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Easy distance run on the tempo run road for 5 miles in prep for camp, low mileage 

First day of camp, ran 4 miles up from tibble fork to silver lake and then came back, total of 8 miles at distance pace. Ice bathed in the lake afterwards 

day 2 of camp, at deer creek resivoir, ran on a trail by it for 5 miles and then turned back total of 10 miles

Last day of camp ran 10 miles on a trail in corner canyon, first 4 were downhill, then the rest were up

6 mile loop in lehi with ryan and josh easy recovery pace from camp, will probably cross train tomorrow to help recover for dream maker on monday

dream maker got a 9:45 finished miles up afterwards

recovery miles, loop around lehi

grass pickups @ sego lily for 3.5 miles finished up the rest afterwards

I was super hyped going into this race, as I took eighth overall in our team race two weeks earlier and so I thought that I would be able to make great things happen this cross country season. The first start was ok, and I had decent position, but then our race was called back because some idiot fell down. The second start wasnt to bad but not as good as the first one, and the second I started this race something felt off, we rounded the first turn and then my achillies siezed up and it was a battle the rest of the race to even run but I made it to the finish, but ran a slower pace than I did in my half marathon so that was embarrasing AF, but I had to put this behind me if I wanted to have a successful season from this point on

Its kinda sad, but this ended up being my best race of the season, but I felt really good on the night of this race and since the varsity team was just doing tempo I was able to stay with them for a mile and a half, and then finished the race with kobe and nug, I was in a good place this whole race and that helped boost me mentally and I got a two mile pr because of that

For grass relays, the group of jv boys was so big they had to split us up. They took the top seven jv runners from each school and put them in one race, and that was the one I was in. Nothing really special happened this race, but I didnt do bad so I was satisfied with it.

I wanted to take top 30 at this race, but I had strained my achillies at grass relays so I was running injured. I started off pacing myself with Nathan the first mile and I got a 5:36, but he pulled away from me so I stayed with spencer the second mile, and then I finished the last mile with Josh, and he out kicked me on the last lap on the track, so I am never gonna let anyone out kick me ever again in a race.

Worst race of my life and an embarrasment to all the work I have put into running and all of the people that supported me. My injuries in my leg kept getting worse and worse, and so I missed two weeks of training, including awesome week, and once I got better, I was able to go to bob firman. Jamie put me on the second varsity team and I did not deserve it at all. I was slow from the start and nothing can excuse how bad I did in this race. went to hc after so that was sick.

Not a bad race for me, shout out to connor getting me super hyped before. I loved the course and I went out fast and negative splitted on my second mile which was cool. still couldnt hang with the guys tho, as my injury had set me back so much.

I started out pretty fast and we had an awesome pack going, but I had just lost to0 much to stay with them, I will have it back for footlocker though and watch out because track is gonna be lit. S/O to the amazing team and coachs that I got to work with all summer, truly some of the best people I have ever met

5 at lunch today with Connor and Josh at a 7:25 average, went up by trafalga for a 4 mile loop and then did a 1 mile pre meet for the connor arnell invite tomorrow night. Two 400s at goal pace for a 5k, splits were: 82, 79. After that we went five more at a 7:15 average on the rail trail then came back to the school and ice bathed. 

Its nice to be back see yall tomorrow

Lol was gonna get some miles in before the race bc high mileage but I was putting together a fire mixtape so I didnt have time, we have low later this week tho so I should be able to just make one of those low days a high day. Anyways, had a one mile warmup with nug and kobe, and then waited for a hecka long time for josh to get there bc he had the fire mixtape saved on his phone and he showed up late and then we werent even able to get it to work, so all of that time for nothing smh. We started the race around 6:45 and me spencer josh garrison and riley talked before the race about switching off taking the lead every lap, our goal pace was 85 seconds a lap, and after about three laps everyone had fallen back except for me spencer and garrison so we stayed together until the last 800 and held a good pace, but when we hit 800 meters to go, I started my kick and it felt great, I dropped my average pace from 5:40 to 5:10 on those last two laps and beat the entire group that I was with, I was not going to let any of them out kick me. Final time was 17:56 first time under 18 and a 29 second pr so all around an awesome night, went and chilled in garrisons hot tub after with kobe spencer and josh, nice way to end the night.

Roast of the day goes to Connor_Whitechick for posting a pic on insta from the race that I was not in or even told about for that matter #smh

12 miles today with Nathan Thomas and josh at a 7:10 pace, freaking long and I'm probably gonna fall asleep now lol.

2 mile warmup 

2 more miles with connor kobe and thomas

ran to airport and did a sick workout,  three sets of 100, 200, 300 up the hill @2 mile pace with a lap around the grovel in between each set, didnt get my splits bc my watch died lol, but I was within two seconds of connor each time so I know I did pretty good, ran back to the high school to finish up to 10, then went down and watched some state volleyball, it was a good time Lehis volleyball team is for real. 

Ran to utah lake and went underneath the freeway in this sick river thing, 5.5 there and 5.5 back, ran with connor(more or less), nug, thomas, josh, and hinkdog lol it was sick to have him on a long run. 11 total @7:20 average ready to preform well tomorrow and finish the week with 60 miles #theblogcanthandleme

Not my fastest race, I hit splits of 5:49, 5:58 and 5:55, however even though my time was slow I still placed where I should on our team, at 11th and I finally got to wear my sick nike pro combat hyperwarm shirt. I think that I will be able to have an awesome breakthrough at nxr in a few weeks because this last week of training has been insane with high mileage all week with two races and a speed workout, and I am getting in better shape every day, so I look forward to the opportunity. After running today I went with some of the guys to mickey ds and between the five of us we downed 6 gallons of powerade in like 20 minutes so we definitley got our moneys worth out of those one dollar drinks lol. Anyways it was good to have my first ever 60 mile week and first ever complete week on the blog. Its been real

Ill see yall on monday #staycrispy

Nothing too special about today just 6 at a 7:00 average pace. Had some good team bonding during our ab workout today lol thankful for the great teamates I have and That I am healthy and can run #wayup #blessed

Two mile warm up to the cemetery, did whistle hill workout, ran back, it was raining/snowing and Connor got an iPhone yay for Tuesday lol

showed up to practice today and the whole squad was gone so I was like lol today is gonna suck. but I ended up running with dexter, brecken, parker and tanner, and those guys are really cool and they are gonna be with ryan running varsity at lehi next year. It was good to be able to get to know my teammates better, we ran out 2.5 then back at a 7:05 average so all in all a good low distance run. When I got back I found some of the other guys and started to walk over to talk with them and I tripped and faceplanted on the cement lol @abn03, anyways I found out that they had just met in coachs room instead of outside smh. Went and did abs and then called it a day. Hyped af for the speed workout tomorrow

Today was awesome, did a one mile warm up and then we started our speed workout. I was looking at the times for each group in the speed workout and I realized that my time would put me in the second fastest group and I was like h*ck nah!! So I went with the top group for the workout. We started off with a 1600 at goal 5k pace and I ran it in 5:21. we had four minutes of rest between each set and we had to drop out average 400 pace by 5 seconds each set. then we did a 1200 I ran it in 3:55.next was an 800 I got 2:28. Then a 400-67 and we finished with two 200s but we only had two minutes of rest between each of those, I got 31 on both of them.

Cooled down to 7.5 with Connor and then ice bathed like champions kms lol.

I feel confident and ready to PR at nxr and my goal of breaking 17 is right there for me to get which a month ago I thought wasn't possible but I've had some awesome training so imma go get it. Up next after that is medaling at footlocker, so if I can do both of those things I will consider senior xc season a success.

Ran to the temple and back with thomas and mike at a 7:30 pace, today sucked lol

6 miles in the worst weather ever lol built some character

Sick two mile warm up with Connor

Shout out to big t for destroying Connor today lol

One mile turf speed changes

Four Mile loop with a bunch of the guys at 7:00 pace. Pretty good day today nxr is getting closer..

Havent been on the blog in a while bc nxr lol but im back now

On wednesday did the two mile warmup with josh spencer and garrison then we finished up to five after stretching at a 7:20 average it was cold but we still took our shirts off.

met up with the guys and took the two mile route to the cemetary and then we got a grass mile in and then came back. Left for zona that night and stayed in page, played some mario bros and watched some sick basketball lol.

Drove from page to casa grande. picked up our packet, bought some nike swag, and then ran the course. It was way sick and the grass on the course was amazing. met up with the homies and ran a little with them which was way sick. Then we went and ate dinner at dennys and went to bed.

I slept great friday night and I wasnt nervous at all for the race on saturday which was wierd bc I always panic before races but I felt amazing, loose and hyped. We got to the course and warmed up a mile on part of the golf course. Then we went over and started the race. It was str8 up insane there was so many people in our race and shoving and pushing and dirt I thought I was gonna die first mile,  it eventually spread out tho.

Splits were: 5:28 first mile, 5:37 second mile and a 5:48 last mile finished at 17:47 (pr) it was amazing, stayed in a group with landon spencer and garrison the whole time and it was sooooooo sick lol.

Shout out to the girls team, mama and papa arnell/heaps, coach and greg for cheering great for us, it was cool to feel the energy they gave us.

Also shout out to the boys varsity team for their 8th place preformance, even though it wasnt the place they wanted several of them still had awesome prs.

Ran on state street for three miles then ran back 6:50 pace. It is awesome to have such a great group of friends to run with and spend time with. Im glad I have had the opportunity to run XC for lehi

Speed workout today that I wasn't mentally reared for but its whatevs lol. Warm up for 2 miles with Conner and Nathan, and then started the workout. 6×500s at 5k pace, went faster then that but that's OK bc that's how you get better. 400 splits were 79, 75, 76, 72, 73, 75. Cool down to 6 afterwards

Met up with some of the guys today and ran up killers, then looped back around and up the dip with connor, pretty solid run. Chiled at Thomas's house after and Connor made a quadruple batch of protien shake lol.

four miles this morning it was cold, lonely, slow and my achilles was hurting lol kms

Out three miles on the tempo run road with mike thom and connor, got chased by a dog lol I was pretty much living kobes worst nightmare. got 12 pickups in then came back and ate breakfast at mikes house.

6 snowy miles with the guys, breakfast at connors after, good day of college football lol

Never did a report for the best race of my life so I figured that I might as well get on that. shout out to connor when he sees this and realizes that I am gonna be back on the blog. feel free to put me back on your fav blogs list fam! Anywars,I ran in the senior race at the foorlocker west championships. Chilled in the morning with the homies, as my race was one of the last of the day. Never have felt so good before a race in my life. Me nathan spencer josh landon garrison and denzil walked over to the start line for what would be our last cross country race- a sad thought, but not that sad considering we still have track season. It was a very sunny warm morning and I was excited to start. The gun went off and the pack was off. I was able to stay in control of myself quite easily and found spencer right of the bat and stayed with him, about the half mile mark Josh ran up behind us and causally said "sup fam" lol good times. We finished the first mile together at a 5:33, right on pace. Then we went up the first hill. It was extremely hard but the pain was easily overcome as the steep uphill quickly became steep downhill. I started going down and spencer pulled ahead of me going down and across the street, but then something clicked inside of me, I still have very detailed memory of how relaxed and confident I felt. I went up to poop out hill and powered up it hard af, passed eryone on our team and for the first time in my life I was the one leading the pack in a race and paving the way. I got even more confident going around the backside of the hill and started to gap everyone and going up resivoir hill I was grinding like a champ, which turned out to be the one mistake I made in this otherwise solid race, as I was not able to go as fast as I would have liked on the biggest downhill on the course, and Nathan was able to pass me. I remember seeing Momma and Papa Heaps taking pictures at the top of the hill so I was able to make my form look nice for a few strides so I got some sick pics lol. I came down and was able to gather my energy for the last 400, and my pace was a 4:20 for that stretch, I was burning everywhere but I knew that it was my last xc race ever, so I didnt want to have any regrets. Lol reminiscing and writing about this race almost has me in tears kms. I finished in 88th place with a time of 18:23, not as fast as nxr but if I would have run the same caliber of race that I did at nxr then I would have prolly prd by a minute. Later that day, my homie connor qualified for footlocker nationals, which I was super cool to see all of his hard work pay off, he definitly earned it. we made the most of our trip that day by going to newport beach, where we hit the waves and balled up. Running XC was as good as it gets, and I wouldnt trade the friends that I made doing it for anything, best people ever hands down. #lod #lehixc #teampre