another failure

what is happening to me? today was supposed to be my makeup day for the tempo run i missed (4 miles @ 6:20 pace) instead, i get 4 miles @ 7:00 pace.

i did 2 meadowwood loops 7 then 2 smaller ones (.22 cut off)

first one (bigger: 1.12 miles) - 7:08 (6:20 pace) on pace
second one (bigger 1.12 miles) - 7:40 (6:49 pace)
last two (smaller: 1.82 miles) - 13:5x (around 7:35-7:40 pace)

i dont know what the fuck is happening. my legs felt ok after the first one. i slowed a lot on the second and after that i was like o shit. the last one i was completely dead.

how the fuck am i supposed to run 17:30 at holmdel if i can't even run 4 miles at fucking 6:20 pace? i wasn't just a couple of second off either...i was fucking 40 seconds off pace each mile! wtf. i dont know what happened. last week was great. i ran really fast without much effort. these last three days have been horrible.

possible reasons
-i've been running with myself and i'm not good at pacing when running by myself, but still...40 seconds of pace?!?
-i was running on pavement, which i'm not good at.

despite these reasons....i was still incredibly off pace. i'm so pissed right now i can't even describe it. i really hope this is just from a lack of rest or just shot phase..i guess i'll find out monday.

worst run so far - 2 meaddowood loops.

terrible just terrible. it was pouring. my legs just felt dead. quads, shins, calves all dead.

first one - 7:07 (6:21 pace)
second one - 8:23 (7:30 pace)

i need more rest from hill running.

june xc update

haven't update in a while.

wednesday
hardest run so far.
2 toploops - 9:15, 9:30
1 freshman - 5:18ish

thursday
2 frontwoods/backwoods - 9:00, 8:45

friday - first bad day
5 mile trail moderate. hills were bad. achilles started acting up again, calves tight....not going near hills for a while


ultimate xc spike haha

30 min & 2 meadowwood loops

30 min w/ group two. i dont know why mccaff didnt put me in group one. oh well. i still ran pretty fast and dropped everyone except brian & sam.

did 2 meaddowwood loops after practice. felt ok.

2 toploops & 2 meadowwood loops

first day of xc practice. mccaff put me in lower group so i did 2 toploops then jogged back adn did 1/2 mile.

first one - 9:15 (6:10 pace)
second one - around 9:30-9:40ish (didnt have watch)

did 2 meadowwood loops to keep my mileage up. did then moderate pace. left quad hurt a bit for a sec. felt ok/hard

4 meaddowood loops

felt ok.

splits
8:2x
8:00
8:2x
8:2x

rolled my ankle right before the start of the last one.

3 meadowwood loops

ran 3 w/ tai. slow on the first one, picked it up on the last two. fell behind a little, was pretty beat up from yesterday's crazy pace. pretty good tho. 6:24/mile for 3.4 miles. i def think that a meadowwood loop is harder than a normal 1.x mile. it feels so much slower. i'd estimate it's the same time as like 1.25 miles but w/e.

2 toploops

felt very good. ran with stefan, aaron, and sam. aaron pushed the pace and we went really fast. felt a lot better than monday.

avg. 6:11/mile

5 meadowwood loops = 5.7

felt kinda bad today b/c my quads were tight. gotta stretch more, everything else felt ok. hit around 8:00 8:08, 8:20-30, 8:10, 7:30. managed to negative split it so that was good. average mile was around 7:06.

first official day of xc: 3 miles

lol i'm so out of shape.

supposed to do 3 miles @ 6:30 pace or 2 toploops @ 9:45

instead i did a toploop in 9:45 & a toploop in 10:00 which is 6:34 pace

i strained at the end of the second one..o well could've been worse.