GOING THE DISTANCE

Am - went out for a 45 min run on church rocks trails. I had to do a fartlek workout 2*(1,2,3 min w/ 2 min rest) so doing church rocks loop was actually a stupid route choice. I should have run this trail on yesterday then ran on the road today but whatever. It was a good time I saw a frenzy of police cars and fire trucks going up and down the freeway. I got 5.7 miles total.

Am -  Met up with the team for practice after 3 days apart, it felt like so long.  It felt great to be back with mah homies as we did a 70 min trail run with some dope striders after.  Running prospector trail I felt tired but then when the shoes came off and we did striders, I felt robust and rejuvenated with the energy of a young tortoise.  8.5 mile run, 10 total, word out.

Pm -  Went out to do Dino cliffs trail with Alex and Julien.  They didn't feel good so they turned back at 10 mins.  As I got to this one part where the trail turns and goes down the cliff and also looks like you could keep going straight along the cliff, I decided YOLO and went straight.  Turned out to be a beast illegal trail.  I went over my 30 mins and got 38 but it was worth it.  The most fun I ever have running is days like today when I'm out by myself discovering new trails.  The trail was sick it went right along the edge of a cliff it was so cool.  Got 5 miles, word out.

Am -  easy grass run, 4.2 total miles it was a good day.  Mitch had a dream last night that me and him tied for first at Nike nationals.  I had a dream that AA totally wanted me.  She told me she was single in some weird code way, it was weird.  Preston's jealous no doubt.

Pm -  Had practice at school at 3.  Ran to the outlets and back.  Just a nice, chill, robust 4 miles in like 105°.  Had quite the convo with my buddies about buddy stuff.  Can't disclose it on here, wish I could.  After, lifted n stuff.  I wanna get my 2 rep bench max to 170 before I graduate.  Right now I'm at 150 so it's plausible.

Am -  Had our teams first time trial today.  It was pretty great.  I felt super good on it.  We usually do it at our school, but because the baseball fields getting wrecked, we did it at Bloomington hills.  Race was fun, coach wanted us to pack it tight for most the time, then at this hill with about 500 to go we all just go from there.

I felt really good, I just chilled behind the leaders for most of it.  Paul kinda got antsy I guess a mile in and surged hard, got a lead.  Really, we were fine and we were gradually speeding up but whatever.  We regrouped, then with 700 to go everyone kinda slowed as we went around the bottom of the park, so I got to the front and started moving.  I got to the hill and shifted gears one more time.  I finished good, could've finished harder for sure but an uncontrollable variable prevented that today.  I got 10:41, pretty solid, with skylar right behind me and everybody else right after that.  I'm glad our team is looking beast. Honestly this wasn't too hard for me.  I'm pretty excited for some of our main races like Herriman and nebo.

After that did a little workout on the rolling hills at the park, then striders and a few more miles on the grass.  About 7 total today.  Oh and me and skylar saw Aaron Metler in the bathroom before and we were 1&2.  No doubt connected.

Am -  5.7 miles on city creek trail.  It was a good time.  Hamstrings were feeling sore and my right glute/upper hamstring is pretty tight and kinda bugging me.  Been workin on it a lot though.  Nice trail though, one of my favs.  

Pm -  4 miles in the afternoon, met up with the team at the school for it.  Felt nice with a bit of cloud cover. Legs felt tired.  After lifted and got pretty swoll bro.  Took a cooler of ice home.  

And now right at this second I'm takin an ice bath and it feels great.

Am -  Our team met up on the temple quarry trail.  It was a nice cool cloudy morning, great for a trail run.  We got 3 miles in and turned around, and it started to rain hard core and lighting.   Me and Jake did some epic chiva  running, jumping off boulders and doing tricks and stuff.   Got 100 percent soaked it was an awesome run with some beautiful views of St george.  Got 6 miles about.

Now heading off to cedar mountain with some of the team, should be sick. 

Pm -  Had a beast trip up to Navajo lake.  I drove my 2000 Honda civic and me, Alex, Paul, and Jake jammed to Katy Perry the whole way up it was awesome.  The run felt good, just a chill 30 minutes by the lake.  Got 4 miles.  Jumped in the lake after; had a great sd friday.  After that we went to mammoth caves and explored them hardcore.

Am -  we were up till midnight playing risk, so we got up at 8 for our run. Drove up to the start of the road to Brian Head peak.  Ran a bit up the road and got on a trail we thought would be a funner way to the peak.  Ended up it only took us to the top of the ski lifts.  Saw two nice bucks then we all scramble up the cliffs to the peak, it was beast.  After that ran on some trails, and eventually ran a 20 minute tempo and finished up with 9.7 miles.    Great adventure run and great trip.

Am -  Met a the high school for practice so that's where we're running from now.  Headed up into Green Springs and did a loop up there past my house then went east around Washington Parkway.  Good long run got 11.5 miles.  Did strides on the field when we got back.  Legs felt pretty tired today.  Oh and also lifted weights so we all look huuuuuge.  So 12.5 total.  Now off for a date with the lovely Alli P.

Beast hike in the day.

Pm -  Got out around 5 and did my usual up and back to Green Springs Park.  Got 3.9 miles.  I extremely did not want to go cuz I felt tired, but as I got warmed up and going, it was great.  I truly feel so free and alive in my body when I run, and I have enjoyed it so much the last 4 years.  Some tendon in my right ankle was sore from rolling it on Saturday, and so was my right knee from taking a spill on saturday, but other than that I felt pretty good.

Am -  Good grass run, I felt ok in my body.  We ran over at my old elementary school Sandstone so I could really feel the presence of the raptor spirit.  Feel pretty bad though.  I guess we had practice yesterday and I must not have listened, so I missed it.  That no excuse though, I really need to pay attention when coach is talking.  4 total.

Pm -  So had first race of the season.  It was pretty good.  Game plan was to hold a tight pack basically the whole race.  As the race started out, there was a bunch of JV guys out quick and we didn't get out fast enough so we had to worked to hard to get our pack together and in a good position.  I really chilled the whole race just trying to help keep the pack together.  On the 3rd lap everybody started to kinda slow down and I wanted to get going.  So I tried to wait for everyone.  Then I passed coach and asked him if I should just go.  He told me yeah so last half mile I started going pretty good and passed like 5 guys.  Finished really good last 300, I just had a lot left.  Really, this race was pretty cheese, I never was hurting at all.  But you know, those races will come #evildevilemoji.  8.1 on the afternoon

Also did some striders after

Word out.

Am -  Met up at the high school.  I felt kinda sore from last night, not too bad.  We headed over to Old Man hill and did 4 800m repeats up it.  Felt good and solid.  Last one I felt really tired and it was pretty tough, but ya know just a good solid workout.  Only 50 minutes, 6.7 miles.

After that lifted and got our lockers.  I'm not looking foward to 5:30 mornings yet.

Pm -  Had team practice at 3 at the high school. It was really hot today.  Run was pretty good though.  I'm feeling tightness though in my glute/upper hamstring.  Gotta ice and roll that mutha.  Wow, school starts tomorrow.  Pretty depressing when I think of it.  

Am -  tried to sleep in super long, but with everyone getting ready for I couldn't really do that.  Got up and ran at about 8.  Felt pretty good, took it really easy.  3.9 miles for 30 mins.  School today, wow I can't believe it. One more year of kid school.  Gotta wash my car so it looks beast on the first day.

Pm -  After a pretty good first day of school, had a chill 50 minute run.  T'was fun.  It felt pretty savagely hot, and I sweated the most of the whole year probably.  After practice, went to coaches room and bought one of the dope uni's we ran in freshman year.  Donut Friday tomorrow, can't wait.

Am -  First early morning run of the season.  I got to bed ok so I wasn't too tired.  But I can do better, I only got like 7 hours 40 minutes. 

Pm -  Wow what an afternoon.  Chilled at the school after school and changed my classes.  Then headed over to Bloomington Hills park at 5 for Desert Relays.  It's so dope, one of my favorite races, just a chill 3×1 mile dual race with desert hills.  I got warmed and I felt super good, so when the race gto canceled because of hardcore lightning, I was pretty bummed.  Everyone had to get in their cars for a 30 min wait to start again, but soon our coaches called it.  Oh bumma.  Got 3 miles though.

Am -  Woke up around 9 and ran at 10:30.  Weather honestly sucked already in the day; it was super muggy so the heat was brutal.  I ran to the double churches in Green Springs for a warmup, then did 5*4min intervals around the edges of the churches.  I ended up making a cool loop that was like 75% grass and about .4 miles long.  While I was doing my intervals, which were pretty hard, I came up with a good mental thought process for my running.  I gotta forget any excuses I may have to not run hard and do my best, and focus on the reasons I have to do my best.  Got 8 miles, 55 minutes

Am -  easy morning run 4 miles

Pm -  it was so hot it felt like hell.  11 miles in 110 degrees,  it was brutal.  Barefoot striders after 

Am -  rough morning run.  Legs felt destroyed. 4 miles

Pm -  race, desert relays.  The race was nothing special for me. We did a workout after: 3x4min intervals.  Pace was 5:30-5:40 for those.  With dead legs from yesterday, then just racing a mile ,they were freakin hard.  Got 7 on the afternoon.

Am -  I was sooooo tired that I unconsciously turned off my alarm when it went off.  So my dad came down and woke us up at 6:25.  We rushed to school and still got in 2 miles.

Pm -  just had an easy 30 min grass run.  We ran over to sandstone to do it.  Run felt good.  Got 4 miles.  I did an ice bath at home. And my upper upper hamstring really tightened up a lot and hurts. 

Am -  4 miles.  I actually felt pretty good.   Except a few times my hamstring/glute twinges with pain.

Pm -  Today we did a hill workout.  We ran through Washington over kinda towards my house to the sand hill we run up.  The workout we did was 2(3*1min).  It was tough in the deep sand.  My hamstring has been bugging me but it felt fine running the workout.  Ended with some mileage back to the school, I think around 6.5.  

Am -  4 miles, it felt iffy but I wasn't too tired.

Pm -  Easy pre-race today.  Ran toward the lucky eagle to stroke it's beak.  We weren't sure if we would make it within our time, but it worked out.  After did 4 200m strides.  I felt super smooth on them, I'm ready to race tomorrow.

Am -  RACE DAY, what a beautiful day for a race.  Headed up to Cedar bright and early at 6:30.  Wow, freakin Jake missed the bus, luckily he still raced a solid race in JV.  Listened to some beast tunes by The Killers on the way up.

Had a nice warm up, felt pretty good. this race was good.  the race started out good with our pack in a good position.  1 mile I just kinda sat there. pace felt fast but I guess that's racing, I gotta get used to it.  fast foward to last loop, me and dallin were going strong.  coach said to break up dhell's perfect score so I got going and digging hard.  then rounding the top, things happened and I slowed a ton and It jacked up the end of my race.  whatevr.  my hammy felt fine, I'm happy about that.  now I can go party later.  

I though I saw some improvement in our racing this week.  We'll just get better everyweek.  Word out

Dont know my exact time so I'll post it later.  I'm just putting 16:10 for now

Am -  Did the usual 4 mile easy run to Starbucks and back.  I felt pretty good.

Pm - Wow, quite the after noon today.  Workout was 85 min run with fartleks, then striders.  started out feeling good.  It was only like 105, it felt so good.  then about halfway right as we finished our fartleks I began to feel cruddy in my stomach till Jason's house it was intense pain I was about to explode.  so I did in Jason's bathroom.  had to stop again at slick rock park and 2450 park.  I lost a lot of liquid between excretion it and sweating it out in the burning hot baños.  last mile was hard, I felt really dizzy.  I weighed myself during lifting I was 143, 7 below normal.  but since I've been home I've downed over 100oz of water and milk and lots of food and I'm back up to 150.  Even read some beautiful poetry by Robert Frost.  haven't peed yet either

Gracias to Jason's mom for letting me in and saving my life.

Am -  4 miles easy.  Legs feeling like slow roasted zebra meat from Costco.

Pm -  Another easy 4 mile run.  Nice recovery day today.  Everyone was feeling pretty beat.  The run was chill and we had fun, ran down to Pine View Middle.  Wow, it's a lot less cool.  They took out like 8 pretty big trees when they did construction.  Oh bumma.

After practice, went down to the rehab center for the physical therapist to work on my hamstring.  He had these metal tools and went hard on my hammy, it hurt good.

Am -  Swag easy money run, 4 miles.  Afterwards in the locker room  I did some of the exercises Jona the PT gave me to help my hamstring.

Pm -  Our teams second time trial was today.  We had to do it at Bloomington Hills park cause they are still doing hardcore construction at our school.  Weather was a lot hotter than last time.  The time trail went down good.  We were able to race a lot better and stuff.  We really got rolling half a mile into it, people were exchanging the lead and got stuff was happening bro.  The wolf pack was strong today.  500 to go things happened and I slowed a lot for a bit, then was able to mentally regroup and have a power full kick.  Today we had 7 guys at or faster than my leading time (10:41) 3 weeks ago!  Things are goin great.

After the race we had a little workout, 2*800m @ race pace.  Did them in 2:33, and 2:34.  Got a total of 7 on the afternoon, word out.

Am -  Run this morning was hard, everyone just kept throwing in hardcore surges.  4 miles

Pm -  In the afternoon we drove over to the grapevine trails and did prospector.  Nothing spectacular happened, it was just a dope trail run.  5.5 miles

Am -  Turned up at practicar a little late so I didn't get as far, only 3.6 miles.  I actually quite enjoyed the first half, mostly alone.  And I talked to Carson for a bit.

Pm -  Easy money 30 minutes in the afternoon.  First a few of us boys ran with the birthday man, coach, to take some money to the bank.  Then we ran down to my aumamauter Sandstone Elementary to do some barefoot on the grass.  After like 10 minutes, this hardcore battle between the boys and girls team started.  Lol, I have no idea how it started, but it was over the possession of a little foam football.  The battle went back and forth.  Eventually it got intense, like Andrew wrestled hardcore with his graduated brother, people lost their dignity, and little meskerem the Ethiopian was tackling people.  

Boys won though, so no worries.  After we hardcore surrounded Sylvia and ripped it from her hands.

4 miles in the afternoon.  Lifted weights.  Later at home did a lot of core and other strengthening stuff.  Really appreciating my foam roller lately. word out

Am -  Our team didn't have a race or anything today.  We did have our annual car wash fundraiser at 10, so we still met up decently early at 7.  Meeting place was Sullivan "Soccer" Park, where they are finally starting to build the 4 full size soccer fields after 3 or 4 years.  I think it should end up being a dope place to run, maybe have a race there, I dunno.  Anyway, we just a 60 min run.  There was about 10 of us guys there and we ran up towards telegraph, then east to Washington parkway, and up that all the way.  The way back was dope.  Ran through majestic Hell Hole.  Good times.  Legs are feeling strong and swag.  Got 7.6 total.

Went to Controversial Cam's LDS mission farewell today.  I will miss him 10 folds

Am -  Good run 4 miles, I felt good and wasn't very tired.  I felt like I had plenty of energy.  Me and Jake conducted a social experiment of sorts this morning.  We showed up 10 mins early to park in 2 of the 3 open parking spots, even though we have paid ones, to see what would happened.  Lol, some fine folks got PO'd.

Pm -  Killer long run today.  It was great, everyone ran really strong and all 10 or so of us held it together the whole time.  I felt decent the whole time, but the run seems to go on so long.  At 65 mins i felt like we had gone for 3 hours.  We ran a cool loop all around Washington city. Ended up about 11.25 miles. Back at school did a mile of barefoot striders.

Lifted weights, felt strong.