Morning Runs and Freshmen

So I pulled an all-nighter last night, and I've now been up for around 33 hours. Since I was up, I went ahead and ran this morning, just an easy 2 miles. It was really slow, somewhere around 22 minutes (!!) but I've decided that my morning runs for the next few weeks will be to build up to more distance, instead of stressing myself out over times and pace. I know this is all super slow but I had a good track season and I think I'm still in reasonably good shape, so I just want to work on the basics (form especially)  before I start doing crazy mileage weeks and workouts. Although there will be plenty of both in due time :)
I convinced one of my freshmen friends to come to a cross country practice on Tuesday, and we're going for a run tomorrow so I can show her the few spots to run on campus. I can't wait for this season! I think that's all for now. I'll update tomorrow after our run :)
~Schuyler

Cross Country

Ok so for some reason it never occurred to me that there could be blogs just about running, but this may be the 2nd greatest thing I've ever found on the internet (Twitter being first of course) I mean, what runner doesn't like talking about running? And it's hard to find someone who cares, or is even willing to pretend to care while we ramble on. My cross country season starts in August, and summer practices just kicked off on Thursday. My goal for the season is to break 23:00 for my 5k. My PR last season was 28:05 so it's not unreasonable, but it's going to take work. And I'm more than ready and willing to put that work in :)  I've been slacking a little, so the next few weeks will mostly be to get back in shape, and then the fun stuff will start. That's all I can think to put right now, but I'll be posting about workouts, probably complaining about some teammates, and definitely be getting excited about progress.
~Schuyler