Feeling Good is a Good Feeling.

Well, I officially opened my season two weeks ago now. I went over to Vancouver for a 1500m. The result was an eye opening 4:02. Until then I hadn't ran over 4 minutes in a couple years. I wasn't really upset with the time, nor was I very pleased with it, obviously. I led a lot of the race, but when those boys starting picking up the pace near the end of the race, I just did not have the turn-over to keep up. When I crossed the line, I was hardly out of breath which just confirmed what I already new about where I was as far as fitness goes and made me feel good about the 3000m I had coming up a week later. The 3000m wasn't anything special, 8:34, but it was a much better result compared to the 1500m. Cliff Childs and myself were trying to help Dylan Haight along to the World Junior standard of 8:15. I think we may have been able to do it with slightly better pacing of the start, oh and if there hadn't been a 60km/h head wind on the home stretch.

After the 3000m a bunch of us went out to dinner and then headed to home. Most of us had to be up at 3am the next morning to leave for our training camp in Flagstaff, so it was an early night. However, racing at around 7:15pm and not eating until around 9:30pm really doesn't set you up for a great sleep. I don't think I fell asleep until around 1am, and even with my crappy sleeping pattern, 2hours is not enough. I felt golden until our lay-over in Seattle were I had a nice long nap in the terminal, which continued on the flight to Phoenix. We did arrive in Flagstaff until roughly 6:30pm... 15hours of travel time is lllooonngg.

I've known been in Flagstaff for just over a week, and have a week left. We've only had 2 track sessions so far, but it's been good. We did the same 2 workouts last year, and I was running roughly the same times. Considering I missed pretty well 3 months of training, I'll settle for running the same times as last year. I was a little sore after the first week, but I got a nice massage after the session on saturday and after some self treatment on sunday I feel great going into the second week. Feeling good is a good feeling because it is going to be a tough one. We're doing back to back workouts tuesday and wednesday and then another one saturday.

Anyway, not the most exciting post, but I was bored and just wanted to throw up a bit of an update.