Desert Chiva Running

615am- Back to work. 30 minutes. I was really struggling on this run because the muscle on the side of my shin was super tight and it was hard. I really wish Macen would get better cuz its lonely being the only freshman at morning practice.

3pm- It was early out today and me and Macen went to my house and chilled and ate food and watched parcore fails on youtube. Also we played some pool but we didnt get to finish cuz Nick came to pick us up. Early outs are some of the only days that I can get to practice on time so I got to do all of agilities and such. They sucked. I dont like them much. Me and Macen chilled on the warmup like 30 seconds behind everybody. We got to do some mile repeats today. #1 was nice and good like 520. I cant remember my times all exactly but they were all in the low 520s. #2 was hard and it sucked but that is probly cuz I wasnt trying. #3 I got my but in gear and stuck right on the pack and took the lead for the 3rd lap. #4 lead for the ffirst 800m and then I just let the pack work for me and I kept all my repeats nice and consistant. I finished off with 2x300s all out. Those were like 44 and 43. After that was done we went and lifted. I was feeling really weak but I benched like 250 anyways. Doesnt get much better than this.

615am- 4 miles easy around the town in the rain. Everybody keeps giving me crap for wearing no sleeves. yolo

3pm- We had like 60 minutes or so. We went down mainstreet and then we went down Hells Hole. We stopped at the bathrooms and after like 6 minutes Nick finally finished. Then he went back in for like 10 more minutes and we just left him. It was cold and sucky

615- A cold 30 minutes. Really cold.

3pm- Beast 400 workout. I did like 10 of them all around 110. My mama left to Costa Rica so we are probably having ciniman rolls for dinner.

3pm- I didnt do a morning run cuz I didnt want to. Shame on me but I did get some really nice extra sleep. Today was pre-race because tomorrow is Hurricane allcomers. We did foremaster backwards and it was sucky and uphill. Got some 200s in after and they were fun.

615am- Nice 30 minutes not to bad

330pm- Hurricane allcomers- 1600m

First of all I would like to say that I very much dislike the city of Hurricane. It is my least favorite city in Utah. It allways puts me in a bad mood. Anyways on the way over to the meet I discovered the game Pancake on iphone, its so fun, definitly the highlight of my day. They started the meet 30 minutes early so I didnt warmup or stretch or change into my racing socks we just headed over and ran. I was slow like 454 or so but idek if they even timed the race. I dont know what place I got either. Whateverrrrrr idecare. I would rather not talk about the high jump but at least I didnt make people laugh at me. Thruout this whole meet I just randomly went on small runs to get miles in. I really liked watching my bros run 300m hurdles :) My dad gave me 10$ for food and such but Nick spent it because he claims that dad gave it to him even though he aready spent the money dad gave him. I dont even want to talk about that cuz he just is just not smart sometimes. I destroyed in the 4x4. Dead last. I put in a suprising amount of effort just to get last. The whole time it was freezing and freakin windy. Still really fun first track meet though

10am- 80 minutes on the prospecter trail all alone. Nice thinking sesh.

8am- K so today we did some mile repeats and I was having trouble. The first one wasnt bad like 524 or so but the next 2 were around 530 and 536. The last one was like 525 again. The problem was that on the 3rd lap I was getting like total system failure. I felt like my intestines were turning inside out, I couldnt breathe, and also I felt like throwing up. It made pushing myself insanely hard.

3pm- for my after noon run I didnt feel like getting out in the world so I did a treadmill run and I synchronized both the upstairs and downstairs tvs so that I could listen to parks and rec on the headphones which are only available on the upstairs tv but the treadmill was downstairs. It was very complicated but totally worth it.

8am- Yeah today was real good. We went on the river trail and looped it all the way around arctic circle. I wish I could describe where we went but I dont know the names of roads so too bad. It was a very eventful run. Preston saved Skylars life but then he went and tripped over a suspended chain and broke his watch :)

3pm- We went and shot some guns over by the border. I killed a lizard with a 22 and I felt kind of bad but not really. Me and Nick ran from there back along the road. We explored a little community and discovered a sweet basketball court and big field and also a small pond. It was a park. We ran like 30 minutes and I saw some dead animals on the side of the road like scattered birds and rabbits. 

8am- hardcore 10x400 workout. We put some hurdles up and coach told us to hit them if we were feeling bad a :) which I was ;) it was hard but real good. No afternoon run but I did eat insane amounts of candy

8am- mustang pass. 60 minutes. 

8am- We did old man hills today. Me Nick and Mitch had 800,400,200,800,400,200, and then another 400 and 200 to finish it off. I felt pretty good and stuff but it was still super hard. Directly following this workout I invented a new pace called ReCool #1. The Re stands for return as in a cool down returning from an out and back run. Cool stands for cool down. The #1 means basicly if your speed was on a scale from 1 to 100 it would be a 1. So my cool down was nice and slow. And lonely, nobody was as slow as me but whatever they were missing out. Coach found some Amino Fuel on the ground and gave it to Cam who gave it to Nick who gave it to me. It was cherry bomb flavor so I kept it. I even tried some when I got home- it smelled like bread but it tasted like dark wild cherry flavored protein. I was kind of scared that I would throw up but I didnt which is good.

3pm- 30 minutes on the treadmill again. Idk why I did it on the tread mill but I watched some more parks and rec while I ran.

11am- I didnt really want to run today but Im not a loser so I did anyways. I was going to do my tempo on the track but I decided to do it on the river trail. I stopped at the bathroom at sullivans park, and then I started my tempo. I did a sessiion of 10 minutes at 540 pace and then a session of 5 minutes at 530-20 pace. It was hard and I sweated a ton. When I was done my blood circulation was heightening my senses and I discovered some Desert Chiva footprints. They might have been something else but Im pretty sure they were goat tracks. Then as my heart rate slowed I also discovered some red ants on the rock I was sitting on. I was tired though so I just let them crawl on me. The rest of my run I haad a really sucky side ache and I went like ReCool #2 or #3 pace (nearing 10 minute pace) hehe. Yeah I smell real bad right now so im gonna go take a shower probably.

3pm- Im layin off the morning runs for a bit because my lower leg area is really sore and fragile lately. I been icing my anterior tibialis and stretching and watching parks and rec and the same time #multitasker. During 3rd period I ate like 2 1/2 packs of skittles (which is approxamately 30 tsp of sugar) and I was on a major sugar crash during practice.

We did 4x1600s today and I felt like taking a nap in the middle of the workout. Suprisingly I did quite good. The first 3 I was sticking with the pack real good and the last one I took the lead at the start and lead the entire time. Im pretty sure it was because I took my shirt off, it helped me push that last one good. Every last lap of the repeats I hit the hurdles because of strengenthing is important. keepin it reallllll

3pm- 30 minutes easy with Skyler and Macen. Everybody left us on acount of we are freshman and nobody waits around for the true gangstas. We went and did a random loop around some neighborhoods. Went shirtless cuz it was hot.

Pine View held a stellar youngster meet today. Me and Korbin found a sick pair of Oakleys and they were so fun to wear like seriously I get why they would cost 300 bucks they are so sweet. Yeah so I was showing off my new shades and I remembered that I had to call 1law to get sponsor money from them. I went to the glass room to make this important buisness transaction. I got cash money. Jk the lady said she would wright a check but either way it was 150$. After that I went and helped out with the youngster meet. Then after the youngster meet I went and high jumped for a while with Macen and Im pretty sure I cleared like 4'11'' but idk we didnt have a bar. Also I practiced my scissor kick technique. Im getting pretty good

3pm- no morning run cuz if im going to heal up im going to do it right. 5x800s at 3200 pace. I decided to hit 235s cuz I havent done a 3200 yet. Yep it was good I hit my times consistantly. I probably should have done 6 but I usually do lvl 3 on mondays and lvl 2 on wednesday. Yolo i should just become lvl 3 anyways.

Weights today and I decided to max out on bench because of strength is important. I was struggling to get 115 which was really bad. I was really disapointed but then Macen discovered that the bench was on an incline. stupid I should have checked that. We fixed that and now I have my new pr of 130. True gangsta right here don mess with me

615am- I decided to do a morning run and I did and it was good. Also I turned in my sponsor money.

3pm- 45 minutes pre-race with 2x200s. We did the shoe run and it was good I would say. We jumped in sandbergs because yolos the motto and it was amazing. The cold water gently relaxed every muscle in my body. The 200s were good but I was supposed to do 4 but I did 2 cuz I wanted to go high jump. High jumping was good. We finally had a coach there and so I learned a lot. I scissor kicked like 4'8'' and after that I went and got my spirit pack out of spirit prison. gotta say today was a good day

330pm- Hurricane Invite- 1600m

Not very great race. Pre-race coach was telling us to make sure to not start out too fast. Unfortunately we all ended up starting way to slow. The leaders separated pretty quick and I wasnt even close to them. Lap 2 I was still sittin in the slow pack so on the back stretch I surged from the back of the pack to the front. By that time there was a huge gap between us and the leaders and I was wiped out from my move and when some of the guys surged I couldnt even go with them. The rest was no bueno those first couple laps set me up very badly. After a race I can tell if I went hard enough and I didnt.

To get minutes I ran around with Cam and Bryan and Brianna. Me and Cam had a nice discussion about 24.

930am- Hurricane Invite- 3200m

Today was my shot at redemption. Nope this race wasnt very good either. Nice workout though. We did not run as a team I think. Not much else to say

Also I did the 4x400. About an hour before I drank some Mt Dew Kickstart and it was a great hydration boost. I felt pretty good I ran like a 58 I think. By the end of the year I hope to shave like 3 seconds off that.

615am- 30 minutes easyyyyyyy

3pm- Since I am running at SC JV meet tomorrow I only did 3 repeats instead of 4. They were all quality but Im glad I didnt have to do 4 cuz the 3rd one I fell off like 5 seconds. My 300s were both sub 45

615am- I didnt want to get tired for the JV meet this afternoon so I only went 20 minutes. Nobody judged me for it too. thumbs up

4pm- Snow Canyon JV meet- 1600m

We warmed up on a dope trail for like 20 minutes or so. This race was quite slow. Me and Dallen and Mitch were all together for the first couple laps. Then we slowed down way on the 2nd lap. I totally should have won this race but I guess I wasnt in a fast mindset because it was just basicly me and Dallen running a workout together. Dallen kicked pretty hard on the last 400 and I wasnt ready. I nearly caught him in the last 200 but not quite. I thought we were going faster than we were but nope. No speeed

Later I did High Jump like a beast in my jumping spikes (aka my regular spikes). Somehow we talked the lady into starting at 4'10'' instead of 5'0''. My first jump- cleared it no problem. Macen had his gopro and Caroline was supposed to be videoing us but I could tell she was not getting it done so I gave it to Nicole instead. At 5'0' Paul told me to do the slow clap and so I did. A huge crowd had gathered and the clapping sent adrenaline coursing through my veins. I cleare 5 feet but then I didnt clear 5'2''. Whatever man it was still awesome. And Nicole ended up getting a pretty sick video too.

3pm- 4x800s today. I practiced making my second lap faster than my first. It was good.

630am- Nick left me for the morning run. yep. I was going to just go baack to bed but dad cussed me out so I went for a nice 32 minuter. It ended up being really nice run, very peacefull. I got ready for school nice and slow and ate plenty of cereal and such. Then mom told me she wasnt gonna give a ride and mi padre was already gone. Same with the bus they were all long gone. So yolo I ended up walking the 4 miles to school. I aint gonna lie though it was real nice weather I quite enjoyed it. All I missed in first period was The Lion King so I basicly missed nothing. 

3pm- Pre race shoe run. Epic stuff. We stopped at sulivans park and we saw a turtle, captured a dead fish in a bag, and also Brian captured a duck. Then he threw it into the air to fly but it was apparently a flightless bird and it hit the concrete pretty hard. It waddled away fine though but still that was bad. We ran up the hill and left the dead fish on the guys doorstep and knocked the door and ran away. Then I petted a huge eagle in somebodies driveway. On the way back we stopped at Sandbergs pond and swam and it was great. When we got back Nick went shopping and I watched the soccer game. I called dad for a ride because I didnt know how long they were going to be getting stuff for tomorrow. Bad idea because they showed up the same time he did so he wasted a trip. Im straight up pumped for the PV Invite tomorrow.

615am- We had a nice quick paced 30 minutes. And also we had some good donuts.

1pm-8pm- Today was the Pine View Invitational so I ditched school at lunchtime and walked over to the high school with Jaxon and Brianna. By the time we arrived there was already a ton of people at the track. Coach let me run the clock and everybody said Mr. Miller was going to do the annoucing but he never showed up so I did all of that as well. Needless to say I screwed up some things but I got the hang of it after a while. Also I gave a shoutout to my big bro right before his race and he PRed so I think I did alot of good. Towards the end I was messing up a bit because I was doing a lot of things at once and also theres always a bunch of idiots chillin in the box because they think that they should be allowed to (the reason I use such strong language is because said noobs took all my oreos and gummy worms). But yeah I got pretty good at announcing stuff. After a succesful day 1 of the meet me and Nick got pulled over on the way home and thats always fun.

930pm- I was stuck all day in the press box running the timers and making announcments so I got in a nice late night 20 minute shake out run. Also I stretched and got pumped for my race.

11am- Pine View Invite- 800m

Since I am now an experienced annoucer/timer coach made me run the press box but I left after the 300m hurdle finals to go warm up. I hurried and drank my Mt Dew kickstart (with coconut water) so that Id be on an intense caffeine buzz during my race. Me Cam and Jason warmed up around the DI loop, idk where Skylar was. We got down on the field, strided out and threw water on our faces and stuff.

The gameplan for this race was pretty straight forward: take the first lap as it comes and hit the second lap hard as a mutha. My beautiful Mt Dew got me though the first lap decent but with so much people I still was near the end of the pack. I could see my teamates up in the pack further and that was a little discouraging. I pushed all the doubt out of my face and coming in to the second lap I moved to the outside and started picking my way thought the pack. Coming down the back stretch I was starting to get hardcore boxed in so as soon as I saw a gap I shoved myself passed people. It was getting pretty physical and as I broke through the pack I got a decently hard shove in the back from some kid which gave me a nice boost coming into the final 200m. I pulled out a pretty sick kick for the last 200 and I gave it all I had. I aint gonna lie, that last 100m was pure hell. I ended up passing up like 3/4ths of the guys in my heat that 2nd lap, finishing 5th in my heat and 18th overall. It was a pretty good race and I can tell that I went all-out because I threw up every bit of water that I tried to drink (hopefully they emptied the garbage in the press box).

I took a nice nap and just chilled in the box for the rest of the meet. I got a sick new pair of SGs from the lost and found, nobody claimed them, I didnt straight up steal them. The lenses are very reflexiony. After the meet we went to GoSnow and watched Starwars and played James Bond at mi casa. Gotta say, today was a good day.

615am- I got up early because of dedication is important and I went for a nice 30 minuter.

6pm- i had an orthodontist appointment after school so I didnt run with the team but they did stop by the house and open Nicks ACT score which was like 31 I think. I did a nice 6 mile loop around town. If you looked at my route from the sky it would look like an L

615am- 30 easy with da crew

3pm- Most of the guys left without me but I did catch up to nick zack skylar and jake and we ended up going on neon spiders which was fun but there was water in the tunnel so not really. After we had the youngsters meet and it was a blast. yay