Desert Chiva Running

615am- 30 easy. first day back from laying around all weekend. My mouth had a hearbeat but it was a nice run

3pm- my face really hurt and I only got 20 minutes of light jogging in.

615am- 30 easy and I felt real good

3pm- 45 minutes pre race with 4x200s. Im a little worried if my mouth will be fine tomorrow during the time trial because it hurts whenever I run but I guess I will just have to tough it out.

6am- 4 miles just like evryday

3pm- Time Trial

I got a PR by one second which is alright but not amazing considering I set my previous record in cross season. I wasnt expecting much for this race since ive missed quite a few runs in the past week because I had my wisdom teeth out. Lap 1 was 108 and I really cant help letting that first lap be fast so whatever. Lap 2 I chilled out so I could hit the 3rd and 4th laps really hard. I ended up with 225 after 2 laps and there was about a 15 meter gap between me and Jake Preston and Mitch. I could hear Paul yelling to make a freaking surge and catch them but I was totally already doing that anyways. I closed that gap pretty easily with my 3rd lap surge and lap 4 I was right with those guys. The last 300 I passed Mitch and Preston and ended up finishing right next to Jake. 448 is decent but I definitly took a hit on my time because my expectations were really low. If I can just get myself to get rid of any expectations and just let loose and go all out from start to finish then I think I will be able to easily break 440 this year.

615am- 30 minutes easy

3pm- adventure run through marlar territory. pretty scary stuff

9am- Dog Town Half

So today was good. I had a good race despite the fact that nobody was handing me little paper cups of water all the time. I rode the bus right behind Aaron Metler and that was cool but I was all alone for the ride cuz Nick and Cam sat together and nobody else wanted to sit by me. I saw a dead cat and also a dead rabbit in the road on the way over. We warmed up like 5 minutes and then listened to some hardcore rap to psych myself in. The first couple miles were good and I was going like 423 pace according to my watch. The leaders were pretty far in head and I was in a pack with Prston Andrew Kade and some other fast guy. On the detour in the neighborhoods I got some random knee pain and fell off that group. I was really worried about my knee because I was only like 3 miles in but after like 400 meters I was fine so whatever. I was feeling pretty good and in a nice rythym and I was kind of expecting Jake to catch up to me so I could run with him but he didnt catch up so I was all alone. I passed Kade going down through the canyon of coral and I was quite surprised that he had lasted that long with those guys. On the way down to the Hell Hole I could see Preston and the other guy had broken away from Andrew and all the way through the Hell Hole I was reeling Andrew in. I caught up to him at the boardwalk and we ran together untill after Sullivan Park where my dad got me some water then I broke away from him and never saw him again. I settled into a good fast pace and then my dad got me some more water. Coach came and talked to me right before the hill by Jakes house. He told me that I could catch the guys in front of me just keep it rolling up the hill and kill it on the downhill. So thats what I did. But the guys in front of me were not as weak as I would have liked which was unfortunate. The last couple miles I just focused on making my strides longer and faster untill the finish. Winning my age group was fun and I beat my time from last year by like 8 minutes. It was real fun. But yeah half marathons make me way tired.