Monday: 3mi Easy. Treadmill run, so continuous with a 1min walk break after completing each mile. HR stayed in zone 3 or lower the whole time. 14:07 avg pace.
Tuesday: off. Last conference meeting for XC, so in addition to the middle and high school races, there was also an elementary race. DS3 set as season best for his mile and ran it in 8:13, which earned him a personal pie (he’s picked pecan) he doesn’t have to share with anyone else. DS3 also made all-conference as a freshman which is a great accomplishment for him! He didn’t run the race he wanted as he was hoping to be under 19:00 and ended up running 20:02, but that goal was iffy since he PR’ed on Saturday, took Sunday off, and then came home from school “sick” and slept for 6 hour on Monday. Our coaches are beyond frustrated though because pretty much none of our runners (minus 2 or 3) have really made any gains this year on their race times. They’re crushing their workouts and getting their miles in, but they are all coming up short of what their workouts are saying they should be running by a LOT on race day over and over and over. DS1 is a great example of that since he still hasn’t been able to race under 20:00, even though he’s running mile repeats at like 6:15 and under pace. It’s frustrating as a parent too, to see/know what your kid is capable of and then watching them come up short and get upset over and over and over.
Wednesday: 4mi Easy. 45/30 intervals. 13:32 avg pace. It’s getting cold outside. It rained most of this day, but as soon as the system was through I got out the door to fit my run in before heading to fall parent-teacher conferences at school. Toward the end of mile 1 I was questioning why this run felt so hard and was about to blame the shoes when I checked my pace and saw I was on track to be below 12:30 pace.
I did manage to get things under control after that, but it really skewed my average pace.
Thursday: 4mi Easy. More rain. More cold. Some hail (not during my run fortunately.) 45/30 intervals. 13:42 after age pace. Mile 3 got away from me a little bit with the pace, and then mile 4 reads as slower because I had to stop and deal with a little dog who wanted to chase me (and when dogs try to chase me I try to get them to stop before they get to the road so they don’t learn to run into the road after pedestrians.) I’m going to have to figure out another bottoms layer for running when it’s this cold because my legs and butt we’re cold, headed toward numb, by the end of the run.
Friday: 1mi wu and cd + Half mile repeats at HM pace. After I get done chauffeuring DH around to get his last 2 wisdom teeth out.
We are at peak color here. The outdoor runs are gorgeous right now.
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This was not my XC experience lol
) But not all of the kids have or can afford a running watch too, so that's a consideration. I know that they do give them targets for workouts and that they tell them to run at a "conversational" pace on their long runs. They definitely It's been an interesting year for sure. DS1 is talking about NOT running next year because he equates being successful on the timeclock with how much fun he's having and since he's not meeting his goal (for the 2nd year now) he feels like it's not fun.
