So much depends... on the run you do today!

am: easy 3.

pm: only workout of the week since we were recovering from the half last week. went out early because i wanted to get done faster so i could practice the hurdles a little bit.

2 mile warm and cool. and 10x400's (goal time 1:09) seemed like a pretty hard workout to me! so i got there and there was a soccer game going on and when i asked the coach if i could use the first lane he yelled me so i just decided to stick to lane 8 using the starting line that makes it 400meters. splits were 1:08, 1:10, 1:09, 1:10, 1:10, 1:10, 1:10, 1:10, 1:09, 1:08.

this workout went by slow but i was happy with it and my times. there was wind :)

went 2 miles on my own then 8 with krenshaw. first 5 miles were ever under 8 min pace. felt bad. then i started to get into it more and ran a more decent pace. pretty fun run. krenshaw took me on a route i've never been on before but i'm going to use it much more now.

am: easy three. fun conversations. striders afterward. the ground was FREEZING. our feet felt like they were cheese and the ground was a cheese grater. it hurt pretty bad, i'm alright now.

pm: 4x1min workout with 2 warm and cool. goal time 5:07

coach had me put on hurdle out in the third lane for me to jump over every lap to kind of get used to for the steeple chase. it was pretty easy the whole time, but it kind of stopped my momentum and didn't help my workout at all. i used it for the first 2 and two laps of the third on and thats it. also there was a pretty good wind today again.

first mile i didn't hit any laps on right and just didn't get moving in time 5:12. second one was better but took a lot 5:08. third on was 5:12 again. and last one i made sure i hit a 5:07 so i could at least say i hit it once.

definatly my worst mile repeats yet. my fault i didn't get moving. but overall good day.

am: 3 miles. it was ok

pm: 12 miles with 20min tempo at 5:40 pace.

terrible terrible terrible.. we did 6 before we started the tempo, at about 8 min pace. then we did tempo and i hit a 5:43, 6:07, 6:18, 1:54 for .29 (6:34 pace) then we finished with ~3 more at about 10 min pace.

after thinking about what happened with yesterday and today (mostly today) i figured i haven't been drinking any gatorades for a year. i remember last year i needed to drink that a lot to help me keep my energy and so i need to start loading my body with that.

am: 4 with the team and coach. he's recovered pretty fast for having just ran a marathon.

pm: 2 warm and cool. workout on the track of 12x400's at 1:09 pace (hopefully two mile race pace!) splits: 1:10, 1:09, 1:08, 1:10, 1:09, 1:09, 1:10, 1:08, 1:09, 1:07, 1:04, 1:01.

very happy with this. i felt very good and for the first time this pre season training...smooth! i felt like i got my form back to how it should be on the workout. it helped the workout feel a lot easier then last week. the pace was almost natural/easy.  coach had us go all out on the last one. lifting after.

first race this friday (1600) and saturday (3200)!

am: easy 3. pretty decent

pm: 5 with 4x200's at the end at 34ish pace. felt good. took a bit to get warmed in it but other than that it was fine. afterward i worked on my hurdling for a big, and thats feeling a lot better.

Our meet got cancelled yesterday because of the weather. made me pretty mad because i really wanted to get a race in. now i wont be able to do all the events before our big Pine View meet. but no stress. it'll work out (fingers crossed)

am: 3 miles easy. rainy rainy.

pm: 7.5. well since the race was cancelled we did fire station hills instead. was a bit rainy and windy but not bad till we got back.

1.5 mile there and back then 13xtop of the hill ~.15mi. i felt good, which made me sad cause i felt i would've had a good race. i tried to go a bit easy at first so i could run even through the whole thing cause i knew we had a lot. splits were: 49, 50, 47, 47, 46, 46, 46, 45, 47, 46, 46, 45, 47. i worked on pumping my arms hard and quick feet. the last 2 were the hardest, but at the last bit of them felt good. overall good workout.

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am: workout of 4x1mile. splits were 5:10, 5:12, 5:12, 5:08. i wrote up a big thing on this yesterday, but i guess my sister deleted it. overal wasn't the best because my breathing went crazy for some reason. weights after

pm: 3

am: 12 with 20min AT pace (5:40). I woke up treading this run because of the bad memories of last week, but it went well. we talked a lot and laughed a bit and it helped the run go by faster. we started the tempo and we ended with an average of 5:37.  i felt decent and my breathing was better. we had to stop a few times because byron had problems but it was alright.

pm: went out and did a slow 3. afterward i went to the park and was going to do striders except after i did one the grass was just filled with thorns and hurt really bad, so i just stopped.

am: 9.5 total. met for ANOTHER workout. 2 warm and cool with 3sets of 800, 400, 200. on old man hills. but coach had us do these a bit slower than usual since we have a hard workout tomorrow that is more important to have us hit the times. so all of these felt pretty easy but i still felt a burn on my thigh from the hill. times were: (2:43, 1:20, 37) (2:41, 1:13, 37) (2:37, 1:17, 37) good workout, i'm happy with it. weights after that felt better, i made sure to use my legs more than my back.

pm: 2 well my fam did a lot of stuff today so it took me right till 9pm. so decided to try the tredmil once....hated it. only could stand 2 miles. i figured out the difference between running outside and on the tredmil though. When you run outside, it's you running. You own the street, you set the pace. on the tredmil....it pretty much runs you. your the machine, its the human. its like the difference between being ranch cattle and a cow on a farm...no thats a bad example....buts thats the only thing i can think thats close.

am: last workout of the week. 6x800's at race pace (2:18) I've been really nervous for this workout cause it look scary from the outside. we had a 2 mile warm up and cool down. the workout wasn't very impressive: 2:20, 2:23, 2:21, 2:22, 2:26, 2:19.

i tried so hard to push myself into a groove and get my legs rolling, but i just couldn't do it. i only got close the last one because of byron, who took the lead at the beginning and made me run a fast first lap, then continued to push it to the end.

race is this week and i want to get state qualifyings. but looking at the people that are going, there isn't anyone besides our team that has runners that look like they will do it. I cant depend on others to get my time, i have to be able to push myself. i cant run like i did today.

pm: 3 felt very very good.

am: FINALLY an easy 4...then we finished it up with 4x200's hard. i think i hit most around 30 or under.

pm: met at the school with abel, byron, and casey and we ran our 3 mile double. afterward i did warm ups with the sprinters and practiced my starts on the blocks with them as well as hurdle jumping for the 300 tomorrow!

this was a weird meet. we had every weather you could think of in the 14 hours we were there. blazing hot, windy, shady and nice, rainy, hard rain, windy rain, hotter, less hot, you name it! anyway i felt like i was warming up the whole meet :)

so we had the 2 mile first. warmed up 1.5 miles then went to the starting line. my goal was to just qualify for state (10:01) so i wouldn't be too tired for the other races. no other compitition. race started and casey and i started to switch off leading each lap. we did alright but were a bit slow each lap. first mile was 5:02 or so. i felt good, wasn't to hard. then with 800 left we had built up to be like 10 seconds off pace and i realized we weren't going to make it at this pace so i took off and ran faster so i would qualify, and i did just barely 9:59.

next race was 300m hurdles. i warmed up and was excited to finally do this. i was in lane 7 which i didn't like but oh well. race started and i did terrible. i just studdered too many times and messed up. got a 47.2 and second in my heat but didn't qualify for finals which is embarrassing for how small the meet was. i dont think coach will let me run this event anymore but i want another chance.

then the mile. by now it was pretty windy and my goal was just state qualify again (4:35) race started and i went in third letting a few unexpeirenced guys break the wind for me during the first lap. then i passed them and on the second lap there was one guy ahead of me and i decided to let him lead again to break the wind but that was a big mistake because he slowed down a ton which made my second lap way to slow and cost me the time. i was mad so i passed him and tried to make up the time but didn't get it, 4:39.

then, since didn't make finals in the 300m hurdles, my last event was the 800 in the medley. my team did very well and we were on pace to qualfy if i ran a 2:03. first lap was 1:03, then i pushed and pushed trying to get it...but i got another 1:03 for a 2:06. i was sad i didnt get it for the team.

overall good week of milage and workouts! missed my goal of qualifying for all 4 events, but i know I'll get the other two soon...not the hurdle one :-)... i was mostly disappointed with my mile time but next week is our PV meet which will have a TON of compitition and fast kids and i know there will be fast time there.

am: 3.

pm: 2 warm and cool then 4 mile repeats at 5:07 pace. i'm feeling kind of sick right now: stuffy/runny nose and a little stomach ache. but i felt better than i thought for this workout, my mouth just went completly dry from the wind because i can only breathe through my nose. splits were: 5:06, 5:10, 5:07, 5:06. second one i hit the first lap too slow and never made it up, but the rest were fine. good workout. finally able to say i hit the times!

weights after.

am: 3. ran with the girls for half of it because i was late...they were pretty rude! roll and stretch good after.

pm: easy 7 with striders. ran roller coaster so that felt a little big on my shins but i'm ok.

am: easy 3. nice day. felt super good which means it'll be hot during the day.

pm: 2 warm and cool then and workout of 6x800's at race pace. i felt pretty good. it was really windy again. thats how it'll be for our meet though so need to get used to it. splits were: 2:20, 2:24, 2:26, 2:21, 2:21, 2:20. the workout was starting to go bad for all of us till coach came down and talk to us on the third one. then the last three were much better. i pushed them hard and feel like i did good. weights after. didn't feel way good but i have a couple days to rest up.

last hard workout till our big meet this weekend. Lots of competition will be there so should be good!

am: 3

pm: easy 4 with 4x200's. ran to sandburgs and jumped in. felt SO good and cold. i lost my breathe for a while after jumping in. 200 splits were 31, 30, 29, 28.

good morning. i was very excited for the race...and nervous. warmed up 2 miles and just got prepared mentally. i didn't really know what goal to set time wise since i hadn't been hitting very fast times lately, so i just wanted to be in the mix.

race started and i got out ok. top 5 or so. pace went out slow cause no one ever wants to lead the race. Ben Saarel was their but i knew his coach told him not to go all out because his main race was the 2 mile the next day, but i dont think anyone else knew that so they all sat behind him. ~1:07 next lap i started to move up and got better postion..race was going by really fast 1:06. third lap was the best one. people in front of me were ben, tomy (who led a bit of it), jake heslington, and franco. 1:05. at the beginning of the last lap i noticed ben and jake were starting to take off, so i tried to squiz inbetween franco and tomy to go with them cause i felt great, but franco didn't like that very much. he threw an elbow into my side and made me stumble to the right and i fell off them 5 meters. i was mad, and tried to start going again but it took me another 200meters and kramer passed me. it ended up being my worst lap: 1:09. ending with a low 4:27.

pretty disappointed. i'm positive i could've gotten a 1:04 finish, but whatever. its the first real meet and this race accullly gave me the confidence and break through i've needed the past month. i PR'd from last years 4:27 by half a second. i really feel i can go sub 4:20 now and i'm excited that i can run with these guys again! cooled down on casey's and byron's warm up 2 miles.

woke up excited. ate better than i usually do before a race. warmed up 2.25 miles before then did a lot of strides. my goal was a sub 9:27 (school record!) and i was confident i could. ben was going for the state record of 8:54, so if i was at the 200 when he was finishing i would be happy :)

race started and ben was off...never saw him again. it was mainly between me, jake heslington, assay, chuk, and other people i cant think of right now. pace felt very good. it was heslington and assay leading it, but it seemed like they were going a bit slow 4th and 5th laps. first mile went by fast and not much changed: 4:48 and i was mad they we were so off. i was really counting on jake to be on pace for a 9:20, but thats just how it happened. next lap i passed assay cause he fell of jake, who had a 5 meter lead. by the last lap he had pulled ahead by ten meters and i was mad i fell off those laps cause i still felt pretty good. i saw on the clock that i had to run a 1 min last lap to get the record so i took off as hard as i could and started pushing hard, i gained a little bit on jake but not enough, 9: 32, 1:05 last lap.

i was really bumbed i missed it was happy for the big PR and third place finish. but its not terrible. ben missed the state record by half a second, running a 8:55 :) didn't even seem like he was in the race! i'm sure i can get the record. really grateful for this meet.

later i race the 800 meter in the medley event. so i warmed up 1.5 miles then got ready. my teamates did well and i was in third when i got the baton. one i passed easily the first 200meters then i passed the next guy within 150 more. first lap was a 1 minute. i really wanted to break two. but the next 200 meters i really slowed down and didn't run fast enough. one of the guys caught me with 100 to go and he slowly started to pass me and i started to give up, thinking he got me. but then i thought about all the times i've done that and how it happened to me at nike and i surged back! we were neck to neck for the next 50 meters then i started to pull away and beat him ~.05! my legs felt like jello and i thought in my head i had broken two, but coach told me it was a 2:02. but thats alright, i was still very pleased with this race because i didn't give up and that was probably on of my best finishes i've had. cooled down with chuk 1 mile.

overall great weekend! i'm a much better runner than i was a year ago. this is a great start to the season and i hope it goes by slow. i really think my goals are doable if i work hard enough, want it enough, and have confidence that i can do it.

am: 3

pm: 2 warm and cool with workout of 4x1600m. goal pace is now 5:03 since i got a faster mile time. pretty indimateding time just looking at it. felt good but was off on the first one 5:07. started to not treat it like a workout and just went the easier pace of last week, 5:11. got mad at myself and knew i could hit this time if i could run that mile so made sure i hit every lap and that worked well, 5:03. tried the same attitude and wanted to finish strong. first 2 laps were right on pace and i fell off the third one and did bring the pace back on the last one. 5:10.

pretty disappointed with this workout. i really should have done a bit better. i'll get another chance next week.

weights after with 12 pull ups

am: 3

pm: easy 4 with striders so we could help out with our JV meet. the girls finally ran with us and i tried to make the best of it, but they just dont like it. meet went good. computer would misfunction a lot.

am: did our workout in the morning since we have a meet tomorrow. 1 mile warm and cool (so we could make it to school on time) then the workout was 16x200's at 33 pace. i hit them all easy, then the last 8 we did 1-2 seconds faster. last one was a 28. felt good. really tired after and just didn't want to move but no one lets me take a day off of school.

pm: 5 with 4x200's. all around 34 cause we did them like striders. excited for tomorrow.

am: easy 3.

Race Day: events for the day were 800m and 4x400.

I was pretty nervous for this 800 cause i didn't feel i prepared mentally early enough. it was my first open 800 of the year. I thought i had a late warm up too but it ended up fine (about 2 miles) goal was to get sub 2:01 to qualify for state but i really wanted to get sub 2. it was only me and a kid from cedar that at decent times for the heat and state was his goal too but i knew i'd have to run this in front to get it. race started and got boxed in from all the kids that sprint the first 200m, but slowly got up to 2 place by the 200 (29-30) hung behind him for a second then past him and flew to the end of the first lap (1:00) knew i had to go and i felt good. so i started to move faster. then the cedar kid all of a sudden came by me and past me on the first curve then went right in front of me and slowed down. i was mad he did that cause it threw my pace off and so i finished the curve and passed him again. last bit i started to go harder and tried to finish it hard. then right when i passed the finish line i knew i made it and was pretty reliefed.

ended up getting it by only .18 seconds. i would've beat up that cedar kid if i didn't get it. thinking about it now i think that move cost him more than me cause if he had only stuck behind me the rest of the way he might have got state himself instead of using his energy too fast/soon. i'm happy i finally have qualified for all 4 of my events. now i just need to move all the times down.

3 hours later i did the 4x400. i was hoping for a low 54 but ran it bad. ended with a 55.7ish

dont have a meet for another 2 weeks so now i have good break and have some good workouts for this next while.

am: met together at 8am and did a 10 miler with 20min tempo pace at 5:40. i felt very tired on the way to practice and didn't hope for anything great. we ran 3 miles then started our tempo. we ended up doing well and just slowly got faster as the minutes went by. ended at an average of 5:34. then finished out our milage. ready for a nap!

ran with abel and casey an easy 7 with 10 min tempo at 5:15 pace. this run felt very nice and made my day much better. tempo was good too. hit 1.9 mi which was an even average pace of 5:15.

good week and nice race. next week i may or may not have a race, but just need to keep myself mentally prepared and keep my confidence high.