nathank, I'm a distance runner, so these speedwork workouts show off all of my faults as a runner. If we were doing just a simple 10 miles, I could keep up, but the intervals are brutal.

Of that workout that I mentioned, about 4 of it was warming up and cooling down. Our coach makes us run the warm-ups on grass so that our knees don't explode in the middle of the season from all the impact.

I think that our coach is trying to work us back up to 50 miles per week for indoor after tapering for the state cross-country meet.

You said you went to Oregon? Thats pretty cool, thats where my coach went to school, but that was back in the day when Steve Prefontaine still was in his prime.