2016 End of the year Distance Running Award

This blog is all about the end of the year distance running awards

Male Athlete Of The Year (Tie): Matthew Centrowitz, Clayton Murphy, Galen Rupp, Evan Jager, & Paul Chelimo

Female Athlete Of The Year (Tie): Emma Coburn & Jenny Simpson

International Male Of The Year (Tie): Mo Farah, Patrick Tiernan, Ryan Gregson & Nick Wills

International Female Of The Year: Genevieve LaCaze

Olympic Race Of The Year: Matthew Centrowitz, Ryan Gregson & Nick Willis in the Men's 1500

Track Race Of The Year: Edward Cheserek's 3 DI Indoor Races; 3k, DMR & 5k

Superheroes Of The Year: Nick Symmonds, Phoebe Wright, Lauren Fleshman, Kara Goucher

XC Race Of The Year (Tie): DI & DIII XC Nattys

Beard Of The Year: Andrew Wheating

Man Bun Of The Year (Tie): Will Leer, John Jefferson, Ian LaMere, Tyler Day, Joe Zack, Josh Thorson & Billy Francis

Abs Of The Year (Tie): Andrew Wheating & Jordan McNamara

Calves Of The Year: Forrest Misenti

College Male Team Of The Year: NAU

College Female Team Of The Year: Oregon

College Male Athlete Of The Year (Tie): Edward Cheserek, Patrick Tiernan & Justyn Knight

College Female Athlete Of The Year: Erin Finn

International College Male Athlete Of The Year (Tie): Alex Short, Chartt Miller & Patrick Tiernan

International College Female Athlete Of The Year (Tie): Calli Thackery, Alice Wright & Sophie Connor

Top 10 Track Mix Songs Of The Year:
1. Saint Motel-"Move"
2. Robbie Williams-"Party Like A Russian"
3. Maren Morris-"My Church"
4. Cheryl Cole-"Call My Name"
5. RuPaul-"Read U Wrote U"
6. Calum Scott-"Dancing On My Own"
7. Carrie Underwood-"Dirty Laundry"
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers-"Go Robot"
9. DNCE-"Body Moves"
10. Jay-Z-"99 Problems"

Coaches I Want For #CoachingRubis in 2017: Nick Symmonds, Matthew Centrowitz, Mac Fleet, Collis Birmingham, Chris O'Hare, Nick Willis, Greg Metcalf, Joe Franklin, Mick Bryne & Ryan Vanhoy

Body Issues

I'm back to do a blog that is a serious blog about myself & after reading UCLA Distance Runner JP Slater's blog it really got to me cause it was about body issues. Why it got to me is because it wasn't from a women's point of view but from a man's point of view. We only hear the women's point of thing & JP Slater does an amazing job with his blog to say that not only do women have body issues but men do as well. JP talks about body issue from the stand point of being to skinny but where we differ is that my body issue is that I think that I'm fat even though I am about 130 lbs. just cause I don't look like what a distance runner should look like & can't look at myself in the mirror. Cause of my body issue I have thought about giving up distance running & been thinking what do I mean to the world of distance running. I bet a lot of you are maybe thinking that I'm wrong to think that 130 lbs is fat but I think that is I stay at this weight but get more fit I think I run better, faster & feel better about myself. Also, do you know the reason that I started Face In Hole pics & don't have a lot of pic on social media of myself is cause I don't like the way I look in this body. This is been a hard blog to write cause I can say what I am about this topic but it hard to write down what you are thinking.

Week 81 of Coaching Rubis

This week I had Former U of Oregon Distance Runner Will Geoghegan as my coach


Sunday Sept. 20, 2015:
16 miles


Monday Sept. 21, 2015:
AM: 4 miles/ PM: 8 miles


Tuesday Sept. 22, 2015:
AM: 5 miles/ PM: 3 mile warm up, 8 x 1k @ 10k race pace, 2 min rest, 1 mile jog, 4 x 80 meters, 2 mile cool down


Wednesday Sept. 23, 2015:
12 miles


Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015:
8 miles


Friday Sept. 25, 2015:
AM: 2 mile warm up, 3 sets of 600-400-300-200, first set: 2:10, 90, 65, 40, second set: 2:00, 88, 60, 38, third set: 1:55, 85, 58, 36


Saturday Sept. 26, 2015:
8 miles

Week 80 of Coaching Rubis

This week I had Princeton Head Coach & Robby Andrews' coach Jason Vigilante as my coach


Sunday Sept. 13, 2015:
16 miles


Monday Sept. 14, 2015:
6 miles & 10 x 100 strides


Tuesday Sept. 15, 2015:
AM: 4 miles/ PM: 2 mile warm up, 4 mile tempo run, jog 5 min, 8 x 300 with 100 recovery, 2 mile cool down


Wednesday Sept. 16, 2015:
12 miles & 10 x 100 strides


Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015:
AM: 4 miles/ PM: 4 miles


Friday Sept. 18, 2015:
2 mile warm up, 8 x 1k with equal rest @ 5k pace, 2 mile cool down


Saturday Sept. 19, 2015:
9 miles

Week 79 of Coaching Rubis

This week I had Zap Fitness Distance Runner Tyler Pennel as my coach


Sunday Sept. 6, 2015:
16 miles, 1 min surge with 6 min between starting at 40 min into run


Monday Sept. 7, 2015:
AM: 9 miles/ PM: 6 miles


Tuesday Sept. 8, 2015:
AM: 6 miles/ PM: 6 miles


Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015:
AM: 6 miles/ PM: 6 miles


Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015:
10 miles


Friday Sept. 11, 2015:
2 mile warm up, 2k, 2:30 rest, 6 x 1k, 1:45 rest, 2k, 2:30 rest, 4 x 600, 2 min rest, 2 mile cool down


Saturday Sept. 12, 2015:
AM: 6 miles/ PM: 6 miles

Week 78 of Coaching Rubis

This week I had U of Tulsa's Marc Scott as my coach for the week


Sunday August 30, 2015:
10 miles


Monday August 31, 2015:
16 miles


Tuesday Sept. 1, 2015:
10 miles


Wednesday Sept. 2, 2015:
am: 5 miles/ PM: 2 mile warm up, 4 x 2 miles @ 10k pace (getting quicker by 15 second per repeat) with 800 jog, 2 mile cool down


Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015:
10 miles


Friday Sept. 4, 2015:
12 miles


Saturday Sept. 5, 2015:
AM: 2 mile warm up, 10 x 90 sec uphill with jog down recovery, 2 mile cool down/ PM: 5 miles

Week 77 of Coaching Rubis

This week I had U of Wisconsin Assisant Coach Gavin Kennedy


Sunday August 23, 2015:
AM: 9 miles/ PM: 5 miles


Monday August 24, 2015:
16 miles


Tuesday August 25, 2015:
AM: 9 miles/ PM: 5 miles


Wednesday August 26, 2015:
2 mile warm up, 2 miles @ 10k with 3 min jog rest, then 8 x 400 @ 10k pace with 30 sec jog recovery, 2 mile cool down


Thursday, August 27, 2015:
AM: 11 miles/ PM: 5 miles


Friday August 28, 2015:
11 miles


Saturday August 29, 2015:
2 mile warm up, 10 mile tempo at 7 min mile pace, 2 mile cool down