Matt Todd Running

Nice recovery distance run on the trail today. Mile warmup, then 4 out and back at a 6:47/mile average. Getting super pumped to kill it at the distance challenge on friday!!

Mile warmup, then we did some p90x type plyometric stuff with the team that was pretty short and easy. next was 8 more miles at our distance pace (ended up being a 6:27 avg) out into saratoga springs. It was super flat, but my stomach was hurting a little bit today so that made it harder to keep the pace moving. shout out to me, Thom, Strrt, and  Sean for being the only ones who went all the way out even though we always start with like ten people. I have no idea where connor and brady went but I'll just assume he's lying on his blog. My splits were 6:51, 6:24, 6:26, 6:27, 6:29, 6:34, 6:23, and 6:03.

Today we did 12 x 1 minute pickups/Fartlek type run. We went around mile pace for most of them and had one person randomly surge each time to get the rest of us moving. It was a pretty good workout, but I ate way too many starbursts during lunch and ended up with a bad side cramp on the ninth one. It hurt really bad so I stopped and recovered for a few minutes before just running the last mile out at tempo pace (5:49). After that, I met up with every one else and ran back to the school at a 6:50ish pace. Later, I ran a mile by myself just for fun.

Did some pre-meet sprints today, I ran some strides and 2x200 at 29 each then practiced some starts. throw in a warmup and cooldown for 8 miles total at easy pace. I'm pretty sore but will ice bath tonight.

Distance Challenge today was pretty sick, Shout out to Davis for putting that on. I warmed up a mile with my friends racing the 1600 and then watched them kill it with connor, sean, and thomas coming in at 4:31, 4:32, and 4:33. It was insane. Then I cooled down with them for another 2 miles and got ready for my 800.

I ran in the 3rd heat which was right around where I'm at, but the pace was kind of slow the first lap. I was playing things a little bit conservatively and never made it up on the second lap. I finished very tired and felt like I had ran as hard as I could but I really wanted a 2:08. I don't know my official time, but it was somewhere around 2:10 or 2:11 and it looks like that's as good as it's going to get for indoor. 

My 3200 was pretty hard and again I wasn't quite into it. It was less than a half hour after my 800 and I was noticeably fatigued. I basically just survived through it and ended at around 10:28. It was faster than my last one, but I really just need to have a meet where I can focus on the 2 mile and I think I can do much better than that. shout out to Sean for his third place 9:47 time and to Brock on his first ever two mile in around 11:20.

We have an intense week of training to look forward to and many more to come as I approach the huge PRs of outdoor. Indoor has been cool, but I'm ready to get things going for real now. Oh and shout out to me for seeing @Sarah! in real life today and congrats to all who had good races. 

Long slow distance run today. 10.5 miles with Connor and we didn't stop the whole time, just kept pumping out 6:50s. I felt great and the weather was beautiful. I played an intense game of basketball immediately after so I'll call it cross training. #ballers