state of the luke

well, today we ran '800's' and i felt awful... the course is grass, and slow, and maybe a little long... here is last year...

i did 6, w/ 3:00 rest, at 3:00, 2:58, 2:58, 3:01 (not fair, b/c i literally sprinted from bathroom to start line), 2:58, 2:54. For your real athletes out there, the top guys ran them at like... oh, 2:45-2:20 w/ 5 sec. improvements for each one. Also, Varsity 1 ran 7.

we did a 1.75 mile warmup, and then i did 5.... last night i slept awful... woke up 4 times... hamstring and calf cramps, so i considered not doing the workout...

so, in hindsight, todays workout was not so bad... at 3:00, 2:56, 2:50, 2:45, and then 3:00 (totally blown...sloppy form, etc)... if i'd known last year was 6 when i was running, i'd ov run another... but i was blown..., so i guess it was a much better workout than last year. varsity ran 2:45 - 2:30, so it turned out to be better than last year... then went and got my orthotics adjusted (i've been having '4rth metatarsal pain'... so the guy dug a little hole for my 4rth metatarsal joint... i feel pretty good... and it's actually a nice cut down from last year, especially since it seemed like a 'bad workout'... and the previous day (mon) was harder, a 6 mile at like 7:30 pace, 126 heartrate (i.e., easy, which means i'm getting stronger)

sunday, 20 miles of biking (but easy, like 2 trips to town, one to school, where i did 35 minutes of skate skiing), one to ultimate, where i played for 3 hours...)...

thursday is the 400's and i may or may not run them.... it's nice to see the year to year improvements, but since i'm training for skiing, i may do 800's to get an interval, vs speed, response... but who am i kidding... i'll run them... but i basically missed 10 days with illness, so my stride length, which should have been improved by 2 weeks of fast 1000's is still static... i think i should have done mile repeats today, and i would have been faster than my earlier times... just couldn't quite 'stride it out'

frisbee: my ignorant prelim is coming...