GOING THE DISTANCE

3pm-  Did the warm up and the cool down with the boys.  My foot felt a little iffy then got warmed up but still was about only 80 percent today.  It feels like it has been improving about 10 percent every dad so I will be able to race on saturday.

4pm -  Went to go pool run at the rec.  I had to be done in half an hour cuz my family was going to dinner for my mom's birthday.  But the dang swimteam was taking up half the laps and the disabled people were taking up the other 4.  So I just went outside by the volley ball court and did a bunch of pushups and core stuff.

6pm -  Time trial today.  Little bit out of shape since I have been running low mileage the last week and did nothing yesterday but I still had a pretty good race.  I warmed up with the team, to harts and back.  1.5 miles.  Well first of all at 5 we had team pictures.  So after the warm up I got my racers on and did some warm ups and lined up at the start.

Started the race out pretty quick.  I got behind kyler who was behind abel and byron.  I might have started out a bit too quick but better too quick than too slow I would say.  Got a good pace going around the ball fields.  My legs were not feeling too great, and going up the hill was really a struggle.  Matt passed me going around the PV rock and Colton passed me going on to the grassy straight.  I made sure to stick on colton and did the whole second lap. Coming onto the hill the second lap I got some negetive thoughts in my brain and those almost killed me but I quickly got them out of my head.  As I came through the finish/start line and started the 800 loop I passed and started to pull away from colton.  I felt a little second wind coming and saw matt in my sights I just didn't have the legs to beat him today.  Decent race, nice PR for me on this course.  I really hope to do good at the grass relays.  So I will.

3:30pm-  Went over to the rec center right after school.  Had a pretty good workout and it hurt.  My legs burned after my final 4 minuter.  

7pm-  Got to Sugarhouse park after travelling all day.  It felt great to get out of the car.  We changed and ran the state course.  It was my first time.  It got me really excited but it also made me see that I need to keep getting stronger and tougher.  It seemed like a pretty tough course with hardly any flat, level ground.  Good simple 3 miler to shake out the legs for the race tomorrow.

10:30am-  Today was the AF grass relays.  I feel just that I had a good race.  I ran fast and all that, but I didn't dig deep in my soul like I can.  Starting and getting the baton from Byron I felt good trying to stick with desert hells.  But he started to slip away about 500m in and I wasn't mentally there.  For some reason I chose not to go ham.  He got a ways out there and I told myself he was too far and that was my mistake.  If I can win the mental battle with myself I can run much better so all I can really do is move on and focus for the next race.