Monday- 7/11
Monday morning 6am, the alarm goes off and I know it's time to put in some work with my teammates/brothers.
Workout - 18min AT run
For this workout, we start off with a mile warm-up and after our warm-up, we take off. Our first mile is at 5:45, our second mile is at 5:50 and the 3rd mile was a 5:35. Aafter the 3rd mile we just had to keep running until the time was over. Once we were done with the 18 minutes we walked for a bit and then we start our mile cool down
The total run was 32 minutes with the warm up and cool down,it was a total of 5 miles. Feeling a little tired after, a really good stretch and then we head on home.
In the afternoon at 6:00 pm we had easy 4 miles and it was just a recovery run at7:15 pace due to the AT run we had in the morning.
Total:10 miles for the day.
Tuesday- 7/12
This morning we had a 6-mile run. My teammates and I ran 6:55 pace and the last mile we picked it up to 6:45 pace. When we were done with the run we stretched and went home.
In the afternoon we had a 4-mile run. We ran at 7:00-minute pace, after our run we did 2 in and out's. Then we drank some water and stretched.
Total: 10 miles for the day.
Wednesday - 7/13
Today we ran 6 miles. We went 7:00 pace and had to run in the afternoon again. We started at 6pm, it was super hot around 100°F. What we hate the most is that we really don't have any shade during our run, so we have the sun over us for the entire run. After we're done with the run our coach was waiting for us with some refreshing water which was the best part! When we were done drinking water we stretched and went home.
Total: 6 Miles
Thursday - 7/14
Today we ran 6 miles again. The guys and I felt better than yesterday because we got to run in the morning which is a lot better than running at 6:00 in the afternoon. Because of this, we went 6:45 pace the entire 6 miles. After our 6 miles, we got a mile cool down in for a total of 7 miles for the day.
Total: 7 Miles
Friday - 7/15
Today we didn't run, we raced! My teammates and I run summer track every year so we had a meet today. We use these meets as time trials and speed workouts. We all ran the 800m and the 1600m today as a speed and endurance work out. After the meet, we did a little 3-mile shakeout and that was it for the day
Total: 4.5 miles
Saturday - 7/16
Today we had our long run which consisted of 10 miles, we started at exactly 6:30 in the morning which was good because it was pretty fresh. We ran at about 7-minute pace and finished in 70 minutes. When we were done we stretched really well for 10 minutes and then went home.
Total: 10 miles
Week in review
This week was good. It was mostly mileage but that's a good way to build up our base. We ran almost 10 miles every day. We all felt good on almost all of our runs, especially in the ones we thought we weren't going to do good like for example when we ran in the afternoons. It was a great week and my teammates and I are really looking forward to the ones yet to come.
Total mileage for the week: 47 miles