Garek B Running

No running. Travel day

4 miles around the zoo this morning. Felt good to work out the stiffness from yesterday's flights.

6 miles on the Treadmill. Hovering right around 6:03 pace.

Am: 4 miles around the zoo.

Pm: Drove out to the Oval for a workout. Normal warmup. 8 laps and then 4 laps speed change. Changed shoes, jogged a lap, used the bathroom, jogged another lap, and headed over to the 600 meter start. Workout was 2 sets of 600,400,200. Goal mild pace. Cobler wanted 1:30, 58, 27-28. Equal recovery between repeats and 2 laps jog between sets. First set was 1:27, 58, 29. Jogged two laps and back to the 600 start. Second set was 1:27, 61, 28. That second 400 was tough. My legs felt like rubber afte the 600 and I just slipped mentally. Overall was a great workout. Cooled down to 8.

Am: 5 miles

Pm: 8 miles.

8 miles.

Got there about an hour before the race and got a really good warmup with drills to loosen up. My seed time was too slow to get in the fast heat but they were able to bump me up. 

Got out well and just took control. I felt confident. Not sure what the 800 was because there wasn't a clock on the otherside of the track. Its a 5 lap race because the track is around 300 meters. With 2 laps to go I felt Casey throw a surge but I matched it and stayed in the lead. The last lap I just ran scared, didn't look back, just worked through. 4:18! Broke the record so I was happy. 1-5 broke the old record which shows how deep Utah is. Legs felt pretty tired but my cardio felt good.

Cooled down 3 miles.