Tuesday

Medium Long Run:
11 miles in Boost3

Ran with Stu, Flynn, Logan, Nathan. Did Cemetery. Was raining and cold. I was very sad to be running, because of the weather and I had to poop and I had planned on biking. Ok run.

Monday

Training Run:
7 miles in Boost4

Ran with most of the guys. Had unofficial practice today. Painful run to be honest, heart rate was in the 150's for the majority of it. Pretty tired still. Broke in the next pair of boosts.

Totals

53 miles this week
Boost2: 22 miles ==> 664.5 miles (officially retired)
Boost3: 22.5 miles ==> 422.5 miles

Sunday (A10's Day 2)

EZ Training Run:
5 miles in Boost3

Ran with Adam for about 5 miles, ran really slow cause we were dead. Ran most of it with the mile guys on their cool down (stu, Paul, Brent).

We lost A10's by 4 points, AGAIN!!!!! It came down to the 4x8 and 4x4. In the 4x8 Blaine had the baton knocked out of his hand by a UMASS guy. Then URI was .2 points behind us. In the 4x4 Evander got CLEARLY tripped up by the URI guy (clearly because the URI guy also stumbled) but he was not disqualified so URI beat us by 4 points. So pissed.

A10's Day 1 (Saturday)

Shakeout:
1 mile in Boost3

Ran around 1:45 with Adam around the hotel area. Felt kinda crappy so it was a good sign.

Race:
9 miles total
6 in Boost3

Ran the 5k at 5:45. Got 4th place scoring 5 points for the team. Time was 14:54, first time under 15. Adam unfortunately fell off and didn't score points.

Race was tactically annoying, full of random small surges and and slow downs. First 3k was like that so I did my best to stay in it. Tried to make some people hurt without killing myself in the process, pushed up to the front occasionally to confuse people, then let them pass by for a while. 3k in was the hard move, 4 guys in front started cooking. I stayed close til just before 1k out, then they surged harder again and dropped me. 4 guys went ahead and spread out the rest of us. The St. Louis freshmen fell off the front pack but I couldn't get to him. At some point I passed one of the other front group guys unknowingly. Got passed by UMASS guy on the last lap but beat him to the finish. Thought I got fifth but because the guy from front group fell off I ended up with 4th. Never been so close to passing out after a race, very hard race. So happy about how it went though. Couldn't have done any better than I did. God really pushed me through this one!

Friday

Meet Prep:
5 miles total
4.5 miles in Boost3

Ran around URI campus for 4 miles nice and chill. Then did 4x200 strides in Avantis.

Felt really good today, legs were fresh and feeling smooth. Getting hype for that 5k tomorrow.

Thursday

Training Run:
8 miles in Boost2

Ran cemetery with Flynn, Stu, and Brent. Felt really crappy until about 5 miles in. Never really felt warmed up. Got in some really good rolling while still warm so should feel better by tomorrow. Trying to prime up for A10's!!