Luke Beauchamp's training log

Today we ran the KingCo 5k course for warmup. Coach then measured out a 400m track at the park and had us partner up and run a continuous 2x400 relay. Our rest was how quick our partners could run a 400. I had Dante for a few, but he stopped. So for most of the workout I was partnered with Michael. I kept trying to catch Carter, who was partnered with Matthew, but he would start with a sizable lead on me. I started to gain more ground on Carter than Matthew was getting on Michael but then Carter dropped out. Unfortunately for Michael, I was booking, and he started to get tired. The longer he took, the more rest I got, and the faster I went, and thus the less rest he got. It kind of created a positive feedback loop and he is pretty upset with me.

5 miles for the day before the Luther Burbank race. Went over the course map and it looks fine.

It turns out the Mercer Island people don't know their own course (they called the 5k I did sophomore year a 3 mile because they didn't know and hadn't measured so they just guessed). They said they had to lengthen it because construction cut off parts of the course. However, I checked and it matched exactly what the course map showed and exactly what I ran 2 years ago there. Nevertheless, they lengthened the finish. Coach told us to go out super fast and dial it back after 1.5-2 miles if he thought it was right. I think I got carried away. I went out in 4:48. However, I didn't lose it like I usually would have, I just kept on chugging. It felt very good. Matt Roberts ran super well and probably would have come very very close to me had I run like I did at Portland. He split from the main group early and ran isolated the whole time, probably the best race he's had this season. Raymond and Bryce looked quite strong and ran together in 3-4 most the race. Some MI guy ran out of his head and disrupted our sweep. His team went crazy when they saw him so far up. Chris and Carter had extremely good races. This is the first time Carter has run at a level greater than his freshman speed, even though his time didn't reflect it. Both of them almost matched their Portland times, which nobody did on this course. My dad yelled 15:02 at me when I was nearing the final stretch for the course I ran sophomore year (the official one that they have online). Had I run that one, I would have been 15:40-15:45. My sophomore year I topped the MI time I ran that Saturday at Twilight by about 10 seconds. If I could take 10 seconds off of the time I would have gotten and run under 15:40 at Twilight, that would be fantastic. I feel stronger each day now that I am recovering from my illness. I still weigh like nothing though.

Ran 2 miles in the morning. Ran Tillicum for 5 miles plus 1 on the track in the afternoon for 6 miles. 8 miles total today. Went hard on my leg strengthening yesterday so today was like trying to run on two bricks. Did some build ups. Excited to run fast at Twilight. This may be my first fast 5k of the year. I'm getting good sleep for this one. This is the first year that I've ever experienced that I've allotted so much time to being in bed that I wake up before my alarm goes off and have to lie in bed to wait for it.

3 miles for the day before race. Very stiff calves so no build-ups. Aiming for 15:40-15:45 tomorrow. Slow journey back from cutting off 8% of my body weight all of a sudden but I can do it.

Hard racing today. Got out fast, but so did everybody else so I spent the first mile just trying to get remotely close to the front. Expected to get beat by Beamer, Kennan, and Inglemoor #1 for sure. What I did not anticipate was Nathan Pixler beating all of them and Inglemoor's #2 beating Inglemoor #1 (Maybe #2 just had a really bad day in Portland). Also got beat by Cullen from Kamiak, spent a good portion of the race chasing him down for him just to put distance back between us with 600 to go. Pendleton from Eastlake beat me the same time Cullen did and Adamson outkicked me in the last stretch. I did hold off a considerable number of people who would have beaten me if my kick hadn't been strong. Happy with my time, sad that I had to have a setback firmly planted in my season by whatever I came down with last week. Should be well off of it by post-season though. As such, I think I can be in an even better place by the state meet. Maybe 15:30. I know it's real far away, but I just want to get running the 3200 again. This Spring I believe a 9:15 is in order. Not sure how 3.1 is a nonstandard distance but it's making me check the box.