My goal of sub 4:00 1500-I will not stop until I reach my goal.

saturday 14 in four runs. 5 miles along the Sandia Crest in snow and mud at 10,400-10,678 ft.

sunday 17 really, really slowly. felt like crap.

100.2 miles for the week. had three excellent runs and one other decent run. making progress. fourth consecutive week at one hundred miles. can't wait to start racing again.

How'd you all do, solojoe, boingo, eddy?

I am calling it quits for this season. I had a decent run in the beginning, but the training I did in early Jan. burnt me the f out. I'm getting slower and slower (418 and 2:04+ I didn't look @ the time), and I am losing my passion for running. I am going to tell the coach tomorrow that I am ending it here.

The next thing I will decide is if I should keep on training on my own for the June 7th in Oxy. I know I can run sub407, but I just need the right type of training. I went for a 10miler yesterday, and I felt great. Every time I do these runs, I feel passionate again. So its either going to be keep training for the June 7th meet, or just maintain fitness to get ready for the summer training.

Awesome week of running, jonsey.

Way to quit on your team. Everybody has a bad stretch at one point or another, but when you commit yourself to running on a college team generally your part of something bigger than yourself. I'd have a hard looking at my teamates and telling them I'm quitting in the middle of the season because I'm sad and I haven't run what I wanted. man up son.

dude don't quit just start training smarter...i bet if you backed off for two weeks, did

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i bet if you backed off for two weeks, did one work out a week, say a 1000 comfortable, a 500 at race pace, a 400 at race past and a rolling 250 faster than race pace with almost full recovery and then just do 5-7 miles LIGHT and EASY on the other days, no long run, no nothing...you would be refreshed and ready for a huge PR. Just give it a shot. Last season I was stuck at 409 all season and then the last two weeks I pretty much gave up and did this with some of the better 1500m runners on my team (this was only part of their work out) and then went out to pace them in the last meet. Turned out i felt great and beat them all becuase I was ready to run fast 357. Might as well give it a shot, you have put in a lot of work to just through it all away.

We have 2 races left; the season is basically over.

sorry to hear about your troubles eddy.

i'm getting blood work to check for anemia this week. my body has just been incredibly weak lately. because of this i haven't been able to run well. i dropped down and tried to do a speed workout today. 600m all out, 40s rest, 200m all out. 10 min rest. 3x200m with 30s rest.

1:27 high, 32. then 28, 30, 31

eddy, really sorry to see you burned out and possibly quitting. the training program really primed you to burn out, because of the constant speed and race pace or faster workouts. There are times that I hate running, like today, and pretty much everyone can say that. But on the positive side, if you pull back, do a plan supported by tons of experience (build a good base, go by feel, incorporate a long run, a tempo, strides and a VO2 max (1200m-2k @5k pace) workout every week, then sharpen a bit and reduce volume in the last two weeks before your June 7th race), you should do very well and recover the love for the sport.

solojoe, I hope that you're just a little tired and overtrained, but work on that iron intake regardless of how the test comes out. That's still a very nice workout you did. I'd like to be that tired.

I should add that there's not a little of the letsrun performance goal thread curse going on here.

just got back from a long run: 18 or 19 in 2h15. felt a little shitty on the way back, but i haven't had a lot to eat today.

yesterday was conference for us. hot - maybe 90 or above. i knew going into the race i was going to be running against a 1:52/3:56 guy, and that i had little chance of beating him. i also figured no one was going to take it out, and that he would take the lead and do something similar to what happened in indoor: he ran 2:15 or so for the first 800 and dropped down to 2:04 for the second half.

as soon as we started the race i could feel (even in the first 100) that it was something like 70 second 400 pace, so i took the lead before the first turn ended and took it through 64 and 2:10 before the dude cranked it on me. had third place in my sights until last 10 meters - 3 guys blew by me, never even heard them coming. came away with a small pr: 4:04.39.

congrats boingo

hey solo joe. that's actually a pretty good 800m-type session. 1:27 is solid. do get that blood work done, though - i have a teammate (girl) who went from 26 high to 18:40 in the 5k in the course of a year, once she got her iron in order.

nice race, boingo! not far off now.

How is your training going, are you still in Albq.?

training's going really well, thanks. I'm still in Albuquerque for another month.

Monday 14.5 morning 9.5: 9.2M in 1:03:38 (6:55/M). felt many times better than sunday. went out in 8:06 and averaged 7:20 or so out and 6:29 back, closing in 5:52. added 5 on hilly grass trails in the afternoon.

Tuesday 7 (will run another 7 later).

t/f UNM track-8x800 (w/track team. minute rest, 2:30 after 4th)--2:31,2:32,2:32,2:33,2:32,2:34,2:33,2:32 (81-71 (39/32)). coach said to negative split last one. great workout. the last 200 was actually my fastest in my comeback.

averaged sub 2:33, six seconds faster than the last session of these about three weeks ago. and didn't feel nearly as hard. definite progress!

2 races...stick with it Eddy. Shoot, you have not even tapered yet. Sometimes you train and train, wearing down the legs and body and you aren't as fresh for races as you think you are. It sucks, you feel like crap during your race and you get frustrated because you know you should be running faster. It happens to everyone at some point. But you have to push through and stick it out. See what happens when you start to taper and you get some fresh legs under you for a race. Just don't quit on your team. You've shown a lot of heart trying to achieve your goal, don't give up. You can do this. You got at least one more PR in you this season. Go get it!

eddylee wrote:

We have 2 races left; the season is basically over.

Eddy! Sandbag a week first. Just do easy running and half-assed track work and give yourself a break...but don't quit. It might actually do you good.

I'm tripling at our intramural track meet tomorrow. All 3 events will be within a half hour, so just using it as a workout and to gauge the anemia problems. 8, 32, 4x4

I don't know why, but I was picturing Eddy as a 4'10" Asian kid with big glasses.

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