Thatcher's Running Blog

A good, long run with Morgan and Coach. It was harder because I'm sick, but it felt pretty good. I'm not sure on the time, but a little over an hour sounds right.

Me, Morgan and Isaac did the Brookburn loop in 29:00 minutes. It felt okay, still sick.

Workout at the oval. 2 800's. 2:26, 2:26. 2 600's. 1:47, 1:47. 2 400's. 1:05, 1:10. 4 200's. 32 30 32 30. I didn't feel good doing them though. I was coughing a lot and felt really sick.

No run. I felt too sick.

A pretty good run by myself. (Except the end when I met up with coach.) It felt good. I'm still sick and was coughing though.

Pushes on Frontage. I didn't feel good so I didn't do them all.

A fairly fast 47:00 minute run with some pushes in the middle. I felt good.

Just a thirty minute jog.

This race was good. I was in pain, but I was able to do better and move up at the right time. I also finished fairly strong.

A run outside to this wierd hill.

I didn't do very well in the final mile. I was on pace for about a 4:40 going in to the last lap, but I didn't have anything the last lap. I didn't push it hard enough and I was too tired. I need to be tougher at the end and think about that.

Around 7:00 pace. It felt okay. I was hurting, sore at the beginning and felt a little sick to my stomach, but I pushed it and finished my last half mile in 6:20 pace. (Which was mostly steep uphill.) My miles were: 8:19 7:20 6:35 7:02 7:11 7:10 and 6:24 (pace). In the first couple of miles, there was quite a bit of snow/ice I had to run through, so those would of been faster.

Today is the first day of my "official track season" training, and I had to tell myself to push harder on some spots when I felt sick and wanted to stop. Every run I have to do that to practice for races.

Today was a pretty good day. The morning run felt good 27:00, pulled away from coach and Shalaya in the last half mile, by quite a bit. But it was pretty easy, I felt good. I also did some lifting, push-ups and sit-ups.

After school I was somewhat sore, but it felt good. I did 6 miles at about a 6:15 pace. The splits were 6:32 6:43 5:51 6:06 6:34 5:40. It felt good, I wasn't even too tired until the fourth mile which was uphill, and the last 1.5 wasn't too hard. The last mile, even though I was pushing hard, was pretty easy for a 5:40.

This is what I need, more runs like this that really help me keeping up the pace.

29:00 minutes. about 7:15 pace. 7:55 and then 7:00 for the last three miles. I was cruising, pretty easy.

A pretty good morning run with coach. I didn't really like it though, because it was snowing. But it felt all right.

Pretty easy run on the treadmill. Around 7:15 pace. I didn't feel too good. My foot is hurting. (Right side on the top)

This was a good run. I started out thinking I would take it pretty easy, but lately I haven't really been able to take it easy. I did feel really good at the beginning and decided to start out at a pace that felt good, and not to look at my watch until a mile. So when i got to Wasatch, I looked at my watch and it was at 6:50! That was a lot faster than i thought and half of it was steep uphill. So the next mile I didn't really push and ran a 6:42. I then had some downhill which helped me run a 6:06 next mile. The first three were painful because of some icy rain in my face. (which stopped shortly after the third mile)

So the next mile I pushed it a little more and got a 6:29. On the fifth mile I thought I should slow down a little so I wouldn't kill myself before I made my way back. I backed off a little and ran a 6:44. I stopped and stretched for a minute, felt good, and decided to start out strong. My next mile was a 6:08 and mainly flat. The next two were 6:20 and 6:36. The eighth was up a very steep hill and tired me out quite a bit. So, going into the ninth I thought I should pick it up but realized I was at a 6:40 pace a half mile in. So I pushed it a little harder and finished at a 6:14. I stopped at the top of Wasatch right at the start of the tenth mile and decided to give it all I had. So, I powered down the hill for a half mile, and kicked in the last half mile flat in 4:59.

4 easy miles in the morning. They felt good. After school I ran 7.25 at about 7:05 pace. It felt good, but I just felt like taking it pretty easy. It ended up being longer than I thought it would be, but I'm not very tired. I've been running by myself since last Monday, and though I'm sick of it, I've been able to get some of my bust runs in, and now can continue that with Morgan and Gemachu. Since track starts tomorrow!

Four easy miles at 7:12 pace. The last mile was 6:34. This run felt very good, and very easy. I ran with Ben and Isaac. They are in better shape than I thought, and they stayed with me until the last 400, until I pushed it and gained 20+ seconds on them. But nice to run with someone.

I ran 3.5 in the morning, a pretty good pace about 7:00 with Morgan.

After school, 4 800's up heartbreak. I beat Morgan and Gemachu quite easily, by at least five seconds on every one. I actually had a heartbreak interval workout that felt good. We warmed up to heartbreak and cooled down to Skyline. My body feels good. My foot hurts, but now while running or walking.

Pretty good run, from Skyline to the overpass, and through the pit, up brookburn. Me and Morgan pushed it at the end. About 7;:10 pace.

I didn't feel very good. I ran 3 miles on the treadmill 7:30 pace.