Eric Nelson's Running Blog

Today was suppose to be an 8 mile progression run. It was suppose to start out at 6:45 pace and get 15 seconds faster each mile ending with a 5:00. There was no possible way for me to accomplish that so I was going to do the same thing except a minute slower, starting out at 7:45 and ending with 6:00. I started out at the easy 7:45 pace and my ankles and knees really, really hurt but the pain went away after a quarter mile. My left calf was still pretty sore and it just got worse as I ran. At mile 2 I stopped by my house and stretched/rolled it to see if it would do anything. I started off again and it felt better at first but quickly got bad again. It got so bad that I really couldn't run anymore without it hurting really bad so I had to just walk home.
 

Today I just planned on doing a short easy run because of my calf. I started off and it was just a little sore, but like yesterday, it just got worse as I went on. My right ankle also started hurting. It got to the point where my calf hurt too  much to run so I just stopped and walked home again. I didn't just want to do nothing so I rode my went and rode my bike. It didn't really hurt my calf or my ankle so I went 6 miles at a pace that burned my quads. Later in the evening my ankle started hurting and it was hard to walk on.

Today I didn't run at all because my right ankle still really hurt. I think that it is because when I ran the past days I was limping on it and putting more pressure on it because my left calf was hurting. It hurt walking from class to class during school and I tried to stay off of it as much as possible. Track started today and I have the 5th hour class. While everyone was out running I went in and talked to Marcus our athletic trainer. He made me put my legs in tall tub of cold water and ice that had a pump in it that turned the water round like a whirlpool for 20 minutes. It was excruciatingly cold at the beginning but my legs eventually got numb. When I got out it felt like it had helped my calf a lot but not so much my ankle. Depending on how it is tomorrow I will probably have to take the weekend off in order for it to heal.

I just wish that it had occured to me on monday that running 6 miles in spikes that I am not use to may not be the best of ideas.

Still not running today because of my ankle. Today at practice I just did a lot of core while everyone else did a hard workout. It feels a lot better than yesterday and it should be all the way better before monday at most.

Today was the first day back of not running for about a week. Spencer, Hayden, and I started off with a mile on the track and the team warmups then we went out to the Stake Center and back for 4 miles. Then we did 4x100 meter strideouts on the track and finished with a half mile barefoot. I felt a little more winded than usual from not running, but that will probably be gone by the end of the week.

Today I started off with a half mile on the track and then the team warmups. Then Spencer, Trey, James, and I went and did the 2 mile mcdonalds loop for our warmup and went back to the track. The workout was 4x800m at 5k pace with a 400m recovery in between each one. My first 800 I did fine but after that I just dropped like a fly. I don't know what it was, I just felt so exhausted, even Trey lapped me.  When we finished we did a mile cooldown to Canyon Elementary and back and then did a barefoot mile.

Today Trey and I went and did the actual track distance workout. We ran down to the rodeo grounds and did 1 long lap (probably at least 800m) accelerating throughout with a 1 minute rest after followed by 3 short laps (around 400m) at 85-95%. When we were done we were only at 1.5 miles. Trey got a bloody nose so he just went straight back. Me and James went and did the mcdonalds loop in reverse and went back to the school. Trey was waiting for us there and we went and did the mcdonalds loop again with him. I then did one more lap on the track and finished with 6 miles. 

Today I just did 6 easy miles by myself. I didn't get exhausted quickly like I had on Monday and Tuesday so that's good. Also, my ankle is pretty much all the way better now, it doesn't get worse when I go out and run anymore. Tomorrow we are having a team meet to basically see where we are. Even though I really didn't even do any hard workouts this week I don't really think that I am going to feel fresh. I think that I'll probably get around what I ran at Simplot, if not slower.
 

Today we did a little team meet. My legs were pretty sore from getting back into running this week and I didn't do very well in either the 1600m or the 800m. My goal, since my legs were tired, for the 1600m was atleast under 5:20. I ended up getting 5:18, I'm not really mad about it though because I wasn't really racing. Next I did the 800m and got around 2:17, still not very good. Then I went and ran some more and finished with 6.

Today, since Spencer and Hayden weren't running, we had to do the actual distance workout. We got into groups of three and did a little 200m relay sort of thing. We just went till everyone had run 10x200m. Once we finished me and James went and ran till we got to 6.  

Today we went and did hill repeats on cemetery hill. We start at the bottom and run up it and then all the way down the street to the intersection, we did this 6 times. It started hailing when we finished our 4th one and that made it really hard to see. When we finished me and James did Mcdonalds loop and finished with 6.

Today I just ran 4 miles to the Stake Center and back as a premeet.

Today we ran against Fremont and Northridge for our first track meet. It was super cold outside so it was just miserable. The first event I ran was the 1600m. I ended up getting a 5:03, which I'm not happy with, but I'm also not mad about. I just didn't run my race very well, I started out to fast, my first lap was 1:08. My goal for the next meet in a couple of weeks is to get atleast under 5 minutes. I'm going to try to have my splits be 1:12, 1:15, 1:15, and then the last lap as fast as I can. Next I ran the 800m just because I had to do another event. I don't remember my time but it wasn't very good. Then I went and ran a cooldown.

Today was "FUN DAY FRIDAY" where everyone just goes and plays games and doesn't workout, me and James, however, did go and workout. We went and ran Hollow Road at a pretty decent pace. The first 1.5 miles we were going a 6:45 and the next 2.5 miles along Hollow Road we ran a 6:15-6:30. The next 1.5 miles we ran a 6:45 again and the last 1.5 miles we ran at 7:15 and finished on the track with some stride outs. That is probably the fastest that I've ran in a long time and it felt good to go fast. I've made it a goal to try and go harder on days where we have hard workouts.

Today we did a workout on the track. It was 300m, 500m, 700m, 700m, 500m, 300m. After the 300's we were suppose to do a 300m walk and after the 500m and 700m we were suppose to take a 5 minute break. That was way to long for me and Trey so we made them significantly shorter. I tried to stayed right behind Trey on all of them and I did. When we finished that we did 5 laps of going up and down the bleachers, then did some core. Then me and James went on a 2 mile cooldown. I got back and Spencer was done with his run so we did a barefoot mile and I ended with 5.

Today Don had a workout on the track for us. It was 200, 400, 600, 800, 800, 600, 400, 200 with an active recovery half the distance of what you just ran. It was a pretty good workout, a lot better than the day before and I pushed it a little more than usual. Then Spencer and I cooled down to 7.

Today Spencer, Hayden, Trey, and I went and did an 8 mile progression run along Hollow Road. We were suppose to start out at a 7:00 minute pace and then go 10 seconds faster each mile, ending with a 5:40. This was a lot easier than most of our other progression runs we are suppose to do so I tried to stay as close to what we were running as possible. I stayed on pace until around mile 6 where I slowed down to around a 6:50 pace. I then did the 7th mile in 6:45 and pushed the last mile at a 6:20. When I got back me and Spencer cooled down with a barefoot mile.

Today our team had an "intersquad meet", which is basically like a time trial for everyone. I was in no condition to race, I was so sore, so I ended up running the 800m just because I had to race something. Spencer and I then ran upper turkey and I finished with 6.

Today me and Spencer went and did hill repeats in Providence. We were suppose to do 30, 60, 90, 120 today. I pushed on the 30 and 60 and slacked a bit on the 90. But then I really pushed the 120, especially the last 30 seconds. I finished a little bit past the turn, that's a lot farther than the last time we did this workout. Then we went up to say hi to Don and cooled down to 6.

This morning was the Nibley Easter 5k. I was pretty sore today from this week so my goal was to run as slow as possible bute still get first. At the starting line it was just a bunch of kids and moms except for two older guys, one in a red shirt and the other a grey shirt. We started off and I was in lead for the first 1/2 half mile with red shirt right behind me and grey shirt a block behind us. I then started pull ahead of red shirt there was quite a gap between us at 1.5 miles, but grey shirt was still behind me. He passed me at mile two and I was too tired to try to stay with him so I just made sure that red shirt didn't catch up to me so I would finish in 2nd. Red shirt finished in the high 17's and I finished in 18:28. I probably wouldn't have been able to beat him even if I wasn't sore. The top 3 got easter baskets full of stuff and I got a ton of cool coupons. I then wanted to run 5 more miles and finish with 8, but after the first 2 miles my stomach started to really hurt so I just went home. I probably could of ran later but I didn't really have any motivation.