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15 miles 92:37

Daytona Sidewalks

After getting up at 7am and going to Part 2 board review from 8am-4pm I get home and quickly change to get out the door in time for a long run in the daylight.  What a fun day.  It's days like these that make you want to quit school, quit running, and move into my parents basement and mooch off of them for another decade.  The run was fine, a little tight from the workout but nothing inhibiting my running.

5 miles 31:06

Daytona Sidewalks

Recovery day.  All recovery days are an easy 5 mile run.  This is an especially easy day for me since we don't have classes in order to honor MLK jr.  It's a much needed break after the long hours of class last week and the full weekend of part 2 Board review all day saturday and sunday.  Recovery day indeed

AM 10 miles 60:59

Daytona Sidewalks

I've got a 2 hour break in classes on Tuesday so I race home to cram in a 10 mile run and lunch before racing back to school.  I do my normal sidewalk loop without much exciting happening.

PM 5 miles 30:11

Daytona Sidewalks

After getting in an adjustment for Price I come home and do a 5 mile out and back.  When done I do 3 sets of 15 pullups, sit ups with medicine ball, and "pedestal" leg drills.  Wow, what an ambitious day.  2 runs and upper and lower body strengthening.  WOW.  What's gotten into me?

Daytona Sidewalks

Workout.  I wanted to do a little more this workout since I don't feel the need to back away too much for this weekends race.  Unfortunately I was running out of daylight by the time I got out of the clinic.  I still managed to get in a 3 mile warmup and 3X5min with 1 min recovery on the sidewalks going down Big Tree Rd.  From my estimates of normal runs and workouts I was getting in slightly more than a mile each time and each 5 min interval I made it a little bit further than the previous.  Solid pre race workout.  I guess.

10 miles 60:40

Daytona Sidewalk

Another 10 miler on the sidewalks.  I was pretty lazy afterwards...no pullups or drills or anything.  It's especially lazy since there's no class today or tomorrow.  You'd think I could at least get in a little extra since the big event of my day was winning the 2010 national championship with NC State on NCAA 07 and then recruiting the greatest class of all time (12 5* and 10 4* I even had a 4 *walk on).  I also watched NBC's must see tv.  Big day for me!

5 miles 30:07

Daytona Sidewalks

Pre race 5 mile run.  Since I already got in a double run this week and I'm planning on a shorter workout after this race I can take two recovery runs this week and not have it kill my mileage.

AM Seasons 52 Park Avenue 5k, Orlando FL

Trackshack Grand Prix Race #5 of  7 (8 miles)

Won in 15:20.  Second Place was 15:50.  Splits were 5:01 and 9:51.  Last year I ran 14:59 and won by 1 min.  Last year I was 6 seconds faster at the mile and was 9:45 at 2 miles.  Thus this year's last mile was significantly slower ~15 seconds.  Kind of disappointing to be that much slower than last year.  I suspect that I was in better race shape last year because the first weekend in January I raced a 10k in Charlotte in 30:40 with solid competition and this year the race was postponed and this race was my opener and I was solo by the mile. 

PM Atlantic High School track (7 miles)

I had originally intended on doing 3 or 4 sets of 3X300 but with the poor showing at the morning race I wanted to test myself more anaerobicly.  I decided to do a mile in 4:20 (~64, 65, 66, 65) 500m recovery, then 2 sets of 3X300 with 1 min recover and 500 meters after each set in (47, 45, 43; 47, 46, 43).  I felt good about this workout.  The 4:20 started stiff but I settled in and got through it well.  I was worried about hitting the 43's for 300 but I fought my way down to it.  I have not done speed work that fast hardly at all since living in Florida so I'm happy to have gotten down there even if it wasn't the smoothest feeling 300meters ever run.