Luke Beauchamp's training log

Lack of quick updates last week because of camp. Today I did 8 hill repeats with the team up a 1k hill at 70-80% effort. Hills usually feel awful for me but daily strengthening must be paying off because I felt great today. I might even be in the greatest racing shape of my life at only 25 miles a week. Finished off the day with some core and lifting.

I wasn't expecting to do that much yesterday, so I just did strengthening in the morning at team practice and a solid 2 mile night run with my dad.
 

Ran a decent 5 miler with Dante and Chris. Felt good today.

20 minute tempo in my trainers at 80-85% effort today. The grass was not quite as wet from last night's rain as I thought it could be, which helped. Came through at the 5k in 17:40 on Interlake's old home course. Felt generally pretty good and no lower leg pains to be concerned about. I have not come anywhere remotely close to that pace at that effort in my previous tempos at this location or even anywhere outside the track. I feel very good about this season given how well I am doing with such little training due to my previous injury. Team also looked great today despite a few key players being absent. I've been told that I can ramp up my mileage pretty fast because of how good my legs are feeling. This should be my last week at 5 days a week and then I will be at 6 days a week and maybe even 40+ miles.

Ran 4.5 with Chris, Michael, and Matthew to cap off the week of running. I will run 6 days next week. A few pains but it feels good for adding 10 more miles plus workouts to my training. I'm going to be close to my normal training again by the time September hits, so I'm pretty excited.

Did not run today, but I realized I should probably be more regular about recording my non-running activities as I may want to look at what I was doing in the future. Today I did my leg strengthening and then team abs. I hiked for 3 hours and then did a swim workout.