Today my gut hurt pretty good during the 3rd 800, but I pushed it anyway, and worked through the pain. The 200’s were pretty good, I managed to stay in my XC gear, and keep it relaxed. I ran the 100’s a bit harder, but during the last one I got my oh-so-familiar calf-cramps. It felt good to get those cramps, even though my gut was throbbing.
9/31/05
Week-15 Saturday: Madera Invitational
Workout: 8 miles (2 mile W/U, 5k race, 3mile C/D)
Result: 18:04 (17th… got a shiny medal! Team 4th)
Today was a slow 5k race. My time is “about” a 17:04 at Earlybird, so nothing to complain about. I was aggressive for most of the race, (barring the 2.0-2.5 section) and my cramps didn’t hit until 3/4 of the way through the race.
10/2/05
Week-16 Monday Alisal, Alverez, Monterey, NMC, Dual Meet.
Workout: 2 W/U, 3 race, 4.5 C/D
Result: 17:14 6th, team 1st (vs all 3 teams)
I ran the first mile VERY slow, 5:46-5:49 but I pushed the middle mile and still managed to run a decent time, even though I didn’t work the last mile, and my kick was horrific (Course confusion, not lack of motivation)
The 1200’s weren’t too tough. I ran well on those, but on the 800’s my soreness from the 12miler really caught up to me… OUCH! my legs were shot, it felt like someone had wrung out my leg muscles! The 300 wasn’t too hard, and I ran very fast on it.
3:59, 3:56, 3:59, 2:37, 2:38, 2:38, 45
We watched a college XC race, it was pretty exciting. One of our alumni ran a great race 20:32 for 4 miles, which is a blazing time for him. THe jog was easy too, and we stretched in the sun (b/c it was windy). Our team has some VERY snazzy new sweats. I like them a lot… I’ll post a pic asap.
10/7/05
Week-16 Saturday: Clovis INvitational
Result: 16:57, team 4th.
I went out well today, 5:09, and I eased up a little bit from 1.75-2.25 marks, but not as much as in my past races, and I definately finished a LOT better. My 2mile split was 10:49, and so my last mile was about 5:30-5:35. Very VERY pleased with this race. With 600m to go I was 5th man, I saw Mike Machado and though “I can outkick him he has no kick” so I passed him. I saw Antonio and thought " I can outkick him too, he just a soph." I then saw Manuel, and though! "Jee-wizz if i pass him I’ll be second man! " So I turned on the speed that made me 2time CCS800m finalist, and blew by him. Yahy!
Workout Meterage
12500
Weekly meterage
77900
P.S. Last night I had about 13oz of Pedyalite. It apperently helped with my cramps.
Yeah, a lot of the football players on our team drink that stuff too, it works really well. Good job on your race too, it takes a lot of guts to come from behind and wait to pass until the end of the race.
Today was VERY easy. We just talked the whole time, and did 12 miles in 1:20… slowest we’ve ever done it in. We booked it up the hill, though, so it wasn’t too easy.
Today was TOUGH. OUCH!!! The workout itself was a doosie, but from the 3rd rep on I had a pretty gnarly stumoch cramp. I was able to work through it on the last 2. “Let’s see how hard I have to run before I cramp.” I scared the cramp away when I took that attitude, but my stumoch was still a bit tight.
I’m very happy with this workout. The first three reps were very relaxed, and a great excercise in pacing. The first rep we went ou pretty well, and even splitted just about the whole thing. The second one we jogged the first 200m (43-44 seconds, and had to really pick it up the next 800 to cruise good time. The third rep we got a little excited, but when everyone was picking it up the last 200m, I just chilled a bit. I liked the first half. Then the next 2 reps were good also. The first rep was pretty tough, but I didn’t have to dig in to hit it on pace. At this time my gut was rearing it’s ugly head, or at least it was trying to. The ab work I did the night before made my whole core a slight bit tight which helped A LOT! I didn’t get a cramp, though I did have to stretch my core during the workout. I wish I had this kind of workout every week. During the last rep, I had to push it a bit, but I was amazed when my body responded to my demands. It was nice.
We didn’t mess around too much today, which is nice. We got the easy workout over and done with in a timely manner, and I went to Santa Cruz and saw my girl Mt. Sac at 7:00 tommorrow. I hope that my body responds like it did in the workout. If it does… I predict 16:30’s. That would be nice.
Good luck today at Mt. Sac, seems like good racing weather down here, as there’s a fog layer and it’s been relatively cool lately. Of course the race might be over by now, but it’s the thought that counts I suppose.
Mt. Sac at 7:00 tommorrow. I hope that my body responds like it did in the workout. If it does… I predict 16:30’s. That would be nice.