Week of July 4th - 10th, 2005

Monday 7/4
8pm – Tonight I ran a workout on the track. It was 10x200m in 30 with 200m jog R (1 min). It was pretty easy since I have a race in two days. I watched the fireworks from the track with Jessica afterwards.
9 miles

Tuesday 7/5
7am – I ran an easy 20 minutes in the morning before getting on the plane to Indianapolis.
8pm – I ran another 20 minutes this evening with Ryan McKenzie and Christiano Mauricio.
6 miles

Wednesday 7/6
American Milers Club - 1500m – 3:54. Not a good race. I felt like I wasn’t even tired at the end, and was not lactic at all. Very poor effort, but I guess I was worried about my fitness and didn’t really know what to expect. I guess this was at best a crappy season icebreaker. Afterwards I ran 50 minutes and did 5 x 100m very hard with Alex l’Heureux.
12 miles

Thursday 7/7
9am – we met up with Robert Gary and the IU gang and ran 60 minutes at a pretty decent pace on their trail system. My achilles hurt a little bit, but I iced it and it felt good later on.
9.5 miles

Friday 7/8
8pm – I ran 30 minutes with Ryan tonight and then did a couple 200’s in 30 and then a few 100’s followed by drills and stretching.
4.5 miles

Saturday 7/9
American Milers Club - 1500m – 3:49.76. This was a much better race than a few days ago. I felt like I was actually competing and held on well for about 1200m. I went 60, 2:01, 3:02 and then started to go pretty lactic. I fought through it though and then rested only 10 minutes before pacing the 5k through 2k in 5:40. Not a bad workout.
9 miles

Sunday 7/10
8am – I ran 90 minutes this morning with a whole group of guys, mostly Canadians that ran the races last night. We ran on the trails and then finished up by running a little bit on the cross country course.
14.5 miles

Week Total – 64.5 miles