4 Weeks Out From The Half!!

September 22nd-Monday: Day off :)

September 23rd-Tuesday: Day off-Achilles still tweaked

September 24th-Wednesday: 3mi.-(26:18) at 6:21am-wasn't pretty-form felt messed up

September 25th-Thursday: An easy 3mi.-(24:58) at 6:18am. 5mi.-(40:26) easy at 6pm

September 26th-Friday: An easy 4mi.-(32:05) at 12:36pm. Another 4mi.-(31:42) at 6:34pm

September 27th-Saturday: An easy 1.5mi.-(13:12) at 8:26am. 1mi.-(NT) after Seth's 5k downhill race where he got the win! Took some photos while spectating. An attempted track workout-(1.5wu-12:41, a few drills + striders, 1mi.-5:44, .5 rest, 1mi.-5:51, .5 rest, 400-84, 200 rest, 400-80, 200 rest, 1.25cd)-6.5mi. total at 6:03pm
9mi. total on the day

September 28th-Sunday: Long run-12mi.-(1:23:48) at 10:41am with a quick 60-75sec. break after 6mi. to hydrate; not included in final time. Felt really good! Kept relaxed for the majority of the run, was just rolling.

40mi. of running for the week

New Trainers

September 15th-Monday: Day off :)

September 16th-Tuesday: An easy 6mi.-(48:08) at 5:32pm

September 17th-Wednesday: An easy 8mi.-(64:25) at 6:05pm

September 18th-Thursday: Got some new Brooks Purecadence 3's and broke them in on a tempo workout-11mi.-(2wu, 8mi. tempo-52:15, and 1cd)-total time-(1:17:38-no breaks) at 6:06pm

September 19th-Friday: Day off-sore Achilles tendon

September 20th-Saturday: An easy 1.5mi.-(11:32) at 11:02am with a couple pick ups for an xc race that I wasn't able to jump into, damn coordinator. 3.5mi.-(28:36) at 6:34pm. still sore and tweaked

September 21st-Sunday: Long run-12mi.-(1:26:40-no breaks-3 GU Chomps around 9mi. into it, ate 4 of them before I started) at 12:19pm

42mi. of running for the week

LIFE

If someone were to ask me "why do you run", I'd probably just give them a simple answer like, "I love it", but there is more behind that answer, it goes so much more deeper than just loving it. I love the training itself for the release it gives me, for the distraction from work and life that it provides. It has gotten me through depression and aggression. I've been down the hole and back. I love racing because I love the competition! I love the sense of peace I get when I'm out on a run. In all reality, I grasp the vibrancy of just being alive because I'm all too aware of my own mortality. I'm sure that you are too. I know I'm going to get old one day and not be able to run, not have that release or drive to stay in shape; improve. We are all ultimately headed in the same direction. I know it. You know it. Why do so many of us move through life so fast, always looking towards the future while rarely enjoying the present? I don't have an answer for that one. I do know that I have a dream, and I'm really striving to achieve it. I don't want to be just normal. I don't want to be a celebrity. I just want to know, when I'm old and tired, that I tried my hardest; did everything that I could to achieve my dream because I believe it is possible. 

September 8th-Monday: Day off :)

September 9th-Tuesday: 3mi.-(29:15) at 4:28pm on some steep, gnarly trails

September 10th-Wednesday: Hill repeats/Tempo with the team-(1.5wu-13:20, 4mi. tempo-26:24, 5.5cd-44:36-just over 4 with Mr. Collins) It was nice to talk about training and marathons; made the miles go by quickly.
11mi. total on the day

September 11th-Thursday: An easy 3mi.-(25:50) at 6:04am. 5mi.-(39:52) at 5:50pm

September 12th-Friday: An easy 4mi.-(32:28) at 6:18am. Another 4mi.-(30:41) at 1:04pm in my racing shoes

September 13th-Saturday: An easy 3mi.-(24:35) at 9:13am

September 14th-Sunday: Lone Gull 10k PR! :)-(1.7wu, 10k Race-36:53!-5:57 pace, and 1.2cd) An easy 3mi.-(NT) later on at 7:08pm...it wasn't pretty-form felt messed up..more of a limping jog than anything 
12mi. total on the day
5mi. split-PR!-(29:44) 

Running has taught me that I'm capable of more than I thought I was.

45mi. of running for the week

A Week From Lone Gull!

September 1st-Monday: St. Charles 5k-Portsmouth, NH-(1.5wu, 5k Race-18:16-(5:31, 5:58, and 5:56), and 1.5cd)-6mi. total
The heat and humidity really messed with me from the 1st mile marker to the finish line.

September 2nd-Tuesday: Day off :)

September 3rd-Wednesday: An easy 3mi.-(24:38) at 6:22am. 4mi.-(30:35) at 6:48pm and jogged 90sec. barefoot after. Planks-3x45sec.-Front, R side, L side-one of each

September 4th-Thursday: An easy 3mi.-(24:51) at 6:04am. 5mi.-(39:58) at 7:24pm

September 5th-Friday: An easy 3mi.-(24:31) at 6:26am. 5mi.-(40:46) at 7:11pm...very humid out

September 6th-Saturday: An easy 3mi.-(23:15) at 9:52am

September 7th-Sunday: Long run/Tempo workout-12mi.-(6mi.-41:46, 6:50 break-water, gu chomps, porta potty, changed into racing shoes, 6mi.-40:44-(tempo-1st 4mi.@6:30 pace-26:00)-total time-(1:22:30) at 11:25am. Felt Amazing! :)

44mi. of running for the week