May 12 - 18

Monday (workout - 14km total)
A track workout at Mother Teresa school. The warmup and cooldown were a decent length. This felt great. Partway through the second repeat I thought to myself: "I love this; I missed the track." Running in a group of 5 guys hitting comfortably fast splits felt great. I did 400/600/800/600/400 at a little faster than 72s per lap, then followed it up with 6x200m in 29.6-32.5 with a minute rest. On the 200s we were aiming for 1500m pace, which is about 33s for me, but I got pulled along to faster times.

Tuesday (14km)
58 minutes with Chris. We went out on the Adelaide trails, turned around and came back. It really was not very fast.

Wednesday (workout - 16km total)
Up in Arva. I felt good for this workout - I led the first 2k (3:23/3:20), then led three-quarters of the second 2k before falling off a little and getting passed (3:18/3:24). I might have been trying too hard. I then had a long recovery before I did 8x1 minute on, 1 minute off. Nathan and Rob did these really well, but after five with them, I realized that I needed an easier recovery jog. I did the final three on my own. Still at a good pace, but I was more recovered when I started.

Thursday (13km)
55 minutes on my own. There was a meeting for the shore-to-shore team at Chancey Smith's downtown. I ran down, had a long break, and ran the 30 minutes of balance afterwards. These were definitely junk miles.

Friday (OFF)
I just could not fit it in. Too much going on after school, and I had slept too late to get it in before school in the morning.

Saturday (1500m race - 15km total)
AM - I did a 20 minute shakeout run in the morning. It was really slow, but it helped my legs feel like moving again after a day off.
PM - The OTFA 4x1500m relay championship. London Runner was the only team entered, so we won in a cakewalk. I am an Ontario champion! I ran the first leg of the relay, passing off to Rob. I was aiming for 68s, but it was quite hard on my own. I ran a 4:20, which is not fast, but not embarrassing. No one ran more than five seconds faster than me, and our anchor's PB is 24 seconds faster than mine.

Sunday (14km total)
Denfield run. It was wet and cool. It really was not a fun run. Steve had me down for 10km, but my 10k finished on Hyde Park Road, which is too busy for me to want to get into the car. I ran an extra kilometre-plus to get onto a less busy road. So, it was 11k at about 3:45s, and a short warmup beforehand. The rain was really bad for my legs. I have some bad chafing now. I hope that some Vaseline will make me comfortable enough for Monday's track workout.

Total - 86km. I need to make sure I get in my Friday runs, somehow.