Anything Will Burn If the Furnace is Hot Enough

1:35:00

Long runnnnnnn. Went under the new underpass and ran all the way up a hill to Leads I think? It was ALL up hill and it blowed. Not hard but just long and slow. The way back was fun though because it was all downhill! Achilles kinda started hurting, but it went away mid run. Iced it when I got home with a bag of Dino nuggets because our ice machine doesn't work. Win-Win-Win because I got to eat dino nuggets, ice my achilles, and Idk what the other win is but I was happy.

45:00 +  15 morning run and weights

ROOT BEER MILLLEEEEEEE!!!! Dope. Congrats to Mitch for breaking his own record by 8 seconds. Congrats to Dylan for pushing the last lap (unlike me who had to stop with 200 to go so I didn't throw up) and throwing up hard (into the trash can, luckily) right after the finish line. 4th place is still pretty good, and I'm guessing I'll get 2nd next year. Not really my strongest event, so I think I'll just continue to work toward the 3200 and 1600...

50:00

Up north to tour some colleges. Check for some high schools near my hotel on maps, and found Alta High 2.2 miles away. Got to the hotel at like 9:20 and I quickly changed and went running towards Alta to see if I could do my workout tomorrow morning. It took my about 17 minutes to get there and the workout calls for 15 minutes of warmup, so I figured it was pretty good. I ran down the street a little further and then flipped and ran back to the hotel. It was kinda scary being there alone in the dark and not knowing exaclty where I was, but I'm still alive so it's okay.

70:00

After doing the math last night about how far away from my hotel Alta High was, I deided to do my workout there. It was super dark and I was way tired when I woke up, but I had to get it done. Went and hopped the small fence onto their track and did the workout. All one minute with equal recovery, I did 4 CV, 3 threshold, 3 tempo, 3 thres and 4 cv. Hit all of my paces right on, except for the first two tempos were a bit quick. Overall good workout. 

On the way back, however, I almost got killed...... by a plastic bag stuck to a tree. At 5 in the morning in a place you don't know anything about, you get a little paranoid. When running around corners or next to parked cars and such, I ran with my fists clenched ready to fight. Although I was ready to fight, the plastic bag scared the freaking crap out of me. I jumped so far that if there was a car coming they definitely would have hit me.

65:00

Nice tempo run. Went from 6:20 to 5:50 by the end. Just short of 5 miles. That's a lot of laps on the track, but it doesn't bother me one bit, because I plan on spending the rest of my life on the track.

65:00

Very slow and hard run. I'm not sure why but I am so fatigued from this week. Traveling up north and back and doing both runs within 8 hours of each other and aahhhhh. The whole run was just long and I couldn't get myself to go faster than 8:30 pace and my legs wouldn't take my knees higher. It's alright though. I still got a quicker finish of about 7:50 and went home and then went straight to work. Although I had a rough start to my morning, I went to a pokemon tournament after work and I won! So overall it balanced out as a decent day.