Addison Hedges Running

Today was just an easy run out on the canal road to get ready for the meet. Jake and I didn't go super easy because we are just pacing some of the slower varsity runners, so we're not going for any pr's or anything.

Today was the dual meet against Northridge. Jake had looked at some times and found that they had 2 guys who would be a little bit slower than us, but since we had to pace this race we thought we were just going to have to watch those guys run away from us without being able to do anything about it. As it turns out, they weren't on our level of speed, hahaha so we beat them even though we had to hold back and pace our other runners. 

I ended up taking 2nd to Talon, as usual. Once we hit the two mile mark Chili said we could just go all out, so thats where I passed Jake and started going hard. It was actually a pretty fun and easy race.

Fast run today. We did 7.5 and we were supposed to go pretty hard. I ran with Jake for a while, then moved ahead. Then as usual, right when I hit 6 miles I have to crap. I thought about stopping, but I was hitting a solid pace so i just kept going... bad idea. I finnished with an intense sprint into the nearest bathroom at Weber, but my pace was 5:54 so i was happy.

So today was one of coach Hansen's crazy circuits. Im not even going to try to explain it because most of the time I had no idea what I was doing, but Brayden, Paul, and I ended up doing 8 sets of stairs (all the way around the bleachers was 1 set) and a ton of burpies and squats. It was ok, though because my rear end could use some good toning.

Just 4 miles tonight, and a ton of uphill mountain biking.

Fairly easy day today with the gang. We just took it nice and easy and didn't really worry about pace.

Today was the day we've all been dreading. 16x 400 meters. Last year I felt like death during this workout, so I wasn't really looking forward it this year. 

We started out with an easy warm up, then got started. Jake and I were supposed to be hitting 71-72's, but Chili told us we should try to do the whole thing under 70's, which has only been done by a few kids at Weber ever. Jake and I ran together at the bigining then I pushed a little faster for the rest. We both ended up doing the whole thing under 70's so that was great. My spits were 67, 66, 66, 66, 67, 68, 66, 68, 66, 67, 66, 67, 67, 69, 66, 64. Then we finished with a short cool down.

Long run today. We did 10 miles down past Orion Jr. High, then up to mountain road, along to the canal, then back on the canal to Weber. It was just Jake and I, and we both felt awful. I managed to run it at a 6:10 pace, and Jake was just a few minutes behind.

4 miles today at an easy pace getting ready for Herriman tomorrow. I can already tell that it's going to be rough, due to our 2 hard workouts this week.

This race was awful. They had made a course adjustment from last year, and the new path went through the dustiest stuff i've ever seen, and made the course slower. Not to mention how hot it was. 

As soon as my race started, I new it was going to hurt, a lot. My legs were already sore and tired. I ended up taking 13th, but I got the shirt, and i've wanted that shirt since last year so that kind of helped. I was 1:35 off the winning time.

Today was an easy day to get ready for city county. We just went out and back on the canal road.

Still tapering for city county tomorrow. 

So it was pouring rain today, and we weren't allowed to hold the city county race. This was actually probably a blessing because I havn't really been feeling very good this whole week.

Instead of the actual meet we just did our own meet, sort of. The slowest person went first and the fastest went last, so theoretically we should all finnish at the exact same time, but that never happens. I ended up running a 16:03, so no PR, but thats ok. It was still fun.

Today was the torch run. We ran the torch from Northridge to Weber for the homecomming football game. We each were assigned to a group, and each group had certain legs to run. Brayden and I found a massive cactus, and after I dug it out with a conveniently placed crowbar we took it on the bus. Then for no apparent reason, McKenna threw it out the window, this led to some extreme rage from me and Brayden, because we had sacrificed our hands for that cactus. 

Henry, Jake, Talon, Brayden, and I all decided to run extra legs just for fun, so we all ran close to a half marathon. We found lots more random artifacts including a tail pipe that fell off a car. Most of these items myseriously disapeared before we got to Weber...

Easy day to prep for Wahsatch tomorrow.

Wahsatch Rendezvous was today. I ran in the #2 varsity runner race and took 2nd to Adam Jensen, who was Lone Peak's fastest runner, but happened to be in the 2nd race. My time of 16:15 put me in 8th place over all. 56 seconds off the winner (Talon Hull). This course is pretty comparable to the State course.

Hard hill workout today up 500 West. We did 10 repeats up the almost .25 mile hill. Most of my splits were 1:30's. We had the heart rate monitors out and we based our recovery time off of our heart beat. Talon and I didn't get a lot of recovery because by the time we had jogged to the bottom, our hear rate had recovered so we had to go again.

Semi long run today. I averaged 6:25 pace, because there's a meet tomorrow.

Today we raced Roy. We knew we would win so it was just kind of for fun/ practice. Chili had us do a longer warm up, then told us that we needed to make the last mile of the race our fastest mile. I felt good and ran relaxed. I ended up breaking 16 but it was 2.95 so converted it wasn't quite in the 15's, so bummer that I didn't really PR, but I will eventually.

4 miles at moderate pace for recovery today.

4x 1 mile repeats, and 2x 800's. We ran down to Shady lane park and ran on our mile repeat course. I was having a really bad day today, and barely hit my times for the miles. (5:20) Everyone was giving out after 4 so Chili said we could break the 5th mile into 2 800's. This was much easier and I beat my times on both of them. After the workout we ran back to Weber.

5.5 kind of easy miles today to start our taper for city county on Wednesday.

Nothing special today. Just more tapering for the race.

We finally had City-County today. I was nervous, and just really wanted to finally get a PR. Ogden was our biggest competition and we had our work cut out to beat them. We ended up taking 2nd as a team, just missing the win by 7 points. Talon was only 2 seconds behind Alek Parsons, and I took 6th. I got a new PR. (3 mile converted: 15:51) I beat the Winter twins and was the fastest Sophomore in the race.