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

season is over. sad i didn't make nationals of course but i'm way happy for conner and kramer. its too bad jerrel mock didnt make it either cause he's a senior also and to make it worse he was 12, so he feels like i do at after i ran Nike. the race was fun, but i didn't run it very smart. i still gave a hard effort. i'll post more later, but this is the jist of it.

so i felt good before this race, and i saw that conner was ranked to get 8th so i really felt i had a chance to get in the top ten. the race started and i just did get into the front group. I made my losing mistake at the very beginning...so the rest of the race i just ran it. i didn't run this like i did at nike. too bad i didn't make it cause making it to any nationals has been my goal for the whole season. It's a bummer but i'm glad i have track to finish up my high school season.

first day back from my 2 week break. felt super good. didn't feel like my form had dropped at all. Able, Byron, Paul and I ran around to different businesses trying to get them to donate eggnog for our funraiser this thurday...no luck, except albertsons agreed to sell it at price which is what we ended up having to do.

PM: 4. just ran to starbucks with coach and tyson. talked about the top 25 induvidual rankings for high school  boys. nice run.

ran 5 to green springs. tyson boyer showed up and it was fun. Today was my birthday! i'm offically an adult. 18 seems way to old to be. thats the age i've always looked up to...now what do i do?

today we had the eggnog funraiser. the race consisted of drinking a little over a cup of eggnog, then running a 400meter lap. then drinking another eggnog, then another lap, all the way till we have run 4 laps (1mile) (we finish the race running, not drinking)...i warmed up a mile and a half. then ran a good ran. first eggnog was easy to down and i was in third place. next on was quite a bit harder. third on i couldn't find my cup anywhere...so i just skipped it :) last one was the second easiest and i finished in 5 place....coach holt won, tyson second.

cooled down 2 miles with coach and cam. this is my last run for the next 5 days or so because i'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow!

got some new shoes too

got my wisdom teeth out. it was pretty fun. i woke up in a chair that was different than what i started in...my mom said i said some weird stuff. all day i've been jumping around like i felt great! but it just gets worse as the days go on. my cheeks are rather big now.

ran in my new shoes with abel, byrun, and krenshaw. this is my first day back after getting my teeth out. it seems like a long time cause it has been.  my teeth didn't heal very fast and still hurt. it sucks cause i can't eat anything bigger than 1.5 inches tall and i have to be able to swallow it after, at most, 2 bites with my front teeth.

i'm going up north today so i'll be running up in the cold cold snow!

up in payson. ran to my grandpa's house from my other grandpa's house. snow everywhere, but felt really good. today really made me like running again. usually after my breaks it takes me a while to get back into it, but this time i was back on the first run :)

i noticed the difference between payson's people and st. george's people. Today i waved to every car that passed me (about 50) and EVERY SINGLE ONE WAVED BACK! it was amazing. In st. george, only half wave back, 1/6 flip you off, 1/6 ignore you, and the other 1/6 is just other (like mooning, honking, turning towards you, be be gun, you name it) this is a much friendlier town...of course, most everyone here is related :)

I ran in Bluffdale with a Riverton runner named Parker Howell...who is also my ping pong buddy. we ran 4.5. then decided to go to his house and play ping pong for a while which made it 5 miles.

we had a tournement with about 8 people to see who was the champion of 2012 in ping pong. It was double elimanation, and we all put in things from our christmas so there were sweet prizes for 1, 2, 3, and 4th place. Parker and I made it to the finals in the winning bracket and he beat me 3 games to 0. (we played best out of 5, games to 11) so i went to the losers bracket and played my cousin who had lost to Parker earlier but beat everyone in the losers bracket. We had a really close game but i edged her out. So i went to the Championship game against Parker. I had to beat him best out of 5 games twice to win, since he hadn't lost yet.

So after much thinking of how i played the last game, and figuring why i lost so badly, i changed a few things. We started playing, and i every game was really close. but i beat him the first set 3-0. So we were all tied up. The next game He beat me 11-8, then i won 11-7. Then i was just on fire! third game i smoked him 11-2, because i was returing all his slams and giving him spins and shots that made him pop the ball up, which i would then slam down his throat. Then i brought the tournement to a close by winning the 4th game 11-6, aceing him on the last serve by giving him a top spin of wonder to him back hand, with a little bit of right spin which cause it to go right under his paddle!

It was amazing. we had a little ceramony and i felt so happy! (we are still friends by the way)