Runners don't shake hands. Runners gotta hug.

AM: 4 miles easy before we packed up and left camp, still some pain in my foot. Thinking I will just take the weekend easy give some time for my foot pain to go away. Camp was everything and more than I hoped it to be. Just amazing.

AM: 5 miles easy today, no tempo miles. Just took it easy, my foot was feeling better than at camp but there was still pain and aching. Taking the afternoon off to see how my foot feels.

No run today just rest and my foot feels better, hopefully no pain next week. Cross your fingers!

AM: 6Xmile up on the dirt mile today. I was feeling good, I put some biofreeze on my foot today before practice. There was still a little soreness. 1- 6:07 2- 6:03 3- 5:52 4- 5:56 5- 5:49 6- 5:50. I was feeling good I just tried to not think about my foot and it worked for the most part, great workout.. very pleased with it.

PM: Easy 3 with weights and plyos. Great afternoon!

Doc Appt. tomorrow to get foot x-rayed and figured out. Hoping all goes well.

AM: Had something new today. It was like our 30/30 workout but instead of 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off we had 1 minute on and 1 minute it off (1/1). My goal was 15. Since Byron is cruising (lucky dog) Coach Holt did the workout today with me, which was great. I was glad. We started and I was feeling so good, legs felt fresh.. Had biofreeze on my foot and the first 5 flew by. It was the next 10 that would get harder and harder. Just focused on 1 at a time. Around 7ish my foot had its usual pain but I wasn't going to let that stop me from getting 15 so I pushed through it and reached my goal of 15. The last 3 I even ran more than I was supposed to, my legs were just feeling so good. The workout was good and I felt that I did really well. So far a good day.

DOC APPT: Went over to Zion Orthopedic to get my foot x-rayed. Then came the good/bad news. They found NO stress fractures so that was definitely good news but what they did figure out was that my foot pain was what is called Peroneal Tendonitis. There is two tendons that run around the outside of the ankle, on hooks on to the little bone of the side of your foot and the other wraps around to the top of the foot. The tendonitis is in the one that hooks to the bone on the side of my foot. The doc said to not run the rest of the week and give it a mile on Monday to see how it feels and go from there. He also recommended that I don't compete in Cedar's race on Tuesday. I would much rather not race Cedar than miss one later in the season that is way more important. I am just really glad I caught this when I did so I can get on top of it before the big meets come along. Started the day off good but now that I know what is wrong with my foot my day has been great and I'm going to get my foot better as fast as I can!

Goals for remainder of this week are to keep icing my foot and stay off of it as much as possible. Also to keep a positive attitude while I can't run so I can come back very strong. Lastly, get into the pool at least once a day to remain in the shape I am in right now.

AM: This morning I ran 1.5. After taking the weekend off I was just going to see how it felt and there was some pain but better than before so that is good. 

PM: A good one mile run with Coach then weights afterwards. Solid running today, definitely was good to run again! 

AM: Just a mile to see how the foot feels, it feels better. The ice and ibuprofen is paying off!

PM: 3 miles around cedar high school, cheering the team on! They did great, always a positive in a race no matter what. Really wanting to race but gotta save it for SUU so I can be ready to rock and roll for the big meets. Lovin' life despite dumb tendonitis 

AM: no run, get into the swing of school

PM: two miles out to walmart and back, wishing I could go farther and run with my boys but there is always next week! Foot feelin' better. 

AM: One miler with Krenny and Chan. Felt good on the way back, even felt good after the run!

PM: 2.5 miles out with the boys to their hill workout but I just flipped it and ran back to the school. Felt good on the way back, went at a little faster pace.

AM: A nice one miler in the morn before school with Krenny and Chandler, felt good!

PM: Good 3.5 with Dave. No pain really and we even stopped because Dave had to clean up a bloody nose. Little pain after the whole run though, nothing to bad. Pretty warm day but a good one at that!

AM: 4 miles easy out in Hurricane because of a race. Everyone on the team did excellent so that was a success. Just did 4 miles easy with Krenny and Kyler because we didn't race along with some other guys but no pain till a puppy was chasing us and we had to stop to make sure it didn't go to far from home. Seems like if I stop a little pain finds its way to my foot but it is definitely getting better so that is a big two thumbs up!

AM: 2 miles easy with David and Paul, it was good to go farther than a mile in the morning.

PM:6 miles which was good for me for the last few weeks. Started with a .5 mile warm up and we did our agilities and such then we went on a 2 mile warm up for our workout. We had 6Xmile but with my foot I only did 2 and it felt super super good. I was so glad to go fast again with my boys. Just glad that my foot is getting better! One mile cool down as well.

AM: Same 2 miler with the same guys, it was good.

PM: 2 miles today after school because of pain in foot, wishing I could have ran the 10 miler with the guys but that will come with time.

AM: 2 miles easy with some of the other hurting guys.

PM: 7 miles. Another workout for me and I was excited to go fast again.. I haven't done much in the last week and a half if you haven't noticed so I love workout days because I love going fast. We had our 1/1 workout. I was feeling soo good, I did 8 of them which was a big confidence boost. Looking forward for the race this weekend.

AM: 2 miles easy in the morning warmth.

PM: 7 miles. A hill workout.. YES. Love me some hills. We did old man hills today we had 4X800 meter gradual hills. I did 3 of them. The first two I just stuck right with Byron for a good pace and we really worked on pushing the last 400. The last one I pushed past Byron and I really needed that to give me some more confidence for this weekends race. Hopefully all goes well and the foot holds up well like it has been lately!

AM: 2 miles on the grass today, that was a good change for the morning!

PM: 5 miles easy with my boys, it was good to go a full run with them, getting excited for the race. Feeling confident, hope all goes well with team night tonight.

Before race stuff: Had to be up early and get over to catch the bus at 6:30 to head up to Cedar in time for the JV girls. I was feelin super confident after our amazing team night. I was ready to rock and roll and nothing was going to stop me.. not even my foot. (no pain in foot by the way) ... warmed up around 2 miles and still no pain, feeling awesome but then the race was postponed due to weather. Really just tried to stay in the racing mindset and I did pretty good for the most part.

RACE: No time for nerves to set in. Got right up to the line and started within a few minutes. The gun with off and I took off pretty quick to stay up with Marsing (Carbon) as well as the other guys up front. If you know me at all I hate to be in the pack, I love the open view of what is in front of me. So I lead for a little bit till my boy Byron was right next to me and it felt soo great. Not gonna lie we looked good(; ANYWAYS.. I knew that we were unstoppable together, we always work so hard together in workouts and today we were going to work hard to the finish. We lead side by side for a little bit with Marsing close behind and McPhie (DHells) right there as well. On the "down hill" part of the race I heard Byron yell and grab his hammy and I thought "Oh crap, he just pulled something" (glad he didn't though!) Now it was just me with Marsing and McPhie as well as some other guys. I really pushed to maintain good placing. Before long my arms were pretty sore and I was breathing pretty hard and McPhie and Marsing just kept getting a little farther ahead and I was just trying to keep a strong push to the finish. Up the last "up hill" part I was really hurting and I knew that I had slowed down but I still had some ground to make up and I thought if I gave it a good push down the other side into the chute to the finish maybe I could catch someone. It just didn't happen and tried to throw a kick in there and I just didn't have the energy. I just need to get in the shape I was in before my tendonitis. There isn't a doubt in my mind that myself as well as Byron can't beat those guys it just didn't happen today. We had good grouping with Myself, Byron and Kyler. Everyone on the team did amazing and we will get better as time goes on.

Goals for next week leading to the Grass Relays: Stay healthy, drink lots of water, get into better shape and keep a confident and positive attitude.