Luke Beauchamp's training log

I see how it is, Marysville Getchell High School. They announced my time during awards as 15:45 (The dude behind me was even 15:45) and then they bumped my time 1 second up into the range of disappointment when putting it on athletic.net. Whatever. Also, interesting that Adamson ended up getting 15:39, because he passed me in the finishing stretch. I have no idea how he could have such a monster kick but if I had gotten 15:39 that would seem astronomically better than 15:46. I'll just have to PR at Marymoor this Wednesday. Probably not a whole lot of people pushing me if Juanita does their traditional league meet tempo crap but I am getting stronger daily so who knows how I'll do. If Tom Mikkelson runs fast then it should be a battle. I want to break 16 for the first time there even if he doesn't and I think that I might even PR.

Ran the course twice and did some long buildups. Coach said no workout because we've had workout + double meets for the past 3 weeks. He wants our Wednesday run to be good also.

Coach limited everybody on the team to 3 miles so I ran them on boring loop with Matthew Roberts.

Didn't get as much sleep last night as I wanted but it's all good. It rained all day today so the course was real soggy when we got there. Also, I just remembered that they lengthened it by a fair amount. Today Andrew was at the race doing his workout, so he went hard for a mile, cruised and then finished the last half mile hard. I began running and Andrew was quickly in the lead. He was booking so I settled in behind him for almost 800 meters and then decided it was in my best interest for him to get a distance on me, which ended up being fairly small, but maybe 2 seconds when we got to the mile, where he began jogging and I passed him. Behind him, the front pack was all sitting on my butt. They thought they could get me today, so they tried to make it easy by making me lead. I didn't let it get to my head and kept pushing. Eventually, I made separation approaching 1.5 miles and the start of loop #2. By ear Tom was only 1-1.5 seconds behind me for our second time through the starting stretch, but I knew that he was hurting by the tiny gap that had formed. I managed to open it up to 5 seconds by a little past 2 miles. I've been having a stomach nightmare this week, and today was no better, but I didn't let it affect me until the last mile when it hurt too much to ignore. However, I managed to keep pushing, and despite my lack of a kick, open up the gap to 14 seconds. This is 8 seconds faster than I ran on the older, shorter course during dry conditions. For having to lead the whole way, I'm convinced this is a good performance and an indication of my continously improving state. Seeing Andrew ahead of me helped me not panic.

7 easy miles, most of which were with Matthew. Then 8 buildups. I think I will break 16 at Marymoor for the first time. Guaranteed if the conditions are drier than this Wednesday was for the race.

Went hard at Tillicum park today. We spiked up so times were pretty good. The sets were 800 mile effort - 1000 cruise - 400 fast and relaxed x 3 sets. 800s interestingly enough got progressively slower, 2:17, 2:20, 2:23. However, my 1ks were more even, 3:05, 3:01, 3:02. It was strange that I completed the 800 loop during my 1000 repeats in usually around 2:25-2:28, which wasn't much slower than my last 800, although lower effort. My 400s were 65, 65, then 64.

Dumping rain today for the Robinswood practice and my legs were exhausted from all the hard work I did in the second half of the week. I ran at a relaxed pace with Matthew, Gavin, Carter, Sebastian, and Lucas. It's good to see Sebastian training more regularly. Ran to Bellevue Square and back with a detour at the end, so 9.5 miles. I ran 1 mile back at Robinswood.