Nate Jenkins: Training July 6 to 12 July 12Monday AM 28:52 warm up, 6 mile very hilly progression run on 1.5 mile sanctuary loop at Phillips Andover, lap splits- 9:05.7, 9:00.2(18:05.9), 8:47.5(26:53.3), 8:37.5(35:30.8), 1:20 standing around, 20:53 cool down, tot. 13-
PM 40mins warm up, 12×12 second hills at Bradford Ski area, 20 min cool down tot. 9+
XT stretching
Tuesday spent all day catching up on online coaching schedules that had built up on me
6:30PM 18 miles easy, 2:10:17, very, very tired tot. 18
XT stretching
Wednesday PM 8 mile easy, at Winni Kinni, 1:03:09, tot. 8
XT stretching and some light core
Thursday noon 29:30 warm up, 3 mile progression run around very wet fields, slow, splits 5:33.5, 5:27.3(11:00.8), 5:18.4(16:19.2) 1 mile cool down tot. 9
PM spent the vast majority of my day at docs getting more blood and also some urine tests; well, that is inaccurate the tests took like 2 minutes, the waiting took most of the day.
XT core, stretching
Friday AM drive to Utica
PM 40:03 easy shakeout, followed by strides and a bit more easy jogging (like a half mile) tot. 6
XT stretching
Saturday AM 36:07 shake out, full drills after tot. 4++
XT continuous warm up drills and stretching
Sunday 4:30AM 2 miles shakeout, 16:00 tot. 2
7AM 3 warm up, drills, strides, race Boilermaker 15k, horrible, 49:20’s, won’t bore you with the splits, only one mile was under 5 mins. Ran hard just didn’t have anything to fight with. 2 cool down tot. 15
Summary: Another shitty week. Basically my body has something wrong with it and I ain’t going to race well till I fix it. I got more tests done this week and haven’t got the results yet, but what I know is this my neutrophyls are high, my lymphocytes are low (they are types of white blood cells). This usually indicates either a viral or bacterial infection, or an auto-immune disease. My liver enzymes (SGOT and LDH) are elevated. which might mean my body is metabolizing muscle. That is what I know. Oh and I don’t have AIDS and I didn’t test positive for Lyme disease, though apparently that doesn’t mean I for sure don’t have it. Hopefully this next round of tests tells the doc what is going on and I can get back on my game. Hope your training is going well. -nate
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