Monday 1/3

15 minute warm up to Babson. It all started out fine, but by the time we got there, my shin was burning. Then of course it went away by the time we started the work out.

The workout today was 200 at goal 800 pace, 300 at goal 1k pace and 400 at goal mile pace. Overall: blahh. Several factors could have contributed to this, such as lack of sleep. My goals in these races are 2:30, 3:20 and 5:48 (which corresponds to splits of 37, 60, 87). The actual splits during the workout were like 37-40, 60-65 and 85-89. The majority of them were a second to two slower than what I wanted. What does this mean? Are my goals to high? Only time will tell...Also starting early on my shin began to bother me. It was burning and hard to lift, resulting in heavy, thumping footsteps. And by the middle of the workout I found it was hard to push my self to go faster. Sometimes I wish I had a workout partner exactly my pace, who I was a little faster than in races. That would be excellent. Alas, this is not the case, and I need to work on pushing myself and of course, icing and stretches. 

15 minute cool down. My shin did not seem to bother me as much. I iced and did the stretches tonight, hopefully this is not going to be a recurring problem.