THE RUN DOWN

Monday: 4*150's at 90-95% with 8-10 minutes recover. Afterwards was plyo's and the weights.

Tuesday: The craziest workout ever. 3 split quarters. For those of you who do not know one split quarter is it's an all out 200 with a 30 second break and then another all out 200. One split quarter is tough. 3 is murder.

Wednesday: Ran a ladder. 2,3,4,4,3,2.

Thursday: Super easy. Warmed-up and biked for 20 minutes.

Friday: Speed. 3 block starts, followed by 2 50 meter fly's, 2 over speeds, and 1 50 meter fly. I thought it was unusual to have this much speed the day before a meet, but coach knows best.

Saturday: Traveled to Northfield, MN.

Sunday: Off

ROUND HERE

The semester is off to a good start. I'm taking Strategy Formulation, Project Management, Organizational Communication, and Intro to History (a total slack class) I haven't had a single assignment due in any of my class yet. Absolutely nothing! No reading, no writing, no bs. I'm on easy street!

So my race this weekend was pretty interesting. I ran just the 400 and was hoping to run a fast time for myself, but I ended up running slower than I did 3 weekends ago. I know the practices have been tough, but I'd still like to see constant improvement in my times throughout the season. Oh well I guess. I'll just have to try and redeem myself this week.

THE MEET

We traveled down to St. Olaf this past weekend for the annual Boarder Battle. The Boarder Battle is a competition between two teams from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and two teams the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). Somehow the WIAC won the meet which I just don't get. St. Thomas won 9 events and was runner-up in like another 9. I think the WIAC must have been keeping score! Those cheaters! Okay, they aren't really cheaters and I'm really not that upset the MIAC lost to the WIAC. After all, the WIAC is the best track conference in D-III.

Like I said before, UST won 9 events at the meet. We looked pretty good despite getting worked real good at practice this past week. I'm excited to see how the team will perform when we start to taper.

This upcoming week I'm not real sure of where we'll be running. There is a meet at the University of Minnesota on Friday which is a possibility and there is also another meet at St. Olaf again. The U of M will draw a little better comp than St. Olaf, but St. Olaf's facility is amazing! It's a flat 200 mondo surface with some sweet corners to run on. Very fast!

LEADER OF THE PACK

The twelfth installment of my Leader of the Pack Award goes to none other than PJ Theisen (aka Peaches). For the first time ever Peaches had to run the 600 yard dash. Since he never ran the race before he came up to me shortly before the gun went off and asked me "How should I run this?" I told Peaches to just sit behind the first place guy for 400 meters and just out kick him at the end. And that's exactly what he did. And he won! Peaches ran a 1:13.x and in the process bet the defending conference champ in the race. It was sweet! Nice work Peaches!