Nice racing this week. 5 races and some prs is super solid especially given how hot it was this week.
My week started out great but the foot thing really ruined it, although I don't plan on missing any more time.
Monday 5/17: w/u, 5 mins brisk, 4 strides, 3x300 at mile (55, 53, 54), 4x150 at 800 (23, 23, 24, 23), 20 minute cd for 6ish total. Felt a little choppy on the 150s from the old foot thing that was bothering me on/off but the cooldown was honestly one of the best I've had in a while and I thought I was finally moving past that old foot problem.
Tuesday 5/18: 4.2 premeet at 7:45.
Wednesday 5/19: 4:59.5. Splits were 73, 78, 76, 72, with the last 600 being 1:48/49 which is great. Also probably got injured from this race, more details on that below.
Thursday 5/20: 9.4 miles easy bike, 39 minutes.
Friday 5/21: 8.6 miles easy bike in 40 minutes, on some trails
Saturday 5/22: did my best to replicate a track workout on my bike on the trainer in my basement. Absolutely brutal. In theory, I would have done a tempo mile (6:15), 2x(500 at mile (1:32), 300 recovery, 300 at 800 (49), 250 recovery, 150 hard (22)). Just going off time and effort, I did 5 minutes easy, 6 minutes moderate/hard, 1 minute recovery, 90 seconds all out, 90 seconds recovery, 50 seconds all out, 1:40 recovery, 30 seconds all out, 6 minutes recovery between sets, and all that again. Cd to 40 total minutes.
This new foot thing is kinda in my toe joint on the outer 3 toes, maybe 1/3 of the way up from the toes toward the ankle. It was tight the day of Wednesday's meet, and was bothering me a decent amount during strides, but I decided to race on it. Post race, I could barely walk and I iced like 5 times over the next 2 days. Limped around Thursday and Friday, and my school's trainer said its probably not a stress fracture which is good. Saturday I was basically able to walk without limping, but still kinda painful. Sunday morning was the first day it didn't feel significantly better after waking up, but recovery isn't linear so that's to be expected. I was able to do part of the running warmup with the team on Saturday and running wasn't much more painful than walking but it didn't feel right so I stopped after about a quarter mile. Fully expect to be back running tomorrow even if that means popping advil like skittles for the next couple weeks but I only have 6 meets left in the next 4 weeks at most so I have to grind this one out for the team. Big 4x8 in a relay meet next Saturday so the team needs me for that.