The Start of Track (Read: Don't Break This Time)

Ahh the start of track. The glorious days of medium run-outs, ending runs in the dark, snow in the mountains, and wistful hope of fast times to come. These two weeks saw some healing and good runs, but also some old injuries being aggravated and missing practice due to Ph 6. My goals for this week: Run first track workout smart, Run 6 full ~8 mile practices, get shins and Neuroma down to negligible levels by careful and smart running and icing. Goals for from now until first race: Clear up all old injures and keep new ones at bay, bring mileage up to 50 and hold, get smart track workouts and a good tempo run of 3 or more miles(good fartleks also thrown in cannot hurt), begin to get into racing shape.

12/31/07- 0, New Years party

1/1/08- Nada

1/2/08- Went to pool. Did some core and minor lifting, jogged ½ mile on the treadmill at 7:00 min pace, shins still pretty sore, stretched out. Did 30 minutes of light swimming.
Miles: 0.5

1/3/08- 0,Worried about shins, pretty sore. I don’t think I have a stress fracture but we’ll see when next Monday comes around.

1/4/08- Squat, as in 0, not the leg exercises

1/5/08- Going back to tech!, 0

1/6/08- Cleaning, errands, running not one of them, 0

1/7/08- Got Nike Frees this morning. Awesome. Classes seem okay this term, which is important. Heated shins, ran ½ miles warm-up, Lacy long way down to monterrey and up Virginia. A bit out of shape, lungs have weird almondy tastes, everyone went very fast. Scotticus and I had to hold up the rear at 7:30 pace. Shins didn’t hurt that much! Orthodics a bit weird but I’ll get used to them.
Miles: 5

1/8/08- Shins much less sore when I woke up, although they started to work in there on the run, although not badly. Crazy Tree medium with Scott and Julian. Legs felt heavy again, especially after lunges, but feeling a bit better. Sesamoid sore from pavement, but not bad.
Miles: 6

1/9/08- Lacy long way, 12 striders in lacy, 1 lap, then back. Legs sore from yesterday, haven’t ran quick in a while. Shins continuing to get better slowly, might have blister from orthodics, which still aren’t sitting right in my shoes.
Miles: 6

1/10/08- Garfield long way, didn’t have time to warm up due to getting out gear. Not as quick or stressful as the past two days. Everything slowly on the mend.
Miles: 5.7

1/11/08- Tu Madre pretty chill. It was nice to go at a bit slower pace.
Miles: 6.5

1/12/08- Skiing at Big Bear
Miles: 0
1/13/08- Huntington Sunday Run. Went for the first 4 miles with Chief and Anton. Calfs sore and legs tired from yesterday. Not feeling so hot today. Speaking of which, at least 78-80 degrees outside.
Miles: 6.5

Weekly Miles: 36

1/14/08- Lower Arroyo medium with quick finish. Tired by the end! Ran with Scott and Julian.
Miles: 8.5

1/15/08- Stucking in Ph 6 lab until 5:45, too busy to run. Ugh work
Miles: 0

1/16/08- Lacy long way, 16 striders, 2 laps and back. Fairly chill. Foot felt a bit weird after icing.
Miles: 7.5

1/17/08- Neuroma aggravated, not too bad though. Iced before practice, used metatarsal pad. Felt pretty good as the run progressed. Garfield, 3 laps at tempo pace (6:40 pace) plus a medium warm-up lap. Felt strong, breathing very labored, but was able to hold the pace with relative ease.
Miles: 8.5

1/18/08- Ph 6 consuming my life. Worked on Lab report until 4:30 where I went to practice and did Lacy long way pretty easy, foot was a bit sorer today but again went away during the run. Shins still sore.
Miles: 4.5

1/19/08- JPL run with Chief. Really fantastic run, working at a medium level the whole way, quite comfortably. Stream was at a good level to just charge right through. Shins still quite sore, will have to watch. Should do that run more often.
Miles: ~9

1/20/08-

Weekly Miles: 38