Anything Will Burn If the Furnace is Hot Enough

1:30:00

​Long run up to green springs. Meant to do reverse Washington Parkway loop but got lost somewhere so just ran circles all over the neighborhood. Not very tough for me, but it seemed to be for others.

35:00

Slept way toooo long xD

Was on a campout with Corbin Logan Colton and Parker, and we ran up to some sick red cliffs in Warner Valley. Stopped halfway through the run and just climbed up them. Pretty stupid and dangerous, but the view from on top was wizard.

1:00:00

Up to Green Springs... again. We've done this same run like 4 times over the break lol. Chill run with minimal difficulty.

1:03:00

Finally back with the TEAM. Did some clutch Old Man Hills, and I'm definitely antsy for races. I'm just ready to run fast. Can't wait for the 6 minute test tomorrow. #Ready2Rek

55:00

Had the 6 minute test today. Run as far as you can in 6 minutes. My main goal was to get 5 laps in, and the furthest I wanted to get was 2100 meters. Finished with 2016 meters, and I was very satisfied. I am SO ready to race on the track this season.

Also, IT SNOWED!!

1:15:00

Nice chill long run with Colton Logan and Corbin. Went up Foremaster and down the other side onto the river trail. Ended up looping back near the high school with 20 minutes left still, so we had to extend hardcore. Then Logan and I still had to extent 15 more because we are level 3. Wowzers that sure was fun.

church at 1:00 so I slept in until 10.... :]

1:22:00

Long run with 3 sets of 1x1x2 pickups. Had to go to the bathroom so I got left and had no idea where everyone went. Luckily some kids were still hanging out at the high school (for reasons unknown) and they directed me to my friends. Ended up catching up to them like 2.5 miles in, and discovered that I started 5 minutes after them. Average pace of 6:46 which is hecka fast for a long run, but it wasn't that hard so that's good.

55:00

#TrailRunTuesday

Dope run out at Temple Quarry. Sad that there wasn't rain or thunder and the lightning didn't ALMOST KILL us this time. Just kidding I'm grateful to be here, and so are you, because let's face it: you wouldn't know what to do without me. :]]

60:00

Workout-- not really sure what to call it. Super cheese workout, but it was supposed to be. Just got our legs moving. Worked on our form mostly and I feel like it helped a lot. 

1:00:00

Chill Hilly run up to Green Springs. Lost "What Are the Odds" and I had to carry a piece of a cinderblock the whole run. Probably gained quite a bit of muscle from it, so I wasn't upset that I lost.

65:00

Sick tempo on the track. One minute slower than 5k pace. Pretty easy and I wanted to go longer.

60:00

Woke up this morning and Dallen was sick so he couldn't go to the St George 5k, so I went in his place. Ran a sick race against Colin from Skyridge. Took turns leading throughout, and I passed him at the end with a major kick. Got a bunch of dope stuff for winning. Thanks Dallen <3

Gave a talk in church about goals and related 96% of it to running. Great things have come from running, and I'm thankful I got into it.

1:35:00

Went out and did Suicidal Tendencies with the team. One of my favorite trails. Not a hard run surprisingly. Celebrated and had doughnuts for Coach Roberts's birthday. There were 8 donuts leftover and I took them home and I'm probably going to die because I ate 7 of them throughout the day... oops.

weights plus morning run--15:00

60:00

Nice workout today. Not sure the name of it, but it's 3x60 second at tempo, then 3x60 second threshold, then 5x30 second critical velocity. Then do it all again but backwards. My paces were a bit quicker than the others, so I was up front a bit every time. Not that hard of a workout but it got our legs moving and that's good.

50:00

AAYYYYEEEEE    easy run ath. Chill pace to recover from our hard run on monday and our workout yesterday. I need to learn how a watch works because I forgot to start it when we stopped at a crosswalk, and I saved it somehow in the middle of the run when we were still running. smh

65:00

Nice tempo workout today. Average of 6:20 pace. Julien and I started out a bit slow, but then we picked it back up and we were on pace the rest of the time. I love running quick for a long time.

50:00

Super duper rainy run. Was fun and Julien's face looked messed up because he was wet and cold, and I started making fun of him, then my face got all tensed up and froze and I looked like an idiot. It was really cold and miserable but it was a good experience I guess. Had striders after too and they sucked.

80:00

Dope run will Alex and Julien up into the desert past Alex's house. On the way back Alex's back started hurting and at first I thought he was being a wuss, but then it got to the point where he couldn't run anymore so he walked through the desert up to the road and Julien and I went and got in the car and drove like 5 blocks to pick Alex up, and we found him lying down on the sidewalk sprawled out like he was dead. He got a little better and we went to Denny's to celebrate his OKness. 

95:00

Longest runnnnnnn. The wind was strong so it was freezing on the way out, but we had pickups plus wind on the way back, and we were cruuuuuising. Super fun and I felt surprisingly good the whole time.

50:00 + 15 morning run

Nice trail run with some dope dino tracks. That's about it.

60:00

Tempo Threshold Critical Velocity whatever workout. We tried some weird strategy where we would all go in different lanes to make up for distance, and it was just confusing so I gave up. I'd rather get used to running in lane 1 then figure out distances for lane 8

65:00 + 15 morning run

Nice hilly run up Foremaster and back down the other side but we went towards the hospital and ran through town. Led the whole time going about 7:10 pace. 

65:00

Tempo!! Finally got to go quick because Trevor came to help at practice today and run up in the front with me. I ended up catching up and lapping the rest of the guys, and they invited me to run with them but go to lane 8 so that I could keep my pace, and I turned them down. At first I kinda felt bad but I was just doin my thing and so in the zone I didn't want to have to change everything. I hope it's like that in the races -- me in the front not having to base my speed off of someone else.

70:00

Nice run all by my lonesome up turtle road. Stopped halfway through to admire the desert wildlife. Fast finish on the way back. I hope my wife will be as hot as Southern Utah, but that probably won't happen because it is 9.8/10

Took a nap on accident today. Was reading Running for My Life (about Lopez Lomong-defs best book) and just dozed off. I haven't taken a nap since like XC season and I rarely even took them then. It definitely messed up the rest of the day.

85:00

Long runnnn. Recovery week so we did less minutes than normal. Had to go to the bathroom SUPER bad so I had to break off of the pack and stop halfway through the run. I ended up finding them near the end of the run, so I finished with them then ran 10 more minutes by myself. Not a hard run at all

50:00 + 15:00 morning run

Nice trail run up through Mustang Pass. Southern Utah is pretty.

60:00

Nice workout with the 3-3-5-3-3 things at slower to faster to slower paces. Started the first one and Coach was running next to me and asked if I felt like we were on pace, I told him no we're too slow, and he was questioning it for a second but I picked it up and hit the exact distance I was supposed to. He said he should've never doubted me, and that he doesn't doubt me often. Feels good to have a coach be proud of you and understand what you're capable of. Thanks buddy :))

55:00 + 15:00 morning run & weights

Wowwww. I woke up late for the first time this whole YEAR. Year as in since school started. I woke up at 6:15 exactly, and I woke up to a text message sound, and my phone said that the alarm was going off, but there was no sound. Laaammmeee. I usually have good habits and automatically wake up like 5 minutes before my alarm, but I had a super crazy dream that I'd rather not share on here, so I'm guessing that's why I didn't wake up.

Anyways... Run was hilly up to Green Springs, and I don't know why but I was just going slow up the hills. I didn't feel tired or anything, but I felt like everyone was going really fast.

65:00

Nice tempo run. I felt like garbage all day and I'm not sure why. Started out the workout with the main pack, and I felt so much better once we started. After 2 miles coach and I busted ahead and went from 6:20 straight to 6:05 and we were on pace the whole time. Picked it up the last minute. Nice workout and not stressful at all. 

60:00

Nice chill run by my lonesome. Ran from my house out to the Fields and did Roller Coasters. It was epic. It's like a real roller coaster bc it's just up down up down up down wheeee and it's fun. On my way back home I saw some birds flying and it was pretty interesting. Rather than flying In a "V" shape, they were all lined up diagonally. I was watching and was very interested in how they were all the same distance between each other and flapping their wings at the same time. Then suddenly, the front 3 birds started going a little quicker and to the left. The rest of the pack started slowing and drifting to the left, and they all started making noise. Then the front of the back pack zoomed and reconnected with the front pack, and all of the others followed without question. 

I connected this back to Cross Country races. We try our hardest to keep a nice pack, and the front people always break off and the next pack never really pushes with them. I feel like the communication was the most important part of the birds' packing. The front group left, started to leave, then they all communicated and regrouped back together. I honestly learned a lot from these birds and I'm pretty sure I'm going to use this lesson whenver I talk about teamwork. I konw it's probably not that easy, and these birds fly together every day to practice. It's just going to be something that we have to work on together, and master the art of packing.

1:35:00

Long runnnnnnn. Went under the new underpass and ran all the way up a hill to Leads I think? It was ALL up hill and it blowed. Not hard but just long and slow. The way back was fun though because it was all downhill! Achilles kinda started hurting, but it went away mid run. Iced it when I got home with a bag of Dino nuggets because our ice machine doesn't work. Win-Win-Win because I got to eat dino nuggets, ice my achilles, and Idk what the other win is but I was happy.

45:00 +  15 morning run and weights

ROOT BEER MILLLEEEEEEE!!!! Dope. Congrats to Mitch for breaking his own record by 8 seconds. Congrats to Dylan for pushing the last lap (unlike me who had to stop with 200 to go so I didn't throw up) and throwing up hard (into the trash can, luckily) right after the finish line. 4th place is still pretty good, and I'm guessing I'll get 2nd next year. Not really my strongest event, so I think I'll just continue to work toward the 3200 and 1600...

50:00

Up north to tour some colleges. Check for some high schools near my hotel on maps, and found Alta High 2.2 miles away. Got to the hotel at like 9:20 and I quickly changed and went running towards Alta to see if I could do my workout tomorrow morning. It took my about 17 minutes to get there and the workout calls for 15 minutes of warmup, so I figured it was pretty good. I ran down the street a little further and then flipped and ran back to the hotel. It was kinda scary being there alone in the dark and not knowing exaclty where I was, but I'm still alive so it's okay.

70:00

After doing the math last night about how far away from my hotel Alta High was, I deided to do my workout there. It was super dark and I was way tired when I woke up, but I had to get it done. Went and hopped the small fence onto their track and did the workout. All one minute with equal recovery, I did 4 CV, 3 threshold, 3 tempo, 3 thres and 4 cv. Hit all of my paces right on, except for the first two tempos were a bit quick. Overall good workout. 

On the way back, however, I almost got killed...... by a plastic bag stuck to a tree. At 5 in the morning in a place you don't know anything about, you get a little paranoid. When running around corners or next to parked cars and such, I ran with my fists clenched ready to fight. Although I was ready to fight, the plastic bag scared the freaking crap out of me. I jumped so far that if there was a car coming they definitely would have hit me.

65:00

Nice tempo run. Went from 6:20 to 5:50 by the end. Just short of 5 miles. That's a lot of laps on the track, but it doesn't bother me one bit, because I plan on spending the rest of my life on the track.

65:00

Very slow and hard run. I'm not sure why but I am so fatigued from this week. Traveling up north and back and doing both runs within 8 hours of each other and aahhhhh. The whole run was just long and I couldn't get myself to go faster than 8:30 pace and my legs wouldn't take my knees higher. It's alright though. I still got a quicker finish of about 7:50 and went home and then went straight to work. Although I had a rough start to my morning, I went to a pokemon tournament after work and I won! So overall it balanced out as a decent day.

95:00

Looonnnnnnnnng jacket. Long run was dope. Went clear out to the fields and around Shinob Kibe or however you spell it and we came back on the trail to Sullivan park. Was pretty chill and not stressful at all so that's good. I definitely need some new shoes so I'll proabably go get some today

45:00 + 15:00 morning run

#TrailRunTuesday

Church rocks trail run. The tunnel was spooky. I was the first one in on the way out and I was worried I would fall over and everyone would kill me, and one the way back I was the last one in and I was worried someone would attack me from behind and no one would know. But as you can see, I survived.

I went and got some sick new Saucony running shoes. Lightweight pair for workouts and such. Now I can start keeping track of shoe mileage so that's cool.

70:00 + 25:00 morning run

Dope workout. 12x400 at CV 1:18-1:19. Started about 1:21 and went down to 1:19 on the 4th one and kept it pretty constant the whole workout. Chest kinda started hurting with 2 to go, but the workout wasn't hard enough for it to prevent me from finishing. Really long cool down. 

Did the workout in my new shoes and they are siiicccckkkkk. Saucony Type A racing flats. Feel pretty nice but now I need another pair to do normal runs in and stuff because these shoes probably won't last too long.

50:00

Nice run out to Washington and up a really big hill and back down another one. Went and bought 8 corn dogs for only $4 and sold two of them to my sister for $1.50 so I got one of my corn dogs for free pretty much. Finally move a giant dresser that's been sitting in my living room into my room. It was extremely heavy and I am extremely weak so it was pretty difficult. Good thing I got my old man who is a beast. Hurt my back and shoulders a little, but at least now I don't have to put all of my clothes on the ground like I have been for the past month and a half.

65:00 + 25:00 morning run

Old man hills. Nice easy pace and just pushing up the hill. Coach said it work more on letting your quad and your butt and hammy pull your leg up rather than pushing so hard off of your calf, and I found that this actually really helped. It's a total different feeling in each bound and it's a lot easier to drive the knee up. I'll probably start running like this more to work on picking my feet up. But yeah overall a cheese workout and felt good in the legs.12.

75:00

Nice chill saturday run by my lonesome. Started to rain during the end and it felt really good. I want to race in the rain again like at State track last year. It just feels so different and thrilling... As long as it's not absolutely friggin freezing. Ran a lot of hills and went at a pretty quick pace and it felt really good. Excited for Dogtown Half next week. I've never race a half marathon before, but I'm guessing I can do pretty good. Maybe like a 1:10-1:20. We'll see I guess.

95:00

Sick trail run out in Hurricane. Don't remember the name but we ran out on the rim trail and just had a nice view of a river from way high up. Stopped half way through and chucked some rocks of and they took FOREVER to hit the water. Legendary. Pretty easy long run and we kept a good pace for trail running. I felt 100% until about the last 10 minutes, and my heart area started hurting and my left back started tensing up pretty bad. It's happened quite a few times, but this one hurt pretty bad. I tried a new pain tolerance technique, and I just focused on my breathing, and ONLY my breathing. It actually really worked when I had all of my attention on my breath, but when I would slip away from focus it would hurt more. I was only able to focus for like 5 minutes, and suffered for the last 5 of the run. Felt perfectly fine once we started running, so it's not like a permanent pain so that's good.

50:00 + 15:00 morning and weights

I am so tired. I don't know why but I feel like shizzzzzz. This run wasn't necessarily hard, but I was tired the whole time and I didn't feel good. Probably just fatigue from school and running and whatever I'm not sure. But I have a really bad headache and I'm just really tired but I have a lot of homework so hopefully I survive.

70:00  + 25:00 morning run

I DID NOT SLEEP LAST NIGHT HOLY CRAP. I had the worst headache when I went to sleep last night and I would close my eyes and open them like 40 minutes minutes later. This literally happened more than 10 times and it frigging sucked. Felt like crap all day and fell asleep in my classes and was just brain dead I don't know. Maybe it's from the twitter fights, maybe from the tests and class assignments. Either way, I felt SUPER good during the workout, and I was very worried because the morning run was really hard becasue of my headache. #BlessedATH

Nice workout consisting of 2x(4x400 and 1x800) at CV pace of about 1:19 per lap. Was within 1:18-1:20 every time and wasn't too tough. The 800s were a little tougher-- not because I couldn't keep the pace but because I got antsy and went too quick on the second lap. Ran about 1-2 seconds faster on both 800s, but that's okay I think. Need to work on feeling the pace just a little better. I think I'm already pretty good at that, but I need to practice for longer distances.

50:00 + 15 morning and weights

Super cheese run but it was foofing cold. We were joking chanting "INDOORS! INDOORS! INDOORS!" because it was so cold and running inside would be warm. I was totally joking, and so were a few of us, and when we said "Go" to start our run, and like 90% of the guys went into the school and ran inside! I was just kidding and those guys are wussies lol. It really wasn't THAT cold, it was just really windy. OH AND IT SNOWED HOLY COW. But haha no it really wasn't cold enough to run inside. So there were only like 6 of us on the run and we went to the Squaredesack and it was epic. 

40:00 + 25:00 morning run

1:30:00

Warning: Contains Explicit Content

Half marathonnnnnn. Was a fun race and I would've won, but I had to stop twice to take a dump. Just kidding about the winning part, but I bet I would've done better. Ran with Mitch Julien Coach and Alex, and I stopped before Hell Hole to poop, and then I ran really fast and tried to catch up with them, and the stuff was about to fall out of my body so I stopped at Sullivan again and got it all out. Then I ran like 30 seconds slower than our avereage pace for like 2 miles before I realized how slow I was going. But I wasn't sore at all after and I wasn't completely exhausted, so it shows that I could've done better, and I definitely will next year :)

30 + 25 morning run

Decathalon

Ran a 12.67 100m

long jumped a 16' 9" (I think)

threw a shotput 22' 1"

30 + 15 morning & weights

Decathalon

Ran a 59.49 400m (Garbage.. I'm defs not running the 800 this year lol)

High jumped 5' 0"

Threw a Discus 43' 4"

50 + 25 morning run

Decathalon

Ran a 48.84 300m Hurdles

Threw 64' 9" Javelin

Excited for the 1500m tomorrow. I'm going to run 4:10 or faster. #ReadytoRek

​70:00 + 15 morning & weights

​Ran a 1500m time trial today. Was shooting for a 4:10, missing it just barely with a solid 4:21. Not really sure what happened. I started out quite a bit slow and went slower on the second lap, then I felt like I needed to poop on the third lap and the finish wasn't a matter of if I could go faster or not, but a matter of if I was willing to push hard enough that the poop would come out. Freaking heck I'm going to start taking hardcore medication pills so that I will not have ANY problems at all becuase I freaking hate it. Also,

​VERY IMPORTANT:

​I am deleting my social media apps. I don't know if it will actually do anything, and it will probably be very hard, but I've just come to notice that I spend a lot of time on it and I often get stressed out about certain things on there (Guys team, you know what I mean) and I just feel like it would be good to spend less time on it. I also noticed that Galen Rupp doesn't use social media, Lopez Lomong really just does it to share his awesomeness, and Casey Clinger doesn't even have any accounts anywhere. And most importantly, Steve Prefontaine ​didn't even have the option to have social media. I look up to all of these guys, so I think I'm going to go ahead and try it out and see how it feels. :)

50:00 + 25 morning run

Nice chill run up foremaster and back down the other side. We checked out a newish park and it was super dope and I wish we had cool parks like that when I was a kid. 

90:00

Long run with 20 minutes of proggressive tempo starting at 6:20 and taking it down to 5:40. Ran out 25 minutes and then 25 back to the highschool and did the workout then cooled to time. Ran with Julien, Colton, and Mikey. Julien did the workout with me easy cheesy. It's a lot different doing a tempo after having ran for 50 minutes than just warming up for 20. 

90:00 morning + 25 after school

Nice morning run. Not too cold, but the trails were freezing for some reason. Every time we ran in between some trees and bushes and such, a rush of FREEZING air decided to attack us. Overall good run though. We've been keeping our avg pace under 7:30 lately and I really like it, because we are going quicker than normal but it isn't so fast that it's hard. Overall a good run.

60:00 + 15 morning and weights

Fun run out into St George. That's pretty much all I have to say about it. 

The Social Media experement is going pretty well. I've been able to do my homework perfectly fine with no stress, and life is just overall more peaceful to be honest. Probably going to do it until the end of the school year and just see how different life will be.

65:00 morning workout + 25 after school

2x1200 + 2x(400, 400, 800) with equal recovery between all.

Nice solid workout with the guys. After our 1500 meter time trial last week, everyone's paces for workouts have been changed to faster speeds, so now us top 5 guys have the same workout paces. It's a lot different doing them with a whole pack of guys, because I can't control how fast everyone is going. We were a bit quick the whole time, but I was in the back of the pack and right on time hitting low 1:18 400s. I'm excited for our 3200m this weekend, because we will be all packed up and destroying.

45:00 + 15 morning and weights

​Nice Green Springs loop. That's about it.

30 + 25 morning

​SC Invite. Solid races from evryone there. Jensen Lambert from Cedar ran a clutch 1600 and barely edged out Caleb Armstrong from Hurricane. Exciting race. Excited to race the 3200 tomorrow.

30 minutes + 3200m race

​Holy cows. It's been a while since we've actually raced, and you could definitely tell. My goal was about 9:40-9:50, and I thought I was doing pretty good. Each lap, the SC dude with the timer told us our splits, and I don't know what the foof was wrong with him. He told me 1:11, 1:13, 1:13, 1:14, 1:13, 1:12, and I didn't hear the last two. But yeah I finished with a solid 9:58.03 and barely qualified. The lap times he told me should've led to a 9:40 something and I felt as though I was pushing that hard, but apparently not haha. Feel sad for Mitch because he missed state qualifying by .4 seconds, while I got it by .4 seconds.. So that blows. PV invite is next, and instead of over analyzing the race beforehand, I think I'm just gonna go out there and try to run fast.

Also, it was a 3200m-not a 2 mile. The race thing is getting mad at me and saying that 1.988 miles is not a certified distance soo...   sorry.

1:28:00

Long run with 2-1-3-2-1-2 pickups with equala recovery

Easy cheesy

​​58:40

​Nice easy chill run. Running pretty quick averages lately and it's good. Usually around like 7:30 and we have all been going like 6:50-7:15.

​1:03:24

​VVo2 workout: 4x1000, 400, and a 600

​Nice workout hitting our laps at 1:18 the whole time. Solid effort and execution from everyone.

​45:00 + 25 afternoon run

​Nice run today. Didn't get much sleep last night. Went Ghost hunting with Corbin, Miles, and Parker in Grafton and I think they followed us home and woke up up like 14 times in the middle of the night.

Ran my first afternoon run this week today because I was tired on Tuesday and I was busy Wednesday, so I'll just do them today and tomorrow. Went an avg of 6:45 pace on my run and was worried that I went too fast, but it wasn't stressful at all and I don't think I'll be very tired from it.

ALSO, I went and bought my own computer today so I can finally update my runs because ours has been super poopy and I don't like using it. Now I should be able to post my runs every day instead of every other. :)

​57:00 + 30 afternoon run

​5x60 + 1x85 second old man hills with jog back recovery and 1 minute extra recovery after 3rd rep

​Nice hill workout with Colton and Jose tagged along with us. My knee started hurting yesterday afternoon and it was kinda aching under my knee cap today during the workout. Looked up some stretches and they all said that it was connected to another pain, but I'm not hurting anywhere else so I just did all of recommended stretches.

1:10:00

​Wowsers what a great end to a great week. My knee was hurting WAY bad at the first of the run, and I was worried I wouldn't make it the whole way, but it went away about 30 minutes in. Super exhausted from this week because I've been staying up since it's spring break, and I've ran at 7 and worked for 5 hours everyday and ran right when I got home a few days too. Glad it's finally over and I'm ready to chill tomorrow. My knee didn't hurt at all throughout the day so it seems it's only when I'm running. I'll just be sure to stretch it and ice and whatnot.

90 minute long run + 25 afternoon

2-1-3-2-1-2 pickups with 5 minute recovery in between each rep. Towards end of run

Nice dope long run. Coach talked about being dedicated and hard working in the morning during the run and then we had a meeting right before practice and he shared a quote from Pre that says "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." I've heard this quote plenty of times because I love Pre and I'll probably marry him in the afterlife or something. But anyways... It really comforted me, but worried me at the same time. I know for a fact that I am all in when it comes to my effort in running. I want to go somewhere in life because of running, so I give it everything I've got. What worries me is the fact that there are so many others who say the same thing, but they really don't care. They slack off on workouts or do stupid things that prevent them from running their best. I'm going to start taking a stand against idiocracy and start holding my teamates accountable. I know I want to succeed, but I'm not sure if everyone else does. 

15 morning weights + 65 workout afternoon

4x1200 at CV pace with equal recovery

Easy cheesy. Sike. Not sure why, but this workout was pretty tough not just for me, but for everyone else too. Our range was 3:54-4:00 and me and Julien were right by each other and hit 3:53, 3:55, low 3:56, and finished with a 3:53. We were quite a bit of everyone else and they seemed to be hitting low 4's which is slower than our range. Not really sure if it was the heat or the fact that we did a long run yesterday, but it was a tough workout. Not tough enough that we couldn't do it, but definitely harder than usual.

​25 morning + 50 afternoon

​Nice run into Washington and to Danberg's. I almost killed everyone by running through a crosswalk because I thought it was safe. Very grateful that the driver was a smart driver and didn't run us all over. JK he probably wasn't close enough that he would have hit us, but still there was a car coming and we were in the crosswalk. Feeling really good considering we had a long run on Monday and a tough workout yesterday so that's good.

​15 morning and weights + 50 afternoon

4x200 accells after run

​It started pooring right before our run and it was FREEZING and the last few days have been super run so it was way weird. We had a meeting in coach's room before instead of talking in the freezing rain, and by the time we were done it had stopped raining. Nice chill shoe run and once again I almost took us through a crosswalk that wasn't good to go through, but I screamed my lungs out that it wasn't safe, and saved a solid potential maybe 3 lives I bet. Just kidding but we are all alive and that's all that matters. Ready for the 1600 tomorrow. Not gonna stress so much about it because I've found that all that does is messes me up, so I'm just gonna show up and try my best.

​25 morning and yoga + 50 afternoon with 1600m race

Nice 1600m race. It was weird because I forgot how hard you actually have to go in the 1600. I was definitely tired, and barely hit state qualifying by .3 seconds, so lucky me. Dallen had a really good race and I was happy that he qualified too. Got a little sunburnt today, and got a lot of comments about how dope my Stop Pre shirt is. Excited to throw down in the 3200 tomorrow.

​About 50 minutes total.

​Forgot to track my cooldown on my watch, and we just jogged around the football field so I have no idea how far/long we ran. But it doesn't matter because I ran a flipping 9:40 3200!!! Super proud and happy and ugh it was awesome. My form was sluggish in my 1 mile yesterday, so I tried to focus really hard on picking my knees up the whole time during the race today, and it worked! We started out good and I think I was in about 12 place when we hit the first mile at 4:50. The front people probably hit a solid low 40's, and that's cruisin. None of them really managed to keep that pace going for the rest of the race, and I could definitely tell. I was feeling super good and was going super quick towards the end, and it seemed like everyone was slowing down a lot. My last lap ended up being like a 1:05 so that's pretty awesome. I almost caught Jaden too. Definitely learned a lot and I'm ready to shave off more and more time so that I can hit that 9:20.

90:00 + 25 afternoon

Long run with 2-1-3-2-1-2 pickups towards the end of run. 5 minutes recovery between.

Long runnnn. Went up foremaster and back down and onto the river trail. This run didn't feel as long as most long runs, which is weird. My knee is still killing me duing runs and it blows, but it's not preventing me from running. Trying to work on my form and pick up my knees a bunch while we go. It's a lot harder than it should be because my legs aren't super strong and I get tired and it becomes hard to keep lifting them. I'll get to that super form eventually, though. Feeling really confident coming into this week, because I got a lot of homework done, state qualified in the 1600 and got a 9:40 on the 3200, opened a pack of these cool star wars cards in this game that I play and got a Darth Vader card and sold it for $30, and most importantly, I GOT A 32 ON THE ACT!!!! Ready to rek fam.

​15 morning and Weights + 65:00 afternoon

​4x800 at CV with equal recovery, then 3x85 second hills at CV effort

​Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

​I suck at hills. That's about all i remember from this workout. It wasn't too hard I'm pretty sure

​50:00 + 25:00

Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

​60:00

Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

​25 + 30

Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

​60:00

Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

​​Wowsers. I haven't ran an 800 in so long I forgot how epic it was. My plan was to just try to run fast and not worry about position or pace, but rather to just make myself hurt. What I really wish I would've done was worked on form. I feel like if I would've ran with actual running form I would've done so much better. ALSO, Alex's foot got rekt and he still ran .3 seconds faster than me, so shoutout to him for being a beast.

90:00 + 25

​2x15 minute tempo with 10 minute recovery near end of run

Today is April 8 and I haven't blogged in forever..

Ran super far in the morning. Also ran into a bush and cut my leg open so that's cool. Tempo wasn't very hard and we worked on packing together.

15 morning weights + 50:00 panther relays

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​25 morning + 50 afternoon

​15 morning and weights + 45 afternoon w striders

​25 morning + 70 afternoon w race

​Need to figure out my crap (pun intended) in my 1600. Still ran a hard race but i had to slow down big time on my last lap..

​50:00

​Did a nice hilly run by myself around the mountains behind desert hills. Kept an avg of like 7:15 while chaging a total of 2000 elevation. Felt good to push hard up and down hills for an hour.

​80 morning + 25 afternoon

​​like 5 minute of easy tempo and 15 of CV pace in middle of run

​Pretty nice workout during a long run. We were working on packing and I was supposed to be in the back and keeping everyone toghether, but we went down fire station hill in the last minute of the workout and everyone decided to go 4:10 pace and I was not down for that so I kept going at CV effort. Coach got mad but I wasn't about to go jack up my knee just to run super fast for one minute.

15 morning and weights + 50 afternoon

​Nice chill run because we have a race thursday/friday this week so shifted workouts

​50 morning + 25 afternoon w striders

​Ran in the morning because of youngster meet. My watch died for the first time today :( luckily we do something evert sunday that allows him to come back to live and be happy.

15 morning + 60 afternoon w races

Started off the meet with a solid 4x1600 with Dallen Julien and Mitch. I think we all ran around 4:40 something. I got 4:40 barely. The wind was freaking killer.

The main event of the day, however, was the 3200. The plan was to get as many people qualified as possible. This includes Xander, Mikey, Logan, and Alex. And maybe Nathan, but not sure if he's ready yet so I think his goal was to just stick with us as long as possible. Anyways. Mitch and I were in the back and Julien and Dallen were in the front. Everyone else was supposed to be in between us. We all managed to run the first mile mostly togehter, and we only ran like a 4:58. Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked. Dallen and Julien got tired and Xander took the lead. Logan started to fall back so I surged up to help Mikey. He started throwing up so I surged up to help reconnect Alex. It was at this moment that I realised we'd muffed up. Alex wasn't looking to hot so I sprinted up to Xander, who was a whopping 20 meters in front of me. Julien and Dallen were dead and definitely looked that way too. I caught Xander with like 600m to go, and he was in second place of the race at this point. I was dead af tired but I knew I had to push for him to get it. We cross the finish line at 8:49. Only a 1:09, I'm thinking. So I give it everything I have and am yelling at Xander and we are pushing our guts out and we get to the back stretch and I'm yelling at him telling him he has to beat me and everyone is going wild and he zooms past me and we finish and it blowed. He got 9:59. Less than 1 second away from state qualifying. So I mean it's whatever. Xander ran an excellent race and I guarentee that he will qualify, but it just kinda sucked because we had 4 guys who we were confident we would state qualify, and none of them got it. Xander was pretty down on himself, but I told him to just take all of the positives out of it, and we would definitely get it soon.

​45 minutes

​Was planning on just a chill run at the meet because I didn't race, so I went on the warmup with the 4x800 guys, and when I got back coach asked if I wanted to do some 400 repeats at the girl's 800 pace. I was very excited about this offer because I wanted to run hard after the sadness of yesterday. I just ran the 2nd half of each girl's 800 at their pace, which was about 1:13-17. Wasn't very hard, considering it was running a mile at 2 mile pace, with a break between each lap. The guys looked pretty solid too, only missing the school record by about 3 seconds.

40 + 40 minutes

​Had our annual Staheli Softabll game at the farm at 7:30, so I just ran down there from my house at like 6:45 and had my mom bring me stuff. Ran home after. Ran home after. Didn't get the total 90 that I had planned for, but with my mini workout yesterday and the little running I did in softball, I'd say it's alright.

​75:00

​Fartleks 1-2-1-2-1 with 3 minutes recovery between.

I'm not sure how or why he thought of this, but Colton said we should run the last 10 miles of the Marathon course. So that's what we did. Met at Vernon Worthen then drove up 10 miles and ran back down the hill. Not too steep so it didn't jack up my back or knee or anything so that's good. Went and got some *healthy* Crepes after.

​15 morning and weights + 50 afternoon w striders

​Been working on form lately and getting my Cadence up. Just driving more and snapping the foot back quicker. Ran to Coach's house and helped him lift a hecka heavy boulder looking boulder. Hurt my back while lifting but I was blessed as it did not hurt the rest of the run or at all today so that's super bueno.

25 morning + 65 afternoon workout

​3x1000 at CV pace with 5 minute recovery between, followed by 4x400 at 1600 pace and 4x200 at 800 pace with 2 minute recovery between.

​HARD WORKOUT ATH. Finally haha. Managed to hit all of my times. Got 1:09-08-07-06 on the 400s, and 31-30-29-29 on the 200s so thats super good. Felt good to finally go hard and it was hard to get myself to go on a cooldown.

15 morning weights + 45 afternoon

​4/20. Ran up to highland and dropped off papers for the So Utah half. Ran up a pile of woodchips and tripped and scraped my leg in honor of 4/20. Worth it.

​25 morning + 50 afternoon

​Nice chillin at the track meet. Don't race until tomorrow. The guys didn't do too hot in the 1600, so hopefully they bounce back tomorrow.

65:00

Also ran the 800 and only ran a 2:09. Started out 61 and my legs were dead and I sucked it up lol

The 3200 was epic. I started out a little bit further back than I shoul've, but I still got a solid 1 second PR. Xander told me to just go run my race and not worry about him qualifying, because if we try to run the exact pace it will be risky. He finished with a solid 9:45, PRing by 14 seconds from just last week! What a baller. I felt pretty good and my form looked way better than ever, so that's a plus. Next up is Orem and my plan is to stay connected to the front pack as much as possible.

​80 morning + 20 afternoon

​5 tempo then 10 CV

​Nice run this morning. I focused on form and I felt super good. Very nice knee drive and it felt good to go fast because the weather was super nice this morning.

​15 morning weights + 45 afternoon

60 morning workout + 25 afternoon

​15 monring and weights + 45 afternoon

25 morning + 25 afternoon and striders

​About 60-70 minutes total. Watch died :(

Also ran the 1600 today but posted it on tomorrow.

​Wowsers. The wind blowwwwed. Was ready to throw down. Felt so freaking good. I was gonna go sub 9:35. 3rd or 4th lap in I literally tore a muscle in my upper right back. Like I felt it rip. Tried to shake it out and it went numb I think from the adrenaline. The pain hit hard on lap 7 and I just kept truckin along. Was within range to the leaders most of the race but the wind was killer and I was dying, so I never caught up. Last lap some dude tried to catch me and I was mad so I beat him by .05 seconds for a solid 4th place of 9:53.. It's okay tho. My back hurt so bad afterward that I barely made it back to our team spot to get someone to help me. Could hardly breathe and I couldn't move. Laid down most of the bus ride home and it felt a little better when I got home. Gonna go see a chiropractor in the next few days and get it checked out. I blame the guys team for bullying me and making me stressed to the point that my muscles were so tense that they decided to kill themselves. Thanks.

​1600 was yesterday

​Man we really need to get our crap together and figure out this race. We always go out good the first two laps and then act like a bunch of pansies and die out. Really gonna focus on going ham at state and getting a sub 4:30. Third lap I've just gotta actually push no matter what.

55 morning "long run"

​10 + 25 afternoon

​65 + E-stem on my back after

​15 morning + 45 afternoon

​Haven't really done weights this week because my back still friggin hurts.

​25 morning + 30 afternoon

After a very, very long day of AP testing, I'd say I did pretty good. I was shooting for a sub 9:30, but you don't always get what you want. I was in 3rd for the first 4 laps, about 10 meters behind some kid from Herriman named Adam (I only remember his name because EVERYONE there was cheering for him). 1st place was Talon Hull and he was way out of the picture... Anywas, I took the lead the 5th lap because we weren't going quite as fast as I wanted us to be going, and apparently I didn't really pick it up once I passed him. I just gapped him and then stuck a solid 1:13 pace for the last few laps. Really focused on form and such and Roberts said I looked super good. My ankle has been hurting the last few days and it was killing before the race, but luckily it went away as soon as we started racing. I don't remember twisting it or spraining it or anything, so I'm hoping it'll go away over the weekend. I am 100% rambling right now. Overall, not the outcome I was shooting for, but it felt very good for practically running alone. Plus I got a cool shirt for taking 2nd.

55:00

​Did some sick trail run in Draper. Ran up quite a ways and down through a valley and up to the top of the other side, and you could see into a valley and all of the giant mountains all over the place. It was epic. Then, on the way back we found a single track and hauled BUTT down that thing. like 5:20 avg probably. Had to stop every time some bikers were coming up. Only almost slipped twice. One was incredibly scary because I couldn't slow down and was running straight towards a drop off, and the other wasn't as scary looking, but it caught me by surpirse and a bad word that substitutes "poop" may have come out of my mouth as tripped... But it's okay because we ended the run at the temple and it was dope looking.

Left church an hour early because my back was hurting. Took a nap and it didn't hurt too bad anymore.

65 morning + 25 afternoon

​3x800 at CV (1:16-1:18) w/5 min recovery, 4x400 at 3-4 sec faster than 1600 pace (1:04-1:05), 4x100 at 400 pace (Fast lol) w/2 min recovery between reps.

​Dang that was a hard workout. Not really sure why, but I wasn't feelin to hot this morning. My ankle is still killing me, and I'm pretty sure I have tendenidus (A+ for spelling effort). I've been icing it every day and I'm guessing it'll go away eventually. It only hurts in the first few minutes of a run, or every time we start after stopping, and it KILLS constantly throughout the whole day. Excited for the 2 week break so I can recover ;-;

15 morning weights + 30 and striders afternoon

​Well I benched 65 this morning and squatted the bar and tried to dead lift only the bar and almost died so that's great. Just blogged all of my runs since April 25..... Gonna be more consistent. We've had some team meetings the last few days and I've realized that I've started sucking at doing the most basic of things necessary to succeed, so I'm gonna try to blog more. Actually, I AM gonna blog more. Every bloody day fam.

Region is tomorrow and Thursday. Gonna run a solid suicide pace, because this week seems like a good week to die. (Name the author of that magnificent cookie and I'll respect you a lot.) Going to try my hardest to embrace the pain, rather than let it punch me in the face. #Ready2Rek

20 morning + 35 afternoon & race

​Wow I really need to learn to run a good mile. I'm very grateful that I qualified the first time I ran it, because I haven't ran it good since then. Coach told me I just need to run in the front. That's the only way to run a good mile. This must be true, as Alex ran a 4:30 because he went out and led part of the race. I started out feeling super good and then just like usual I felt like crap on the third lap and pooped out. Need to figure out how to just go with the pain. Going to run hard and either succeed or die trying at state.

45 minutes + 3200m race

​Not quite what we expected. Still quite happy with a solid 3rd place, but the 9:57 wasn't quite as good. I wasn't ready for championship style racing, and I should've taken the lead at some point and tried to make a push, but I wasn't feeling to great. 600 to go and Bryson King from DH was right on my shoulder, and I really didn't have much in me. I'm surprised I ended up beating him, but like me, he barely had enough energy to even finish. This race made me realize that a 9:50 somethin can hurt just as bad as a 9:30, so might as well run the faster one. Gotta have guts next week at state and get after it. Obviously, this wasn't my meet, but I really look forward to state next week.

​45 afternoon

No morning practice. It was nice to sleep in but vrey strange too.

Nice trail run up to Mustang Pass. We haven't been there in so long and we used to run it like once every other week, so the whole thing is overgrown with weeds and foxtails and stuff. Had to stop like 3 times to get them out, and I'm pretty sure they will be in my shoes for quite a while. Overall a good run and a nice quick pace for trail running. Oh yeah and Paul was here so that's cool too.

55 morning workout

​15 warm w/5 of it easy tempo 6:10. 2x600 at 3200 pace then 4x200 pretty hard, all with full recovery.

​Not that hard of a workout. Just something to get our legs moving and control a solid pace. Hit 1:46 and 1:45 on my 600s, and the first 200 was like 33 and my ankle was freaking hurting so bad. Almost didn't do the last 3 but I kinda just shook it out and gave myself a running start on the next 3. Like 29-30-28. My ankle seriously hurts and I'm praying that it will get a little bit better by State next weekend and if not, that it will heal during the 2 week break.

​Ate 2 Cinnabon cinnamon roles today within 2 hours of each other, and then ate 3 pieces of some sort of strawberry cake at my aunts house. Hopefully I don't die ;-;

15 morning + 40 afternoon + 6 striders

​KICK IT! pt 2. Found a golf ball and kicked the crap out of it most of the run. Then Alex kicked it into a very busy road and it totally bounced under the car and into the bottom of it. Probably still in their parts and such under their car right now... Oh and then Julien kicked an orange into the air and it smacked the front of some truck that was driving by and coach got mad at him and they jogged down to the truck (Which had pulled of to the side of the road) and apologized. The poor lady driving it probably thought she hit a child. My stomach was killing me the last 20 minutes of the run, but I kept on'a truckin.

15 morning + 50 workout

​1 min at CV (5:05-5:10) w/4 recovery, 2 CV w/3 recovery, 3 CV w/2 recovery, 4 CV

​Really tough workout today. Not too stressful on the legs, more stressful on the mind and being mentally tough. My ankle pain spread to my calf this morning and it was killlllling. The workout was funny because I was trying to work on form and my left foot was heel striking hard and the other foot was on its toes driving the knee. Definitley awkward. Trucked on through and I'd say the cooldown jog back to the high school was almost harder than the workout hahah.

15 morning + 40 afternoon then striders

​15 morning + 20 afternoon then striders

Nice shake out run at UVU. Searched for some "Secret Tunnels" that Alex claims are under the campus. The students supposedly use them when it snows super bad so that they can get around. We never found them, but we did find some eggs in the middle of their throwing field and that was cool. I went to chew out Neptune but he promises they aren't his eggs because he has standards and would never do something like that...

15 warm then race then 25 cool

​Didn't follow through with the place of running up in the front at all. Started on the inside of the second curve and thought I was in good position but after the first 100 I was in the back of the pack behind all of the 4:50 guys. Kind of moved up throughout the first 2 laps but wasn't being brave at all. I realized this the 3rd lap and passed everyone in that pack and was reconnecting to the back of the string of top guys. Pushed hard and ended up 9th. Not amazingly proud of that race because I know that I have had so much more in me this season in the mile, but I'm just glad I finally got out of my stupid 4:40 slump. Gotta have guts and I definitely will show them tomorrow.

15 warm then race then 25 cool

Missed the school record by 1 second.. ​rats. ​Definitely the best race of my life. Coach got after me yesterday for sitting back in the mile and being a wuss, and it added to my already super determined spirits for the 2 mile today. I woke up this morning ready to run the best race of my life. It's like I knew that there was no way I could possibly do bad. Started out and just decided to stay with the front group of guys the whole time, and if they slowed the pace down, I would take control and make it my race. This definitely did not happen, and you could tell by our 4:45 firts mile (Faster than Julien's mile yesterday in the actual mile ​race hahah). I started to get tired at the end of lap 5 so I took the lead and tried to recover just a bit, and the other guys did also and they passed me back 200m later, but it definitely helped. I honestly don't think I've led a single race this whole season, so it was defs different. 500 to go and Jensen and Caleb took off, and Jaden kind of did but his wuss power activated and he decided that he couldn't catch them so he kinda just chilled. I picked it up and tried to kick it in the last lap, and I was hurting. Jaden kept on sprinting then jogging, and I caught up to him jogging with 100 to go and fought until about 20 meters left and died hard, and he got a couple steps ahead and turned back and looked at me and lifted up his arms as if to say "Really? That's all you've got?" Definitely almost punched him in the face but my good soul told me not to. Overall a freaking beast race and I'm not even that sad that I missed the record because I know that I'm gonna throw down in XC and follow through to destroy in track next year. Overall a super dope season and I'm proud and thankful for everyone who helped me along the way. See you in two weeks.

30 minutes

​7:06 avg

​Solid first run of the season. Solid as in really hard. I got my wisdom teeth out last wednesday and I haven't eaten any actual food for a few days, so I'm gonna go ahead and use that excuse because it seems pretty valid. I'm excited for during the season when the runs actually feel good and stuff and the runs feel like they're helping my body and not destroying it. Can't wait for what's going to happen this season.

#ready2rek

​30 minutes half on grass + 6 striders

7:16 avg pace

​Today was straight up 10x easier than yesterday's run. I ate two costa vida burrtios yesterday so I had a lot in my system, and I'm guessing that helped. Ran 15 min then finished on the grass with some striders.  Really confident for this upcoming season and it sucks that its like 2 months away haha. Kids club was good but I had a phsyical at 9:10 that I forgot about and my mom came to the elementary at 9 and was like "don't you have somewhere to be buddy?" Man what would I do without my mom..

​40 minutes

7:31 avg pace

Nice run felt good on the legs. Coach twisted his ankle and ate a bucket of crap so that was cool. His hand looked gnarly. Went and helped Holt's brother and dad move a giant hot tub from their backyard and onto a trailer. Extremely hard work and definitely the most stress I've ever forced my body to endure. There was a point where we were in an awkward position and it was pretty much just me and Alex holding the corner of it and luckily he is shredded because I was dying. Once we set it down he like colapsed on the ground and I had to take a sit for a second. Ripped my finger open on the very last push so that blowed. Overall a good morning because a lot happened.

1. Coach fell hard

2. We moved a giant hot tub and my biceps are gonna be huge tomorrow (if that's how muscles worked, that'd be dope)

3. I learned what Plywood was.

33 minutes + 8 striders

​7:23 avg pace

Loop down to telegraph and up the Parkway. Nice long uphill and then a quick downhill. My right quad was hurting pretty bad today. Hopefully it's just sore and I didn't hurt it or anything. It hurt especially bad during striders. Stretched it pretty good after practice and will throughout the day. Colton said there were some Nike Flyknit Racers at Ross for like $50 so I'll probably go check those out and get them today if I can. Actually, it depends on if my mom loves me enough:)

50 minutes w faster finish

7:00 avg pace

Met at Sullivan park and ran out around Shinob Kibe on the roller coaster trail. Me and J cruised on that baby and gapped everyone by a bit. Looped around and rejoined everyone for a faster finish. Started out way too quick and didn't really ease into it, but we chilled and kept a solid 6:40 pace for the last few miles. Coach wants us to start doing quicker finishes on almost every run and I think this is a great idea. Especially if it ends up working and we can do it in races. My right leg right above my quad has been hurting the last 2 days and I'm guessing it's because I've really been focusing on driving my knees up and it's just tired from that. Been stretching and draining my legs at home after practice everyday so I should be safe from any long term injuries.

35 minutes w/ 3x1 minute pickups with 4 min recovery

6:52 avg pace

Was up in Pine Valley all afternoon for my cousins wedding so I just decided to run while I was up there. Went from my grandma's cabin to the Resevoir. Very perty up there. Not too hard of a run because of the shorter minutes.

60 minutes total. 20 warm then 25 tempo and 15 cool

6:37 avg pace

Beast first workout with the boys. Missing Alex from our main group while he's at Boys' State but that's okay I guess. Had everyone with us for the first 2 laps, and Corbin fought a hard first half and clutched it up on his 3rd lap, and Evan started to die out when Corbin stopped, but we told him he could keep going and sure enough, he made it for the rest of the lap along with Colton Nathan Mikey Dylan and probably some others but I can't remember. Dylan is showing that he really wants to do good this season, and he made it with us longer than anyone else so that's clutch. Logan Julien and I pushed way hard the last lap because the freaking wind sucked, and we did a 2 man shield and just rotated. Overall not crazy hard, and it helped me foucs on being with the team and getting good positioning and then going for it at the end.

35 min + 8 striders. 20 out and 20 on grass.   Weights in afternoon

7:11 avg pace

Easy run with the first half out and finishing on grass. The sprinklers were turned on at the softball field, so it was soaking wet. And it just happens to be the coldest day of summer so far, and my feet were frozen. So frozen that when we finished and walked back to the school, i couldn't even feel the rough painful dirt on the field or the rocks on the gravel. Hopefully I didn't like puncture my foot or anything like that.

Kid's club after and some kid cried because something happened in the relay race and it was easily fixable but K-2nd graders don't understand anything and he wouldn't calm down so I started to leave him and he just followed me back crying and then when we cheered for the winners of the relay he flipped his lid. Oh darn. I don't think I'm gonna have kids...

55 minutes Easy run

7:05 avg pace

Ran upper Grapevine trail. My upper quad like where it connects to my hip on the front was hurting pretty bad again, and I honestly think it's just from the knee drive. I'll get used to it, as it's not such a pain that would prevent me from running. Ran back with level 2's and then we extended around, and we did like 2 extra loops to get our time. coach is getting old and keeps forgetting stuff...

75 minutes with 2x(1-2-1) pickups + weights in the afternoon

7:21 avg pace

First long run wasn't bad at all. Not very many people here today because of Church stuffs. I muffed up my ankle yesterday at the lake (i tripped on the way back--wasn't from doing some dangerous stupid ish). Hurt pretty bad for the first 10-15 minutes of the run but I forgot about it until I got home, and I can barely walk around my house and it's like super swollen, so that's cool. Overall beast run and shoutout to Nathan and especially Dylan because they're being freakings beast and they're gonna throw down this year. I'm excited.

50 minutes +  6 striders

7:14 avg

8:Met at Middleton Park and ran a trail out there. Last time I ran this trail I ran straight into a barbed wire line the was at like chest height and I didn't see it until last second when I had jumped over the wire on the ground, and I caught myself by grabbing onto the wire and ripping my hands open. Made sure that I didn't do that this time. Felt good throughout the whole run, and we went up a super long steep hill, and once we reached the top it was just a gradual downhill for the next 1-2 miles. Finished the run at about 6:20-30 for the last 3 miles. Striders felt good and my ankle doesn't hurt anymore. Stuck around with Jose and Julien and did some trick shots. Made a 360 halfcourt off of a bench. Some people call it luck, I call it dedication. 

55 minutes

7:04 avg pace

Really didn't want to get up this morning for some reason. Started out the run at like 8 AM and it was pretty nice feeling outside. about 15 minutes in the sun must've woken up or something because it got so freaking hot. Ran up to Highland park from my house and then back down. Hard push up that long sucky hill, and a harder push coming back with 6:40 last few miles. Came home and took a cold shower about 10 minutes after the run. I've never done that before and it felt pretty dang good. Definitely a hard push on this run and my heart rate was a lot higher than it usually is, even during workouts. Did some nice Yoga after too.

90 minute long run with 2x(1-1-2) pickups with 5 min recovery

6:54 avg pace

Felt really good today. Ran down into Hell hole and out the backway and then ran back to Sullivan and Hell Hole and ran up out of it. Had to extend out a bunch and then make a million turns on the way back because we made it to the school in time for lvl 2's at 75 minutes and we still had 15 more. Picked up the pace a bunch the last few miles. Had about 6:30 left and me and Julien were the last ones still going, and I asked him if he wanted to shoot for 13 miles. We picked it up and he had to take a shortccut to catch up to me, but I ended up running a 6:01 last mile and then just jogged straight in to finish my time. It's good to know that I can push a hard last mile after 12 of them and be cofident that I can. Stretched suuuuper good because I don't wanna get hurt. Overall a great first super long run

20 min + 20 on grass then 8 striders. Afternoon weights

7:23 avg pace

Felt fine today. Back started to tense up pretty bad during the last few striders. Gonna do some exercises to help strengthen it.

60 minutes

7:30 avg pace

Ran up turtle road and looped all over in the desert. Feeling pretty tired today from lack of sleep and from Monday's run. Gonna try to start going to bed earlier.

60 min hill workout.

20 warm. 5x1 min hills + 1x85 sec with jog down recovery and an extra minute after 3rd rep. cool to time

7:27 avg pace

Fun workout with the guys. Worked on pushing through and keeping the pace up the second half. I feel like it was a sucessful workout for mostly everyone and there was a good pack of us all together. Back started tensing up again towards the end. Hopefully I can figure this crud out

about 70-75 minutes

negative split

MY WATCH DIED AND I LOST MY CHARGERRRRRRRRRRRR. So that sucks. Ran with Colton and Mikey up the hill into middleton and then back down for a negative split run. Smart thinking from Colton. Just used his milage and then ran around the mall and guessed on how much further than him I went. Pretty chill run for me, Mikey and Colt seemed dead tho. Did some nice stretching today and did some productive stuff like cleaned out my truck and my room. Good day.

p.s. found my watch charger! Gooder day.

95 minutes

3x(1-1-2) pickups with 5 min recovery between reps 

7:03 avg pace

Beast long run. Felt super good the whole time. Mikey finally made it through a run without puking... or so I thought. He literally had 200 meters until the school and he started hurling all over, so that was cool. Me and Logan picked it up and got a solid last mile in 6:25. It was the longest 6 min of my life tho, because I was a little tired from the whole run and we had to loop around the school once and a half times to finish so that sucked. Overall felt like a good accomplishing run.

20 out, 15 on grass, then 8 striders. Weights and 15 min run in afternoon

7:28 avg AM, 7:13 PM

Felt fine today. Grass felt good on my feet. Weights and run were good because there was a nice breeze today. Meeting about traffic lights. Green is good.

65 minutes

7:53 avg

Felt pretty good today. Ran dino cliffs and it has a lot of nice uphills and downhills. I really liked it because it wasn't like sandy up hills, it was rocky. So you could just bound up the hill and not slip everywhere because you could actually push off of the ground quickly. Nice easy hilly run

60 minutes Dirt Mile tempo for 25 minutes 

55 minutes

"Small horse"

80 minutes -- Tempo for last 10 minutes

85 min -- some sort of pickups. i don't remember

50 minutes

roller coasters with Colton

50 minutes

60 minute hill workout -- 5x1 min uphill and 1x85 sec last rep. Jog down recovery with extra minute after 3rd rep.

Really solid workout from everybody. Had a lot of guys pushing really hard.

45 minutes + 8 striders

Felt like poop today and we went to Sandberg's and swam across and it was exhausting. Bad idea

80 minutes

Went out to Hurricane to try and find the sick Canal place that coach spoke of. Failed pretty bad because we thought we would get out a lot sooner than we did, so we had to flip before we could even get down on the canal trail. Alex and Julien took a detour on the way back to check it out, and we just drove and picked them up at the park. Definitley going to run it again some time soon.

Well I'm back! Haven't blogged in about two weeks and I'm sad to say that I have no valid excuse. I'll update the last two weeks in the mornign because it's pretty late right now. Can't sleep because I'm thinking really hard about a lot of things.

*Warning* super long random venting of feelings ahead

Well once upon a time I wanted to be a state champion and run on a state champion team. I also wanted to race at Nike Nationals. I once was so dedicated that I went to bed on time every single night and I blogged everyday and I worked hard at everything I did. Lately, however, I've made all of this seem like a dream. I haven't been fully focused on what's most important to me. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's because it's summer. Maybe it's because I think I'm already good enough. But maybe it's because I'm scared. I thought a lot this week and realized how hard these goals are going to be. I think about all of the people who thing they are too unrealistic. People who are close to me and who I really wish would believe in them too. And that's what scares me. The fact that it's going to be difficult and not everyone will stand by my side. But I have come to realize at this late hour that it doesn't matter. Any dream can happen if you just be persistent and follow through with the plan. We've made our goals for this year and I've improved so much and I know that I can improve a lot more, and become the amazing athelete that I want to become. And I know I'm rambling but I can't sleep and I'm just coming to the realization that I can do it. We can do it. I just need to remember why and how I was once so committed, and start living that way again. I'm gonna start blogging every day and doing everything that I need to do in order to be great. This week has been really chill and I've liked it, but I'd rather be pushing just a bit harder in life and doing great things, then sitting at home in December having a "chill" time.

95 minutes 1-2-1-3-1-3 minute pickups with 3 min recovery

7:27 avg pace

Felt super good today. Not as much distance as usual, because we went up like 500 hills and started out pretty easy. Back started tensing up in the last 10 minutes. Getting some physical therapy sessions scheduled so hopefully I can get into those soon.

20 + 20 on grass + 8 striders

7:30 avg

Nice grass run today. We finally got the nice baseball field back because all of the scrubs are done practicing every Tuesday. Felt really good this morning

2.9 miles in 20 min then weights after

Had to run before weights today because I had work at 4. Also had a captains meeting at 2:15 so I ran at like 1:30. Felt really good because I haven't ran by myself in a long time. Thought a lot about how epic it'll be when one day people are like "Hey, I used to see that guy running by my house every once in a while, and now he's famous!" That would be the cooliest thing ever

75 min

Went and ran the Sand Hill to see exactly how long it is. Coach wants to do some sort of workout time trial thing on it. Sounds like a good idea, but it was freaking hard. SO MUCH SAND. 

60 minutes

Good workout today. I felt super great and could've gone longer for sure. Not sure about the rest of the guys. Our goal was to have 5 of us for most of the workout, and we barely had 3 at the end. Some people are out of town, but it still would be nice to know that we have a lot of depth. I'm pretty sure we'll all get to where we need to be once the season starts. I trust that everyone will step up and do what needs to be done. 

60 + 6 striders

7:30 avg pace

Went to Bloomington Hills Park, AKA the region course AKA time trial course AKA Desert Relays course AKA the place where I sucked super bad last year and I'm not very fond of because of my memories there. Ran the 2 mile loop and it made me excited for our time trials and our Desert Relays. Ready to do very well in those. Went and ran out on the river trail and found a beast pink semi-deflated ball and KICKED IT for quite a while, until I shot it up in the air and the wind carried it down to the river. Pretty sad moment for all of us, but especially me. I made a very strong connection with that ball, and then I accidentaly killed it. The rest of my day was pretty bad because of it.

80 minutes 5x1 minute pickups w/ 4 min recovery

8:56 avg pace

Well today's run sucked for all of us. Grant Julien Mikey and Jose. We went and ran Chuckwala trail and it was all fun and stuff and we got to the cool lookout cliff, but we were only 20 minutes out, so we decided to run down the mountain on Scout Cave trail and go check out the cool caves in the wall. Stopped for probably a lot longer than we should've and had fun climbing and almost dying. The run back up was incredibly exhausting and it sucked. We were going pretty dang slow and it was super hot and we were tired from stopping and running up the super steep hill. Julien was pukin and stuff and Jose flipped early and ended up getting lost and Grant Mikey and I were just dead tired. Went to Orange Peel after and got some nice yummy *healthy* smoothies. 

95 minutes Hard push up and down sandhill

Well if that isn't fun then I don't know what is! Ran up the Sand hill in a pushing the pace type of effort, and it was definitely hard. It was hard to keep pushing the pace once we got to the top and it got flat, but I managed. Pushed way hard down and Julien kept creeping up on me trying to pass me at the end and I was dying. All I could think of is "this is gonna be Nike, and if this dude passes me, we don't go to Nationals." and I pushed freakin hard and held the lead. Stopped for a while to get sand out of shoes and wait for people. I definitely agree with Anakin Skywalker and his thoughts about sand. Rest of the run was pretty chill. Really tired but we kept going a good pace.

60 total

Got like 5 minutes of warmup was all and then cooled to time after the race. Stayed the night in Enterprise with Colton and Logan so that was dope. Ran like a solid 5:55 pace for the first two miles, even though we did like 3 pickups to try and go quicker. Scottie was freakin killin it and Colton kinda died at the end and Logan had to poop so it was just me and Scottie and I just picked it up barely enough to beat him by like one second. I felt pretty fine and definitely could've gone faster, but I was treating it more like a workout than a race so I just stuck at 5:55 pace. I noticed how different the mindset is going into a race than it is when going into a workout. We ran the race at about the same pace that we do tempos, but we do Tempos for like 25 minutes and they are a nice push, whereas this race it seemed like it required a lot of effort to push any faster. Not sure how to explain it better than that, but overall just a nice insight I had.

60 min 8.3 miles 

7:25 avg pace

randomized workout of 3 sets of 5 Tempo Threshold or CV, and 1 set of 3

Felt perty good. My back started hurting after the third set and I thought we were done but coach surpised us with another one. Wasn't too bad so I just finished the workout and ran the cooldown. Paces were a lot better this week than last, so an improvement for sure.

Afternoon:

30 min 4.3 miles

6:55 avg pace

Ran at like 9 because I felt like poop all day and took a 4 hour nap. Then when I was getting ready for bed I was like "yo how committed are you" and I put my shoes on and went for a run. It felt nice because it was late and not burny hot outside.

100 minutes last 15 minutes fast finish

Felt super good today. Really long run but luckily it didn't feel like it. Stopped a couple of times for people's potty breaks, but I would've liked to just keep going. Came home and drank chocoalte milk and a gatorade protein shake so that's good. Been doing stretches for my back and I think it's getting a little better.

60 min

7:38 avg

Ran Prospector with Alex, Colton, Logan, and Jose. The weather was soooo nice today and I was like zoned out the whole run just imagining future races so it was an amazing run. Also saw a cool spider so that was cool.

We were somewhat rushed to start, and I only managed to get one stride out in, but I'm totally fine with that because it gave me less time to stress on the starting line. I started out pretty dang strong and quick and I felt amazing. Got in good positioning in the back middle of the front pack. Alex was right behind me and reconnected just a bit before the first mile marker. We were making good progress and using open areas in between people to pass and it was clutch. It's like our minds were connected and we were thinking the same thing. At like 1.5 I started to make more surges and got closer to the front. At mile 2 I was in like 10th, and Coach Holt told me to get 5 more guys. At first I was like dude man cmon 5 is a lot. But then, I realized dude why not, I felt freakin good so I definitely can. Pushed again and could see the leader and with about 800 to go I had a split second thought to start pushing super hard and go win. Looking back on the race, I know for A FACT that I could have accomplished that. I saved just a bit of energy and sat behind 5th and 6th place until before the hill, and I passed 6 right before and 5 right when I got on top. Almost caught up to 4 (who was totally dead) but he sprinted the last 10 meters and beat me by .03 seconds. Anyways, looking back on the race at the moment I thought about winning....

It's kind of interesting to me, how racing works. Coach Holt and most importantly, my mom, didn't have any doubts about how well I would perform. My mom said if I took top 5, I won't have to pay her back for this new video game I bought. I asked her to change it to top 10, because "that's more realistic." After arguing with her about it, she said that top 10 would suffice, but that doesn't mean I should settle. Coach Holt asked me earlier in the week if I was ready to run with "the big dogs." I told him heck yes, and I knew it was gonna be tough, but I have my goals and I want to be freaking good one day. I completely forgot about the conversation my mother and I had about the game, and I ended up taking 5th anywas. She told me that she knew I could do it, and honestly, I wish I would've seen it too. Because after the race I realized that with 800 left, I definitely should have pushed up and tried to win. I had enough energy after I finished that I realized that I would've still had the same kick, and I could have put that energy in earlier. It's' all about how much you believe in yourself, and not saying "I'm already in 7th, I'll just past these couple of guys' but instead saying, "I'm Carson freaking Horspool and I can do anything."

At Bob Firman, I'm not going to have any doubts.

I'm going to run with "The Big Dogs"

I'm going to beat "The Big Dogs"

Because I am a "Big Dog."

70 minutes w 2-1-3-2-1-2 pickups with 5 min recovery

9.9 mi

7:13 avg

Ran the state course. Was super good and after yesterday's race, I am way pumped for state this year. I ran a little extra at the end and just finished the course up until the blocked off gate and visualized finishing the race. Ryan Raff ended up beating me on the track, but I held off Caleb and Jensen. Not really sure where Bryson and Alex were... oops. But it was super awesome and I got the chills and I'm so ready to rek.

80 minutes w 8x100 hills somewhere in run

10.65 mi.

7:31 avg

Nice run this morning. Ran a different route up on the road that takes you out to Snow Canyon and we dropped down on that super steep hill that leads down to Diagonal Street. Then just ran back and extended a teeny bit. Felt pretty good except for the back of my right ankle is kinda hurting. I'll make sure to ice it later.

20

2.88 mi.

7:16 avg

Well the guys team has decided that I'm not a good captain and that I should be kicked off. It really sucks that they don't understand that I work my b*tt off in everything I do, and that they are clearly friggin jealous of how much better than them I am. It really sucks when you let those things ruin your judgement about how awesome someone is. I just feel really, really sorry for them. Ran with Alex and Evan and talked about the show 24 so that was cool.

Started out a bit too fast I think. Got in the back of the lead pack in probably like 30th-40th place. Got to the beach section and hadn't really made any progress. Did a pickup in the surge zone and passed a few, but when I got to the hill some kids slowed down hardcore in front of me so I slowed and passed them quickly on the right, and I think I used a lot of energy there. Push down the hill super fast and I think it was unecessarily fast. Felt pretty burnt out once the hill ended, and it wasn't even halfway through the race yet. Ended up staying where I was and having only a few people pass me until the end. 

I think that starting out crazy fast and making crazy fast surges (such as the hill) just aren't good for me. I need to just do my own little pickups throughout the race like I usually do. Although this wasn't a good race at all to me, I did learn from it, and Cedar Invite will be a good one.

Better race than usual. I was being a wussbag and didn't pass the 2 dudes in front of me at the end, and I waited until Bryson got up behind me and I outsprinted him. D-bag move I'd say. Either way, I beat him..

Ran super well with Alex and Nathan for the first mile. Connected with Spence and he was having a super good race. Alex and I passed him on the uphill and kept pushing up. Did really good in our surge zone, which was that whole top section. When we came back and turned the corner, Alex slipped and fell down the hill. I kept looking back for him and Coach yelled at me lol. He ended up catching up but eventually fell off. I pushed up and caught Josh Armstrong from Hurricane once I got to the track. He wouldn't give up and we pushed up to Bryson and some Timp View dude by the time we got to the downhill sidewalk. Bryson Josh and I fought all the way down the sidewalk, and Bryson kinda fell off at the end of it. Josh pushed hard up that hill and got in front of me by the track. Then I acted like a wuss and whatnot and didn't cath them.

Overall a good race for me. After sucking it up at Bob Firman this made me feel pretty good about myself. We barely won the meet by 3 over DH and 6 over Hurricane. This just show that we have a lot of work to do if we want to win State. Like it isn't going to come easy. Caleb is freaking beasting it, and I think I need to be somewhere near him if I want us to place better. He ran like a 14:47 at the region course for the Hurricane meet, so I'm hoping to go sub 15:00. I just gotta figure out all of the stress and stuff in my life so that I can run to the best of my ability.

5:30 AM

80 min long run with long progression

11.4 mi 7:00 avg

Nice run with the Varsity boys. Missed Julien. Ran a cool loop out towards Bloomington Hills and back into Washington Fields. Dropped to like 6:45 the last 3 or 4 miles. Finished with 2 F pace 200s. Practiced kicking my feet back because I watched some Olympic races yesterday and they kick really hard and I noticed I don't that much. Overall a good run and felt fine.

Side note: In the locker room, I had just finished getting ready and it was just Parker, Evan, and I. I reached down to grab my backpack but it was under my opened locker, and so I slammed the locker shut because my bag was stuck hooked on it and the locker hit me in the head and I fell on the ground and passed out. Was pretty loopy and out of it for like an hour, but I recovered after doing some hardcore math.

4:00 PM

25 min grass run

3.5 mi 7:07 avg

Nice run on the Softball field. Tried some blind running (closing your eyes and running) and had Logan direct me. Pretty scary but I trusted him a lot. Gave up after about a lap and saw like 40 shadows and I just freaked out. Mikey and Nathan were doing it later and their leaders (JD and Dylan) led them into each other and they colided heads hard. That's 3 head injuries in one day so that sucks.

6:15 AM

Weights and 15 min run

2 mi 7:25 avg

Nice run. Freshman race between Boston and Scottie. There were a few erroros on both sides that we had to settle, and in the end neither of them won.

3:45 PM

45 minutes

5.5 mi 8:05 avg

Nice run out in Snow Canyon while we waited for the race. Played some basketball with Allie Parr after at a nearby church and it was super fun. Boston did super good so good job Boston.

Well all great things have to end one day, I guess. Ran well the first 2 miles and was in posisition. Does our and tried to stay connected to Alex and Julien. Julien ran really well and took off, Alex and I died out. Finished 14th. Would’ve won if I took 7th, which is worse than I was planning anyways. Win some you lose some. We did really well and tried pretty hard. Regardless of how we ended up, we all pushed pretty hard. PVXC Forever.

Now on to Nike. 

AM 11.69 Mi

80 min progression run

6:51 avg

Felt exceedingly well today. My ankle is no longer preventing me to run my best and my form was quite well mannered. I look forward to this week and next, the latter containing the most important event in my life to date.

PM 3.35 mi

25 min grass run

7:12 avg

AM 2.08 mi 

15 minutes with weights

7:13 avg

Getting back into weights. Haven’t done them for a while Bc of my back.

PM 7.68 mi

55 min

7:07 avg

Nice run up Green Springs and up into north bridge. Hills kind of hurt my ankle but I think it’s fine

AM 3.39 mi

24 min

7:08 avg

PM 8.61

60 min 5x 3:20 @ 5k pace

6:56 avg

First workout all year that I’ve actually struggled with. Not sure why though. My lungs and gut just hurt real bad. I tried treating it like a race and forcing myself to fight through it, but after the 3rd and 4th reps I thought I wa going to die. Led the last one for the most part until the end but I stuck in there and only fell off by like a second or two. Was a good workout that reminded me that I need to fight if I want to be great.

AM 2.02 mi

15 min and weights

7:12 avg

PM 7.61 mi

55 min

7:11 avg

Was pretty tired today and felt like cutting back a few minutes early but I ended up pushing through the end. I’m pretty beat up physically and mentally from yesterday. 

AM 3.56 mi

25 min + plyos + yoga

7:04 avg

PM 9.08 mi

60 min w strong finish and striders

6:37 avg

Up the giant turkey farm hill and back. Pushed pretty hard down the hill. Finished sub 6 the last 3 miles. Felt good to go hard at the end. 

Ran Logan’s mile thing for hygiene kits for homeless kids later so that was cool. 

AM 4.08 mi

40 min

Slow avg with very many stops and jogs