December 12-18

Monday- AM 10 miles (1:20) ~2000ft
Up Crooked Trail and down Hell's Gate Canyon.
-PM 4 miles (30)
Just a nice shake out down the Kim Trail.

Tuesday- 12 miles (1:32) ~2500
Crooked trail to the top of Sentinel and back down.

Wednesday- Off
Sick

Thursday- AM 6 miles (39:30)
Out standard Rattlesnake Rd.
-PM 11 miles (1:19)
Standard Rattlesnake

Friday- 6 miles (43:20)

Saturday- 19 miles (2:19) ~2000 ft
Standard Rattlesnake, to Sawmill Gulch and down Curry Gulch. It was a new route, but something I plan to do again when I am back in town.

Sunday- 12 miles ( 1:27)
Standard Rattlesnake.

Totals:
80 miles
6500 ft.

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Well it took me way to long to get to this one. Been over a week since I have written anything and I finally feel like I have the time to sit down and write. It has been a hectic last 2 weeks now. With last week being finals week and transitioning out of the Dorms finally, while trying to bump my mileage up and getting sick- needless to say it did not go as well as planned. The week was that of a roller coaster, with days from 19 miles to 0. But being home now has replanted my drive for mileage more than it has been in the last 3 weeks.
I am excited to continue to try and get my mileage up to that triple digit mark, but this week has had me take 2 zeros already. Being in Eastern Washington at the cabin definitely did not promote running, extremely bad running conditions and not a ton of time to run, not to mention still trying to get the tail ends of this illness to dissipate.
On a good note, with my mileage being all over the place from 0-20 a day, I still find my motivation to still be high, and these days off are not affecting my drive to get out on the trails like they were in previous weeks. But with this motivation, and the higher mileage, I am interested in how this coming spring will go on the track and where it will take me. I still am focused on the track and doing everything I need to perform to a level that I have been hoping for, for the last 2 years, but I am really lacking the desire for any sort of structure within my training other than just mileage. I have struggled mentally at the idea of getting out and doing intervals or structured work outs of any kind. But I have been doing some improvised work outs in runs, and running more vertical than in the passed, all which I will be helping balance out the fact that I have done no "real" work outs.

This guy has been dominating my music every I get the chance, so enjoy.