Luke Beauchamp's training log

Workout in spikes at Lake Sammamish State Park, which was very muddy today. It was 2x3x800 where our rest was to jog to the start point of the next 800, which I'm estimating totaled 1600m jog rest as we completed the 2 mile loop twice. The repeats were actually only roughly 800. First one was probably short, second one was quite long, about 950 meters, and second one was by far the closest. First repeat of each set of three was meant to be like the beginning of our race, and very fast. So I did 2:07 then 2:06. Second one was tempo, and I did 2:57 then 2:54. Not wiping out was very difficult but I'm prepared for it provided the race on Saturday is muddy and miserable, which it is supposed to be. Thankfully, those are my kind of conditions. The last one was tempo plus a little bit. I felt very relaxed, but I'm convinced I was well ahead of my race pace from Saturday. First was 2:24, second was 2:20. The workout was good and it was on the easy side, which was nice. I am excited to race on Saturday, and I will use last Saturday as a learning experience and avoid the 2 hour nap in the morning so as to promote digestion and prevent fatigue during the race. As it turns out, I watched the evening 4A race and it lead me to believe that my performance on Saturday was better than my Twilight performance. A bunch of 4A kids who were right behind me at Twilight got times much further behind me in the KingCo race and pretty much every one of them who was ahead of me at Twilight either finished with a slower time than me or got a lot closer to me, with the sole exception of Nate Pendleton, who ran a beastly race. I'm making progress and I am ready to compete at districts and state.

Coach said easy day of 6 miles for most people, but he told me I could go 7. Because of this, I ran 6 with my friends and 1 on the track. Legs were a little tight today

Wasn't expecting a workout today, but I got one. Rained substantially from 11AM onward and then cleared up just as practice began, which everybody but me somehow anticipated, leaving me awkwardly warming up in my parachute pants and assorted rain gear. Workout was 8 laps in our trainers, 3200 meters, first 300 of each lap at 5k race pace effort, and then dial back the last 100 to a cruise only slightly more than training run pace. This was interesting because it wasn't super slow but I was able to recover while doing it. Anyways, my first two were a little fast before I settled in. Somebody went out with me, as I heard breathing behind, but they fell off hard after like 3 intervals and the closest person was like 30 seconds back in the end. The workout felt smooth and comfortable, came through 1600 at 4:57 due to the first two laps being pretty fast and then came through 3200 at 10:03. I'm very encouraged by this workout as I was running disrupted intervals and changing speeds yet still had fast splits. I think that if I ran the 3200 right now I would get a sizable PR. All I need to do now is show this sort of fitness in a race and I'll run a great 5k PR as well. Unfortunately the course is gonna be miserable on Saturday. Fortunately, those are my kind of conditions. Obviously my time won't be great, but I race well when things are ugly.

Stubbed my toe really hard and it hurt to run on today so I couldn't complete my run.

Buddy taped my toe and got through my run. Did some strides afterwards.
 

I was right about my time not being very good today, but I wasn't right about a positive result. The course was really messy when I ran it. I stuck with the lead group for 2 miles and then Peter Hogan, a Ballard kid, and a guy from Garfield kind of pulled ahead. The Ballard kid was trailing the other two so I kept trying to move up to him. I almost got him at one point, but he ended up pushing his way up to Peter. The Garfield kid took off and somehow ran a 16:09. Peter got 16:23 and the Ballard kid 16:25. I was expecting to be more competitive at this meet. For some reason, my workouts continue to get better and better but every race since the end of my sophomore track season follows this pattern of running "okay", but never well. Nevertheless, the results in the 4A race were also confusing. Two kids who I was able to compete with at Twilight almost caught Pixler, who ran I think a time a little bit faster than the Garfield guy. They also beat a kid from Inglemoor who was 15:25 at Nike Portland. Kennan was only 3 seconds ahead of my time from today, and finished a few seconds behind some random Henry Jackson kid. It seemed that slow people ran fast, fast people ran slow, and the order was all messed up. Thus, I am mentally throwing away the results because I don't think they mean anything. As much as I tried to psych myself out about it, I've never run well in crummy conditions. Possibly because I weigh so little. Either way, I hope for a much more satisfying performance at the State Meet.