Reviving My Running

Work at practice!

Make sure I improve.

I might have found my motivation..

revivingmyrunning

I can be really stubborn about things. I'm starting to learn from people and from experience that I go about some things wrong, especially pace. I used to like to do really easy and super comfortable runs on recovery and easy days. I'm now learning that I was going way too easy. My coach said that faster easy paces mean faster race paces and that's true and something I need to believe in. I'm not going to go crazy fast but I am going to speed up. My easy pace was probably around 9:30 in the past. Now it's gotten a bit faster and is probably 8:45ish. Hopefully I can get it down to 8:15ish. I've just got to get used to getting faster. I get scared that I won't recover. I want to succeed, but I'm scared of getting there in practice.

Start out / get out fast like my coach wants me to.

Do great in and really utilize workouts.

I was suppose to go on a 40 minute run. I didn't because I'm lazy and procrastinate.

I went on a five mile run and stuck with three of my teammates. My friend was hurting and asked me to stay with her if she slowed down. She did a few times, but we still caught up and stayed with the other two people the whole time. It wasn't a great run, but it wasn't horrible.

I went on a 2.5 mile easy run. It was boring.

We did a stairs workout inside. A set was up and down a three flight staircase three times, and in between sets, we did two or three laps around the indoor track. We did like 8 or 9 sets. I did not do good. I hate stairs. 

We ran on the indoor track. We did 30 minutes easy. I went an actual easy pace unlike a lot of my teammates. We went in the weight room after.

I did a tempo run. It was 5 minutes easy then 25 minutes hard then 5 minutes easy. I stupidly started out leading with this girl who's been running better than me all season. For some reason, I thought I should try it. During the 25 minutes hard part, I stayed with her for half a mile until we got stopped at the light, and I told this faster girl she should be in my spot. I kept them insight for a lot of the run, but as it went on they drifted further away. I could not have stayed with them. I ran alone at my tempo pace for the rest of it. All my other teammates, besides the two fast ones, were way behind me. I felt like it was a good workout. 

Keep progressing.