ben

2.5 mile warm up. workout today was the famous byu lakeside tempo run. 4 mile tempo run. I ran the 4 miles in 22:03 which computes to a 5:31/pace. not bad. these are probably the types of runs that i need the most for the longer cross country races. i should've done more of these in years past. I felt okay, but was hurtin by the end. my hand killed again like the dickens. i think i really need to go to the doctor. 2.5 mile cooldown.

not a very good run today. yesterday evening i got stung by something and my hand is now all swollen. i can't even bend my pinkey at all. it kills to run to. i think i may have gotten an allergic reaction or something. before the run i wasn't feeling too hot, and after i felt like fainting and plopped myself in bed for like 3 hours. anytime i got up i felt awful..anyways for the run i averaged about a 7min/mile pace. considering i  jogged over to the fieldhouse and was going really slow across a bridge, i was probably low 6:50's for most the run.

today for practice we did mile repeats. we ran from the track office over to kiwanis fields and ran a loop there for a 2 mile warmp. did a couple of strides. we split into 2 groups for the workout. the top group coach wanted going 5min/mile, but they were a bit under that. the second group (me) were supposed to hit 5:10-5:15. Between each mile we probably had about 5 minutes recovery. i'm not exactly sure how much, but it wasn't that much at all. these were my splits: 5:09, 5:05, 5:03, 5:06. we did the mile repeats on grass at a park. we started and stopped at the same point, but the first half has some major uphill in it which added to the difficulty. overall, pretty good workout. i feel a lot better about this one than the milerepeats we did last week on the track. i bet with this effort on the hilly grass, i would've been in the 4:40's for each mile for sure. still slightly behind some of the tryout guys, but i was right with if not ahead some of the guys already on the team. coach said this is the deepest team he's ever had.

I played ultimate frisbee with some friends for an hour before running so i count that as mile.since it was labor day, there was not official practice. us tryout kids just met at the track office and ran 8.5 miles. For the run, we averaged exactly a 6:30/mile pace. again of course this was supposed to be a nice easy recovery..yeah right. for the miles 5,6,7 we were probably going in the 5:40's so we were definitely running pretty quickly. I wish i would've done more of these fast pace shorter runs in high school. they are pretty tough but it feels good at the same time.