Anything Will Burn If the Furnace is Hot Enough

Some guy at work today asked what I ran in track because I was wearing one of my jackets and I said 16 and 32 and he asked what my 16 time was and what the record was and I was like “yeah some guys from up north are freaking fast. Ben Saarel from park city has it” and he’s like “yeah I know I coached Ben that’s why I was asking.” So I was like no way and he told me he coached him in soccer and he was crazy fast and could go forever and I was just like dang dope. Pretty cool idk why I shared it but yeah

10.02 mi

70 min 1-1-2 pickups with 5 min recovery between each

7:02 avg

Ran at like 11 Bc of New Years. Mikey was nice and came with me. Pretty quick run and leg defs sucked with like 15 min left because we hit like 3 traffic lights and had to stop. Take a few seconds to get going and it hurts like a sunuva. Managed to get the full minutes in but it hurts pretty bad. Did some yoga and iced when I got home. 

Woke up and was hurting so didn’t run today

Playing it safe and didn’t run again. I really really really hate not running but I also really really like not being injured so just playing it safe. I’ll probably run tomorrow though

8.03 mi

51 min 30 min death run x_x

5:40 avg for death run 6:25 avg for whole run

Death ruuuunnnnnnnnnnnn. Freaking epic. I executed my strategy exactly as planned and ran 2 miles really fast. Was shooting for 10:50ish but ended up running like 11:30 or soemthing. Held my ground about 125 meters ahead of the chase pack and 200 in front of the chase pack chase pack. Chase pack chase pack ended up catching the chase pack and became the chase pack. I was dying towards the end and they were definitely gaining on me. Alex made it about 100 meters behind me and wasn’t really gaining any ground because I just went ham. I had those thoughts like “oh I’m so dead they’re definitely gonna catch me” but I shut them tf down and I think it was actually very good practice for times like that in races. Overall like a 5:40 tempo for 5 miles so hats was super fun. Leg didn’t hurt too bad after and but I iced it for a while.

Turns out it was my hip flexor not my IT band. I asked the wrong person I guess.. but luckily I’ve been doing the wrong stretches for an it band and I’ve actually been stretching my hip flexor so thats good. Ready for the 6 min test tomorrow

6.6 mi

45 min with 6 minute test

7:30 avg

6 minute test was cool. Started first 200 a little slow but picked it back up for a 1:12 lap. The rest were about the same and picked it up lap 3 but still barely ran a 1:13 so now I see why we are supposed to speed up at the start of it. Was super dead after 4 Laps amc was zoned out first 100 m of lap 5 but kicked way strong from 100-300 and then was dying but still finished strong. Ran 2019 meters beating the record (which I hold) by 3 meters so yeet. Headed into the last lap I actually didn’t think I was gonna beat it but barely got it so yeah that was cool. Solid 2 days of running. 

Recovery day because I slept in and didn’t want to run and figured it would be good for my hip anyways