Desert Chiva Running

3pm- 30 minutes easy run today, the weather was great. cloudy and light rain. we lifted wieghts after but i think i might have broke my wrist snowboarding so I didnt lift as much as i wanted

3pm- we did 6 minute test today and it was good. i wasnt looking forward to it but it wasnt bad. I started out behind everybody and ran back there for a lap or 2. I was being a wuss though i felt fine so i started working. I kept passing people and pushing faster but i never got to the point where i felt tired or dead i just kept it rolling. I ended up passing everybody but preston and my brother, i finished right by Paul. then we cooled down and it was fun ,

3pm-good 45 minute run with striders after. swag bon fire in the evening

8am- I ran mustang pass with nick julien and andrew. It was cold but pretty beast, probably one of my favorite trails

3pm- 3030 workout today. only got 20 reps so it sucked. it sucks but ill get it next time

3pm- 45 minute trail run

3pm- 30 easy

i didnt blog last week because im lazy and had much homework butive been having great workouts lately, feeling great. i hit my second round of 3030s without the team cuz they were on 6060s (i didnt hit my 3030s the first time. lifting afterwards like a beast

615- first morning run, it was cold

3pm- 50 minutes ran mustang pass

2 easy runs today

3pm- fun run this afternoon but my foot started to hurt on the arch so I skipped striders. lol julien took down a badmouth 5th grade dbag that stole some kids football. boy tried to juke him and julio grabbed him with one hand and threw him to the ground. so awesome. forever a legend, julien.

woke up and tried to run but my foot hurt like a mother so I turned back. No point to try and run though an injury. It sucks but yeah it happens. I did a hardcore core workout and pushups instead.

no run for me today as I attempt to recover my foot. Im falling behind in my workouts but it happens

6am- 20 minute morning. foot was a little sore. not gonna do morning tomorrow

3pm- we ran a sick trail today. I only went 30 minutes but itwas sick. me and dylan found allys keys so we chilled in her cube spaceship and listend to sick beats on the radio

3pm- tempo today was good, i was going to hang with the slower group but my foot felt fine and they were going like 630 pace so i caught up to julien and ran with him. lifting after

3pm-30 easy.yoga before sucked. some guy gave us like 30 pocket bibles out of his car. we ran a loop passed the pond

8am- we met at sullivan soccer park and drove out to the AZ strip. It was a dope run, I dont run out there often but I really like it. We got into a dope canyon. my foot didnt hurt. We did pickups on the way back and they were cheese. St george is so freaking dope

3pm- not feeling that great but I completed the workout. Hardest workout ive done in a while. I had some good mental wins 

dope trail

good tempo today, I feel ready for the half this saturday

8am- Dogtown Half 

I got to bed early last night to rest up for this morning. I got up early, showered, ate a bannana and some carrots. I wore my costa rica singlet and my calavera boa shorts (looked fly as heck). Me and Julien got a ride to the start with my mom. we warmed up like 2 minutes and hung out with coach preston mitch and dallen untill the start. 

We started out faster than in past years, credit to coach holt I think. I forgot thier names but a guy from salt lake and a guy from DSU started out in front. I grouped in with preston mitch dallen and coach and also james for a bit. We stayed together really good throughout the first 4 miles through coral canyon. The DSU guy was in front of us and we were slowly gaining on him down coral canyon. Once we got down on the road to Hell hole coach picked up the pace pretty good and I nearly fell off the squad, but not quite. It was a good mental win to push and stay with my teamates. We caught Shi-Quan Nettingham (I looked up his name) entering hell hole but couldnt break away from him. He surged and broke away but coach said calm down we will let him wear out then go catch him in the last 4 miles. I felt great through hell hole, it was nice and cool weather, good grouping and we were rolling easy. The warbys gave us some water at sullivan soccer park. When we hit washington fields road we started working again. Jason and Andrew jumped in with us. Dallen fell off our group. On the curvy hill I fell off. Jason held back and kept runnning with me. I got moving good again on the downhill and got ready for the last 3 miles. preston coach and mitch were in front of me like 30 seconds or so. Mitch pulled away from them on the Magestic hill and went after Shi-Quan.  I went hard for the last couple miles. I closed the distance between coach a little bit but I couldnt catch him. Still had a strong finish though. It was fun

Julien finished in 1:23:something so that was cool. We hung out, he got first in his age group. I took second next to preston (mitch was top 3). It was a beast race. The shirts were dope this year. I hung out with julien and macen and dylan the rest of the day 

8am- Suicidal tendencies today. It was sick. I was way tired from saturday but I went the whole way. It was awesome. 

3pm- no tempo for the guys that did the half on saturday so nice easy 45 for me yay

3pm- 30 easy. first run in my dope new nikes

615am- nick still aint doing mornings but I got up and did one today. 30 easy. It was windy and dark. I hate morning runs

3pm- 6060s today in the wind. Me and bryan ran together cuz he was the only other guy doing 6060s. I hit my times good workout.

weight lifting after I am working on optimizing my time in there, getting lots of lifting in

45 easy

8am- met at the park in the middle of st george (idk what its called). We did 80 minutes with hills up the road to pine valley. It was pretty easy but the hills were tough. Coach rode a bike with twix on a leash. It was a nice run for the most part, good conversation. My calf started hurting towards the end. Like injury type of pain but i dont know, update as further events warrant. Finished season 3 of walking dead. 

calf is strained. really bad timing 

9am- PV invite- 3200 seeded race

I havent logged like any runs for a while. Now that track seasons going ill probably log my runs again. Anyway yesterday i ran a 4x800 but I aint gonna race report it but I did do it. Our team got 3rd. My job was to hang with bryan and brianna in the announcers booth and helped time and stuff. I got to bed at like 11 which was dumb but hey it happens. I drank lots of water and ate an apple when i got up. Felt pretty good to race. Warmed up with the 32 crew. My plan for the race was to state qualify. 

Race started pretty fast I think. After lap 1 I setteled back with preston and jensen behind the dhells squad I felt pretty good and kept a good pace with them coming through mile 1 at 454. so good so far. The next couple laps Preston and Jensen started pushing like they should and I wussed out. I thought to myself that all I need to do was keep running the same cuz I was on pace. thats where I lost all my time. I saw the time as I crossed the finish and thought shoot why did I do that. 10:02 is a good starting point though. Ill be alright I just need to grow upair and get out hard and stay hard the whole race. It needs to get real, i need to fight harder and race tougher. Mental battles fam, i got this.

The rest of the day was dope. I got my minutes in, hung out with my bros, got some snow cones, went to beast preisthood sesh, went to in n out, came home and hung with Julien but he left so I hanged with Rylee and Aspen. stayed up late cuz I could

615am- Good morning run. Connor Arnell was there cuz stopping in stg on his way to arcadia so he ran with us. We had a decent turnout for a morning run. It was nice, we ran a bit quicker than usual.

3pm- After the early out today I went home, ate hot dogs and watched House md. Its a pretty good show. Then went to practice and did a good workout. It was 800-1000 at goal 1600 pace followed by full recov and 3 sets of 3-4 400s at various paces. Me and preston hit the first 1000 right on. The first set was cheese, second set I did 3 and it was getting hard. Last set I hit all 4 at goal 1600 pace and it was freakin tough. Nothing more satisfying than jello legs after a sweet workout tho. 

weights after. I lifted 1 and a half meskerums

615am- 4 miles with the boys. we discovered tiny tim

3pm- 7x20sec sunrise hills. they sucked and i was tired but they hurt good. felt a little sore from yesterday. After we ran the youngsters meet. It was dope. jk it was hot and windy.

615am- 30 easy. felt good. found out that im not in the 4x800 anymore

3pm- pre race 4 miles. We did pre run yoga for the first time in a while. I usually hate yoga in coach's room but it felt super good after, i really needed it. We ran green springs but didnt turn up by the church. When we got back I got some ice and water with jake and skylar. Then I went and messed around on the high jump for a bit

615am-30 minutes easy

6pm- DH multis and distance carnivl- 800m

the 800 was later on in the meet so i jus chilled, watched the meet, and took naps for a while. I warmed up for like 15 minutes about and I felt really tired, the legs felt dead. I spiked up and did some striders. Still felt like taking a nap though. At the start line I was off my game. The gun went off and i got pushed straight to the back. On the back straight right as I tried to get moving some guy cut me off and I had to take a step out onto the concrete. I broke my stride to get behind him and back on the track. I didnt want to move to the outside on the turn so i stuck around there. By 300 in i was in like dead last. Came in 400 at like 104 so i knew i needed to pick it up a bit. Next lap i moved to the outside and passed most of the heat. Negative split by four seconds. Didnt feel very tired after, I started waaay to slow, it happens. When i came back from my cool down coach said "hey nice 400 next time make it an 8". u right... u right coach.

615am- i ran... sike u thought. I slept in, been feeling tired lately. need to get to bed earlier.

9pm- DH distance carnival- 1600

Another great day fam. It looked nice and cloudy for the meet. I was kind of hoping it would rain during my race. Anyways the 1600 was late so I had 5 hours to kill before my race. I did the distance medly, ran like a chill 58 400, got a gold medal (way to go team). Watched my teamates break the curse of the 4x800 record. At like 615 I went for a shakout run with Nick and the freshman. Nick showed us a cool 2 mile warmup loop. Felt good and ready. I warmed up a little more at like 745 cuz the race was supposed to be at 830 but they took long. Got some striders in, some high knees, good to go

I started good up in the front. First lap was chill like 108 felt good. The second lap Sage took the lead and gapped the rest of us. I stuck in with whoever was around me. On the 3rd lap I made a move and passed the group that I was trailing. Got passed up by a few guys between then and the 4th lap. Carson and some guy passed me with like 300 left. I didnt outkick either of them but I stuck right behind them to the finish. Im pretty happy with this race .My last 6 1600s have all been literally 442 so to finally break 440 was dope. It wasnt freaking awesome but it kind of was for me at least since I havent PRed in a year or so. Cant wait to PR more fam

9am- Freakin beast run today. It was cloudy overcast so perfect weather. Me and nick and my dad drove up to the elephant arch trailhead. We ran over to the washington hollow wash and ran up that 4 miles. It was dope. Definitly some hardcore chiva territory. On the way back it started to sprinkle rain on us. Me and nick started a fast finish once we got out onto the trail again. About five minutes in I glanced back towards the canyons we came out of and all i could see is a wall of water closing in on us. We sped up trying to outkick the storm but as we got to the truck we got caught in a straight downpour and got soaked. Best run ive had in a long time. luv runnin

615am- 30 minutes easy run

3pm- 6x 1000-1200 @ 3200 pace with cooldown to 120 heartrate. Not gonna lie, I stuggled to hit my times today. I tried to push through the best I could but hey it happens. My workouts dont define me, my races do. I guess technicly  my workouts define my races so they actually do define me but whatever. I try hard. 

weights after but I just took a nap on the bench. sorry not sorry. took more naps when I got home

2 easy runs today with yoga after

615am- went for 30min easy run, went to the dentist instead of school. ball is life

3pm- Coe workout #1 with some 10sec sprints after. My breathing was wack but still a good workout. Brianna found a bird that hit the window of the school. She picked it up and put it next to my head as I was laying on the grass. Then it flew away and crash landed onthe football field. Then it flew straight into the soccer net and face planted in front of the goal. I ran into the soccer game to save his stupid butt. Then I layed him under some trees to rest from his injurys. Im pretty sure some little mexican kids saw me put it there though so its probs dead now.

pre race

bad race, it happens

bad race #2 it happens

deer got hit on the morning run, happy earth day.

Another bad race. Alot more going on in my mind than i put on my race reports lately. I'm sick of running a bunch of trash times but i cant break out of it. its harder than it should be.

Julien ran a great 3200 today, he pred by 9 seconds with a 10:11. All alone in the wind too. I bet he could get it down to close to sub 10. He and mike are pretty beast freshman.

After that I warmed up with nick skylar and paul for the 800. I was feeling great. got plenty of warm up in. I raced bad again though. Started out at the back and only slowed down from there. I cant even explain the feeling of finishing last by 5 seconds. Its not who i am. I really need to get good again.

I couldnt find anybody to cool down with so i just cooled like a mile or so.

Right now its just bad race after bad race. All i can do is keep grinding and try to pull some positive things from my races. Hopefully within the next couple weeks I can remember how to race with heart. To me its not worth it to be a good runner, especially when i know i can be great.

6am- nice 30 minutes this morning. I rolled and stretched really well yesterday.

3pm- It was cloudy and a little rainy this afternoon so that was dope. We did 6x300s at 800 pace. I kept it around 46s the full workout. Tried to open up more on the last few. They were really rough though. I tried to beast on the last one but with like 50 left I ran out of gas and got beat by a few of the guys. Me and julien cooled together. I had to stop and massage my leg cuz it was cramping. After the cool down they felt better. Me and julien got back a bit early and took a couple laps on the track. beat him in a 50 yard dash, dabbed acrossed the line for emphasis. 

6am- 30 minutes easy. felt good. pine valley looked way cool covered in snow this morning

3pm- we had yoga and a easy run. nobody made room for me during yoga so I just did some basic stretching and drained my legs on the wall. good feelin run, good weather. 

615- morning Coe #2 workout. I think i hit my times pretty good.

3pm- 30 easy in the rainnnnn. I skipped on the sprints after, my hamstrings feeling pretty sore. Weights after but no squats para mi

630am- easy 20 minute shakout run

415pm- Region 9 3200

Race today was no better than my other races, only difference was my teamates worked with me and sacrificed to help me have a good race. We started off decent pace, Bryson and Eric took the lead early. Preston Mitch and Carson ran right with me and kept at good pace. First mile was slow, 501, but I wasnt worried, I felt good and mitch and carson were still right with me. The heat was intense, I was pouring sweat and my feet were burning. Carson got up in front of me. I was so focused on staying with him I lost count of the laps for a bit. With 2 laps left I was still just running with Carson. On the last lap I picked it up a little, Jensen passed me up. I went with carson and kept grinding untill I crossed the line. I already know that carson could have smoked jensen. He dropped behind me for the last 50 and let me take 4th. I depended on my teamates the whole race and Im really thankful for them. I havent been able to run good mentally this season at all. And im glad I have teamates to rely on when Im weak. 10:05  for my time. Not a bad time but not any better than the rest of the season.  I have one more chance at state. hopefully I can get it.

7am- ran a 60 minuter with the team with a 20 minute tempo at 620 pace. I felt good. Last week I didnt blog but I had a pretty solid first week and did a lot of hiking while getting all my minutes in (I mostly ran with Julien at like 6am). Anyways the tempo was a little tough but not too hard. It feels great getting back into things. 

This is my first entry in a long while, I havent even entered my state race cuz ehh but Ill probably go back and do that. Since the end of track I have realized some things. Im ready for this next season.

7am- 40 minute run today, 20 on road, 20 barefoot on the grass. towards the end of my run i got a weird side ache but up in my ribs. anyways it didnt go away all day it really bothered me. Afterwards we had kids club and I got my group updated on stuff going on in the running world. Taught them some really valuable info about good nutrition and then gave them popsicles. I spent then next 5 hours with a migraine which i slept off just in time to go to lifting.

7am- lol me and julien went to TRX at the rec center before practice (at 530). It was hard. I swear we did at least 70 jump squats. It was rough but we had 55 min easy run today so we survived through practice. ran up passed maverick and up a mountain.

later in the day i did yoga. still sore from that workout

i ran

7am- run with the team out in the fields. it was good, kind of sweaty though. striders after

730am- ran up the wash behind my house for miles. It was rough and sandy but there was much wildlife. We hit up the golf course for a drink and ran on it aways and finished on my road.

630am- we had a long run today and it was tough. My legs felt dead from the beginning. We ran over into coral canyon and down through hell hole to sulivan park and back to the school. I was struggling to keep up the whole time. Breathing was off, short and ragged. Any type of hill left me crawling. Played basketball afterwards

7am- 20 on road, 20 on grass with striders after.Felt ok, stiders were good. epic kids club today, we did a dope obstacle course

7am- did some TRX this morning. pretty rough. 60 minute run after, felt pretty good. Nick and Preston ran with us for a while. good morning

7am- hill workout today. coach roberts said we would do them on grapevine but the boys decided we would do them on the hills by the tunnel. 5x1 minute and one set of 85 seconds on the end. I did fine on the first five. The last one I couldn't get moving and my back started to hurt and i did bad. I sat down and rested a bit then ran back by myself. over by the condos i saw a sick jaguar and an alfa romeo. They were so dope

7am- got a ride with brianna to practice over at the park by the dixie center. We did 55 minutes + striders. I saw my dad zoom by on his bike. stopped and did some pullups. My back hurts but not super bad. Bloomington is a very nice area.

1030am- ran 5 miles with sally in the desert. ran up alot of sand hills. it was tough and sweaty

3pm- met up with the guys at sand hollow and ran there. after we swam and cliff jumped. i did my first backflip off the rocks. and tried a couple gainers.

me and nick hit up church rocks. it was tough

ran without a watch, probably 8 mikes though out in the blazing heat. i sweat so hard

6am- long run up grapevine this morning. I wasnt sure id be able to keep up cause i had a pretty rough week last week and i was struggling to get all my miles in. but i was fine today. great run. probably one of my last with nick

ran in the morning and in the afternoon. said goodbye to nick

7am- did some trx this morning followed by a 70 minute run up sand hill

7am- tempo on the dirt mile. started at around 630 pace and brought it down to 6 flat by the end. got like 5 laps of that. good workout

3pm- 2 mile run and weights

7am- ran at the region course and down on the bike trail. striders after. 

730am- ran all of prospector with the boys

630am- 90 minute long run with pickups today. Trevor came back from wherever he was gone to I forget, but it was cool to run with him. julien didnt show up for practice. We ran to the top of green springs and then got on the trail over to middleton. Stopped at juliens house but no answer, bumma. On the trail somewhere I rolled my ankle pretty hard and it made a weird sound. my foot got messed up. Every couple steps there was sharp pain towards the back of my foot and i was really worried that I had broken it somewhere. When we hit the road again the pain stopped and I ran back to the school fine. The pickups were pretty chill. When we got back to the school I stopped early just to be safe. Brianna brought some letters from Brian and those were fun to read. Got a migrain when I got home so I drank a couple bottles of water and popped some painkillers and took a 4 hour nap.

9am- i ran 50 minutes easy with my dog

730am-pretty good mid distance run today. Felt good. i just ran up to washington parkway and down telegraph and back a mi casa. I saw Dallen and Xander. Towards the end of my run i passed a guy. As he got near i called out my usual greeting ("money") and this guy turned to me and said "hey dad". huh kind of weird. again good run, good fast finish. kind of sweaty

630am- 70 min aerobic run down on the river trail with the team. Felt pretty tired but decent. Been watching so much olympics lately. Its my favorite thing, even though track and field hasnt started I love watching all the events. 

7am- Im behind in doing this race report because it took a while for them to put the results online but yeah im pretty sure we ran like 30 minutes this morning.

6pm- Cedar Allcomers

We got there and I just hung out for a while and chilled and listened to music. They changed the course a little and the rest of the guys wanted to go run the course (at like 430) which I thought was unnessesary since ive ran it like 5 times before and they hardly changed anything. I drained my legs and shiz. The other races were boring. Me and macen warmed up. It was good. They took forever to start the race so I layed down for a while. 

When the race finally started our guys started out pretty further back and I had to push through a few irrelevent guys so we didnt jog the whole race. Then we just chilled in pretty good pace for a while. lol some idiot parked their van in the middle of the course so I attempted to dent the hood with my hand as we ran around it. I fell off of Dallen and Mitch and Carson after a while because I didnt feel good. Then yeah I just finished the race and passed Carson. Not really a fast race for us and also we lost to DH but it doesnt really matter, we couldve i think. Im feelin really good about this season m8. we're gonna wreck

7am- Got some new nikes from ross the other day. I wore them this morning and they felt good (and they stylish). We ran up into green springs and looped around the neighborhoods. I ran in the left hand turn lane most of the way down green springs drive because we decided its safer than the side walk. Then we went down to sanbergs resort beccause we had more time and I climbed some trees while everyone got a drink at the park. The resort is looking good. Its way full and the water is clear and there werent any cows around. But we didnt stop to swim. good run though

first day of school. Hill workout. I forgot how many minutes

ran in the morning and lifted. went to pine valley in the afternoon and ran

ran up pine valley mountain

530am- long run this morning. pretty tired cuz I didnt get to bed till around 1230 because watching beach volleyball. We did good though.

3pm- met in coaches room before practice and talked about some things. 25 minutes run out in the heat towards sunrise

615am- weights and a 15 minute run. weights were hard because of I hurt my hand dunking an imagionary basketball. Shakout after was good

3pm- 7 miles in 113 degree heat. oof that was rough. im tired. I ate like 1/2 a watermelon. Im proud of myself for blogging all my runs from this week. 

10am- SUU invite- Varsity race

The weather was beautiful, cloudy and cool with no wind. We found a huge cricket with a red face and it was all striped, Carson licked it. they named him hector. The jv girls race got wrecked cuz of bad leading by the course officials who messed the frick up lol. Mikey and spencer raced beast in the jv boys race. The guys wanted to go warm up and I thought they were goiing too early but whatever. When we got back the girls were just starting. Varsity girls won barely. Good job by them. We warmed up a little more then I put my chain on, spiked up, and did some striders. Felt pretty good.

Race started, I got out quick with Bryson. I havent ran up with him for like a year and a half. It felt good. Hes a good runner. After about 1.5 miles I fell off of him. I was alone for a bit then all my teamates came around me. Carson Julien Mitch and Dallen were all there. That was a good feeling. I didnt open up the last mile like I needed to but I didnt do too bad. I finished 9th behind my team. Nobody around me in the final 200. Carson ended up catching Bryson which was good. We thought we beat dhells but not quite. Its aight though, we came into this race and got the job done and we'll continue to do that untill we're on top. and im gonna keep growing and improving and working hard every day. 

7am- carpooled over to suicidal tendencies. We ran that. that was my 4th time i think. I lead the way up and I was so tired. Saw so many beast rock climbing spots along that trail. good hard run fam

615am- weights and 15 minutes run

4pm- workout at bhnp, 4x1200s at 5k pace. It was tough, we dont run together and that frustrates me. Also I was slow on my last 2. JV had dixie allcomers after but i needed to go home and study so I left.

615am- early 25 min shakeout run. 

3pm- Murray Invite- Seeded Boys

I sat in the back of the bus for the ride up and it was lit back there with me and julien and caleb and mikey. I ate some bannanas and apple and cliff bars. We stopped at the provo mall for lunch. This trip was the first without the guys. I miss them alot. I like my team but its not the same. We got to the course and had a motivational inspirational guest speaker and he was good. Then the varsity boys we went on a warmup around the course. I felt average goodness. Decided not to run with spikes cuz there was a ton of asphalt and concrete. 

after some strides and a team prayer we started the race. There was a lot of guys and I was worried about getting stuck in the back. Me and Spencer got out in front, it was pretty physical up there though. I got passedby my teamates and everybody else. I struggled to get going. I couldnt stick with any move I tried to make to get back in the race. I knew how much my team needed me, i felt so slow and defeated. Couldnt even pass xander or logan at the end. pretty rough. Ended up 63rd at like 15:35 (2.85 miles). 

I took it pretty hard this race. I havent been racing where I want to be since freshman year. I usually dont get down on myself ever. I havent for a long time. Up until this race i have been able to try and grow and take positive things from all my races. But not on this one. I guess i broke. I felt terrible. 3 years of working out every day morning and afternoon and all I have to show is Ive gotten progressively worse. I strech and roll and drain and do pushups and situps and like 6 minutes of planks and wallsits every night. Im doing everything I should and more. I want to race good so bad. its killing me and i hate it. I hate racing bad over and over again. I need to put my teamates before myself. But I want so bad to focuse on myself. We are a great team, better than ever. they arent my tight homys though. my teammates i mean. people think I like to lone wolf but really I love being with the team and doing things with the guys. I guess it comes across like that because I do my own thing. I dont go with the crowd. and Im fine with chillin by myself. But im down to do anything for these guys. I dont like doing this but I figured I should write my thoughts. heh wow I wrote a lot. lol im not depressed though

I think im iron deficient. Like athletic anemia. I dont think my problem is in my head. If it was id be fine by now. i have like 90% of the symptoms. Ive considered it before but I wrote it off cuz I have a good diet. plus one time I took one of Rylees iron pills and I felt like superman the next day. Im gonna get my blood tested. 

Nebo Invite- Varsity Boys race

Im not racing with the guys up at Bob Firman. So I ran with jv guys at Nebo (holt signed me and mikey and nathan up for the varsity race). The race was at Salem hills and I ran the course freshman year but they changed the course completely and they added like a huge section of farmland and the race didnt even go on the track at all. It was super rainy and bad weather so I hung out in the school most of the time. I stretched and drained. Me Mikey and Nathan warmed up together. I got 18 mph on a traffic speed measurer thing. 

We spiked up and headed to the start line. I kept my jacket on untill the very start. It wasnt raining hard anymore though. The gun went off and I got out alright. I was towards the front. a big lead group broke off and I was just chillin. On the first mile idk what I got but I was on good pace. I got slower though, I didnt die hard but I didnt keep a good fast pace. When we hit the farm section the second time there was a group around me I tried to pass. That didnt happen but it helped me have some focus for the last 1200. I got passed by a few guys. Not a very good kick for me. It was kind of hard to sprint on the grass cuz it was so muddy from the races before. crossed the line at 1654. 

The AF guys wrecked. theyre pretty beast. After I talked to Decker a little, he was basicly the coach for this meet. figured even though its another slow race it would probably be good enough to get back on varsity. My fam was there and I decided to go up to Boise with them to watch the boys and my sister and the girls race at Bob Firman. I cooled down a little by my self then left with my fam and we drove all the way to boise it was funn though. 

530pm- Cedar Invite- Varsity 

wwooooh baby good race. not really but hey at least i didnt pr. we lost to desert hills by 7. because I got 23rd. I started mid pack and moved a little in the start. Then I hung around there and only got passed by a few guys. The guys did real good our top 4 were in the top 15 and good job. pretty uneventful race. 

im really bad at consistantly blogging and so nobody gets to hear my thoughts. I need to be faster thats all my thoughts 

530pm- region 9 championships- varsity boys

I felt ready and prepared for this race in my head. lol i guess not. This was a straight up embarassing race for me. I chilled and drank water and ate an apple in the hours leading up to our race. We watched the other races. Then we warmed up. I got loose and did some striders and felt aight. 

I started out further back, planning on moving up in miles 2 and 3. The front pack gapped and I was next to Logan. I held that for a while and I knew I needed to make a move and get passing people but I didnt feel strong enough, I was really struggling even though I know i wasnt going fast. Logan and DHs 5 6 and 7 passed me. Spencer passed me. Some kid from cedar bumped my arm and told me to go with him (more than my own teamates have done all season) and I ran with him for a couple hundred before i fell off. my finish was weak

really bad race tbh. idk why though. this season has been tough. Im still varsity for state so I still have another chance to help my team. Im literally doing everything I can to be ready. State will be exciting i bet.

legit day today. tough race. i raced with julien for most of it then fell back a little in the last mile. we took 2nd by 4 points which is pretty obviously my fault but i dont care its been a freakin fun season. even though my times have sucked that wouldve been nice. we did aight

lol, one of the baddest races of my life. dope trip though, good times ath

haha this trip was freakin dope. i didnt even suck in my race either heck yeah