Great first week of track. It didn't start out to hot, I hadn't really ran for two weeks because of illness. I did run three days last week but they weren't anything great, two thirty minute runs and a 45 min one. So I went in on monday and cut the run from what A group did. Then on Tuesday ran this workout slow which was a controlled, on the track fartlek. 1,3,5,5,3,1 min intervals with rest which was 2,4,6,6,4,2. I thought the work out was fine, even though I was angry after practice though. My quads were all sore to for like half this week, but I iced and they haven't been sore since Wednesday I think, maybe Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday were some distance days and then Friday was 12 hills. I felt good. Today was easy run of like 42 min. I finally feel normal, except for my voice comes and goes, which is so annoying. I don't even know what I had, the doctor mentioned a virus. It lasted for about two weeks. I have not had my normal voice for three. Next week we will have a time trial and some sort of tempo run. I am looking forward to it. Coach says he doesn't like to put people in a time trial that is the same as there race, because it puts them in the wrong mindset of where they are at for fitness. I would like to do either a 1 1/2 mile trial or a 2 1/2 trial, maybe even a three, but definitely no less that 1.5. Ended up with 332 min for the week, came out to be about 44 miles, I believe. 71 kilometers. I am going to try and understand kilometers too with my training, so when I go over to another country I can talk to them about training. I want to get to 60 before March and do some 60 weeks into the weeks with meets. Ill be racing tired but I think it will be fine then Ill cut back so I can get a qualifying time to at least districts. Its gonna be good. I really like how I bounced back from not running for pretty much two weeks. I know my legs are stronger, I just need to get my endurance back. Get my lungs and heart back into shape. Yeah definitely my breathing, it needs some whipping. That is why I think a 2.5 would be good. Nice and long. The team is ok I guess. Except one guy might be taken off by his parents because of some trouble he got into. He is pretty vital to our 4x8. Alvaro seems good, he is not complaining about any pain. I hope it stays that way. Adam, a sophomore, pisses me off so much. He has no respect. He has been acting kinda weird like thurs and fri. He wasn't even there on Saturday, I believe he needs some real discipline. Coach just keeps talking to him, but that doesn't do anything. I don't know what should be done but it needs to be more than just talking. The rest of the team and I need to learn to not support his behavior. The problem is some of them just don't care. It amazes me how selfish some people can be. One of the guys thinks this isn't a team sport. You have got to be kidding me. He is just thinking about the event which can be seen as individual, but the training is requires a so much team work and support from one another. He would not even be close to where he is with out a team. All the great runners at least started with team, they still dont train by them selves, they have others that they depend on. I depend on my team.