02/13/2012

Breakfast: Normal two bowls of cereal (Calories: 300) Had some more of my muscle milk, 30 calories.

LUNCH: Made a smoothie because I was late on eating something that my stomach can handle for a track work out. (Calories: 300)
Also had just a few gummi worms Calories: 60.

6 mile bike ride to the school~~
2 mile warm up with the team.
1 mile of 110's (Job the turns sprint the straights)I felt weird and out of breath when warming up this day..... Also was trying out my new shoes! some flats I just got.

Now the real fun begins! 4x 400's= 65,65,61,59 =4:10 mile! Honestly felt easy :) After I was done that un-easy feeling went away and felt back to normal.

3 miles cool down.
stretched, I need to get more flexible on the hamstrings so I try to stretch whenever  I can.
6 miles bike ride home (easy)
TIP/THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Smoothies are great pre drinks before hard work outs/ Make sure you get shoes that feel good and up to your liking because if you feel good in a shoe then more likely you will feel better on race day with these shoes :).
Sorry I didn't get this one in on the right day.........
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TODAY!!!!!~~~~~~~~
Breakfast- Once again two bowls of cereal- (Calories- 300) went out back to sleep until 12pm.

LUNCH:  Once again I didn't have time to take in some food that will bother me so I had like 10 ounces of a really good smoothie. Some of this gel/1 gummi LOL/ chips(they don't bother me at all) water of course. I WAS READY!

I decided to run 15-6 miles and I wanted to start off a little easy. I did a little stretching before I went out. I did a similar stretching style as I would do a track speed work out, I feel like it gets me ready to run hard as if I would do longer stretches. What I mean is as if you would try to touch your toes to stretch your hamstrings I just go down touch my toes and then come back/ repeat. BUT I only do this on a couple type of stretches. Like cross my legs, touch my toes, switch sides, repeat like 5 times. I stretch my quads normal and putting my legs up to stretch my hamstrings, caves. Same thing for the caves I just hold it for about 20-30 seconds until it feels stretched. I also do some butt kicks/ high knee's/ striking kick/ even sometimes some fast striding. THEN, I was ready.
I had to go through a light and I wanted to make it so I took off pretty fast, but I just held it for a bit then slowed down to a comfortable pace...
I felt pretty good today even though I have been doing really hard track work outs. I felt good until about mile 6-7 (the time to turn around). But I just pushed through it and I also was thinking of when I wanted to really push it under 6min pace. I decided that I will start really pushing it 5k in, but as I had NO IDEA I was starting to go sub 6 at mile 11....... that really shocked me because I didn't feel like I was going that fast even though I saw my mile pace was 6:12. So when I wanted to start pushing it I really had nothing left and I was really frustrated and I was hurting pretty good too, so I realized it once I saw my splits. I pushed it in about half mile to go but I decided to just hold the good pace I was going and not sprint it in since I was already hurting pretty good :D
Here's the GPS i Use on my phone.....  http://www.runtastic.com/en/users/Bryce-Peterson/sport-sessions/8574946    I see that some of the mile splits where over 6 min, I think it is because I had to wait for traffic and i put it on pause so I really was still under 6 if I would have been able to keep moving.

OVER ALL: I think it was a very good run and I think I am able to start pushing under 5:30 per mile for a half marathon. I will start working for 5:15 per mile on this 15k Mountain to Fountain race coming up! 


TIP/THOUGHT OF THE DAY: After these long runs make sure you refill your body with good Protein and get in some icing. ALSO when you feel good like I did use it to your advantage and roll/go with it!! It will help you in the end if you push yourself to your limits. Go on your long runs always on the weekends! Make sure you stretch afterwards so the lactic acid doesn't build up and helps of not being so sore. I just heard from the Doctors show that if you drink ice water it helps you loose up to 500+ calories a day! so drink up some cold water!!!!! 


ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD PLEASE I AM VERY OPEN TO OTHER IDEAS/THOUGHTS> 
Thank you for reading.......