Sun 11mi Total
7AM 5mi shakeout in homewoods, 54mins
11AM 6mi easy around hilly neighborhood, 63mins (10:30 pace)
+7pm hard bike uphill 3.5

Mon 8.5mi 6.5 to walmart/woods back. easy run 55:32, ~8:30pace. +1.5 wu/1.5cd. with john. legs tired first 4 miles of run (3 workouts yesterday after already being tired).

Tue 3.25mi easy 3mi run 25:47t, 8:33pace. +1 lap warmup. Pre-meet practice ran to the pizza shop with neil, ordered, ran about a mile and a half, then back to the pizza, ran it back to the school, ate it in front of the team.

Wed 4.5mi First meet of the season, Home vs Tantasqua
2 mile; 11:45 PR, 1 mile; 5:32. details at website.

Thu 5.75mi 39:27 in woods with 0.75wu. me and neil started off goin easy but the weather was warm, good, we took off the shirts about a mile in.. we probably started going at about a 9, then a 8:30, then we likely came in with 7:30s or something like that.

Fri 3mi 27:21t warmup+xc course all pretty easy. pretty hot.

Sat 0ff +bike 7.2; pretty good bike ride.

Week Total: 36 miles run, 11 miles on bike.

3 workouts on Sunday not really a good idea; 2 easy runs plus blasting up a hill on a bike after working.. I honestly should've been taking an easy day. Then I went slow Monday, Tuesday was a pre-meet day.. Wednesday was an okay first meet I suppose. I expect to run much faster but I have an explanation for that later. I think I hurt my ankle in the 2 mile, it was hurting after that race and it's hurt since. Well, it doesn't really 'hurt' but it feels weak and I have a slight limp.  Thursday felt good for the muscles and everything but didn't do anything good or bad to the ankle. Then Friday both ankles, my knee, and entire body were all feeling sore so I went easy in the heat. Coach recommended taking the weekend off completely so all I've done so far is ride the bike to and from work.

I've worked my body harder than ever the past 9 weeks. I took 1 week off after the indoor season then catapulted myself into hard training. Each week for about a month was my highest mileage week total ever. Now, my body is so worn down from all of it, it's going to take a while before I feel the full effect of the training. It's like, if I take an easy day today, when I go back hard tommorow, I'm only feeling the benefits of the last week. I ran that first meet tired.

I cancelled my plan to go for 70 miles in a week this season. I feel I'll have plenty of time in the summer to build up to college XC mileage even with a high of 55 this season. I'll probably even decide not to do the Worcester Firefighter's 6K in June, just to give myself more time to build. All I know now is that if I continue to extend my mileage, my whole entire season will be useless for racing. I don't want to do that. I don't want to make myself so tired that I peak after the season is over and have no races to see what the training has done for me. I'm done with the endurance phase. I'm starting long intervals now. I'm starting my recovery now. I've got some really fast races ready in these legs but I'll need to rest in order for them to come out.