The little fist of fury

Nice to be back in the saddle

I've been feeling kinda lousy the last couple days, but it felt amazing to bike to school and back

Just a little race tune up, did the run at sub 7 pace, felt good, we'll see if I can sustain it. 

CHill morning run

FUn race! I totally overslept, my alarm was set incorrectly, but with a little bit of speeding and some help from my friend Sean who grabbed my bib and stuff, I made it to the race just a minute before it started, and Sean and I both started the race about 6 minutes after everyone else. It was kinda fun catching up to everyone and weaving between everyone. It also felt good to always be looking up and looking to pass someone. I took 5th overall, and completed my goal of going under 1:30. Not my best achievement in running of course but I'm super happy that I could do that, especially considering the schedule as a second year medical student. I wanna run more, and race more. I'm especially excited for the ultra marathon race in march. Also, the guy that won the race had a dog hooked up to his waiste that was full on pulling him the whole way, so I don't consider him the winner. Anyway, good stuff ahead!

My knee is kinda hurting, which is what I get for not having a good mileage base and then going and doing a race. I felt fine on the bike ride though, so that's good

Played basketball for like an hour and a half

First run in a while, the knee mostly felt good for the first mile and a half, minor pain the second half of the run, but it didn't affect my stride at all. Also biked to campus today

Ran down the canal. Same thing, started getting some pain around the 1.5 mile mark, it kinda ebbed and flowed, just gonna try rolling out more and see if that helps. I biked to campus today as well

Just a beautiful bike ride 

biked to skool

Nice easy run. I didn't do anything yesterday, which I was frustrated with, but maybe that was good for my knee, cause it didn't hurt at all today until the end of the run, which is better than last week when I could start feeling it after a mile and a half or so

Nice bike ride with the average pace around 18 miles an hour

Wow, it was sooo windy this morning, I loved it, my hair was just flowing, very majestic

I should probably retire these shoes... Might actually have to buy a new pair for the first time in forever. Anyway, it was a nice run, I'm in the midst of finals week, so that always makes it tough. I think I'm gonna set a new goal of biking 25 miles weekly and minimum of 15 running miles weekly, and I just gotta give myself some sort of incentive to do it, maybe like chocolate milk when I go grocery shop that week, yeah, I lik the sound of that. Stay tuned. 

Forgot to record whatever I did in the last couple weeks, but it wasn't much, running wise. My new goal is to run 3 days a week (15 miles/week) bike twice a week (25 miles/week) and then saturdays will be either basketball or a long run/ride, but a couple hourse worth of exercise. Ran the 5 miles today, averaged 7:10 pace, but the heartrate was kinda high, like 168 average. Gotta do some good consistent work to get back into better shape. 

great bike ride, found these weird circle roads that were kinda fun

Not quite as fast as Monday's run, but I was still going a decent pace. Feel good to try and be consistant

Nice 13 mile ride, headwind out, tailwind back, kinda awesome

Well, this day didn't go how I thought it would, so I only got 3 in (at 10:30pm lol) instead of 5, but I'll get 2 in tomorrow evening, so I can get that weekly goal

Played ball in the morning for a couple hours, but I had to get the weekly mileage goal, so I went on a nice evening run

I'm a little more sore this week than I hoped I would be, but that's ok, all part of the path back

Ran the loop through the retirement community. Nice run, great weather. 

Nice bike ride out exploring those streets that go in circles. I decided I'm going to call those the track, cause you could just crank out some laps on them

The rare rainy day here in Arizona. Kinda fun, actually a little bit cold. I was completely soaked by the time I got back. Also, randomly this afternoon I found myself on the old xc website, looking through pictures and stuff from the 2013 xc season my senior year. Wow, what a flood of memories. I loved that time and I am so grateful for the coaches and teamates I had then, that was a very influential and good time of my life. 

Fun bike ride, kinda windy

Beautiful morning run, nice and cool. Lots of good life thoughts too

I think I need to get rid of these shoes... they're old, and have a toooon of miles on them. I just like them too much to throw away though, I mean, they're like a cool iridescent color. Like fish scales.

Good run this morning. The weather is warming up. I decided to do a little fartlek workout, 5x2min with 1 minute rest in between each one. The 2 minute hard portions were at about 5:50 pace, or a little faster. I'm glad I've been able to bump my runs up from a typical 3 mile run to a 5 mile run

Bike day. Nice weather.

Went a did a short trail run after the test, it honestly felt so good. I miss being on the trails all the time. 

Great bike ride down the wash

Only Ran 3 today, cause I biked to school, and also because I'll run a bunch this weekend

windy bike ride, but wow! that wind was crazy. 

Just a chill run, prepping for tomorrow

Fun trail run with Sean. Pretty tiring, we went out to Deem hills, ran about 7 miles out there, and did the other 9 miles on the baren desert north of Deem Hills. I need to pack more food, but besides that, it felt awesome to really get out there and do a long run

Nice afternoon run!

I honestly felt soooo good on this bike ride, I was cruising around 20mph the whole second half of the ride. I feel like I may have unlocked the next level for biking, I guess we'll see haha

This was just a hard run to get through for whatever reason

Another windy ride, but it was still good. 

Just a nice morning run with a 5x2min fartlek workout

Nice run listening to a really good interview of E. Bednar. Lots of good things to work on in my life

Dirt road hybrid run. Bike got a flat, so I decided to run today, I'll do some stationary bike as well

Ran a nice little loop today. I think I'll be back to do it again! Also, my hair is long enough I can put it in a man bun, but it took me like three tries to get it right, gotta get better at that lol. 

I was feeling so tired and lazy all day, until I actually got out on a run, then it felt great. Unfortunately I had procrastinated so I only had time to run 2 miles, cause I had to make it to a temple session. Better than nothing I guess. 

slightly windy but good bike ride, up over the hill to the temple

Nice run on the dirt down the canal, just listening to a good podcast

Great ride this morning riding through retirement communities, the streets are sooo chill, it's my favorite

Nice hour long bike ride listening to conference. 

Nice morning run, starting to warm up. I listened to a nice lecture on nutrition for pathology lol, so lmk if you have any questions about vitamin defficiencies or toxicities haha

Nice bike ride, listening to some angsty music

Did that neigborhood loop, nice run.

Nice bike ride, kinda windy, but it made it fun

Good run, listened to some pathology stuff. I think it's about time to get new shoes, my feet have been aching lately. 

Good hour and a half of basketball today

Nice trail run today, it was windy and glorious

windy bike ride. Great 2000s music blasting

Another windy bike ride. For whatever reason I just didn't feel like running today, but the bike was nice

pickleball day, but I did also bike to campus and back

Nice birthday bike ride, nothing long, but better than nothing

Fun run with Sean this morning out in the Deem Hills area. He really is a fantastic running buddy

Very nice morning run. It should be good this week to run or bike every day in the morning. 

Good morning bike ride, great tunes as always. I feel like it's usually less windy in the morning, so that's always nice. 

I don't know if I've documented it here, but I've been having some right foot pain, on the outside edge... nothing too crazy, I just hope it doesn't turn into something worse. I've been trying to massage it out and all of that good stuff. 

Great ride, windy of course, but tis the season

I'm really thinking I need some new shoes

Nice long bike ride, did a kinda fun loop, although there was some unexpected construction that took away my bike lane for an uncomfortable amount of time, and also just a stretch were you couln't get any speed really. Still fun to do a big loop though

nice bike ride

Played some nice 1on1 ball

Great long bike ride. Almost hit some people sleeping in the underpasses

nice ride to sean's house to clean the bike, it's looking super good. Also played a bit of ball this morning?

just played a lot of 1on1 basketball, pretty fun, pretty exhuasting 

I figured I should give myself an hour each day to workout. It was a blast today, little longer than an hour, but went on a nice ride out towards Lake Pleasant

3 mile run, then a nice hike in sedona

Nice long bike ride this morning again. 

Nice long run, no foot pain, so that was nice

bunch of basketball today

Nice hour long ride here in St George. Good to be home. I need to replace my front tire before it blows out though. Hopefully tomorrow 

Nice ride today with my neighbor Paul Riddle. We went out to Snow Canyon and road up and through the park, and he absolutely crushed me on the climb. Lots to learn and improve on still, but it was a great time. I got a flat at the end as well, and wasn't very prepared to fix it, which was kinda embarrassing, but a good lesson learned (be prepared)

Good run to the kentucky lucky chicken trail, did the loop and came back. I enjoyed talking and exchanging stories with Paul. I hope he didn't think I was bragging about anything, it could have come off that way. Lol. He helped me get my bike set up for tomorrow though, so that was nice!

Another big ride today, doing some loops and such and worked our way out towards the airport. Once again I got by booty kicked by Paul, but it was a good ride and it's always nice to have someone better than you to push you

Ran with Coach Fielding and the team this morning. I only recognized a couple kids, pretty sure everyone was really wondering why I was there, but I was awesome seeing Logan and catching up with him!

Good workout. Biked 50 miles, then ran 3 right off the bike. My legs were tired, but the main issue was the heat and dehydration. We went at like 2pm, so it was 95 degrees the whole time haha. I did enjoy it though, and am just super impressed with how good of a biker Paul is, wow, he absolutely crushes it. 

Just swam today, for the first time in over a year. Definitely was tiring, but I should be fine for the race (famous last words?)

Nice bike ride up snow canyon!

Enjoyed a nice morning run with Coach Fielding, just had a nice conversation about all sorts of stuff. I'm getting pretty excited for this race on saturday!!

Nice little bike ride, really kept it at a chill pace, went 20 miles. Paul had a lot of good advice for the triathlon for me, so that was nice. We also worked on some transition stuff down at the park, which was very helpful

Nice chill day-before-the-race run. 

Fun Triathlon today! I finished overall in 2:45, and it was just an awesome experience. All the legs were slightly longer than the advertised Olympic distance, but I wasn't too stressed about that, I was just loving this whole course! Triathlon's are such a unique experience but I do want to keep doing them. Hopefully I can improve my bike time a little bit, and get faster at swimming too. All things considered, great race for the amount of time I had to train for it

Evening trail run. Wow, I've really missed these trails, they're the best!

Did a little run with Natalie today. Took it nice and slow, it was fun to cath up with her, and just a beautiful morning out on the trails! The new Lone Peaks felt fantastic, they're always great shoes

Super fun run with John up Rock canyon and then up to the top of squaw peak. I loved it, it just brought back so many good memories

Fun bike ride with Cray up Provo canyon and then up south fork. Some brutal hills in there, but it was just awesome! We weren't going crazy fast or anything, but it was just nice to talk with Cray and keep that friendship going

Ran one of my favorite trail loops with John, up over the saddle of Baldy, then down grove creek and looped back around to the house. It was just fantastic!!

Fairly quick run along the provo river trail with John, we went 8miles, and he just really pushed me today, it was awesome!

I was just running out towards lover's lane, and randomly saw my old friend Jared on the track, so I joined him for a couple of 800s, a 400, and a 200. It was my first time running on a track is sooo long and I loved it! 

Nice bike ride up to the top of south fork with Trevor and Cray. Biking would be sooooo incredibly fun if cars didn't exist, but I guess we'll take them

Late start to the day, kept the run nice and easy and smooth

did the battle creek and face of baldy loop, very nice

Was gonna run, but just didn't have the time to do a big run like I wanted, so I decided to do a nice bike ride instead. Unfortunately the Garmin turned off for like 3 miles without my knowing it, I wanted to see how fast I could go up to the top of south fork and back to the house, but I guess I'll have to try another day. Plus it was kinda windy going up the canyon, which really slowed things down haha

IDK what to say guys, I got a strava, but it feels like a betrayal to stop posting stuff here. For now I'll use it to keep track of my shoe mileage

Nice ride