This racing season seems to finally be winding down so I decided to take some time and look back over what I did. This moment of reflection was prompted by a pretty terrible attempt at a workout on Tuesday. It's true I'm coming back off of a 3-4 week injury and also probably blew my load on a 66 minute, 11 mile run out at Lafayette two days before, but looking back it seems likely my body just needs a break from all this racing and working out. I never built up a high mileage base necessary to sustain a high intensity over the course of 3-4 months. Here's a recap:
Week of Jan. 25-2 mile time trial in 9:58 (remember when I had trouble breaking 5 minutes in the 1600, Tye?)
Week of Feb. 15-1500 in 4:17 followed by a 3200 in 9:49
Week of Feb. 22-1500 in 4:12.8
Week of Mar. 1- 5k in 15:42.6
Week of Mar. 15-12k in 41:04
Then I got injured, didn't run for 3 weeks, but worked out really hard in the pool for...
Week of April 26-hilly 5k in 16:50
Looking back I have to describe this season as really epic. I finally got a taste of what it's like to train hard and race some consistent PRs, and now have some pretty big goals for the upcoming years (sub 15 anybody?). I took the past two days off after that discouraging workout in the hopes of rejuvenating a little. Today while waiting for the BART I was feeling really antsy, can't-stand-still-need-to-move, so I'm hoping I still have a little left for this Memorial Day 10k.
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Yeah, you've really come a long way since when we started running together. It's been really exciting watching your progress. I think that this season for you has been the biggest one so far, but there's definitely more to come.
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