Blogs : Nate Jenkins

Training April 28 to May 4

Monday PM woods 10, 1:14:08, first 5 w/ jack and gary, strides after tot. 11

               Head cold

Tuesday AM rd and woods 10, 1:15:26, first 5 w/ tim and gary, pouring rain tot. 10

               PM rd. 10+ w/ ruben and Kevin, 1:06:26 tot. 10

               Still sick had workout scheduled pushed it

Wednesday AM rd. and woods 10, first 5 w/ lyra and gary, no time tot. 10

                    PM Lake rd. 10 solo, 1:11:59, foot real sore, tot. 10

                     Filling a bit better but still pretty sick

Thursday AM 25:05 w/up w/ gary, then with ben Ndaya, 600m in 1:45 100m jog rest

                        400m in 67.1, then a few strides, then 4x tempo 1600m and one hard 1200

                        with less then a minute rest, 4:59.2 (rest 50.3), 4:57.6 (rest 55.0), 4:59.2                 

                        (rest 54.5) 4:58.0(that’s 22:33 for 4 miles with the rests included) (rest

                        58.8) 1200 in 3:24.4(66, 2:16, 2:50)  3.5 cool down 26:15 tot. 12

                 PM woods 8 solo shakeout, 1:00:00, foot very sore tot. 8

Friday AM travel to Cincinnati,

            PM 46:06 along river easy tot. 6+

Saturday AM 3+ w/up 24 mins, 80 second tempo effort, strides Race RRCA National 5k

                      championship (flying pig 5k), 1^st place 14:52? Pretty flat course but lots of

                      sharp turns and it was raining and slick, Not a great effort just couldn’t get

                      it out by myself, not proud of it that’s just how it was. Splits 4:44.9,

                     9:34.7(4:49.8), 3 c/down tot. 10+

               PM rd. 10+ along ohio river, actually ended up rolling pretty good on way back

                     so this may have been a little bit long, 1:10:44 tot. 10

Sunday AM travel from Cincinnati

              PM Methuen rd. 19, easy, 2:06:17, same loop as last week, not sore at all but

                    definitely tired tot. 19

Summary 116 miles for the week, 1 medium workout, 1 medium race.  Well I won a sort of pansy national title but don’t think that will stop me from telling most everyone in the world I’m a national champion. But I’ll do another blog on that. I was sick most of the week but I’m feeling much better now, just a bit of the sniffles.  Honestly it wasn’t that bad.  I’m ok with colds unless I start coughing then they get real bad and last forever.  I didn’t get any treatment this week cause I was broke but I all set now and I’ll be back in the finn’s office on Monday.