Jake Brown

I felt really good during the warm up and the 5k.  It all went really smoothly for me, and my time was good, a PR, at 19:38.  Cam and Mike had their watches tracking the distance and came up a little shorter than 3.1, so I don't know if it was actually a 5k.

We ran 5 miles on that trail at the top of Green Springs drive, but I couldn't catch my breathe on that steep uphill run.  I've decided I need to put positive thoughts in my head while I run, just like one of those articles that Coach Roberts put on the race evaluation papers he handed out during the XC season.

I felt good for the first couple miles of our run, but I think I'm starting to get shin splints, so I wasn't able to run my fastest on that pace in the middle.  Oh, and from yesterday's steep hill run, I noticed a sharp pain in my left thigh during warm-up core stuff.

This run was good.  I wasn't able to keep up for the run to the old man hills, but I caught the group right before they reached the spot.  I found it hard to move my weight onto my right leg every time we were about to start a two hundred or four hundred, but ran my hardest.  I felt great after the workout on our run back to the school.  I fell back a little but then picked up my speed as we passed Wells Fargo.

This run was good.  we had a timed trial and I ran my mile in 6:10.  This is my best mile time, but it's the time I've gotten on my last three timed miles.  my shins have been getting better since I've been treating them better and stretching more.

We ran eight, with an AT pace (for me a 7:10 mile) for 30 minutes, in the middle.  I started a little behind everyone because I had to tie my shoe, and tried to catch up.  by the time we'd run a mile I'd caught up to Taylor Boyer, Liz, and Aubrey.  I decided to stay up with them for the rest of the pace, since I couldn't push myself any faster.  My shins have been feeling a lot better this week, and especially today even with this accelerated pace and longer distance.

I was feeling good at the beginning of this run and stayed right there with the other guys, but then I started to get a stomachache and fell back to a more reasonable pace for it.  I started to bring up my speed near the end and caught up to a few of the guys.  altogether, it was a nice run and I felt good everywhere else.  After practice, I tried to roll out my left calf, but it hurt too much to dig in to a place in the middle of it.