AM- Today Andrew, Cam, Jake, and I all met at Washington Elementary for our tempo. Josh Farish forgot there wasn't organized team practice today so he ran with us (plus some). I was expecting to go on a 7 miler with 2.5 tempo, but Andrew and Cam checked and said it was 5 with 2 tempo. We ran from the elementary school to almost the mall and back, starting and ending our tempo at Harts. This was probably the best tempo I've ever done. I stayed up with Andrew and Cam. We had about a 6:40 average tempo pace, but we got up to like 6 flat pace at the end of it. I didn't even feel very sore or tired by the end of this tempo and it felt pretty easy. I don't think I would have ran this morning if I didn't organize a practice with these guys because 1. I was so tired and 2. I didn't want to run this one on my own.
PM- 3 miles easy. This truly was the easiest run this week despite the 100 degrees with some moderately heavy wind. I decided to just take it as easy as I wanted. I ran the dirt mile/grapevine trails. I had a little sideache on the way back that would usually bug me a lot, but didn't bother me as much as usual... It might be because of the peanut butter bar I ate prior to my run, but we'll never know haha.
OH! I decided to take Coach's challenge and research a runner that I knew nothing about. I looked on some websites and took me a long time to find a runner that I really admired. My runner is Ryan Hall. In his senior year in highschool, he ran a state record time of 4:02.62. He ran at Stanford University. He broke the U.S. half marathon record with a time of 57:54 which killed the previous record. Ryan had the fastest marathon debut by any American, and the fastest marathon ever run by a U.S. citizen with the time of 2:08:24 in London. He ran the fastest marathon by any American with 2:04:58 in the Boston Marathon in 2011. He also qualified to run the marathon in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in 2008. | 