The little fist of fury

Ran the Kentucky Lucky loop with Holly. Good first run of the new year. I've been skiing for the past few days. There's a lot on my mind, things and feeling that I need to sort out, I just don't want to do the wrong thing, but I trust God to help me make the right decisions. 

Nice to be back in AZ

pre test run

Just a nice three mile run in the morning, with a nice sprint at the end, feels fun to sprint. I wish there was a track nearby to do some repeats on or something.

relaxing afternoon run, the weather was perfect and man it just felt good. Wish I had more time for running haha

Went exploring down this canal that I bike past pretty often. It connected into the river trial system like I thought it would, and I had a nice time exploring down there and just running on some different spots than I usually do. Glad dto be alive and to be able to run and enjoy life in that way

These shoes are getting pretty torn up on the sides, but they still feel good to run in. It was nice to run around the neighborhood here with Holly, I'm glad she's willing to do stuff like that with me

Enjoyed a short but beautiful trail run with Holly this morning

Long day of studying and a test, but still snuck an evening run in there, which felt nice. I don't want this perfect weather to end

I twisted my left ankle pretty bad playing basketball on saturday, which was pretty unfortuante. The first mile or so today was pretty painful, but it kind of loosened up as I went along. I decided that I'm going to focus more on running for a certain amount of time rather than a distance. I had 50 minutes this morning, so I used it. Because of the ankle, it was a slower pace, but still good to be moving for that long. Hopefully the ankle doesn't impede things for too long. 

Another 50 minute run this morning, it was nice, listened to a knuckleheads podcast about Karl Malone, he's a cool dude, haha. My ankle was still stiff, and I didn't really feel fast, but it didn't hurt like it did yesterday, which I take as a good sign. 

Only 40 minutes to run this morning, I finished listening to my podcast interviewing Karl Malone. Good stuff. 

Just a quick 3 miles this morning because I had a practical exam to get to. It went well, and the run felt good. I'm a little bit sore, probably because I've ran more this week than I have any week since I've been in school haha. It's good to be getting a bit more mileage. 

chill 30 minute run

Longest run here in AZ. My ankle is still tender and swollen, so I decided it would be better to go running than play basketball. I met with a kid named Cameron Seams who is a 3rd year DO student, member of the church, and who I serindipitously met on the trails back in November. I just wanted to run on some dirt roads, and told him a spot where we could go. He planned out this whole elaborate route, and it worked out great. It was a blast, the weather was nice and cool, and the scenery was serene. I hope you're noticing all the great vocab I'm using. I felt great the whole run, and the ankle was stiff, but fine. 

It's finals week. Glad I got a quick run in before a long day of study and tests

Biked about 8 miles in the evening, didn't have time to run because of tests. 

Just needed to get even a small run in before a day full of tests

I'm out in Mississippi right now, and went on a run with Holly. SUPER strong and cold headwind for the first 1.5 miles, so it felt great to turn around and head back. I've also been in St. George and Brian Head these last few days, so I haven't been running, but you know I've been skiing a ton and playing exorborant amounts of pickleball. Good times

30 minute run

Met up with Michaela and Dan, ran down to a park, and had time for one 400m repeat haha

biked to campus and back today, i was biking pretty hard because I was running behind haha

Did a nice run out to the park and back. I also started listening to the audiobook "Iron War", so Mark should be happy about that. Shoutout to Mark for letting me use his audible

really fun run out in the tuscon desert with my boy Sam. It just was a great, slow run, just talking a whole bunch and really enjoying time together. It also felt good to sweat a bunch out in the desert sun. 

Chill run this morning, lots of good thoughts going on. I think it's going to be a great week. 

Just did a quick 20 minute run, right before heading off to school. My roommate Brett ran 16 miles in my shoes yesterday, I figured I might as well log the miles to keep better track of the wear on that shoe.

Met up with Michaela and Dan, ran down to this park and did a cool little speed workout of 400, 600, 800, 600, 400, 2x200. The 400s were in about 1:10-1:12, the 600s were at like 1:50, maybe a smidge faster (I'm writing this a few days after the fact, so times are not exact), the 800 was 2:30, and I have no idea what the 200s were. Good workout, it was fun to do some speed, I did dry heave after the second 600, so that was exciting haha. 

Enjoyed a nice run to the park and back. Did lots of thinking. Life is good, I feel really optimistic about things, there's just a lot to do and I gotta keep up the good energy going forward. 

Ran a little loop through the neighborhoods here

40 minute run, it was nice and smooth, just a smidge faster than 7 minute pace. 

Only had time for a quick run today, but I decided to do a mile repeat for the last mile. I went 5:42, which is great, but I didn't pace it too well, I started like sub 5:20 pace and faded to like 5:45, 5:50 towards the end. It was also tougher than I would have liked, but still nice to put some umph into a run. 

no miles today, just biked on the stationary bike at night. super busy day

Ran what I'll call the triple crown (the three peaks in thunderbird park). Despite the hills and rocky terrain, I averaged faster than 10 minute miles, so I'm happy about that. Nice to get on the trails. 

Ran 3 miles this morning. I've been biking the last couple days, and am going to bike and hike again tomorrow. 

Went 'splorin on some cool dirt roads north of the temple. It was super pretty, and absolutely perfect weather. The trails just kind of meandered in all directions, so it was fun to try a few different ones out. (the miles on the Timp trails are from a hike yesterday)

30 minute run after the anatomy test today

Good run, I went in the afternoon sunshine, and the weather just felt sublime

Met up with Michaela and Dan and Taylor and ran down to the park for a little speed workout. On the jog over, Michaela told us that we would be doing a 1 mile time trial. It went ok, I ran a 5:21, which was dissapointing to be honest. I was hoping for at least 5:20. It also was a little bit unsatisfying because I felt like I couldn't really push myself into that higher gear, or maybe I just wasn't willing to feel that pain. I mean, it was also on grass in a park, so I'm sure that slowed things down, and I didn't really have competition, but excuses aside, I should do better than that. After the mile we did 4x400 at just kinda a tempo run pace or something like that. I didn't time them. All in all though, I'm still grateful that I could come and do a workout with other people. 

Ran down to the park and back. I've been loving listening to this book Shoe Dog, very interesting stuff. 

Nice trail run this morning, just wanted to run for about an hour, and thats what I did. Had some armpit chaffing, so hopefully that is just a temporary thing, but I may need to invest in some vaseline

ran 3, biked probably 5, I'm not sure on that

Ran 3, biked 9

Went exploring in the surrounding neighborhoods, ran alonside this cool canal thing, the only down side was a stick with some needles on it stabbed through the rubber on my shoe and into my foot. Wow, AZ thorns are no joke. 

Did some more exploring in the desert. Love running out there, just wish it was a shorter drive. 

Nice run through the neighborhood with Brett, my arch nemesis. 

Nice little run... the weather was cool, but it was sunny and you could tell it was going to heat up. It's really hard to describe it exactly, but that feeling reminded me of countless morning runs and practices and it was just a strangely nostalgic feeling. Good run though

Fun run out in the desert. i don't remember the other runs I did this week, whoops

Nice little loop run. Its getting toasty!

This was a painful run... I got my second dose of the vaccine yesterday, and wow, I just did not have the energy, it was more of a trudge than a run. But I'm glad I did it. 

biked

biked

Went and ran for about an hour, it was just nice to get out and have a somewhat longer run

basketball for a couple hours, always a good time

Test this morning, then a quick run before the next class started. It's getting toasty, but it feels good

The cowboy hat loop. Nice little run, got out while it was still in the high 70s/low 80s. Talked to Mark, my one loyal follower yesterday, shoutout to him and hope he gets feeling better and that one day he can be almost as fast as me

Fun bday run

Met up with my buddy Ryan to run 3 miles. Good guy, nice to have some company

Fun ten mile run with my buddy Kylund Facer. It was his first double digit distance run, and I was so pumped to be a part of it. 

I'm low key surprised these shoes are still holding together. Nice holes in the sides and all of that, but they still feel nice to run in. 

Nice chill run

Ran the ol' cowboy hat loop

Short run before a long day of studies

Just biked a bit today, it was mostly spent taking care of car problems unfortunately

A couple hours of basketball, lots of hours studying

Fun run in the mountains with my guy John

Fun running date with a super cute girl, hopefully we can go out again

3 miles behind the lindon house where I used to live. I miss these hills so much

quick run in st george, fun to be here

I really ought to get up earlier so I have more time to run

Good run, a little tempo with coach, nothing too fast though. I don't know why I haven't been writing on here like I should be. I guess I've just been lazy. I've also taken up biking, so I think I'll just put my bike in as a shoe and record miles on there. 

Fun ride with Trevor this morning!

Nice bike ride this morning, had a great time 

Long hike down Ashdown Gorge. It was gorgeous and just an absolute blast

Had to make an unfortunate bathroom stop, but it's nice to have a more consitent running/biking schedule going forward

Had a nice 10 mile bike ride this morning, there's some weird construction going on though, so I don't think I'll be back that way for a while

I dilly dallied too long this morning, but I still got 6x2minute fartleks in, so that was good. I need to get back into better shape, its just hard to find the time, so I'll just keep doing what I can

Nice bike ride!

played ball for a little over 2 hours. Good times

Nice sweaty run this morning, its been super humid lately, so its just thick sweaty air that you have to run through haha

10 mile ride again today

chill run today

Clipped in for the first time, so that was fun! had a little bit of extra time this morning, but got lost a couple times trying to figure out bike routes. I think I have a better idea of the area now, so that's good. I also totally fell over waiting at a stop light, super embarrassing, but also hilarious

Nothing fancy, just happy I'm running at all

couple hours of basketball, good times today, had a good block that suprised everyone lol

Rough morning with a tough test, but I'm glad I got at least something in with the afternoon heat

Just had around 30 minutes to bike, right at the end of my ride I found this awesome road I really wanna explore, one day, when I have time haha. Also, I didn't fall today, so that was good. 

24 minutes to run, and I feel like I was able to make the most of it. Good times. 

Still feeling a bit sick (which is why I haven't ran these last couple days) but it was nice to do a 3 miles loop

Post sickness/test bike ride, and it just was so fun. I went up over the hill by the temple, I'll need to do that more often!

I think this ride was like 20 miles, I could be wrong thought. It was a really fun ride with a friend named Sean. I think we're going to end up being biking buddies

I slept in a little bit, so this run was just hot and painful. Listened to a good podcast though!

quick 35 minute ride

nice loop run!

Chill bike ride, nothing major to report

Nice run, with 4x2min fartleks, with a 1 minute recovery between each. I may not have much time, but it's time to start adding some speedwork in. 

Nice afternoon run. Feeling good. The competition is heating up between Jbuenning and I 

Nice bike ride

Just another chill run

Tragedy... I was 9 miles through a 12 mile ride, and I was on somewhat of a roll. Anyway, totally hit a huge crack and it blew out my back tire. fortunately skyler could come pick me up, but it was demoralizing. Thankfully I should have plenty of time on Sunday to fix it up

had a hard time getting up, so I only ran 2 miles, but the second mile was a 5:47 or something like that.

Biked up and over the hill to the temple, it was a nice ride. Some jerk threw a slushie at me, but fortunately they missed. Makes you wonder why they have so much hate. Anyway, life is stressful but good!

Nice chill run!

Ten mile bike ride. It's amazing what fully inflated tires feel like compared to ones that aren't quite there

You know, I forgot to record the miles and stuff for last week. woops. the most significant thing that happened was I got another flat tire. Darn. It is kinda fun to fix the bike though haha. 

Nice bike ride, it was really windy, and I felt suuuuuper fast going out, but coming back was a slug! haha. Good times though, mostly because I didn't get a flat

Nice little run, I just had a little over 30 minutes to run, and just enjoyed running along this canal thing. Saw a coyote too, so that's exciting. 

Nice morning bike ride, no flat tires (yay!) I still can't figure out why my back tire isn't exactly even, when I get going I can feel it like bumping. I've changed the tube and the rim doesn't look bent... next step is to maybe mess with the spokes a little bit. Even though problems like this can be annoying, it's kinda fun to get my hands dirty trying to fix stuff. 

Nice run this morning. The sunrise was gorgeous and the morning weather is fantastic. 

biked 12 miles. No flat tires! Yay!

Just a quick 4 mile sorta progression run. First mile was 6:30, the next 3 are 6:20. It was pretty tough, and unfortunately I had to stop at mile 2.5 and find a nice rock in the wash to poop on... anyway, not as fast as I have been, but gotta start building some speed back up so I can beat Jake B. in a traithlon in may. 

Biked 10 miles, the school commute. 

fairly quick bike ride this morning. 

First mile was a warm up going around 7-7:15 pace, the next three I kept under 6:45. Its hard typing that out and thinking of how fast I used to be, but such is life in med school. I biked to campus and back too (9 miles or so total)

Nice morning bike ride

quick run this morning, kept the pace brisk, sub 7, so that's cool

Fun 55 mile ride with Sean out to Lake Pleasant. I felt great going out, coming back, I was bonking for sure, I didn't have enough food, but that's ok. Next time I'll make sure to be fueled better and I'll be able to do more. I loved it though, such a satisfying day. I hope Sean will want to ride with my again, that I didn't slow him down to much haha (15.7mph was our average pace)

Quick 3, keeping it sub 7

Did a quick ride this morning, just fun. Practiced standing up a few time, the quads are tired, but that's good cause I'll get stronger. 

Nice preflight bike ride! The weather is so nice in the afternoons now

Went running in Houston this morning with my guy Jake Buenning. It's so fun to see him and just hang out with him and have fun, and the run was just chill and fun to be somewhere new. 

Well, I just realized that somewhere on the blog I got a week off, because I put last weeks runs two weeks ago. Anyway, everything is on the proper day now. 

I did a fun fartlek workout with Jake B this morning. we did 6 sets of 2min hard, 1 minute easy, 1 minute hard, 1 minute easy. I honestly really enjoyed it, and enjoyed getting up early to go run with Jake, I'm glad I have such a close friend in him, and for the bond that running and exercise has been for us. Also, if he ends up doing the triathlon this year, I'm totally gonna win ;)

Nice morning run. The mileage on the IQs is from earlier in the week. 

Did a bike ride down on my go to 30ish minute road route. It was fun, beautiful weather, life is just good. I was a little slow after the ride getting back into studying, but I will be better in the future. 

Did a 3 mile tempo run this morning. The goal was to keep the pace under 6:30 the whole time and that's what I did. I went 6:25, 6:27, 6:20. I was happy with how it went, and it was just good to get some speed in. My arms were pretty tired by the end, but I know if I keep up the consistent effort, that'll all improve

Just did a nice morning run before getting ready for school. It was a good run, good pace for an easy day, I do wish though that I hadn't gotten so distracted after the run, gotta trim down on that phone use. 

Played ball for a couple hours today, it was a good time as always, lots to get better at. 

just a nice morning run with a beautiful sunrise

nice run down the canal this morning!

Did a little farlek/ tempo run this morning. After a mile warm up did 10 minutes hard (around 6:15 average or a smidge faster) then 5minutes rest, 5 minutes hard, 2.5 rest, and then was gonna do 4 minutes hard, but added on an extra 40 or seconds so to bring it all the way home. It was a good workout. Still hard to feel not as in shape as I was in undergrad. It's not as noticeable on the less intense runs, but considering the circumstances, I think I'm doing alright. 

Nice little bike ride

Met up with Kylund Facer and did a fun trail run in the desert! Love that guy, he's gotten in pretty good shape and is running really well

Nothing like a post test bike ride

Just a quick run in the evening. The weather was absolutely perfect. 

Super fun run with Sean out near Deem hills. I just love a good trail run. 

Nice run with Anna

spent an hour on my mom's spin bike doing flashcards haha

Ran that webb hill loop with Trevor (older, pt dude, friend of coach fieldings)

Enjoyed running out behind the high school with J. Buenning. When we got back we noticed someone had written the n word in the parking lot of the baseball field. Kinda dissapointing, I really wish we could move on and above the racisim that has plagued us for so long

It was almost dark, and I just squoze in a quick run

nice run around the mayor's loop. The weather was really quite pleasant for a run. Lots to think about, and lots of things I want to improve about myself.