Exhausted

Mon 9/23: AM: Lower Arroyo, 7.8mi, 58min.

Tue 9/24: AM: La Loma repeats, 4:56, 5:03, 4:56, 4:53, 4:52 for ~1300 each and a huge hill at the end. 9.5mi total. No barn workout! Strange Achilles pain for some reason, but only in recovery between intervals so not too worried.

Wed 9/25: PM: Garfield long way, 41min (!!! crazy fast), 5.7mi so around 7:15 pace. Felt solid. I've been feeling this strange calf tightness in the beginnings of runs for a while now, but it was never bad enough for me to note it. I stretch and bike before most runs, so not exactly sure why it's there...

Thu 9/26: AM: 6on, 2off x 4 at Lacy. Felt decent, bit behind Will the whole workout. Leg tired. ~8mi total.

Fri 9/27: AM: Tu Madre pretty easy, 5.6mi.
PM: 2mi around the track at like 8min pace. Easy peasy.

Sat 9/28: AM: Rose bowl loops, 29:10 for 7 loops (7.65k). Was within sight of Rishabh and Elliot but never managed to catch them. Rest of the pack fell back at around 3 laps. Felt amazingly good... probably started too slow and negative split a bit. Warmup 3 laps around cd 5k around rose bowl. 9.9mi total.
PM: DDR, not too much but played a few 11/12's.

Total: 48.5mi + DDR.
51mi equivalent.

Catch up

Mon 9/16: AM: Lower Arroyo, 7.8mi, 59min. Felt easy though, probably because of all the stoplights. Had ankle taped. IT band felt pretty good.
PM: 20min bike.

Tue 9/17: AM: 12, 10, 8min at Lacy. Started a bit too fast, but still managed to avg around 2:57, 2:53, 2:50 per lap for the three. ~7.5mi. Tape sucks.
PM: 20min bike.

Wed 9/18: AM: Huntington, 6.1mi, ~7:50 pace. Felt good. Strides after felt good too. Tapeless! Most of the ppl ran really slow...
PM: 25min on the south field while most of the team played frisbee, 3mi. Sally took away most of my exercises!

Thu 9/19: AM: Loops around Lacy, ~1100m each. Ran with Elliot and Jared, 4:01, 3:58, 3:59, 3:53, 3:48. I think I'm way better at shorter interval work than longer stuff. 7.5mi.
PM: 15min bike, first time on the spinny ones. Really sore overall.

Fri 9/20: AM: San Gabriel, 4.3mi. 7:45 pace. Pushed the 6 strides after a little hard, might've messed up my groin... Also still really sore.
PM: 13:20 around the south field.

Sat 9/21: AM: 7.5k Arroyo tempo, ran horribly. 9:41, 9:46, 10:08. Overall 29:35... Thought I could get faster but groin started acting up around a lap in. In third lap, was just trying to finish. Week's over though, time to rest up. ~9.5mi.

Total: 47.3mi + 55min.
53mi equivalent.

Don't hold back

Mon 9/9: AM: Water tower, went pretty easy, ~8.5mi? Everything felt great except L IT band discomfort... Strides afterwards were ok, but hip flexor still doesn't like speed. Good thing this is xc and not track.
PM: 20min bike.

Tue 9/10: AM: Shenendoah's, only did 4, 4:31, 4:25, 4:26, 4:23. Felt really good though, was generally with Jared and Joel. ~7.5mi. IT band felt great.

PM: 20min bike.

Wed 9/11: AM: Crazy tree. Sprained my ankle 4.5mi in, gg.
PM: Exercises.

Thu 9/12: AM: Exercises.
PM: Exercises (yay theraband!). Aquajogged 20min.

Fri 9/13: AM: Exercises, 40 min elliptical. L IT band hurting again for the first time since like Monday =/.

PM: 5 min on bike. Pasta feed!

Sat 9/14: UC Riverside Invitational! Didn't run b/c ankle =/. Team did pretty well though! Especially good performances from Ani, Rishabh, and Nick.

Attrition

Mon 9/2: AM: JPL run starting from Rose Bowl. 9.5mi in 80min, slow overall b/c uneven footing and lots of hills. Ran last mi fast in 7:15 with David. Was only supposed to go 32min out but felt really good so went the whole 42.
PM: Labor day so no practice. Mannion dinner though ;P. Groin and hip flexors really really really sore. Also sharp pain to the touch on outside of R knee, not sure why...

Tue 9/3: AM: Walked into the trainer's and was surprised by the sudden spike in number. Seems like our injured number just quadrupled from the JPL run... at least the guys' team still looks pretty healthy. 4x1200 at Lacy every 7min. 4:37, 4:30, 4:31, 4:23, took a long time to get warmed up. Apparently I went similar pace as Scott so wasn't a bad workout. ~6.5mi total. Team did Oak Groves but Andres said not to do the hills b/c of pain on other IT band. Outside of R knee (IT band?) pain and groin/hip flexor soreness were present throughout but manageable.
PM: 20min bike. Groin and hip flexors so bad... At least R knee/IT band doesn't hurt too much while biking.

Wed 9/4: AM: Huntingson up Los Robles, 6.1mi, 48min. Funny, didn't feel faster than 8min pace. Wasn't feeling great, especially in sore spots. I really hope it's not strained, but Sally says full range of motion = just soreness so gonna keep fingers crossed. Didn't do strides to be safe.
PM: 25min bike, felt really easy. Skipped out on theraband barn stuff. Feeling excited for tomorrow's San Marino hills!

Thu 9/5: AM: San Marino Hills, just the first 6. Probably ~7mi, I'll map it out later. Lots of waiting to regroup so went really fast up the hills. Felt decently good. Just normal L IT band pain after icing, but everything else seems to be getting better.
PM: 20min bike.

Fri 9/6: AM: Garfield Long Way, 5.7mi. I think pretty much every single recovery run I ask the time when we're done and it ends up being almost exactly 8min pace. It's like clockwork now.
PM: 15min bike. P90x is entertaining haha.

Sat 9/7: AM: 7.5k tempo at the arroyo: 9:57, 9:53, 9:44 for each 2.5k lap, 29:34 overall. Slower than I was hoping, but ohh well, still pretty solid. Felt pretty good throughout but guess I just ran out of gas... wanted to keep up with Jared on the last lap but guess it wasn't meant to be. L IT band hurting pretty bad after the CD. ~11mi.

Total: 45.8mi + 80min bike.
54mi equivalent.