3/31

Meet day! A WIN AGAINST BRAINTREE!!! So awesome.

The weather today was quite interesting! Anyways, ran a 400 in 58.2 seconds...which I'll take for early in the season. Will aim for 56 by the end of the season. Not much to say now since I have to be somewhere soon. Next Race I'll focus on form for the latter half of the race. I did work on increasing stride frequency during the last 125m or so today.

Did 4x400 at 85-84-82-80 pace afterwards with Dan accompanied by Dan and Caroline.

Punch Buggy Status: 3-5

3/29

Circuits! Today felt SO MUCH BETTER than last week. The exercises actually felt right. The grass was a nice surface to stride on and the sun was out and it was a blast. Loved it.

Punch Buggy Status: 3-5

3/28

Well not much happened today--did a 15 min warm up, only got 2 1000 m repeats on the track (though it was nice that I could pace by myself-- 3:40 and 3:39 respectively) I did miss the company of everyone else. Such good weather too! I heard Carlijn also joined track so that's a plus to our MD group.

Punch Buggy Status: 3-4 (I even saw TWO today...where is Joseph when you need him)

3/26

Hill drills at Elm Bank! Sunny and windy weather. Did about 30 minutes and some on the hill. Felt the workout as more of a cardio than strength (though I may feel it in the morning). I do need to work on aerobic fitness in addition to muscle strength. Overall felt good, had over 1 hour of running total today too.

Punch Buggy Status: 3-4

3/25

Happy Friday! Today's weather was BEAUTIFUL though cold when it was windy. We did canadians today including the power drills. We managed the set as Coach Chisum was busy but it worked out pretty well. Had about 28 total warm up + cooldown. Maybe a bit sore tomorrow from frog jumps..

Punch Buggy Status: 3-4

3/24

Today was a lot of mileage! I liked it. We had 35 min ish warm up + 5 x 1000 repeats with 30-45 seconds rest! It was quite intense. I felt quite tired from the 3rd onwards. The paces were quite consistent actually going from 3:50, 3:48, 3:47, 3:48, and 3:49. Thankfully I had joseph to run with and keep me going--the last 400m on the final 3 1000s were brutal. Finished with 15 min cooldown. Ran with Sarah Nina and Joseph as a whole for most of the day. Got one punch buggy too!!

Punch Buggy Status: 3-4

3/23

B+ run. 62 minutes today on an extended waban loop. Kind of chilly but no precipitation! went with a relatively larger group today! Ben Griswold, Ben Scammel, Brendan Chu, and Joseph accompanied me on our run! Purposefully avoided hills as we'll be getting plenty of strength these days. Muscles felt less sore after the run!! Finished with 5 downhill strides by the aqueduct.

3/22

EXHAUSTION.

First day of circuits! 4 fun sets. The sets this year I felt were a bit harder as they combined strength and core together, getting progressively harder throughout the set. Nice to have the track back for strides and 400s though! Most of which (all but 1) were on pace at 83 seconds. I felt like I could do the strength better than the abs (faltered a little on the last two sets) despite all my pre-season ab work. Ah well. Weather was meh. A bit cold and cloudy for my opinion. Hope for spring soon!

12 up 20 down.

Punch Buggy Status: 1-2. Joseph got me right before the workout started...

3/21

Today was the first day of outdoor!! Unfortunately it didn't feel like it with the wind and snow stinging our faces. Nonetheless, we did pond loop (James, Joseph, and I) and it was rather enjoyable as a whole. Went to corda hill for 5 uphill strides afterwards; total run was 56 minutes or so. Muscles were kind of tired from the extra layers and not having run that long for a week or so.

Punch Buggy Status (lives on against joseph!): 1-1

3/18

Friday! SUCH A NICE DAY. Spring most definitely! Went for a short 20 ish run just to enjoy the air after playing frisbee with chris. Felt so good to run in shorts and t shirt!

3/17

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day for running! For anything really. Quite warm, light breeze and blue skies! Today I did Waban with joseph chris and Danny--a nice fast freshman crew. There was still a bit of snow here and there and it was muddy, but waban as a whole was quite runnable! 51 min total

3/16

Today was a bit rainy and dreary. Went out for a 20 ish min warm up and came back to do abs with Kitae, Alex, and Bijan. Those went pretty well--showed them some circuit drills! Gotta get those abs ready for outdoor.

3/15

Today was SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY!! Went for a run on blue arrow trail--a place I haven't visited in ages!! Most of the trail was melted--the only problem was there was a lot of mud. Despite this, most of the trail was clear! The sunny day was perfect for shorts and t shirt --quite a fun run! Felt good and fast!

3/14

Happy Pi Day!!

Sooo today it snowed! Unexpected surprise. But I was armed with underarmor, gloves and headband so it went well. Was a bit lonely but the sky turned a little blue at the end. Yaay! A solid 52 minutes. Waban was still somewhat iced over so I left that halfway through and went to Pond. Fun fun.

3/11

So today, aptly termed "t-shirt and shorts" day by Peter and Rachel, we went on a fast paced Needham loop. I started the day thinking about drills but I suppose we went on the long run. Wow it was fast. I think all our miles were ~7:30 or faster...Quite tiring in the end. Fortunately it did not rain too much and when we got back the sun started to come out!! 55 minutes total.

3/10

So today I went for a fun 46 minutes with Danny and Chris Ulian (whom I have not ran with since XC!). We did Glen loop near cliff ~6 miles. Was very fun. The weather was a bit gray sadly--but when we came back, we played frisbee a little with Chris Lu and then we did some abs with chandler and other people who were there--quite a party! Even got 2 punch buggies today!

3/9

Ran a nice 35ish with John and DANNY today (who finally decided to come back...). Had to ImPACT test afterwards...at least got that out of the way. Today was decent i guess...the weather wasn't great and the trails are still snowed over a bit.

3/8

Did a nice 46 minutes today in the nice sunny weather! Not that cold. Sadly it was lonely because Danny didn't bring his clothes. Sigh. But I went back and did some abs with Chandler James and Andrew! Those felt interesting...especially since I haven't done them in like 2-3 months. More tomorrow!

3/7

Today was so sunny! And very windy. I went for a lovely 6-7 mile run with Peter and James. Everything felt very nice =)

3/5

Ran with scott again today! Was quite warm. Did a nice easy 6 through town and back.

3/4

Ran with Scott Today! nice to see him back from college. Did the same loop as yesterday except a bit longer while going through the campus. Weather was very nice and sunny though a bit windy and cold. Loved all 42 min of it!

3/3

Oof. Cold today. Muscles a bit sore. The weather was beautiful though! Blue skies and sun. Ran with Chris Lu for a nice 44 minutes + 4 strides on the OUTDOOR track which has a lot of snow removed! Felt good to run.

Punch Buggy Status: 1-1