Weekly Log: February 14 to 20

Week off from racing before Conference where I'll run a 5K. Would have liked to do the 5K/3K as it may be my last chance to PR in the 3K before I graduate college. I don't know whether I'll have any 3K races in outdoor, they do exist but are rare. As for the 5K, I think 15:10 is a reasonable mark/goal. I would be really happy to break-15:10 as that definitely puts me on track for sub-15 outdoors. Even just over would still be solid and at the very least I should be able to PR (15:21). I don't think sub-15 is realistic but I wouldn't say it's impossible either. I probably need more mileage, workouts and confidence to crack 15 which I'm just a little short on right on. I certainly think another 6 weeks or so can get me into sub 15 shape, if not sub-14:50 shape for outdoor regardless of what happens in this next race.

Monday: 7 Miles- Dover, NH

Easy around town with Andrew in some very cold wind.

Tuesday: 11 Miles- Durham, NH

Long snell with Forest + Earl, felt good. Back a little sore but got it all out the next day.

Wednesday: 9 Miles- Durham, NH 

Hard workout- 4x1K + 400 with splits of 3:00, 2:59, 2:49, 2:51, 68. Grinding out the last two, totally dead. The big cutdown in pace for the 1Ks was really hard and unexpected. Too tired to do more for cooldown. Difficulty: 4/5

Thursday: 10 Miles- Durham, NH

Followed Will and Earl into the woods as they wanted to do trails, wiped out on the ice and cut up my arm a bit (that hurt). We switched to roads and I ran until I got 10 but felt tired on this one.

Friday: 10 Miles- Durham, NH

Ran with people for 4 miles then added on random roads until I hit 10. Cold wind. Around this time I developed minor cold symptoms which lasted around a week, but I never felt all that bad from it. 

Saturday: 13 Miles

AM 7- Portsmouth, NH

Easy Portsmouth-Newcastle with Matt Adams.

PM 6- Durham, NH

Evening workout with Jeff post-home meet. 1 mile tempo into a bunch of 160s + 200s at varying paces, not too difficult. Difficulty: 2/5

Sunday: 11 Miles- Durham, NH

Bennett+ at practice. Legs tired towards end.

Weekly Total: 72 Miles

Movies Watched: *Triple Frontier, *Uncut Gems, *The Revenant, *Kung Fu Panda, *Kung Fu Panda 2, *Kung Fu Panda 3

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