Potential just means you haven't done it yet

Run was nice today. I was a little worried initially about keeping the easy run pace for the whole run, but as things went on I realized that I was able to the pace without too much effort and I started dropping my pace and finished off with a 6:02 and having my slowest mile be my first one after the warm up with 6:47.00. Once I finished I did core with some of the Ragnar people who mostly just sat there and complained about being tired. Then I went and road the bike at the Hinckleys which was a little weird because I'm so used to the bike at my house which is really loud, but the hinckleys is super silent and I wasn't sure if I was working hard enough. I ended up doing 9 on the bike in 30. My IT band was acting up a little towards the end of my run and then a little on the bike too so I came home and threw on my full length compression tights and I stretched out pretty good at the Hinckleys too before breakfast so that was good. I have to admit, tomorrows workouts going to be killer if its up airport like I think it is. I also stocked up a lot on the salt when I got home to help me recover faster.

Nice easy recovery run today. I had to run most of it alone again, which I'm finding has its pros and cons. I tried to keep it as a true recovery pace, but I kept thinking about that chart that Jamie has up and how I should be having my recovery like 7:30 or faster, so my goal was just to keep myself under 7:30. It was really hot today and so Im glad I found the drinking fountain at the Jordan River trail head in the big park down there when I did. Jamie had a great Idea of once I start getting higher, making sure I bring GU's and know where to get water so I don't end up dead on the side of the road somewhere. The core and bike were solid today. Ended up doing core inside since everyone was leaving when I got back, so I guess I have that to be grateful for, because I was then able to do it inside. IT band felt good today and having the speed workout tomorrow sounds really nice and I'm excited that its only up the cemeteries little hill instead of Airport. That would be really rough right now, but I'm still feeling good and looking forward to higher mileage.

Todays run didn't go as well as I had hopped that it would. I went out and really pushed it and felt great on the first part of the ladder that we were doing up the cemetery hill, but at the very tail end of the one 400 and then from the last 300 down my heart rate just soared and then my breathing started getting a little too fast and I could just feel myself shutting down. Luckily I was able to hit more or less the same splits on the back end that I did on the front end, I was just 1 second off each split, but I wasn't speeding up like everyone else was and I ended up coming in last I think in my group on the last 100. I'm not totally sure what was going on, because it's the same type of feeling that I had at state just a little while ago. I know I had plenty of salt yesterday and I didn't have any more caffeine than normal this morning. The only thing I can think of is that maybe with my increase of salt intake that I didn't compensate for that and have enough water, or that I just didn't eat enough yesterday, which I thought I did, but maybe I didn't, so I'm making sure to eat more today to try and see what happens tomorrow. After the workout I barely limped out of the cemetery for the rest of my miles at like a 10:30 pace. Luckily I was able to speed things up later on though and the further that I ran, the better I felt and I was able to finish out the rest of my run with a few sub 7:30's and then finished my last mile out at a 7:17. So that was good, but the workout just wasn't what it should have been so that was bummer. Hopefully I'll be able to bounce back and do good on the steady state run on friday in the heat.

Today we did the new dream maker, known for at least the time being as, Skyrim. I did really good today, at least compared to last time. I felt awesome during it, fast and strong. I had a salt gatorade drink last night right before I went to bed and then the salt pill and caffeine with all the other stuff this morning. I started off just a little slower than lsat time, but then I pushed it more on the hills and then we really pushed it in fast on the last flat 800, which was really good. I did a 8:18, finishing in the same second as Collin and then I finished off the rest of my miles at a 7:32 pace, just barely getting over where I'm supposed to be. The rest of the week is really just recovery and distance runs because of the race next week, freedom festival 10k. I'm hoping to do really well there and beat my Deseret news 10k time from last year of a 33.

Recovery run today, just barely over the 7:30 mark again sadly. I'm blaming that on everyone being tired today tho. I still felt good, but the inside of my quad started hurting towards the end, which was kind of weird. Hopefully that goes away. Then I did my core and biking at home. Extra salt is definitely helping.

The workout today was really good. Having the 6:47 or faster as easy pace is really starting to feel like I think it should. I still have to think about going faster, but I'm not exhausted from it afterwards and I feel like I recover from it a lot faster than expected. The miles we did barefoot on the grass felt really slow, but I think they were both like low 6:20's or faster. It's good to see that improvement. Did bike and core today, my leg is feeling a little better, but it's still bugged a little. hopefully it will just go away with time and stretching. The lower body workout we did today was kind of easy except for those single legs squats. I feel like those really worked my legs. Well at least compared to the clock lunges and the alternating calf raises and speed squats.

Easy run pace today. Today it was pretty hard to keep that pace honestly. I ran out towards Westlake today and I almost made it all the way too. I could see the school and I was probably only about a mile away from getting to its front doors. It was kind of sad because at the point where everyone turned around and left me, I still had 3 more miles to go out before I could turn around. My legs felt pretty tired during it, but I stayed positive and I was able not only stay in the pace, but also towards the front end of it and finish strong. I was proud of myself for being able to stick it out and stay to my pace. Especially since yesterday was easy pace too and my legs were already a little tired today to start off with and it was the first day of medium for this year besides last Saturday when we did low+2