto pilot. Once i'm in shape, no matter how long I'm running, how tired my legs are... no matter what I'll cruise at 7:30 per mile pace. Today was one of those days. So i was happy because i'm gettin in shape, but at the same time I really wanted to run nice and easy. My run was 50 minutes, and I averaged 7:25 pace... eek. 6.25 miles

Thursday - My legs still feel trashed today, but that's to be expected because i always feel the sorest two days after I lift. So I went for an easy 55 min (at 7:40 pace) and am prayin my body feels human again tomorrow because i have a hard workout and weights again... yessh
7.2 miles

Friday - friday friday friday... so my body has been a little tired this week because i've upped my mileage, and am actually doing more miles on my feet and not cross training as much. Today I had a harder interval workout than what I've been doing so I was already a little antsy over that... so lets get to it. 1.75 mile warm up, 6 x 3 min hard (most at about 6:40 pace), 2 min recovery between (at 8 min pace), and 1.75 mile cool down. I wasnt sure whether or not I was going to lift today because I was feeling pretty exhausted. But I decided to just push through it. And I'm really glad I did because i hit lifetime bests on like 2 of my lifts But, I think I've made a gym "friend" officially. It's the same guy who asked why my leg was taped up. Today he asked me for run training advice, then proceded to watch my hang cleans and tell me I was a beast and that I need to make sure bla bla bla. He's really nice, but sometime I just wanna lift haha. Ah well. It was a good day, and now i'm shaky and tired... gotta love it!
6.9 miles

Hang Cleans (3 x 5) - 85, 100, 110 (life time best)
Squats (2 x 12) - 105
Power Press (3 x 5) - 60
One Leg RDL (2 x 10 each leg) - 70
Upright Rows (3 x 10) - 55, 65, 70 (life time best )
Push Ups (2 x 15)
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Saturday - Oh what a beautiful day! Man... it's one of those days that makes you want to run! It's a nice high 60's low 70's, slight breeze, day after rain so the air is all fresh! So I decided to do my long run today and push it a little and get in 80 minutes, which is a time i dont think i've ran since my junior year in college. I felt awesome the entire run... felt like i was just cruising. The only bummer on the run was that since it rained last night the trails were pretty muddy so all the slipping slowed down my pace a little. My last 10 minutes were right about 6:30 pace, which was crazy! For the whole run I averaged 7:25 pace I'm back baby!
10.7 Miles

Mileage for the week: 37 miles (and thats with 2 days off )

Hello Chilly Weather

So this week we have officially entered cold weather time. I'm hoping that it goes away next week, but it's not lookin likely. Anyways, on to my log...

Sunday - Today was my long run day, and even though I was feeling terrible, I had a GREAT run. Went for 70 minutes again. This time though, my average was 7:27 per mile... Loved every minute of it too haha. 9.4 miles Yeah buddy!

Monday - We had today off from school because we're on fall break, so I decided to run today when normally I take Monday's off. Since my legs were a little tired I went for an easy 5 mile run today. 

Tuesday - Since my legs are still a little tired, I'm giving myself another day to recover before I do my tempo run. Easy 6.5 miles today

Wednesday - Tempo time! Since last time i felt like I could have ran harder, I started off my run a little bit more intense this time. Go figure my average was lower too haha. 16 min progressive, 6:36 average. With warm up and cool down, 5.13 miles.

Thursday - Sigh... so I was going to run today, BUT we had choir practice today at 7: 30pm. It was only supposed to go for an hour, but we ended up not leavin til after 9pm. The gym was closed and I'm not runnin along the streets at night alone, so no running today...

Friday - The day the cold weather made its descent! I got in my workout between our volleyball practice and the start of the homecoming football game. It was a recovery day, so I did an easy 5 miles again. Let me tell you though... I knew it was going to be chilly at the football game, but the 40's are not what I would classify as chilly.... thats ridiculous. So Laura (the other volleyball coach) and I tried to make it through the whole game. But her babies were freezing cold, so we dipped out at the end of the 3rd quarter... we were killin the other team anyways haha.

Saturday - Sigh again... so we lost our volleyball game in the first round. Our girls fought their hardest, 4 out of the 5 games were won or lost by only 2 points. So now our season is over, which means I wont have practice anymore after school. Which is good cuz now I can run outside more and go back to lifting twice a week... but I would rather these girls still be in the state playoffs. But after the game, Laura and her fam and me and my boy all went out to eat. Then when we were trying to leave, I go out to my car and it wont start. After almost 40 minutes of trying to jump the battery, I had to have it towed. By the time all that got done I had about an hour before I had to go and chaperon the homecoming dance, so I didnt get to workout. Had so much fun chaperoning the dance though... love these kids!

Total Mileage: 31 miles