February training has had its ups and downs, that’s for sure. Downs: St. Olaf Indoor 5k in 19:50, 3rd (last) place: In hindsight, this was the best thing to happen to me. During the race, and immediately after, I was ashamed and embarrassed. Why? After about 1/2 way through the 5k, I started to struggle…
I was super nervous for the workout I was about to do. I wasn’t sure why. It’s not like this was my first workout, or even first workout on an indoor track… but, it was the first workout where Jerry had written goal times similar to what I ran pre-Trials. I explained to Leigh on…
Jerry and I decided to take the majority of December to focus on hitting my VO2 times and also speeding up for 200m and 300m workouts. If you remember, at the start of December I had hit a rough patch in training; I was sick with the flu and then a sinus infection, a few…
… for a 3 mile “5k”. Definitely not what I was hoping for, but a good trial nonetheless. At the start. No one wanted to step to the front of the line. Nathan in blue on the left, me in the gray T-shirt, and Leigh in the light gray shirt to my right. Smiles all…
No, I haven’t died. Just OMG, XC season has started and I’m in the middle of a marathon training block!!! I have been more focused and productive than ever before. Does it matter? If it is not that important (checking facebook, reading a lot of news, cleaning more thoroughly, and ahem, blogging…), then I simply…
This training cycle has been more up and down than I’ve ever experienced, I think. The good news? I’m now faster than I was post-Beauterre/pre-Anna (see the December 2016 5k race blog post here), which is a point in my life that I remember as being “fast”. So despite the seemingly frequent downs, I hang…