dedication, perseverance, self-discipline

My calf felt tight today, more-so than normal, but I almost feel like it is a good thing. This is because I was able to massage it out, and the tightness didn't feel like it extended to put stress on the bone like it has felt recently.

Surge - 451.35

Ohana Racer - 248.1

Speedstar - 288.05

Good run today.  I did feel some lingering tightness in the leg, but it was no worse than it has felt recently and might even have been better.  I think that I will keep on the 10 mile a day plan for the next few days, but I might increase the mileage later on in the week and possibly add in a long run this Saturday.  As long as my leg either stays constant in how it feels or gets better I think that I am safe.  However, if it starts getting worse again I will need to keep backing off.  Total time for 10 miles (maybe a little more) was 1:18:27.

Everything was pretty much the same as yesterday.  I ran with Sasha and Derek and finished up with a total time of 1:18:53 for 10 miles.  Nothing spectacular to report.  My leg felt fine while running.  It did feel somewhat odd at the beginning of the run, almost as if I was getting a cramp in the muscle but slightly different.  The feeling went away after about 1 minute.

Today I really just didn't feel like moving much. I didn't feel tired, I just didn't feel like going very fast. The only time we started to speed up at all my calf gave a slight twinge and we slowed back down. Total time for 6 miles 50:57. I will run this afternoon with the Springville Cross Country team as well.

PM - I ran 7 miles with the Springville Cross Country team.  I need to slowly work on these guys in order to get them running slower.  We finished 7 miles in 47:53.  The guys were all breathing hard, and were having trouble saying more than a few words at a time to one another, when their coach told them that they should be conversational during the run.  The leg felt good except for one little twinge  in the muscle about 5 or 6 miles into the run.  Considering the pace, that shows significant improvement.

I ran with Sasha, Derek, and Michelle this morning, while running the first mile with my Dad (peds endo doc on the blog) and some other guy I don't know. After one mile in 9:05, we picked up the pace and caught the 8:00 guy shortly after the 3 mile mark. We hit 6 miles in 47:XX and Derek took off so he could do some ROTC stuff at BYU. The rest of us then picked up the pace into the 6:30-6:40 range. After 2 more miles I turned around and ran back to Sasha's house to finish 10 miles in 1:15:46.

I ran with a whole slew of people this morning just like the last few days. Tyler and Daniel turned around after about a mile. My dad turned around after a little more than 2 miles. Derek was late, but caught up and after my dad turned around we sped up to catch the 8:00 guy. we ended up finishing 10.1 miles in 1:17:36 after running at about 9:30 pace for the first 2 miles.

I ran this afternoon with the Springville Cross Country team. We only ran 3 miles as they have a race tomorrow. We ran most of the run at about 7:30 pace, but I ran the last quarter in 1:32 because I wanted to see how it would feel going slow for 100m and then picking up the pace for 100m and then going slow for 100m, followed by another fast 100. Because I haven't done much of anything that is fast recently, I felt like I was working the cobwebs out.

I went to a cross country meet for Springville High School up in American Fork, so I couldn't run early this morning. Instead I ran a little during the meet, and then did the bulk of my run after we got back to the high school. I ran home from the school wearing a backpack in 90+ degree heat. I can't say that it was pleasant, but it got over 9 miles out of the way. I then dropped off my bag and finished up my run to get a total of 13 miles in 1:34:30. After adding in the mileage I got in at the race, I come out with 15 miles total on the day.