GOING THE DISTANCE

Am -  dang, woke up feeling insanely tired.  The run was a struggle.  4 miles

Pm -  Did a pretty dope interval workout today.  JV was running Dixie allcomers at 6 so about the top 10 of us boys ran at bloomington hills park at 4.  We did 1600, 1200, 1000, 800, 400 all at race pace.  It wasn't supposed to be killer, but we were all feeling yesterday so it was pretty hard.  It was good though, probably hardest workout of the season so far.  Ended up with 8.1 miles.  After we went over to Maverick, I grab a nice 44 oz blue powered with free limes.  As I drank I felt all the beast electrolytes flow through my veins.  

Watched our JV do awesome, I thinks the boys might have won.  

Am -  3.8 miles #morninggrind.  Life's hard right now with school and running, but honestly I couldn't be happier.

Pm -  WOW this afternoon was so lushus.  Just a cheese recovery run on the grass at sandstone.  Got 3.8 miles.  Ha ha, now I'll have time to do calculus #thumbsdown 

ATTENTION!!!  This weekend our team is doing our all night run-a-thon.  To make a little bit extra money we are doing a special ceremony where we will be sacrificing Dallen Gillespie.  We are gonna put him on a stake and light him on fire.  YOUR FUND WILL BE GREATLY APRECIATED.  Feel free to donate unlimited amounts of money.  Bring cash to PVHS or email me at 16hillnicr@washk12.org.  Dallen is sacrificing himself willingly for the greater good of the team so don't worry if this sounds too harsh.

Am -  What a great run.  I switched my watch to kilometers last night, as I'm gonna try to rewire my brain to the metric system.  It went by so fast, we pounded out K after K.  The run was a solid 4:40 pace, 6.4 kilometers.

Pm -  Today the Pine View Panthers ran sand hills.  We ran through Washington over to our hill and commenced the workout of 2 (3*1min).  Man!  Doing these in the sand is so killer.  The super deep sand makes them such a quad destroyer.  After the recovery day yesterday, I felt good and rested and was able to give a beast effort.  Everyone else ran studly, I was barely able to beat everyone on some of them.  Got 10.3K

Shout out to Definition Dallen today, he raised hell and really helped me push hard on the hills.  

Am -  nice run, 4 miles.  Started out feeling pretty ehhhh, but warmed up a lot and felt really good by the end.  Glad I have my team to run with every morning or it would suck.

Pm -  this afternoon our teams all-night run-a-thon started.  We were broke into shifts of when we ran so from 3-5 was the A shift.  It wasn't my turn but I went and ran a few miles, not sure how many.  Later when we commenced again after the football game, it was my shift so I ran 2 miles and a few more minutes.  Idk how much at what times, but for Friday from 3-11:59pm I got 6 miles.

Am -  Crazy night man.  I gotta say, probably the funnest run-a-thon Ive been to.   It was legit we did so much dope stuff!  At 10 I went and picked up 24 pizzas so we were loaded there.  We had two flat screens set up; we played some beast call of duty zombies on Julien xbox.  We had a sweet game of ultimate in which my brother DIDN'T break my nose, that's always good.  Me and Jake and Zach and Bryan and Cam had fun for an hour rolling a giant tire around the stadium (it was getting late).  Me and Bryan Rollerbladed around a bit.  Danced to some Katy Perry, she's great.  Oh yeah and our run-a-thon was at the track.  Controversial Cam came and partied with us, I sure will miss him.  

I did some running too.  From 12-8am I got 8.75 miles, not counting a fair amount of running in ultimate.  I ran 3 times for my relay shift from 3-5am.  During that time I also just jogged around the track for a while with Coach holt, cam, jake and alex.  I got kinda emotional on the last lap of my last turn in the relay, just thinking about how it's another one of my lasts of high school and high school running stuff.  At 7am, we did the dash for cash, where within our 3 teams we each do just a 400m then pass the baton.  It was brutal man, I was using the last bits of energy I had.  Lol I dunno what I split, maybe a 1:02.

Typed this at 5pm.  Legs feel destroyed.  Life's good.  Word out

Am -  Got up at 7 and went to go do suicidal tendencies trail with Alex and my dad.  We started down from the road, not the trailhead, so that added on a mile each way.  The run was pretty brutal.  When my dad asked me the night before if we should do it, I told him yeah it's super beast and easy.  Wow I forgot that the first 5-6 miles are all up hill.  So yeah it was a hard run, I also did some speed ups on the way down.  It wasn't any farther than my usual mondays, 12.8 miles, but it was really hard and and long, 102 minutes.  I love running trails though and had a great time with my brother and dad.  

Dope, time to go not labor.

Pm -  Final team time trial of the year today.  It went beast.  With some problems I've had, this was really kinda my first race of the year in a way.  I just went out and pushed hard and did my best and things went great.  My time was 10:15 so a nice PR for the course.  Our pack was strong and I'm pretty sure our team ran really good.  I looked right behind me after I finished and saw all our guys roll in.  

After the race, we had a workout.  Me and a few guys did 2*800m at race pace.  I went both 2:33, they were good and strong.  I focused on having a quick cadence and good knee drive.  Total with some warm and cool was 8.6 on the afternoon.  

Said goodbye to one of my best friends today, Cameron Brown.  He's leaving to serve a mission in Finland tomorrow.  He came to watch so it was our final farewell.  He's become one of my best friends the last 3 years.  Not gonna lie I cried pretty much the whole way home.

Pm -  Just a easy 30 min barefoot grass run at Sandstone elementary.  It's really felt ecstatic to not have morning runs, I've felt very rested.  Murray this weekend should be great.  

AM -  Easy 30 minuter got 4 miles.  Felt very good, maybe a bit tired like I always do in the morning.  

Great day of learning knowledge.

Pm -  More easy mileage.  Man, we will be very ready to beast and feast at murray invite tomorrow.  We just did easy 25 min run, got 3.3 miles.  Then finished up with 4*200m on the track.  Feelin great in my body.  Gonna go to a sweet team dinner tonight.  Life's dope right now except for AP Calculus.  

Since one of the spike holes on my nike rivals is stripped out, I tried on my frosh/soph Saucony Kilkenny 4s.  They actually felt beast, I wore one on one foot and one on the other and my Saucony felt a lot more like they kinda launched me foward in my stride.  So yeah, I'm gonna race in my good ol yellow racers tomorrow.

Am -  Easy 4 in the morning.

Pm -  Left from pvhs to go up to Murray for the murray invite.  Got to Murray Park around 2pm and soon after ran the course wit a lot of the guys.  I seemed pretty cool but confusing at a lot of places too.  Chilled in the shade for a bit then ran a little more 30 minutes before race time.  I felt pretty good.

Started out strong, a little faster than I like to cause you gotta get good positioning in big races, ya know.  First mile went pretty quick.  I felt a little off kinda because the last two races I've done have been 2 miles.  In the second mile I felt kinda tired, and was sticking in with a group that fell a bit off the leaders by 2 miles.  Ha, except Garek he was already out in narnia.  I was kinda scared i would be too tired for the last mile.  But starting mile 3 I was feeling good, so I made a move and broke out of the pack I was in.  I gained some on the lead pack, and coulda caught them if I had 400 more meters.  I ran mostly all alone the last mile and finished up 12th.  Im pretty happy with how I did.  I'd say my mistake was not trusting my strength to stick on the front pack.  Then I could have out kicked some guys and got a t-shirt!  Ahh, it's good though, just gotta keep racing and getting better at it for state.  

On team terms we did good.  After I finished I looked back and was a bit worried when I didn't see our guys for a second, then our 2,3,4 all rolled in.  Then our 5th was way back and that killed us.  I guess that's what happens when 3 guys have bad days.  We finished around 10 points behind Lone Peak in 4th.  Good vibes though man, I love our team.  Except maybe how Preston is a freakin weirdo with the davis girls, smh.  Lol, some of the things he does. . .

Am -  After a luscious sleeping seshun, got up early to go do a workout on the state course.  Wow, I was excited to finally see how the last mile goes.  So we first ran it easy as a warmup.  I like it better except for how there is a sharp turn right before the finish.  Workout was great, did 3*(1,2,3min) at goal race pace for state so mine was 5:15.  I just ended up breaking away from everyone else a bit at the ends to hit my pace.  Good reps, they got fairly hard by the end.  Didn't do the 3 min on the last set, we were almost at our 60 mins for the day.  So we just cooled a few minutes to the bus and finished up with 8.2 miles for the day.  Fun team trip up to salt lake.  Word out.

Am -  Usual easy 30mins this morning.  I think I felt a little better and fresher legs than normal. Got 4.05 miles in.  Skylar and coach continued their Twitter discussion about BYU playing dirty.  Lol, I don't really care.  BYU won and all teams do crap that doesn't get put into the media.

Pm -  Long run this afternoon.  Started out just normal, we ran up to the intersection of telegraph and greensprings by hart's where the girls were waiting for the light.  So we're waiting, and I look over to see coach holt crouching over some dude, and wow!  It turns out coach Roberts is passed out behind a bush.  Me and some guys ran back and grabbed coaches tahoe, rushed back and coach holt drove coach Roberts safely back.  Luckily he's okay, go check out his dope blog, @ vis.fastrunningblog.com.  

So then we just finished our 90 min run going up around Albino resort passed pioneer park,  then back on red cliffs drive.  Ended up with a 11.6 mile run.  Legs felt very tired by the end.  The weather was great though, I'm not sure but it felt around 90 or something.  Did a mile of barefoot striders after and lifted weights.

Resting Heart Rate - 48

Am -  easy 4 miles.  It was pouring rain all night, then right before 6:15 it stopped.  Last 2 miles, my soleus down kinda by my inner ankle, was really bugging me.  Weird pain.

Pm -  Went over to Bloomington Hills north park for our (about top 10 guys) interval workout.  The rest of the team had a duel meet vs. DH after.  It was cloudy all day with rain on and off, wasn't raining when we started.  We did 3*(1000m, 3min rest, 600m).  The 1000m intervals were pretty cheese.  First one was 3:27, around 5:30 pace.  Then a 600m around 1:50, I think like 4:50 pace.  The 1000's got a bit quicker, down to 3:15 for the last one.  The 600's stayed about the same, but had more and more uphill.  The last one was all uphill so it was pretty tough.  Total of 8 miles.

I really felt great.  Our recovery week last week has really helped my legs feel fresh this week.  My form felt great on the repeats, except I was slipping some on the wet grass.  It rained a bit during the workout, barely though.  Team did splendid and today was just baller.  Didn't get to stay and watch the meet though, had to go home and do loads of calculus work.  Oh bumma.

RHR - 51

Am -  Easy run like always, did 3.85 miles.  Dallin lives along our normal route and he said some sketchy shiz with a gunman was going down over there, so we ran towards my house.

Pm -  Finished off the easy day with a chill 30 minutes on the grass just over at Sandstone Elementary.  Nice run, legs feeling suprisingly good after the last 2 days.  Ran 3.8 miles.

RHR - 53

Am -  easy 4 miler into Green Springs again.  Did 101 ups in the locker room.

Pm -  Did a hill workout today.  Same as we've done the last few times, 2*(3*1min).  Went over and did them on our hill of sand.  The construction people are really going hard at destroying the desert.  Their about to pave more road.  Sand was a bit firmer from all the rain sunday-tuesday.  Nice hard workout, I pushed myself very a lot.  It's been a good week, one more workout to go on saturday.  Total of 6.5 miles.  

Lifted weights back at school, good seshun.  My right upper hamstring has tightened up a bit, it's not feeling 100% right now.  Haven't been able to get in with the PT but I will next wednesday.

Am -  nice, chill 3.9 miles this morning.  Back to the normal route along red cliffs drive.  Wow it felt great this morning, even a bit chilly.

Pm -  Swag easy run in the afternoon.  Had a dope day of school, I got all my calculus done so none for the weekend!  Our route today was into Washington then down into Sandbergs desert.  Dang, we passed through Marlar breeding grounds and that was sketchy stuff.  We've had so many guys get stung by his spawn going through there.  3.5 mile run then 4*200m to finish up with 4.25

Am -  JV ran at the Canyon View Invitational today.  So varsity ran from CVHS over to bicentennial park, where region is this year, to do a workout.  Over to the park was 1.6 miles.  Then we did the first set of 1min, 2min, 3 min in our normal shoes.  After that we stopped and put on our racers and did the other 1.5 sets in those.  We didn't do 3 min on the last set.  It was good, coach holt wanted them to be at race pace for region, so we were hitting 5:05 pace on them.  I felt not great on the first set.  But after putting flats on I just felt pretty good the last part.  On most of them I was a few meters ahead pushing the pace so we could get that pace.  After, ran back and watched swag races, 8.6 miles today.  Good day, word out.

Am -  Early morning today, we met at 5:30.  I went to bed at 9 but i can never fall asleep so i laid there for an hour.  So i felt a bit tired.  The run was nice and cool, we ran on the river trail for part.  and so that was all black.  Did striders after.  legs feel way sore.   i dont feel very tired though.

Pm -  Had an early out today.  After a quick pep assembly I went and ran.  Just 3.9 miles.  Jake and Alex came with me but most of the other guys waited like 5 minutes, idk why.  My ankles and calves didn't feel too great, more like destroyed.  Had a beast feast of food at PPC after with my homies.

Am - Easy 4 to Starbucks and back.  Felt alright, bit sore.

Pm -  Had a pretty good, hard workout this afternoon.  We ran down to the middle school to do it.  All the fields at our high school are under construction.  We started with 4*1000m repeats.  My first three were solid, like 3:19, 3:15, 3:14.  They were pretty good on a rough field with lota of hills.  Then my last one got kinda messed up, my stomach was bad and I went over to the seminary building to do stuff.  Came back to do 4 wave hills, and the boys had already done them so I did them alone.  I was hauling on the down and it was sketchy.  Ran back to the high school, ended up 7.1 miles.

Am -  Easy 4 in the morning.  Got some solid sleep, felt pretty good.

Pm -  Easy pre-race run in the afternoon.  Did a 3.2 mile run up into Green Springs, then 4*200m on the track.  I had a PT appointment during 5th period, so my hamstring, which had been getting tight and sore, felt pretty good.  Except for feeling a bit sore in my legs, I feel ready to roll tomorrow at Nebo Invite.

Had our schools homecoming parade later, which was fun.  Our team marched and gave candy to children.  I actually enjoyed it, I never have before.

Am -  An easy 4 in the morning before school.

Pm -  Headed up to Spanish Fork around 10 am, had a nice lunch at Costa Vida at 12:30, got up to the high school around 2:45.  Me, Alex, Paul, and Jake walked the course to see where it went.  It was completely different from 2 years ago at Maple Mountain High School, and seemed to be pretty nice with no sharp turns.  After that, was able to chill for a while, even read some Frankenstein for AP Lit.  Eventually got going on like a 4 mile warm-up.  I felt really good in my energy level and stuff.

Race went down like this.  Had a good start, I got into the front 20 or so.  After about .75 miles, I was in a pack right behind AF's top 2.  Ha, some kind right next to me said to the kid behind him something like, "get off my a**, you've been right on me the whole time!"  I just kinda laughed inside my head cause for reals, we were running a cross country race, I had been pushing and shoving dudes all over the place.  A bit after a mile, AF's 3rd guy broke away a bit and I moved up towards him a bit, and for the next mile I just worked right there, trying to not let him get out of my grasp.  At 2 miles, I was hurting, I had done a pretty good job not letting off the gas.  Olympus' 1st guy passed me here.  With 800m to go, I dug a bit more, and was gaining slowly on 3rd and 4th place.  I was just about 15 meters behind those 2 with 200 meters to go, when Olympus guy throws in a massive kick and battles the AF kid for 3rd.  By now I was spent, so my finish wasn't my best speed.  But I'm pretty happy with my race; there's a few spots I should have made a short surge to stay with AF and stuff.  But you know what they say; it happens. #liveandlearn

Fun race, our team did alright too.  We got 4th, just 16 points off 2nd place.  Our 2 and 3 have really stepped it up this season.  Unfortunately our 3 should be like our 5 or 6 so hopefully some more guys can step it up and we will beast and feast!  Going into the final part of the season; it's about to go down . . . .  Word out.

Am -  Stayed the night at Jason's Aunt's house in Salem.  Headed up to the state course around 9:30.  Legit was like a foot away from dying, Jason's mom saved us all with her mad driving skills.  At sugarhouse did a fartlek workout: 2*(1,2,3min) at a solid 5:15 pace.  The 1 mins were fast more around 4:50 cause we were going down hill.  The rest was good, I pushed hard.  Legs just felt a bit tired from racing hard yesterday.  Also did some downhill work on the downhill turn by the flower beds.  Total miles around 8.5, good day.

Am -  Me, Alex, and my dad hit up the trails today.  We drove over and did Dino Cliffs.  Good times.  5.5 miles

Am - Easy 4 miles. Felt pretty good.  Alex keeping us up till 10:15 every night is getting really annoying.  I need more sleep.

Pm -  Tough workout this afternoon.  We did 3 mile repeats at XC race pace (goal for region).  My goal time was 5:05 pace.  First mile was supposed to be 10 seconds fast.  I was able to get 4:53, a bit quick and it was hard.  Second was supposed to be 15 seconds slow; I ran 5:24.  This rep was too slow, but it was freakin hard and my legs were dying.  Last rep was supposed to be 5 seconds fast so I had to get 5:00.  I told my self, "I'm not gonna be a noob who runs a crappy last mile."  So when I came through at 3:51 for 1200, I busted my but and ran 1:08 to finish up with 4:59.  After those miles, we did 200m all out.  The whole workout was supposed to simulate a 5k race, good stuff.

My cool down was rough.  I was feeling waaay dizzy; no doubt I didn't hydrate good today and yesterday.  Just did laps on the track so if I passed out then some soccer player could save me.   Got 8 miles on the afternoon.  Lifted weights after.

Am -  Slow easy run this morning.  It hurt though man, my legs are sore.  Soleuses feeling savage.  3.8 miles

Pm -  Easy 45 minutes this afternoon.  Was feeling pretty sluggish.  Legs pretty sore, but they got a bit loose throughout.  Ran the first half on the road, then finished up on the grass.  We discussed hardcore stuff like killing 5 innocent people and to save billions of innocents and the ethics of killing for the greater good and all that hardcore stuff.  

Am -  Easy run, 3.9 miles.  Actually felt pretty good.  Had decent energy and my legs didn't feel too sore. 

Pm -  I typed a beast report for this and it all deleted so it's gonna be basic.  Had a 15 minute tempo then went straight into 20*100m alternating from F pace back to tempo pace.  Brutal workout, one of the best so far this year.  Got 7.3 total on the afternoon