July 14th - 20th

Another race week for me. It was the second one fo the summer and it went pretty well.

7/14 10 miles 1:11:50
Easy day of recovery after a really long weekend. I felt good but thought that it was a good place to stop.

7/15 9 miles 59:59
Little bit of a daper workout the week of the race. I had been feeling really heavy in the legs and didn't think that it was going to go that well but it wasn't much of a workout and everything was fine.

2.6 mile w/u
mile 6:21(150)
mile 6:04(158)
mile 5:44(169)
3.4 mile c/d

All in all the workout was a joke. I ran it with dustin who is just not at the same level as I am as a distance runner. I am starting to think that I am going to start to have to do workouts on my own from now on so that I don't start cheating myself. I have some big goals for the upcoming races and want to achieve them and without proper training it is not going to happen.

7/16 9 miles 1:02:10
Easy day

7/17 10 miles 1:09:43
Man was i tired today. I ran with Jones, Dustin and Lee and dropped off from them around 4 miles in. They were running about 6:35 pace and I was having none of it. So I ran my own pace and I think I benefited from it. Recovered good and ready for tomorrow.

7/18 6 mies 43:34
Easy pre race day run. Wow did I feel like shit the entire way. I tried hard to get into a rythm but just could not find it. Thinking that tomorrow is not going to go all that well.

7/19 Race Day 8.3 mile 45:40 2nd place
WU/CD 5 miles
Here are the splits from the race

5:34 | 5:37 | 5:34 | 5:29 | 5:24 | 5:25 | 5:30 | 5:31 | 1:32

Overall I thought the race went really well. I wasn't planning on having a lot of competition and there wasn't. I ran most of the race with Jake Januszewski which i figured I was going to do once I seen him at the start line. We talked through 5 miles pretty constantly and then he decided it was time to drop the hammer and destroy me over the next three miles. He probably ran the last 3 miles in about 5:10 and there was no way that I was soing that. I could tel right away that the course was going to be long and so I held back until the end to really give it my all. If it would have been 8 miles on the dot I probably would have run the last mile in around 5:15 but that is the nature of the beast. I was pleased with the way that the race ended and the overall pace being 5:30 which is what I was shooting for. It may have been a little bit faster if we would not have been talking the first 5 miles but it was a nice easy race that I was pleased with.

7/20 9 miles 1:08:48
Really, really easy day. Felt really good for how drunk we got after the race and really felt good about the recovery.

Week Total - 66.5 miles
MTD - 174 miles