Right now? heck noes! But yah Dec-Feb I will be in the weight room a lot.
11/9/05
Week-21 Wedsnday
Workout: 2x1200, 2x800 @
4:13, 4:15, 2:50, 2:38
Easy workout today, my legs felt a bit worked, b/c of the hard strides yesterday, but they feel fine now. I’m primed for saturday.
Workout mEterage
9000
Weekly Meterage
29000
11/10/05
Week-21 Thursday
Workout: 35 minutes easy
Nice easy run today. I thought a lot about my race. I’m ready for it.
Workout Meterage
8000
Weekly Meterage
37000
11/11/05
Week-21 Friday
Workout: 15 minutes easy (was s’poused to be 30, but I cut it short)
My stumach felt a bit tight at first, and I figured I had better NOT run with any food in it. So I didn’t. Only, my GF came to my house, and before I knew it, night had fallen.
Workout Meterage
2000
Weekly Meterage
39000
11/12/05
Week-21 Saturday: Central Coast Section Cross Country Championships
Ouch. Off the gun I was fine. The first 300 I was fine. But the first 300 meters are all brutal fast paced downhill. I couldn’t breath all the way back up. I kicked okay, but that’s to be expected when I run about a minute slower than I’m capeable. Danmit. I like the state course better, anyway. I’ll kick it’s sorry ass.
Workout Meterage
11000
Weekly Meterage
50000
11/13/05
Week-21 SUnday
Workout: Nada, just recovered. My legs (hammies in particular) where pretty sore today.
Workout Meterage
0
Weekly Meterage
50000
11/14/05
Week-22 Monday
Workout: 8 miles easy/steady. 6x100m strides. Not hard day today, but I took it extra easy on the strides (maybe 20sec/100m pace) My hammies just felt a bit tore up.
Workout Meterage
12800
Weekly Meterage
12800
11/15/05
Week-22 Tuesday
Workout: 1 mile warmup dynamics, 4.5 mile steady state, 1 mile cooldown
We worked on pack synergy today. We ran pretty easy, as far as hard workouts go, and pretty hard as far as easy workouts go. 6:50-6:10 pace. We stuck in a tight pack pretty well. In the last mile it took a lot of effort for me to keep the group from KICKING it in. They all just kept fighting. It was great from a racing point of a view, but as a workout they needed to take it a bit easier. I felt good, my legs felt a little tight from yestermornday, but they loosened up. Also, I had to take a dump about 1/3 of the way through the second loop (2x2.25 mile loops) but I was amazing able to forget about it, just by workin’ with my teamates.
Workout Meterage
10800
Weekly Meterage
23600
11/16/05
Week-22 Wedsnday
Workout: 1.5 mile warmup, dynamics, 3x1000, 2x800, 4x200, 1.5 mile cooldown, stretches, hot bath/cold shower.
3:23, 3:20, 3:16, 2:39, 2:41, 35, 34, 34, 32
Good workout, the intervals were done sub-maximally, so we all felt pretty good during them. I’ve got a tough downhill tempo tommorrow so I made sure to do something extra to help recover, and the hot bath really helped, my legs feel pretty fresh.
Workout Meterage
12800
Weekly Meterage
37400
11/17/05
Week-22 Thursday
Workout: 1 mile warmup, stretches, 2x70m strides, 1mi steady state 1xmile tempo, 1xmile hard, 1 mile easy.
Last 2 mile: 11:01
Very good workout today. I am very ready. Very very ready to run very fast. I need to focus and stay focused. The fist mile I felt okay, and the guys were going very slow. When we picked it up at the 2 mile mark, it was hard work, but I could keep up with #2. At a mile to go, my stumach hurt pretty good, but I kept running with the #2, but he pulled between 3/4 and 1/2, about 20 meters, he didn’t open it up any further. I pushed the last half hard. I just have to transfer this kind of a workout into a race. I’ve got one chance. One. CIF State Championships.
Workout Meterage
9600
Weekly Meterage
47000
PalmTag,
Man, you can do this. I know it’s easier said than done, but just try to have fun and not put so much pressure on yourself. You’re ready to run fast, you’ve put in the work, you’ve put in the time, so now, just say “screw it” and go out, have fun at the state championships and rip it up just one time. Don’t think about going fast, slow, being tired, body hurting etc. You can put your body through that pain, it’s just for a few minutes, right. Just focus on picking one runner off at a time. Pass one, then zone in on another and pass him, etc. till the end and you just may run your best time.
"…don’t call my name out your window when I’m a leavin’, I won’t even turn my head. Don’t send your kinfolk to give me no talkin’, I’ll be gone like I said…
The pressure is going to be there no matter what I do heatwave. But this is going to be the most difficult thing I’m going to accomplish. This race is the culmination of my high school career. It doesn’t get any more simple or complicated than that.
You said it best yourself in another thread Palmtag, “What’s life without a stuggle?”
Go for it, and have no regrets. I wish I had the way with words that heatwave does, but I don’t so I’ll leave you with some quotes that I look to at times when I feel like I just can’t train anymore, that I should just quit and resign myself to the fact that I’m slow. Whatever you do, never give up.
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
-Steve Prefontaine
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.”
- Billy Mills
“Pressure to perform is a reflection of your own ambition.”
- Michael Johnson.
“The depth of your struggle will determine the height of your success.”
-Anonymous
Thank you Mister C. Thank you.
11/21/05
Week-23 Monday
Workout: 7 miles easy.
We ran a short easy run. The guys messed around as usual, and I almost twisted my ankle pretty bad b/c of that.
Workout Meterage
11000
Weekly Meterage
11000
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
That’s my life.
11/22/05
Week-23 Tuesday
Workout: 2 mile warmup, dynamics, 1x1200, 2x800, 2x200
Easy workout today. Just a sharpener to keep our legs fresh for state. My race plan I’ve written up and given to coach but I’ll write a bit of it here.
First mile, could be hard, or be easy, but no matter what it will be fast. About 50th at the mile mark. I will zone out of race mode until a mile and a half. I will be in workout mode. I will stay on Michael Machado’s shoulder for the first mile and a half. Work with him and hold my position. Once I hit the downhill pavement, I’m booking it. Going up the hill, I’m cruising holding momentum from the downhill. Quick strides around the tight turns at the top, and a big move when I hit the pavement past the 2 mile mark. When I see the final whupdee-doos, I will start a final drive. Picking up my arms and lifting the knees. I will sneek around the trees and the second my feet hit the pavement, start my kick. My kick will be violently fast. Self-destructively fast. I won’t hesitate or worry about the last 100, just make my move from there. It’s a half mile from the pavement to the finish. God help me.
Workout Meterage
9000
Weekly Meterage
20000
<>But LeMond knew he had nothing to lose. And he raced like it, too. “Don’t tell me the splits during the race,” he announced to his team director. “I’m planning to go full-out from the gun and maintain for as long as I can. It works or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, I’ll have
nothing to regret. And if it does …” <>
Excerpt from: Tour De France - A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Bicycle Race
Updated and Revised - 100 Year Anniversary Edition By James Startt
I like that qoute…
11/23/05
Week-23 Wednesday:
Workout: 30+ minutes easy, no watch, but I am at my mom’s house so the terrain was hilly. Very soft, though, and I didn’t push myself.
Workout Meterage
7000
Weekly meterage
2-3 meters
11/24/05
Week-23 Thursday: Thanksgiving
Workout: 20 minutes easy.
I think I was supposed to do 30…
This is my last post until the state meet in 2 days. Gord…
Workout Meterage
3000
Weekly Meterage
2-4 meters
We’re the last race of the day. If you want the results before I post them they’ll probably be at www.dyestatcal.com
No, we want it from you! 