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

well all night we took turns running a mile and playing games like soccer or ping pong and stuff. first mile i ran a 4:59 and the rest i just ran at a good pace. didn't sleep at all which i'm very proud of. coach and i also beat the 3 fiscious soccer girls :) at the end we have a dash for cash session where we run 400's. the record is a 56. (which is pretty dang fast thinking of how we stay up all night, running off and on so all of our legs are tight) i was going for it but ended with a 1:02 then a 1:01. oh well. it was really fun

am: 8.75; for once in my life i had a 1 mile warm up and a 1 mile cool :) it was lovely. Our workout was 5x1 mile with 400 rest. coach told me to hit a 5:40 on these so thats what i tried to do and i made sure not to go any faster, but my teamates casey and byron pushed me too fast on the last two. those guys are doing very well. splits: 5:38, 5:40, 5:38, 5:35, 5:30. solid pace. coach agreed that this was my 'tinman pace'

am: 3. on time again...kind of.

pm: 10 total of a workout 8x1000's on the dixie course which has a lot of rolling hills with 4 inches of grass. good workout. splits were more solid and consistent than i thought. they were: 3:14, 3:12, 3:09, 3:12, 3:13, 3:15, 3:12, and 3:22. last one was slow cause i was trying to help my buddy finish strong but he just wasn't feeling it cause he hit yesterday's workout so well, i still felt fine though. i'm really excited for murry this weekend. Nice races from all the JV and bottom Varsity. we had 3 spot open and 4 guys sprinting it out in the end, all within ~2 seconds.

am: slept in :( bad bad michael. my legs felt really ansy in 1st period for running but i missed my chance.

pm: easy 5 with striders. felt super good today. striders and lifting both felt better than they have in weeks as well. Murry's going to be a fun one!

am: 3. on time..but still bad cause i forgot to pick up a teamate...i really need to work on my mornings

pm: 5 with 4x200's. felt fine at first but as the run went on i started to have a bad stomach ache which carried over to the 200's so not the best run. we jumped in sandburgs (first time in a long time) and it felt good but wasn't that cold which was a disappointment. good thing was that i had a really busy day today with something all morning and even did make-up stuff during lunch so i didn't think about the race too much.

am: 3 had a stomach flu...if you get what i'm sayin.

midday: we drove up to the state course and ran it once just getting used to the course.

pm: we warmed up 2 miles and i was feeling sick still. but got to the line and was feeling a bit better. the race started and i made my first mistake... letting everyone in front of me. in about 5 seconds there was 200 kids in front of me and i was trapped. for the first loop i was just trying to get around people weaving in and out off and on the course and finally got to about 50th and was around all the top kids in my region and i knew i was way behind the front group. after being tripped into a tree and loosing 3 more seconds (mean kid!) i started going better and had more room to pass and soon got into about 15 and i could start to see the front group, manz leading sarrel mainly, but i had a lot of negitive thoughts.

one by one i started to catch kids, i'd start to pass them and they'd go with me 2 or 3 times then finally they'd brake. last mile i got to the third main group and went with them for a while until i broke from them and passed the 6th place guy. last half mile i pushed and started gaining the 5th guy but i just didnt get him.

well i'll say i was a bit disappointed with this race although it really wasn't terrible. i just can't get stuck behind a bunch of kids cause i'm not too good at kicking it in hard...cooled down 2 miles and chatted with a lot of people. now i just got to go win herriman and i'll be alright :)

got home at 1 last night and had to wake up at 7 for the ACT test...not the best combination :) after the test i got home at 12:30 and felt like running because i was so dazed and dead from the test so i look what my run was and was surprised that it said 10. but i just went out and after a mile i decided i wanted to run barefoot. so i went to the school (4miles) and ran on the baseball field (super soft) and ran 5 miles on that. after a couple laps i realized it was exacly a quarter mile so i decided to do 3 400's at a faster pace. hit 1:26, 1:17, 1:11. felt good. loved the grass. pretty hot but glad to get it done. finished by going to my brothers house.

goals for next week: hit a solid time trail and nail herriman!

am: easy 3. nice run.

pm: 2 warm and cool with workout of 4x30sec hard 3x800 i pace and 4x1000's indian run style. total of 9. workout was pretty easy for me. since we ran the whole thing as a varsity group we all ran times that were median for everyone. 1000's were pretty slow though, so...i dont know... when i got home we found ants had gotten into all our food so that was gross...so out went my sister's chocolate birthday cake, such a waste!

btw my convara 2's seem like it's about to retire them. i've put over 500 miles on them so they've done good for me.

am: 3

pm: 3 mile warm up, felt good, then started the race 10 min laters (no stride outs). course was two 1200 loops then one 800 loop. started the race and i took off. first 1200 loop split as i remember was around 3:42.

 i knew i could get the course record which was 10:12. second loop was a bit slower at 7:40 (3:58), i knew i had started our way to fast with splits as wild as that but i still knew i was close. coming around the hill the third time i got to the top and started my acceleration, went around on the sharp turn at the rock, slowing down a bit, then started sprinting again...anyway end of story i missed it by one second. just like how i missed the time trial#1 record by 1 second :) tough going but its the state course record i'm going for anyway so thats when it really matters.

mile average was 5:06 which was my murray average so i was happy with that cause it was about the same difficulty course and i was by myself... good day. now look forward to herriman!

am: easy 3

pm: 7.5 with striders and lifting. felt really good at first but then i stated to wear down because i didn't drink enough becuase some dozy person put gum in the side of my water bottle during school and after taking it out it still tasted nasty :/

am: 3

pm: 5 with 4x200's

was kind of beat when i got home but i finally got myself to take an ice bath! first one in almost 2 months, which is weird cause last year at this time i had already taken around 15. i feel so good now and my legs are happy. tomorrows the race! time to redeem myself a little bit.

am: nice 3

afternoon: we drove up at 8:30 so we could go fun the state course again, just like last week. i felt pretty good.

pm: well anyone that saw my race would say it was ran pretty ugly. but anyway, race started at 6 and we got there at like 4. so we sat around for a while and i almost fell asleep cause i was pretty tired. but we decided we should go run the course once cause we heard it was pretty hard. so we went and warmed up 3 and the guy didn't let us on the course cause there were runners on it still so we were going to have to run it blind. but course was a all dirt (parts deep sand) and very hilly.

RACE: gun started (beginning was uphill right off) and i started pretty good but not very fast. was in about 15. first half mile i was moving up and when we hit the first big uphill i passed 10 guys just like that and caught the front group of chuk, kramer, and rory. first mile we were 4:50 which is a bit fast but alright considering it was downhill for 1/3 of it.

 i went into 1st after the 2nd uphill and after being there for a second i decided i wasn't feeling good enough to be leading so i backed off. after that i just kept getting slower and slower. by the 2 mile i was 11:06 and they were around 10:50 ~100meters ahead.

i felt terrible and no one was around me cause us 4 were a good ways from everyone. in fact in the last half mileish i didn't know if i was even going the right way cause i couldn't see anyone...i started feeling a bit better though and started moving again. i got to the 'Mutha Cussa' which is a huge sandy hill and i saw they had all on it near the top so i went hard knowing i could gain a lot of ground here, and i did. after i passed my coach and he told me that we were going to beat desert hills so that gave me a lot of confidence and i started harder, soon i caught rory passing him fast so he wouldn't go with me, then i got to chuk the last 200 meters and started gaining kramer but just ran out of room!

i wasn't very proud of this race, cause of how bad i fell off. i need to be racing better than this if i want to beat jordan cross. happy my kick is getting better though. AND we Beat desert hills for the first time this year!! our team is really starting to pull it together. all our guys ran great!

woke up at about 10 and texted the whole team seeing who hadn't run yet...turns out everyone already did so i didn't think i could make myself get out...luckily byron texted back and said he'd go at 5:30 so i got out.

went about 15 min early to get 2 in before he came since he only had 8. we went to the high school from washington elementry and did barefoot at the baseball fields for 3.5 miles, then back. hard mile i thought i started my watch but turns out i turned it off. but guess based off looking at the pace while i was running it, it was prolly about 5:40ish. fun run, we were talking the whole time so it went by fast. i felt really good, i wish the race was today :)

Solid week, with 2 good races done. next week is the team overnighter at nebo. that should be a fun race!

am: 3

pm: 9.5 total of 6 miles easy then we did 2 miles indian run at about 6:35 pace. felt good but was alright. then got back and did 4 stadium's and 4x100 meter sprint which were fun to do. i felt i did really well.

am: 3

pm: 7.75. today we did michagins for the first time this season. mile warm up, then 2x(1x800 on track at 5k pace, 3x800 loops around warm up loop 10k pace) then ending with a sprint 400, no break in between anthing.

i felt good. first 800 we went about 10 sec off pace but after grass loops we got back on it. the transition back onto the track for 5k pace was fine, then the grass loops i kind of stayed the same pace. 400 i went hard but i dont know my split for that...A standard is 25:10 and i hit ~24:32. Good workout.

am: ran at 5:15 with coach cause i had stuff at six. not too hard to wake up but it felt good.

pm: was taking a test for an hour after school so i ran the first 2 miles by myself till i caught the team then finished up the milage with coach. 2x400 with 400 rest in between at i pace. ran both in 1:11. felt good today. lifted after.

am: 3. did it with coach again at 5:15. last time waking up early. plus i'll get to run with the team finally this afternoon.

pm: 5.5 with 4x200. felt really good

am: 3

after a 5 hour bus ride we got to the race and started warming up. i felt good but my legs were a little tight from the bus ride so i just kept running till they felt good (about 3.5 miles) i felt confident and excited to finally race the AF guys.

race: this race was a pretty big one so i took off fast trying to get into the top group so i didnt get cut off like i murray and did well with that getting in the top 10 group. after a mile of weaving in and out a bit (4:55) it was down to kramer, the 4(!) AF guys, and me 5 ft behind. i made sure to stay as close as i could to them and not fall off too bad so i didnt have to much catching up to do. pace was fast and solid and i felt pretty good. when the guy said there was a mile left i made my move and caught up to them swiftly and took the lead. then i pushed again and all the AF guys dropped off but kramer stayed on my back, and with 400 meters left i tried to push again but he pushed harder and broke me instead :/ i still finished strong but not amazing.

well i was bummed that kramer beat me for the 3rd week in a row but i reached my goal of beating all the AF guys and my time was really good for me (after i found out the course of .15mi long of course, ~45seconds) cooled down a mile with my team, but still felt zesty so i went more, just jogging random people here. 

varsity went to the state course. we ran it once as a warm up then again with a workout of 4x(2min hard 1min easy, 1min hard 30sec easy, 30sec hard 30 sec easy) it went by really fast and i felt good. team did much better too. everyone stayed up pretty good. cooled down by running to the jv race at washatch.

am: 3 easy with 4x stadium's and 4 100's, felt good but chest started hurting really bad after stadium's which was weird

pm: 1.5 mile warm and cool with workout of 4x30'sHard; 3x800'sInterval pace, 3x1000's slower than interval. felt pretty decent today. 800's were 2:40, 2:30, 2:24. first one was bad cause i didn't really know what time to do so i just guessed....and was wrong.         1000's we did indian style as a team so the pace wasn't bad for me.

am: 3; felt terrible so i went really slow which helped smooth out my legs a bit.

pm: we had michigan's today which we did all on the track because they were doing construction on the 'XC' loop we usually use. mile warm then 3x(1x800 5k pace, 3x800 10k pace) hard 400 at end.

we had a lot of kids do well on this workout, a lot getting close to the time i got last week! after the first set it was just me and byron...but then i started feeling somthing come down my nose, i shot it out, but it kept coming. so i put my hand up and found it was blood :) so i fell off byron, but got my nose taken care of.

the hardest point for me was the last 3x800 because it's just so many laps, but still pushed it at a good pace and finished with a hard 400 in 1:03; final time was around 35:30 i think, not sure.

mile striders and mile cool down (barefoot) i was really tired all day (fell asleep in almost every class) so when i got home i stretch for a bit, ate a snack and went to bed. i slept for 4 hours, then my mom woke me up at nine so i wouldn't starve my face, but definatly could have made it the rest of the night

am: 3. way tired. went pretty slow

pm: 5 with 2x400's 1:09,1:08

am: 3

pm: 5 with 4x200's. all under 30seconds i think. feeling really fresh

am: normal 3

race: well we'll start out saying that i'm an idiot. i thought i'd be cool to wear my freshman spikes to this race so thats what i brought, but during the warm up stuff i realized that they were really worn down on the bottom so every turn or hard surface i ran on i would be on ice.

now that we cleared that up :) warmed up 3.5 miles feeling pretty good. Race started and i got out into top five and kind of fell off the course (this is where i found out about my shoes!) after first mile (5:05) i was in third. by now i should have been moving it up into the lead but i just couldn't get my legs moving so i just kept it where i was. after second lap they had a good 50 meters on me then with .5 to go i finally started going again and caught the second guy then slowly gained ground on the leader...then we hit a corner and i lost ALL my momemtum. but after getting it back i caught him with 300meters to go (on track) and i was able to sprint it in hard beating him by 8 seconds.

i was sad about this race cause i missed the course record by 4 seconds and i'll never get to try for it again, plus it was just cause it was a terrible race. But i'm not crying over it cause it wasn't a big meet and our team did much better as a whole. JV killed everyone and varsity got 2nd but pretty dang close to DH. I'm excited to see how we do with the next couple meets!

today coach said i could choose to do the workout or just a regular run depending on how i felt...and when i woke up at 7, i felt like junk. so i hit the snooze and slept till 8:30 missing my chance to run in the morning. but i finally got out at 6pm after helping my bro fix up his rental.

i had him drop me off at the park on the top of coral canyon and ran down past DI and where devin lives, then past the school to my brothers house, so i could work on my down hill running. i started out thinking i would run the 2 mile warm up and see how i feel and after that i felt really good so i gave it a shot. workout same as last saturday 4x(2:00minH, 1minE, 1minH, 30secE, 30secH, 30secE) all the 2minH were around 5:08 pace, 1minH were about 4:44 pace, and 30secH were about 4:15 (last one was 3:49)

I felt super amazing on all of these. i could have done 4 more sets just like this. I'm glad i could have a solid workout to end the week. goal's for next week: take care of my body by ice bathing, work hard the do well on all my workouts and prepare for region.