Matt Todd Running

Just a standard distance run with strrt this morning. We ran 4.5 miles into AF and then turned around and went back. The first three miles were really slow, but once we warmed up a little things got faster, finishing at a 6:36 average pace. I still feel pretty sick but am glad that I could still have a good run. Splits were 7:19, 7:06, 6:54, 6:32, 6:30, 6:28, 6:17, 6:15, and 5:50.

Later, I biked just over six miles with some friends. It was easy enough, but I'll call it cross training.

Super slow 9 mile "prep" day for our speed workout tomorrow. For some reason it was really hard to breathe, hopefully I feel better soon. I forgot my watch so I don't really know what the pace was other than it was over 7:00/mile and felt slower than I should be going.

Speed workout after a 1 mile warmup. We did a 400, 600, and 200 at indoor goal mile pace and then did it again with only 30 seconds of rest in between each. My times were almost exactly the same for both sets at 67, 1:52, and 30. The 600s were slow and the 200s were fast, but all together it was a good workout. After that, we just had to finish up our miles; I kept a decent 6:44 pace for the whole thing. I am looking forward to being able to breath in the future though. Shout out to my boy @connorballer for beating me on the 600s today.

Just a standard distance run today: mile warm up at the school before running to the Timpanogos Temple and back. I was feeling pretty good, I could actually breath today so that was nice. We were supposed to keep a slow pace around 7:00/mile to "recover" from our fairly easy speed workout yesterday, It ended up being slightly faster (6:46 avg) but I didn't feel like we were pushing the pace at all. Hopefully tomorrow we can speed things up a little bit.

Just ten slow miles today to get in some distance without being too tired for BYU tomorrow. I did some strides and a few 200s, but other than that, my pace was a 7:10/mile average. I'm just running the 800 tomorrow and am not too worried about my time, but still hope to do my best.

got there late and didn't have time to warm up at all. I just put on my spikes, stretched a little bit, and got in my heat to run. subsequently, it took a few laps for my body to wake up and by then the race was over. On the plus side, It will be easy to pr this saturday and it wasn't too terrible for my first 800 in two years. Also, I didn't finish my miles because I was lazy so that's too bad.