6/15 - 12 miles
AM: 7 easy
PM: 5 easy w/6x150
6/16 - 16 miles
AM: 3 x 2mile threshold (9:54, 9:51, 9:38) that's the way I wanna rock n roll
PM: 3 easy, 5x300 (R300 jog) :46 - :44
6/17 - 10 easy - 6x50 hill sprint - right foot sore from fast stuff yesterday
6/18 - 9 easy
6/19 - Early AM - 5 minute wake up jog, fly to Duluth.
PM: 4 easy, 5x1000 threshold, 5x200, 1 easy
6/20 - 8 easy with Hansons guys, 6 x hill sprint
6/21 - Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon - 65:51, 4th place
Total Mileage - 84
The race was a little slow for everyone. The head wind seemed to make things unfold at a glacial pace. I promised myself before the race that I'd run conservatively through the 3 mile mark no matter what anyone else did. Starting slowly seemed to be the only way I could get through a successful workout lately, so it sounded smart to apply that to the race. As it turned out, right around mile 2 Fernando Cabadass and Matthew Chesang trotted off into the lead together while I was drifting off into no man's land behind them, but ahead of the chase pack. That no man's land was where I stayed until mile 11 when Mike Reneau passed by and left me for fourth place. It sure would have been easier to run 5 seconds faster on that second mile and be running with Cabada and Chesang rather than fighting the wind by myself for so long. Chesang was the class of the field that day and nobody was going to beat him, but I would have had a better shot at battling Cabada and Reneau if I wasn't so headstrong.
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