Anything Will Burn If the Furnace is Hot Enough

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.