Monday/
Tuesday training update
Last week I botched the training
plan! At the church(Foothills Christian Church) I attended a yearly youth
conference called Future Quest. I have been going to this conference for 13
years! The last five years I have been a volunteer. This conference is from
noon to ten from Wednesday thru Friday, as a volunteer I helped Tuesday thru
Saturday as part of the set up and tear down crew. Needless to say I felt that
future quest was more important than running last week. Working future quest
was well worth it, not only were teenagers lives change by the power of God,
but God also used me to play a role in this MOVEMENT! 
Total
mileage for the week was 9 miles… I was able to squeeze in a one-mile run on
Wednesday, I had a race on Friday, and then a team group run on Saturday. The
race one Friday was the MCRD Freedom Run. I ran with race with a few friends
and another member of the team. I ran with Juan, Andrew, and
Joseph(@jabridgeforth). The most exciting part of the whole race was that I set
a PR of 23:52 which means I shaved three minutes of my 5k PR in just two
months! However, my brother @jabridgeforth also set a PR, he was in the upper
18 minutes. This I can credit to my increased millage, speed work, and the joy
that was set before me. The MCRD Freedom run was free for both my brother and I
because my dad is retired military. But it cost civilians only $10… That’s So
cheap for a well put together race! You get a t-shirt, free food (this year it
was Jersey mikes), a beer, Red Bull, Five hour energy, Monster, Water, Tons of
booths, plus a Free raffle! One of the things Juan and I did was the
watermelon-eating contest! Sadly we were untrained and inexperienced so we fell
to the champion.
This weeks training
Monday was supposed to be an 11mi
long run but I was sick and sore from all the lifting for set up and tear down,
I decided it would be in my best interest to take a extra rest day. Tuesday is
a 6mi easy run with 6 x 150m repeats. Wednesday is a 2mi warm up + 5mi tempo
run then a 1mi cool down, Thursday is a easy 6mi run with 6 X 150m repeats,
Friday is 7 miles, Saturday is a 2mi warm up + 4mi tempo run with a 1mi cool
down. Sunday is my day of rest! I have also included push-ups and sit ups and
pull ups with squats.
I will be posting more this week
because I am trying to keep my blogs on the shorter side! So stay tuned to see
what else I have been up too!
Always
running for Him,
K.E.
Bridgeforth
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and
the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings
to the brightness of your dawn.”
