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I got my call and I'm so excited. I am going to Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 3rd and it is the same mission that my boy Gooch is going to! Also, my farewell wil be the same day as Connors and Josh's, so anyone that wants a spiritual overload can go to all three that day. Its so lit.

5 with Jags today from my house to the high school, did pre meet, 70,72. Ran back, got some cross training to do tonight lol.

Went skiing last night so this morning it took all I had to get out of bed, as I was hecka tired and sore lol. But once I got down to UVU I warmed up a mile and all of the pain was replaced with adrenaline. The weather was amazing and I was super excited to race because this was the biggest invite that I had ever been too. Went to the start line and the pack went out hard the first lap, 66. Then we settled in and at the end of the second lap I made a move to get into third and gap myself for most of the heat. I finished with the same time as my PR, 4:55. I loved the track, as it is wider than most and It was really a fun race. Cooled down a mile and then went home.

Between conference sessions I finished up my miles and I was feeling wayyy good bc my average  pace was a 6:24 lol.

Also Shout out to the pops for getting tix to preisthood session up at the conference center. I was Lit.

Happy Spring Break.

8 this morning fromy house to the Jordan river trail, 7:35 AP wish it could have been faster but my Achilles felt like a fruit roll up lol.

Went to Moab with the fam and hiked delicate arch today, which was lit

Ran 2 miles tonight in moab to get 10 for the day. Everything hurts, hopefully things get better.

Ran 7 this morning in a beautiful canyon along the Colorado rive, but once again, legs felt tight so pace was slow, 7:40 average.

Hiked arches all day with the fam so between hiking and running the last two days I have 35 miles

Ran 3 this evening to the high school here, felt a little better got 10 for the day

Met up with landon because he is also down in Moab, so we went to the high school here to do our speed workout. 3 mile warmup around the school and then started the workout. 2x600,500,400,300 at mile pace, splits were 1:45, 1:29, 71, 51, 1:53, 1:33, 72, 53. Decent for how my legs were feeling. We saw the track team here practicing....lol. 1 mile cool down after

Ran 4 this evening after hiking all day so for the week I am a 52 miles lol. Anyways it was the scariest run of my life, I would not recommend doing a night run by yourself in a place you are unfamiliar with.

Thankful there is no more high mileage this week, bc its flippin hard

Ran 5 around my house when I got back from Moab 7:30 AP, gonna move my tempo run to Saturday and do it with jags.

Went to park city with some homies and ran 1.5 around the outlets in my LBJ flip flops lol I didnt feel like shopping.

Did 1.5 more to finish the night, I hate running by myself.

IM BACK!!!! finally able to feel good during a run and it was awesome. 6:30 AP for three mile to the cemetery, did whistle hills. Finished up to 8 with a 6:55 ap and couldnt have asked for a better run today.

Beyond hyped to watch some of my best buds race on a huge stage tonight, y'all are legends and are repping Lehi well out in Cali! Grind hard fam. #gang

Met up with jags, big t and landon to do a percentage run and we thought it would be fun to do it on the AF XC course because it jst brought back the feels of the good old times lol. Warmed up two mikes before the workout. The workout was one mile

at 1 minute slower than two mile pace, two miles 1 minute slower than mile pace and then finished with an all out 800. We ran the first mile together and got a 6:11, which was a little fast,and in the second mile I separated from them because they didn't drop the pace enough and I couldn't even drop the pace as much as I would have liked and so the next two miles were hard and my legs felt way heavy. Splits were 6:03, 6:09. Then the 800 on the track was insanely hard but I pulled out a 2:42 so that was decent, it was a good workout to finish the week with. Cooled down to 8.

I have been questioning myself a lot lately about why I have been trying so hard and pushing myself to the breaking point, as track season is all I have left and it is very improbable that I will get close to making state, but I'm starting to figure out why. I saw this quote that said "don't focus on what you can't do, but rather focus on what you CAN do to make yourself the best you can be" and that inspired me and I'm definitely ready to destroy the rest of track season and go out on a high note.

Also, it was super cool to see all the utah runners kill it at Arcadia, especially the 4x1600 Lehi team with their fifth place finish and awesome PRS by Collin and connor #gang. And I was inspired by the most clutch race I have ever seen as Connor took second in the two mile and made it look simple and easy, suckas a str8 grinder, stay cool with the jack fam!

Awesome run today, It was great weather and was so sick to be running with all of the guys again. We ran up by Samis house and back to get 6 for the day and our average pace was a 6:50, we really started pushing it towards the end. Team dinner and some ball tonight, it was way fun. Also the softball team hates me for a twitter fight that never should have happened lol oh well, I know whos real.

Another great weather day, Landon, Andy, Parker and I had a two mile workout today in preparation for this weekend. 4x1000 at goal 2 mile pace. Ran a 3:16,3:20,3:17.3:17. The splits were right on for a sub 10:30 which is my goal for this weekend and Im way excited. Hit up some cougar baseball tonight so that was sick they destroyed utah lol.

Lol today me landon parker and dallin did our run from Lehi to Westlake to watch some of the boys race the Mile. We were only planning on doing 6, but we took a longer route to Westlake that gave us seven miles, first 5 were great, 7:05 Ap. But the last two were pretty rough a it got super stormy outside lol. Once we got to the high school we did 5 150 build upsbon their track. Watched the Mile and then decided to do a 4x100. I was the first leg, and I was gonna hand off to riley. The gun went off and I got out good, considering it was my first time ever using a block lol. I was in third, and all was well. Then everything that could have gone wrong happened, riley started running when I still had 40 meters to go, and continued running even when I was yelling at him to stop lol. He got to the end of the exchange zone and had to stop an wait for me to get there and I crashed into him, and Josh and landon got the baton too far back to make any difference, pretty sure we lost o a girls team, and we are gonna have to put in more work if we want to beat the dream team lol. But on a happier note, we beat a team of actual sprinters bc they dropped the baton. Lol sprinting is a joke. Mamba out.

Terrible weather today, but we made the most of it lol. Started running towards the overpass, but the wind was so bad so we turned back and got a mile in. Then we ran 1.25 on the turf and a short run out to the ballpark on the willowcreek road. Finished up to 7 on the track, AP 7:30. Went and did abs and witnesse history being made as dallin passed micheal for the second longest plank in lehi history with a time of 21:00 so nice job to him Heat sheets came out for this weekend and I am in the faster heat of the two mile with some pretty sick dudes, so I am way excited and look forward to rising to the occasion.

Ran a three mile warm up with landon, then came back to do pre meet with him and austin. The wind picked up and it started snowing so that was fun lol. Splits were 79, 76. Finished up to 6 on the treadmill. Excited to have a great RAC tomorrow, regardless of the weather.

Woke up early and there was a lot of wind in lehi, which made me nervous. But when I got over to pg it had died down a lot so I felt better. Did a mile warm up on the XC loop, then went over to the start line. I was trying to get my nerves out a little by dancing at the start line, but a skirmish broke out and so that disturbed it for me lol. Anyways, gun went off and Andy, Parker and I formed a pack. Landon surged ahead but after a lap dropped back with us. Stayed consistent for the first 5 laps and I was on pace for a 10:30, but kinda zoned out and dont remember much of the race after that, and I lost a ton of time. It was still a 25 second pr for me, but if I woulda stayed with the guys then it would have been wayyy better. After, cooled down two with some lp guys and us in the neighborhoods around PG. Stayed at the meet all day and watched Connors awesome race breaking 2 in the 800 which was sick. Then after went on a 6ish mile trail run with Tyler Riley and Ali from PG, and Connor Mike, and the high school relationship. It was a sick run with a ton of uphill and we finished on top of mollys hill, which had a breathtaking view of the valley, but was hecka windy. So we ran back and cruised down the hill. Was a very good time, I will definitley be doing that run again soon.

Holy cow I was feeling it today, super tired and sore and I hate running in lehi bc it is soooo freaking boring, tried to make the most of it, but the best trails we could find were like .1 miles, and we ended up running up killers and the big dip lol. Very slow day. Came back and did some abs and help motivate Mike to get the all time lehi plank record of 43:01 which was awesome to see history made lol. Not sure if im gonna race tomorrow bc the Davis entries havent been posted, Im hoping I get in but have a gut feeling that it just wont happen.

Well, found out that I didnt make the cut for Davis around lunch time today. But I was only sad for about a minute. and then I thought of how good I could do today, and how well I had prepared myself. So I stayed positive, because like i said before. Dont focus on what you cant do, rather focus on what you CAN do to make yourself the BEST you can be. So I went home and ate a good lunch(pizza rolls lololol) and watched tons of hype videos and hyped myself almost to the point of crying, and I knew that nothing was gonna stop me from doing my very best today because of how I was feeling. Went back to the school and everyone who didnt qualify for davis was pretty negative, so I did my best to motivate everyone but that wasnt working lol. Did a warmup mile on the turf, which ended up being a 6:09, but felt like an 8:00, so I knew even more, that it was gonna be a good race. Ran another warmup mile right before the race, and then got the boys together to do want some, get some, to get everyone excited and it was sooo awesome and definitley got everyone going. Watched the first heat of the mile, and my boy Nathan killed it, out kicking this riverton guy down the stretch to get a season pr of 5:05, so shoutout to him for doing great. Then my heat went to the line. They didnt put us in order, so they just lined everyone up and shot the gun. I wasnt nervous at all before this race and so the first lap. Landon went out hard, but I chose to be a little more conservative and stayed with the pack, but a bunch of people started passing me at the 300 mark so I had had enough of the pack and split off from them and got a 73 first lap. Surged at the begining of the second lap to get closer to landon and passed him going into the 800 mark, 74 second lap. Connor was calling the meet, and it was awesome to hear him call out me and landons name as we were racing, definitley contributed to the great race I had, so shout out to him. Surged again in the third lap, and me and landon really started distancing ourselves from the pack at this point and it was fun. 74 third lap. The fourth lap started and landon did his signature kick at the first 100 and got a 20 meter gap on me, but I just stayed focused and was able to catch him by the 200 mark with a kick of my own, at this point I wanted to win so bad, coming around the last turn neck and neck, he had just barely a little more leg speed than me and so he got me by a second. last lap was a 73. Got a 4:56 "officially", but I had multiple people getting my splits for me, and they all had me at a 4:54 with the splits I specified above. All in all a fantastic race, and I think I will for sure be able to qualify for BYU at tiger trials next week. Elevated my legs and cooled down 2 miles with nathan. Chilled with connor a little bit in the box and then went back down. Shout out to Tyler for breaking 2:20 in the 800 today, that was sick. By the time the two mile came around, my legs were no where near recovered, and I tried to stay with the leaders, but just didnt have it in me because of how fried my legs were from giving it all in the mile. My time in the 2 was 11:15 and if anything it was just good tempo training to help me get faster. Cooled down one last mile to get 8 for the day. Two more shoutouts, first one to spencer for running the mile and getting a 5:08, wish he woulda done distance smh bc he is pretty good at it. Last one goes to this dope quote I heard on Kung fu Panda three, it goes "If you only do what you can do, then you will never be more than you are now" Thats some str8 up wisdom from master shifu right there lol. Lizard Out.

Today was hecka rough lol, my legs were tired an the heat was getting to me so it was a slow 7:30 pace for 7 miles up past af Jr and back. Ha some good team roasting afte so that was fun.

Today was way fun, I think we had the biggest group we have ever ran with at the beginning including coach jamie and megan, so shout out to them for running with us, for like 2 miles at least lol. Ran up past skyridge and by the time we hit three miles there was only 6 of us left lol. We got to the end of center Street, and Connor and Thomas had to turn back, but me nug landon and Josh decided to go up this lit looking trail that we had never ran on and it lived up to the hype for sure. Ran out to 4.5 then turned back, did a quick out and back mile on the Murdock canal trail and then went back the same way we came. Got 10 miles at 7:05 pace for the day.

Ran a four mile warmup with Nathan Landon and Josh, to the bottom of airport hill. Coach changed our speed workout because our track was being used for a junior high track meet, so we couldnt do 400 repeats lol. So we ended up doing 9x90 seconds up airport hill, with a lap around the grovel each time. We had a nice tailwind and I was hitting just over 400 meters each time so it was solid. Shout out to satchell for balling hard today, and keeping track of time bc everyone elses watches died lol. the workout gave me 4.75. Definitley glad this workout went well, because it is just another step to be able to qualify for BYU next week at Tiger Trials. Ran back to the school and got up to 10.2. It was a good friday, good luck to everyone racing tomorrow.

Was driving up to highland to run on the canal, but I saw my stake president running so I pulled over and ran with him for two miles, it was fun and we are right, so w had some good talk about my mission, which was really awesome. I went up to 5 after by myself. Im going up to watch some of the races at Davis, so I'll probs finish my miles there

Went up to davis to watch some of the races, ran 2 miles with connor, mike and denver, then later ran a mile with connor and josh, and then 2 more miles even later with connor and spencer, so I ran 10 miles today. But it was in runs of 2-3-2-1-2 miles lol oh well.

Nice weather today wen out to do a medium recovery run, and everyone was down t go slow today, went up airport drive and stretched at big ts house, ran down to this trail an I had to go to the bathroom so we stopped at Smith's, came back and Connor started acting like he was commentating for an Olympic race, so Ihad to win, kicked hard the last mile to pull away from the pack and my average pace dropped below 8:00 bc of that lol.

One mile with the little kids that I coach track to later.

Ran a 3 mile warmup to the cemetery and back, then me and landon did the Mile workout today. 12x400 splits were 73,72,71,72,72,71,72,72,70,71,70,72.on pace to qualify for BYU this weekend so it's gonna be sick, the rain was perfect today and felt great during the workout, bc no wind lol. Cooled down 2 miles to get 8. Gonna run the 400 at the dual meet tomorrow and try to break 1 minute.

Went up to herriman to watch the mile, and while I was waiting for the meet to start I di 7 1 minute one, 1 minute off pickups around the turf and got 2 miles. After that I ran a mile cool down. Watched the mile, and spencer and riley both got under 5 which was cool to see them do for the first time. Did a 2 mile run with them out to the middle of nowhere and back, then ran the 4x400, I led off and then mike, sam, and landon finished for us. we got 3:51 and took second so that was sick. finished up to 6 barefoot on the turf. Shoutout to herriman for being classless, no one gives a freak about your JV team beating half of our JV team.

Zack from lp came to run with us today so that was sick, hes legit so shoutout to him. I ran down center street and turned around a 2.5 and then did a mile around the soccer field to get 6, iced and ranted afterwards.

Four mile warmup loop with Connor Thom Mike and landon, felt way tired. Pre meet, 70,71, small cool down.

Got to orem and warmed up a mile. Saw landon qualify for BYU and was super hyped for him. Went to the line for my race and the gun went off, everyone took it out way hard and we came through at like a 65, and then my whole heat dropped, and so I knew I would have to push to get the time I wanted so I Ed out the next two laps, but lost all my energy in doing so and the last lap was hard, I realized that I wasn't gonna get the time I wanted with about 350 meters to go so it was hard to finish the race. Afterwards I was pretty down on life, and I'm sick of setting all of these big goals and falling short every time, it hurts. I wanted to do something meaningful with this track season and I put everything I had into every day that I was working to become better, and it was all just for coming up short at the end, all the hard work meant nothing. So the legacy that I'm leaving behind at Lehi is someone who tried and failed. I wasn't strong enough to handle the challenge, and I'm physically and mentaly wasted beyond my capacity, its been a long hard disappointing season and that is all there is to it. Cooled down a mile with coach and called it a day.

On a much happier note I had an AMAZING time at prom with Sami and that was definitely a night I wil remember for a long time, so shoutout to her for making it great.