11/1/04
Week-12 Monday
Workout 10 miles easy
10 miles today, my ankle/arch gave me a few problems. After we stopped & stretched about 5 miles out, my foot got cold and I had to skip back down the hill until it warmed up again, it hurt prett bad.
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11/2/04
Week-12 Tuesday
Workout:
6 miles easy. We got new team trainers, some sick black long-sleeve under-armor fabric shirts. Really comfy, and great for this weather.
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11/3/04 BUSH WON ELECTION Okay, I’m no longer a republican. 
Week-12 Wedsnday
Workout:3x1200 2x800 2x400 Splits (2:36) 3:49 (2:38) 3:51 (2:40) 3:52, 2:41, 2:41, 67, 64. Nice workout. I think I might have pounded the first, few… well pounded them hard enough to have to take a dump, I lagged it a bit in the 800’s b/c of the agony. Mile cooldown
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7600
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11/4/04
Week-12 Thursday
Easy 45 minute run today. Our training shirts are awesome 
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11/5/04
Week-12 Friday
We did a 20 min tempo. I did a lot of surging in the first mile, and really payed for it in the last half. I had a hard time picking it up the last mile or so and just decided against it. Did a 25 min warmup jog too. I shoulda noted for about the past week I’ve been having a tweek on the outside of my foot.
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11/6/04
Week-12 Saturday
Did 10 miles easy, lots of fun, but my ankle started to flare up by the end. Not really badly, but it’s been gettin’ better. So I’m not worried.
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16000
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64300
11/7/04
Week-12 Sunday
Aaahh, another easy week. I took a contrast bath last night and iced my foot twice today. I love falafals.
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MUAHAHAHA 0000000000
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64300
11/8/04
Week-13 Monday
We did a 21 min fartleck, 2-2,1-1,.5-.5, 2-2… repeat. My legs were feelin’ great today, and I even split the workout.
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7500
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11/9/04
Week-13 Tuesday
I did 40 minutes easy.
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Anyway, Hotmail is busted, here’s the first part of my Art history Essay, no worries I will edit it out later…
Evolution or Compilation?
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of steady but drastic changes in artistic style. Some scholars argue that the Middle Ages had dethroned European artwork Renaissance was a re-evolution of the ramshackle European art society. However, it is clear that the Renaissance was not an evolution but a compilation of old logic and new faith. In the Early Renaissance, Piero Francesca showed the adaptation of Roman naturalist styles into his artwork; in the High Renaissance, Raphael adopted Neo-Platonist Greek philosophies (and philosophe) into his art; and in the Late Renaissance, Titian combined the teachings of Early and High Renaissance to create an original style with its fundamental elements of design based in the Early and High periods.
The works of Piero Francesca were dominated by his fresco work, and though, he painted a number of portraits and other private commissions, his fresco work, specifically the Resurrection, typified the trends of the Early Renaissance. Francesca took an analytical approach to the composition by using a strict triangular symmetry, Francesca
Is this ever the procrastinator’s journal. I didn’t record my entire preseason, simply because I was debating whether or not I should post my XC training on a sprinting website. But I posted my halfmiler journal up here, and quite frankly I need to put this thing somewhere. And plus, I know that no one but myself reads this godanm thing anyway.
(Mild chuckle) Take heart, I read this too. Why? Because the half mile is a brutal race and I admire anyone who endeavors to take it to heart. You have to admit it is a rather sick relationship, but one worth having.
How’s the foot?
TDickson
PS did you want me to proof your essay or are you just having fun?
11/10/04
Week-13 Wedsnday
Workout: we did 2x1200 and 2x800 easy. I even split the entire thing as usual, which really pissed of coach considering that I was going at a pace about a miniute faster than my 5k tme… I eased up. no big eal. DId 3 miles easy afterwards
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11/11/04
Week-13 Thursday
Workout: Supposedly 40 minutes easy, in actuality I fudged around the whole day and got probably 20 minutes of running in total.
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4000
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28300
11/12/04
Week-13 Friday
Workout: We got our awesome new flats today, I love mine :D… We ran 1 mile in them and 2 in our trainers, no biggie.
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4800
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11/13/04
Week-13 Saturday Central Coast Section Championships
I was excited to run today. I did everything, well everything that has worked for me in the past. I didn’t eat much within 5 hous of my race, drank plenty, and attempted to clear my sinuses for a good 2 hours straight. IT worked pretty danm well. The first mile felt pretty good. In retrospect I went about 10-13 seconds too slow, but it felt fine. 5:35-38 was my split (stupid people shouting out random numbers as I run by GRRR!!) I didn’t exactly “work” the hills, but I ran pretty well up them. The back downhill wasn’t as fast as I could have hoped, but I didn’t slack that’s for sure. The last 800 followed suite to the rest of my race, I wasn’t slacking, but well… let’s just say that my balls were about as far from all out as they had ever been in 16 3/4 year existance. My finishing kick was fantastic, I put away 5 guys in the last quarter, but that wasn’t a big suprise considering how much I’d left on the course. All in all I performed well enough for the team to do well and that’s what I’m really happy about. We broke the team time record for Toro Park… which was also our own team time record :D.
Next? State… let’s go baby
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11-14-04
Week 13 Sunday
Rest day totay… but I was stupid and didn’t ice bath 
No big eel.
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11-15-04
Week14- Monday
We did 8 miles easy today, it was kind of nice. for some reason, my right ankle has been acting up again not bad but mild enough to attract attention.
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12800
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11-16-04
Week 14 Tuesday
Workout: 40 minute easy steady state. I liked this workout… we tossed crap on the tracks and watched the train blow it to pieces, but you didn’t read 'bout that. Ironic part? We showed up only 10 minutes late, (A new record, last week we showed up 1:20 minutes late from our workout) and coach had ditched us :(… what a jerk.
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11-17-04
Week-14 Wedsnday
Workout: 3x1000 2x800 4x200… Well I must say that i win the even split of the year award… 3:17, 3:18, 3:18, 2:34, 2:34, 30,29,31,30… That’s a I was off pace by a total of 3 seconds the entire workout! With a variation of no more than a second… Go me, it’s my birthday, yeah, baby. 1.5 mile warmup 2 mile cooldown. Oh yeah, and hollister showed up to work out with us again. Oh yah, and my calves didn’t give my any problems. During the 200’s it felt like I had about 4 more gears I could shift into.
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5400+5600=11000
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33300 <—Funny Number
11-18-04
Week-14 Thursday
We just went to nicene for a 15 minute downhill tempo. It was pretty fun. I didn’t surge this time and so I didn’t die at all. However, my knee is acting up, the big oll fat tendon right below the kneecap feels like it’s bruised right on the bone there. I’m really sore right now, calves, quads, a little hammy, just overall my legs feel beat. I need to rest a lot tommorrow.
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3200+4400=7600
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40900
11-19-04
Week-14 Friday
We did 40 minutes easy today. Those easy forty minutes were a lot hard than expected, b/c of my intense soreness. No big eel.
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