No Plan B

AM 7.10 miles. Ran up in the mountains with the No Puking on the Trail running group. Had a lot of fun. Ran some with my dad and soaked my legs in a cold river. What a good way to kick off the new year! Pace: 10:15. Thats really good considering the terrain. :D

I'm so proud of my little brother Evan. He ran his first 3 miles ever with me this afternoon. We went slow, but regardless now we have a base to build off of. He finished in 35:32. Hopefully tomorrow he can improve that time by at least a few seconds. He didn't believe in himself and he thought it wasn't possible for him to even run a mile and a half, but I told him to keep running and not to worry about the distance and to just put one foot in front of the other. This just shows that the limiting factors in our lives are just figments of our imaginations. Great job today Evan!

PM 3 miles easy pace. @ 9:04. Tampering has begun. 

Very good day surfing and running.

Rest day!

Raced a half marathon today. Felt strong. 13.1 miles in 1:38/ average pace: 7:33. About a 12-15 minute cool down, so 14.1 total. Great workout. Not that hard at all. I feel like everything is coming together for the marathons. Good job today mom, Cade, and Liam.

Easy 3 with Evan. He kept going after I stopped. He did about 4.5 today. Very good.

Rest. A lot of weird pains in my legs haha

1 mile warm up @ 8:30 pace.

4.12 miles @ 7:14.

Still not recovered. I'm going to rest tomorrow. 

Very easy. LEG HURTS... Pace @ 9:49

Easy 7

EASY!

Easy

Finished my Marathon today in 3:19:31. I was sick all week, but everything came together. I took over an hour off my time from my first marathon 6 months ago. Right after I crossed the finish line I passed out and this lady caught me. I wasn't breathing and she calmed me down and got me breathing again. After about an hour with the medics I was clear to go, but that wasn't the end of it. I then had 2 anxiety/ panic attacks, scared my family half to death. After about another hour in the medical tent I was finally ready to go back to the hotel. I can walk fine... I'm not too sore... just a little lol. Can't wait to see how I placed in my division. Well hell, that was easy. Can't wait for the next one. I've only been running a year, but I feel like I learned so much about myself and what it means to push past my physical and mental limits.

Walked the Cbad Marathon. I had already signed up for it so I went out there and gave it my best shot. Legs were totally shot from last weeks race. Learned a lot. REST IS VERY IMPORTANT. DNF

Pace: 9:05

Pace: 8:32 Taco Tuesday.

Taco Tuesday Pace: 7:47

Hills. Pace: 8:33

Very hard Elfin Forest Run. Pace: 17:02 Had to walk a little of it.

Trail running. Elfin Forest Rec. Pace: 12:13. Hard run.

Pace: 7:48

8 fun miles up in Elfin. Helped some of my friends..

Ran with Cade. Pace: 8:33

5 miles with Cade. Pace: 8:29

10 mins: hot tub. 30 mins: pool. 10 mins: hot tub.

Elfin Forest.

I was very fortunate to get into this race last second. Ran it in honor of my mom. I found out I was running in it about a week before so I decided it would be best for me to rest the whole week. I cut my push ups, sit ups, swimming, lifting, and running and really focused on recovery. My longest run going into this race was the Noble Canyon 50k, back in late September. Legs felt pretty good going into the race, I was just nervous that Noble was going to hurt my performance. I decided a decent goal would be to hold just under marathon pace, as I didn't know the course or how hilly it was. The first half of the race I was able to hold my 6th place position with out too much trouble. I decided on the way back that if I wanted to caught the guy about 30 seconds ahead of me then I had to pick up the pace. I started push a 6:30 pace, trying to close the distance. Finally caught up to the guy with about 2.5 miles left and blew by him. I pushed by him and increased the pace at the same time, trying to get a little lead on him. With about a mile to go, I lost him and continued to push the pace, as I could see the 4th place guy not too far ahead. Ended up crossing the finish line placing 5th overall and 1st in my age group. (0-19) I had such a great day and I'm so excited to get into marathon training next week. I also just got medically qualified for SEALs, so there's good news all around. I'm going to start getting back on here more. :) Average pace was 7:19.

http://www.racetecresults.com/MyResults.aspx?CId=16432&RId=35&EId=2&AId=18594 (My race results)

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Easy 2 miles around my mom's doctors office. Thought I'd go out and try out my new pair of shoes. Mom and I stopped by Road Runner Sports in San Diego. She let me get some new shoes because my birthdays coming up in November. We went to the clearance section and I got the Addidas Energy Boost and Altra Intuitions for $100 total.(really awesome deal in my opinion haha) Anyways easy 2 miles, there were a few short hills, but I just took it really easy since I just raced hard the day before. Nice recovery run, I have some lateral knee pain on my right knee. I'm going to rest for the rest of the week and ice and stretch. I cannot get injured again. Shoes felt great by the way.

I woke up at 4:00 am to get to the gym with my mom this morning. Mondays and Thursdays are treadmill days, Tuesdays and Fridays are lifting days, Monday/Wednesday/Friday are push up and sit up days. This morning I did "Papa's Workout." This is where I focus on upper body exercises. Starting at a low weight, doing about 10 reps, skipping every other weight.(so I move up the weights by 2's.) Once I'm only able to 1 rep of my max weight, I begin dropping weight all the way back down, doing the max amount of reps per weight setting.(no skipping every other.)

*Warm up: 10 minutes in Sauna, 10 minutes on hand row (easy/moderate intensity.)

*I did this for my main lifting workout: (This took about 2 hours total.)(Papa's Workout)

-chest press(maxing at about 195 pounds) 

-curls(maxing at 32.5 pounds)

-seated dips(maxing at about 150 pounds)

-lat pull down(maxing at about 180 pounds)

P.M.: Body weight

-Afterwards I did 4 sets of 5 full body weight dips.

-Later in the day I did a total of 250 push ups and 250 sit ups.

I also did some light stretching, my knee still hurts a little bit so no running today. Might just rest my legs the rest of this week so I can start marathon training fresh and good to go on Monday. Aiming for 2/3 protein shakes a day and a power bar.

First day of marathon training. My moms helping me manage my training a little better so I don't end up over training again. Mondays and Thursday are speed work days. Today felt pretty good. I had some minor foot pain toward the end of my cool down. I ran on the treadmill so I could be more pace specific. My moms also having me walk at an incline, fowards and backwards to help build my legs and avoid injury. I didn't push too hard today, just kind of relaxed. I'm going to try and finish my repeats faster than I started them. This was also my first faster run in my Adidas Energy Boosts and they felt great. We were at the gym by 4:30 am; starting the day off right. 

*1 mile warm up @ 8:40 pace.

*4 1/2 mile repeats:

-.5 mile @ 6:11 pace. (9.7 mph)

-.5 mile @ 6:07 pace. (9.8 mph)

-.5 mile @ 6:00 pace. (10 mph)

-.5 mile @ 5:53 pace. (10.2 mph) 

*1 mile cool down @ 9:13 pace.

*3 mph walk @ 18% (5 minutes)

*1.9 mph walk backwards @ 21% (5 minutes)

After this little speed work setting I did some leg stretches, soaked my legs in the hot tub, and then spent 10 minutes in the Sauna. Gonna do an easy 4 miles tomorrow. I'm also looking forward to lifting tomorrow. Mom's procedure is tomorrow. About time!

P.M. 

50 pound weighted pull ups and push ups.

250 push ups.

10 minutes jump rope.

150 sit ups. 

Regular pull ups and chin ups. 

Went to the gym and did some lifting. Curls, triceps, rowing, and hamstrings.

Build up over 100 pounds per exercise and then went all the way back down. I felt pretty tired from yesterdays weighted pull ups and push ups.

I rowed an 800 meter for a cool down, felt good after that. 

4 easy miles @ 8:19 pace. I feet were doing good up until mile 1.5 then things took a turn for the worse. My feet hurt so freakin' bad. UGH It's kind of sad that I don't even feel the pain in my legs or lungs, I only feel foot pain while running. Oh well. No excuses. 2 biggish hills done as well. Speed work tomorrow.

Speed work this morning after class. I was nervous to run because my feet were hurting yesterday. I'm almost certain I have PF, so I'm going to be very cautious. The orthodics weren't helping so I took them out. I'll be icing, using heat, and sleeping with a boot on every night. I'll continue to run and train, but no increases in mileage for awhile. 

-1 mile warm up @ 8:47.

-.5 @ 6:00. (10 mph)

-.5 @ (10.1 mph)

-.5 @ (10.2 mph)

-.5 @ (10.3 mph)

-1 mile cool down @ 8:47. (This is where my feet started hurting.) 

Other than the arch pain, I felt pretty strong and I can't wait till I'm in the low 5's and high 4's for my repeats. Good day. Mom's coming home today, so I did a lot of cleaning.

-5 minutes walking @ 18% (2.7 mph)

-5 minutes walking backwards @ 21% (1.9 mph)