#WolverineWay

AM- Woke up and headed over to the park by the hill and did a mile and a half warmup plus striders and idiot drills. When we were all done we headed up the hill to the starting place. The girls went first then the guys were next.

RACE: I took off in like second place then at about 800m 4 guys passed me and then at 1200m 2 more passed me. I finished pretty quickly and almost caught seventh place but he heard me coming and edged me out at the line. I finished in 6:55.

I ran 5 on the canal trail (after running back down the hill) with Cliff, Trevor, and Macy at 6:40 pace. I talked with Coach Evans about my form up the hill. I went back to the school and went to the trainers office and got a calf massage and then took an ice bath.

PM-Went running again with the guys for 3 miles and half of that was barefoot. I felt so good.

AM- Went over to the school and went to the canal trail. We did a warm up mile at like 7:10 pace. Then we were doing a long run which was 9 for me at 6:45 pace which was supposed easy pace. I stayed with the lead guys and ran sub-6 my last 2 miles with Cliff and Trevor and I felt way relaxed but my breathing was kind of heavy

PM- Took a nap and then headed over to lifting with Cliff and Brenden. The work out was not that difficult but that may have been because I didn't do last weeks and the rest of the guys were struggling with it.

AM- Went to the start of the Provo River trail then talked to Coach Evans and then headed off to warm up for our 5 mile tempo run. My pace was supposed to be 5:27-5:43 but our first 3 up the hill were supposed to be a bit slower than 5:43. Then our last 2 were supposed to be 5:27ish down the hill. 

I felt pretty good the first two miles and then like with a quarter left my shoe came untied and I couldn't keep it on so I dropped back a bit from the group so they wouldn't step on my lace and it started to rub kinda bad. I ran the last two as catch up trying to catch up to the group and I was gaining on them but I wasn't catching them fast enough. I caught Chris Dorton and ran the last .5 with him and finished 15 seconds behind the main group.

I was kind of frustrated with my performance today and I was kind of discouraged but I remembered that I need to be patient and not try and get back into running too quickly and my legs are way sore from the past few days. I cooled down 2 back to the park and then headed back to the WAC for weight technique session and then went and got an ice bath.

Splits for the tempo were-

5:33 5:41 5:38 5:27 5:30

AM- Trail run with the team, my ankle started to kill last night after work and I was a little worried about pushing it too much so I went out 2.5 and came back that much. Talked to Coach Houle and Evans about my ankle and made sure that they were aware of it and then headed back to the WAC for showers then to meetings. After the stupid compliance meetings that I had already been to I went and got Ice/Stim for my foot.

AM- Woke up and headed to the WAC (Wolverine Athletic Center) and heard our workout was moved to today. I got in Coach Evans car because I didn't want to hurt my ankle anymore and did 2 laps on the field before the repeats for warm up but my ankle was killing me. I put my spikes on after doing idiot drills then headed up to the line. The work out was 8x1000 with the first 4 at 3:27 and the last 4 at like 3:20 or below. I wasn't supposed to hit sub 3:10 but I did on the last one fast. 

We had 3 minutes for a cool down in between and here were my splits. 

3:25

3:24

3:22 

3:20

3:13

3:14

3:12

3:07

 I did 2 laps in the park for a cool down then headed to back to the WAC with Coach Houle and headed to the trainers room for an ice massage and ice bath.

PM- Weights in the afternoon then to get my ankle looked at. 

AM- 1 mile easy in H-town.