The final preseason!

Mon 8/26: PM: Huntington up Virginia, 5.2mi for turn-arounds, ~8:30 pace. Felt pretty solid, nice to finally have people to run with.

Tue 8/27: AM: Lower Arroyo, 8mi for turn-arounds, ~7:50 pace. I'm liking this group we've got here. The frosh/soon to be sophomores are so fast... sub-7 for full is just ridic. Probably won't do lunges after practice anymore... L IT band was feeling pretty uncomfortable all afternoon.
PM: 12min around south field, went to the "beaver barn" after... apparently we're gonna start doing lower body strengthening twice a week. ~1.4mi.

Wed 8/28: AM: Canons! Only did 5 b/c injured: 3:04, 3:05, 3:04, 3:00, 2:57 or so? Did much better than expected. I'll just say 7mi. I'm going to die if we're doing Patrician tomorrow... need a recovery day.
PM: 15min around south field, ~1.6mi. Was considering biking b/c IT band was pretty uncomfortable all afternoon but felt fine while running so I guess it's ok.

Thu 8/29: AM: Patrician turning back at Colorado, 7.7mi, just under 8min pace. IT band was hurting much much more than usual, esp in the last 3mi. Saddd.
PM: 16 min on bike, only biking afternoons from now on. Got lots of new exercises, plus 120 lunges and lots of hip / butt and band stuff... oww.

Fri 8/30: AM: Tu Madre, 5.6mi around 8min pace again. Felt harder than it should've but wasn't too bad. Got our uniforms today!
PM: 15 min bike. Hip only hurting a bit, all ready to race tomorrow!

Sat 8/31: Redlands Invitational! 22:32 6k, pretty happy. Goal was to run 6 min pace and finish fast - ended up running 6 min avg pace with 5:50, 12:10, ?? (18:30?) splits. Ran with David the whole race - good teamwork. Was around 10m behind Mark until the last mile. Surged hard 1k to go, but still got picked by David and Mark =/. Overall pretty satisfied for early in the season and being injured for so long, only 27 sec off from 2 years ago. ~7.5mi total.

Total: 44mi + 31 min bike.
47.1mi equivalent.

Last week of laziness

Mon 8/19: 4.2mi around Seoul International Park and Lafeyette Recreation Center. Started out way too fast (7:40 pace), averaged 8:08. IT band felt good the first half and then eh the second.

Tue 8/20: Not sure what I was doing, but decided to run to USC. 5.5mi, prolly like 8:30 pace. IT band felt good like the first 2mi, then felt bad another 2, then ok again.

Wed 8/21: Ran an easy and short loop with lots of laps around Seoul International Park. ~2.7mi, 8min pace? R knee was hurting more than L side for some reason o_O.

Thu 8/22: Off, did core and exercises.

Fri 8/23: AM: Worst run ever... did same 4.2mi course as Monday, but was feeling tired and dead everywhere. Not used to morning runs at all... especially when dehydrated, no food in 17 hours, and sleep deprived. At least my IT band wasn't hurting. I don't even wanna know how slow I was going.

Sat 8/24: Huntington up Virginia with extra around Lacy, 6mi.

Total: 22.6mi.

Wait, I have 2 weeks?

Mon 8/13: 1mi around the track. No pain!

Thu 8/15: ~2mi on treadmill.

Fri 8/16: Lap around tech, 1.5mi. Felt decent I guess. Saw Ani walking haha.

Weekend: Norcal! ;P

Went to the gym yesterday

Treadmill for 4 (3? don't remember) minutes. Half set of abs. 2 sets on all the machines. Does this even count as exercise?
Lots of hip and IT band exercises. Lots and lots and lots.

I got this.

No I don't.

Stop

I'm stopping everything... DDR... biking... and doing lots of exercises and stretching. It's starting to feel a bit better, every once in a while.