Training Log Archive: jfredrickson

Brisk warmup to Institute Park for a workout. Feeling quite tired from all the racing yesterday. It's interesting because after the race I was so high on adrenaline that I didn't really feel tired. But after I got home I just about passed out on my bed from exhaustion. I definitely felt it on this warmup run. It is probably a combination of the race and the cold I am still fighting though. I still haven't got my voice back, although my throat feels a lot better. Maybe with another rest day I will be fully back.

On another note, a girl on our team was riding her bike to the park because she has an injury, and just after she passed us on the sidewalk she got hit right in front of us by a car pulling out of a driveway. She took a nasty spill but only really scraped up her knee. It was amazing to see how fast the police and ambulance showed up though. It is quite comforting to know that there are so many people out there just waiting to help you in a nasty situation like this.

Anyway, I think she will be fine.

Ran another pyramid 5-mile tempo run at Institute Park. We did repititions of 2 minutes hard, 1 minute easy, 3 minutes hard, 1 easy, 4 hard, 2 easy, all along the 5-mile course. I decided to go out hard with T-Mac and just try to hold onto for as long as I could. I managed to get to about the 3 mile mark again before I was just too exhausted to hold on any longer. After that it was pretty brutal just to get around the last 2 laps.

My time was more than a minute slower than last week, although the pyramid scheme was different. I thought that the scheme we did today should have been faster, but even T-Mac was slower than last week and he was moving pretty fast all the way through. Anyway, definitely a very tough workout considering tired I was.

After the workout coach decided to have us do a 1-mile timed run at Elm Park just to work on mental toughness. I was actually excited to be able to give this a shot even though I was so exhausted. Somehow it felt good to finally feel so exhausted from training even though it is probably due more to this cold my body has been fighting than anything else.

Anyway, this was just a quick jog from Institute Park to Elm Park. I was so tired I had to just focus on the pavement in front of me and the world actually felt like it was spinning for a little while. Real trippy stuff!

Wow this was weird. I went out hard again just to see how long I could hold the pace. T-Mac kept trying to pass me but I held him off for at least the first 250m, but my body was just too far gone to fight. After T-Mac pulled ahead Dan started to catch me in the second 800m and I had to fight with him for a little while. But I was able to push through that and pull ahead again before the last 200m or so. I was so tired both physically and mentally that it was a really trippy experience finishing up.

I am pretty surprised that I was able to run a 5:25 considering how tired I was and how much it hurt, but I guess a 5:25 isn't that fast for me anymore. T-Mac ran an impressive 5:09, not bad for a post-workout mile.

A brisk cool-down with T-Mac back to the Kneller from Elm Park. I was way too exhausted to run the pace, but I really felt in the zone and just focused on getting one foot in front of the next. It kind of felt like finishing up the Highlander back in the day.

It really feels good to have such a tough day like this. It has been a while since I have felt truly exhausted from a workout, and it somehow feels much more rewarding this way even though it probably wasn't as good a workout as if I had been feeling stronger. Perhaps I gained some mental toughness though. Anyway I need to focus on fully recovering from this cold so that I can be back to full strength for this weekend. I certainly won't be able to rely on adrenaline to boost me up like yesterday.