Jake Brown

I felt great running in the grass at Little Valley Park, and then I tried my hardest to make it up that huge hill every time we went up it, but it got really hard on my thighs.  On the last one minute hill I decided to keep up with Matt, and just tried to keep going even though my legs were burning.  On our recovery back down the hill I realized that that last sprint burned away most of the pain I'd had before.  After that, the 30 second hills were pretty good.

AM  - My run was pretty good today.  I ran all my times pretty fast.  My calves and hips hurt because I hiked to the top of Pine Valley Mountain on Friday and Saturday.

I felt pretty good during this race, if not a little out of it at the very beginning, and was surprised by my final time, though I'm glad how fast it was. I think my final sprint is always a highlight for my races, and this was no different, with me speeding up in the last 400 and full out on the last stretch.

AM - Rainy run!  It didn't rain that much on us, but it was really humid.  I didn't feel good, so I wasn't able to keep up with the group, but I ran as strong as I could and make it to Arctic Circle and back without any problems.

AM - Arctic Circle run, and I wasn't feeling my best, so I couldn't keep up with the group.  

"My legs are fine, after all, they are mine." (- Fun's Lyrics from their song, Carry On.)

PM - Strange stomach pains again?  Not great when you're supposed to be running a tempo, so I decided to cut it short and turn around at Hot Nails.

AM - Ran the normal 3 mile morning run.  Some cramping pain between my abdominal muscles and my ribs.  I fell back from the group but caught up right before we got back to the school.

PM - Had our time trial in the evening, around 6:00.  We ran a mile and a half warm-up to Harts before.  I was still having a little stomach pain, but I felt a lot better than the last few days, and ran a lot better than the last time trial.

AM - 3 miles grass run on the high school baseball field. It went pretty well.  I didn't fall too far behind and felt great afterwards.  No major pain to speak of.

PM - Okay, so this was a bit different than this morning.  We started our run to Sandberg's Pond, and my knee was hurting me.  I was thinking about it and I'd say it had something to do with how I was sitting at the wheel in my ceramics class, or it could have been various other reasons that wouldn't make complete sense, but might be true.

AM - ran to Arctic Circle and back. Everything seemed good on this run.

PM - ran to Starbucks, then turned around there and stopped at Arctic Circle for ice cream. Felt good for that first 2.5 miles. When I ran the rest of the way back to the high school, at first I was really felling a stomach cramp from the ice cream, but steadily sped up to a pretty fast pace.