Matt Todd Running

I only ran a 0.5 mile warm-up today before going inside for weights. 9 miles in the rain afterwards. I thought the pace was really slow (over 7:00/mile)but my homies were all still tired from Utah State and we'll hopefully do more speed this week so it's okay.

We ran a speed workout as a team today. It was 6x800 with my times at 2:35, 2:35, 2:33, 2:32, 2:34, and 2:40. None of them were as fast as I was hoping for (2 mile goal pace), but the last one especially because my stomach really started hurting. After that we just finished up our miles. I didn't have my watch so I don't know what the pace was, I assume it was nothing record-breaking though.

First technical day of Track conditioning at school. We ran some pickups for 5,4,3,2, and 1 minute intervals with 3 minutes at recovery pace in between. I was leading, and tried to keep the pace around 5:30 for the fast parts but the recovery was pretty darn slow. We did two miles before and about four miles after to end up at a total of 10. The slow-paced recovery was killing me so I finished with a 6:02 last mile but the overall average was 6:47.

I felt absolutely terrible today for some reason. Had to cut the recovery run short, average pace: 7:05

We did a brief circuit workout with the team today before heading out to finish up our miles. My stomach still hurt a little bit but not as bad as yesterday so that's good. My average pace for the whole thing was 6:49/mile. Coach said we will start having a set pace for distance runs next week.

I felt ridiculously tired this morning for some reason and was barely able to make it out the door. I ran with Sean and Strrt this morning, The first few miles weren't very fast, and I felt sluggish (6:54, 6:52, 6:47). We decided to do a hill work out though and that woke me up. We ran up and down airport and did a grass loop for about 0.7 miles 5 times. Then I just ran back to the school for 8 total miles. Last 5: 6:22, 5:59, 5:58, 6:19, 6:29, Average pace was 6:27.