Eric Hatch's Blog

For this race I was just trying my best to get in the swing of racing agoin after my dissapointing El Dorado Park performance. I was racing in the Frosh Soph race to gain confidence. The start of the race was the fastest that I have ever experienced. I was in tenth place, and the leaders came through the mile in 4:52. During the second mile, I worked my way up to the back of the lead pack. However, I completed that hilly mile too fast beacause coming into the rolling hills, I fell off the pack with another Great Oak runner. 10:32. My last mile was dissapointing, but I was satisfied with the end result, and the drive home from Clovis. 16:41 5k. If the team maked it to state, I am shooting for a time like 16:10.

Every year, the Poly XC team goes to the DP Invitational. This was my first frosh race after my injury. I took the race out from the gun to a moderate first mile with a headwind for the first half, and a tailwind for the second half. I did not have a watch, but the mile was most likely around 5:20. During the second mile, I let Joshua McGregor, a Dos Pueblos runner, take the lead for the 500 meter long downhill segment with a tailwind. In the parking lot, I made a wrong turn that cost me about 2 seconds on the leader. Fortunatly, the leader made a wrog turn as well, and I was right back with him. I made my move going up the big hill in a headwind. By the second mile, I had about a three second lead on the Dos pueblos runner. I am guessing the mile split to be about 5:35. In the headwind, I tryed as hard as I could to gap the competition, and by the 800 to go mark, I had a 15 second gap. I crused into the finish in 16:16.

Getting back from injury. 2 miles of strides.

Ran a medium distance run to the Queen Mary as my first full workout after the injury. The weather was very hot and I was dehydrated. Averaged around 7:10 pace for the run and ran with Jonah. 

First quality workout since getting back from my injury. 6x600 and 3x400. The six hundreds felt great. 2:00, 1:59, 1:58, 1:57, 1:57, 1:54. The 400s felt difficult. the first one was too slow with 79. The next one jumped in pace in 73. On the last one, I took the lead and led the group to a 70. 

Hour of X training on the bike with core work.

Moore League Finals preview run. Really sleepy coming into the run. 4 Miles of warmup on the course. My legs felt heavy on these. 6 sprints felt odd because I could feel my hip while picking up the pace. After 1 Mile of cooldown, I was ready to go to my chiropractor appt.

Cutback Threshold workout went well. 8:43 for the first tempo segment. 8:33 for the second. First one felt easy. On the second one, I had to start pushing it and stayed with the lead pack. the last Signal Hill loop was 4:33 which is 5:24 mile pace. Good indicator workout for CIF meets.