Here is a cross-section of the life of a collegiate cross-country runner (me) during last two days of training during preseason.  Classes start the middle of next week.  Enjoy

 

Tuesday

7am: Roll out of bed and ride my bike up to campus for a breakfast of oatmeal with granola and raisins, orange juice

8am: Ride back to the house, relax on the couch and watch an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (great show), prepare for workout.

8:45am: Head off to practice

9am: Practice time.  Interval workout.  Warm up: 21 minute easy jog (3 miles), dynamic stretching and form drills (10 minutes).  Workout: 6 hill repeats (one mile continuous uphill, mostly gradual with a few steeper sections), with easy half-mile downhill recovery.  Started easy, 5:11 and picked up the pace each interval from there finishing in 4:50.  Ran solo.  Kept pace relaxed and under control, however practiced finishing hard while tired on the last one and pushed the last quarter mile. Post workout recovery drink.  Cool down: 15 minutes of easy jogging (2+ miles), dynamic and static stretching (40 minutes).  Total mileage: Just under 14 miles. 

12pm: Head out to lunch; bowl of cereal, turkey sandwich, bowl of pasta and banana.

1pm: Back down to the house to relax.  Fixed up the house with roommate.

3pm: Snack; PowerAde and orange

3:45pm: Head off to practice

4pm: Practice time number 2.  Stretching (20 minutes), form drills (1 hour), core and strength (40 minutes).

6:30pm: Dinner; Large salad with rice and chicken, bread, granola sandwich with honey and banana, green tea

7:30pm: back down to the house to hang out with teammates.  Movie 

10:30pm: In bed and asleep

 

Wednesday

7am: Wake up, breakfast on campus; oatmeal with Grape-nuts, banana and brown sugar, orange juice

8am: Back down to the house.  Another episode of “Curb”

8:45am: Head off to practice

9am: Practice time.  Recovery run:  easy 7+ miler.  Dynamic stretching, form drills (15 minutes), strides on the track in spikes, static stretching (30 minutes).  Post workout recovery drink.

12pm: Meeting

12:30pm: Lunch; pasta with vegetables, apple juice, cereal, apple

1pm: Another meeting (exciting, eh?)

2pm: Back to the house to take a nap

3:45pm: Head off to practice (things starting to repeat themselves aren’t they?)

4pm:  Practice time number 2.  Form drills (40 minutes), core (30 minutes), static stretching (25 minutes).  Normally would do another run at this point (5-6 miles) but taking a “down week” in mileage this week.

6pm: Dinner on campus; large salad with rice and salmon, bread.

7pm: Back down at the house, hang out with teammates

8pm:  UFC fight night.  Diaz is the man.

10:30pm: In bed and asleep.

Repeat.

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