Spring Break and Sick

My season seems to be unraveling very slowly. First a bit of injury, then sickness. I don't feel like I'm improving anymore and my fitness/basic aerobic ability is feeling disturbingly lacking. I have some loose plans for the rest of the season but they lack direction and certainty. I also feel like I am loosing touch with running and a lot of the runners I know. At this point it just feels like I'm just waiting for summer and still waiting for some magical season where I suddenly break through.

3/17/08- Medium Huntington up Virginia with Julian after finishing 95.
Miles: 5

3/18/08- 15 Minute tempo with Scott at Lacy. 3:07, 3:03, 3:05, 3:00, 3:00 for each lap. Pretty tough by the end, warm out.
Miles: 7

3/19/08 – Pulled all nighter for Ph12b exam. I wish that course was better taught. A good thing to start with is not giving 15 hour sets. I hope I can pull out a good grade in that class. So glad this term is over. I really need to figure out how to be more constructive during the term and I think it begins with less units and less living set to set. I also think lowering the stress will greatly help my running. 35 minutes easy on N field.
Miles: 4

3/20/08- Heading to Mammoth
Miles:0

3/21/08- Skiing at Mammoth.
Miles: 0

3/22/08- Skiing at Mammoth. Ran down main road to campground and followed some trails in the snow. Kept post holing in shorts. ~50 minutes total. Altitude kicking my butt. Also sad I didn’t see Ryan Hall.
Miles: 6
3/23/08- Skiing at Mammoth. Feeling a bit sick.
Miles:0

Weekly Miles: 22

3/24/08- Sick, really bad sore throat. Driving back from Mammoth, miserable plane flight back to D.C.
Miles: 0

3/25/08- Feeling horrible, cannot swallow without extreme pain, 101.5 fever. Went to the doctors, strep throat, started penicillin.
Miles:0

3/26/08- Still feeling pretty out of it, still can't swallow anything.
Miles:0

3/27/08- Finally feeling better. Drove to Churchill H.S., ran around it medium easy. Legs felt like they hadn’t ran in ages but felt good.
Miles: 5

3/28/08- My favorite home run feeling pretty good. Medium CJ trail almost to River Road.
Miles: 8.5

3/29/08- Eichenlaub grassy up Virginia, picked up tempo from Virginia to Los Robles and then pushed hard back, accelerating to 6:00-5:45 or less pace by the end. Feeling good, except for a bit of Achilles/Plantar to work on.

Miles: 7.5

3/30/08- NFTC with Kangway, Mark. 25 minutes medium, 5 min cool down. Lifted afterwards. Feeling stronger, but it was still disturbing how surprisingly not easy that 25 minutes was.
Miles: 4

Weekly Miles: 25


Totals:
Wk 1: 36
Wk 2; 38 (37 cycling)
Wk 3: 45
Wk 4: 43
Wk 5: 40 (12 backpacking)
Wk 6: 26 – no long day from backpacking
Wk 7: 40
Wk 8: 23.5 – Groin Injury
Wk 9: 37
Wk 10: 39
Wk 11: 22- Spring break skiing + sick
Wk 12: 25 -sick

Season Total: 415 ± 20 ( ≈ 405 is my guess)