USU

hey everybody! new goal, blog consistantly thru xc! i'll be updating my mileage and races from track, so stay tuned.

i got new shoes a couple weeks ago, nike pegasus. i was worried because with every shoe except the brooks pure connects hurt my plantar tendon on my left foot after a few miles but these have only done that a couple times so i want to get my feet used to something new after running in almost nothing except for connects and a little altra for years! i'm only wearing my pegasus for runs this week and wearing them whyle i walk and walk at disneyland the next 4 days. then i'll switch off connects and pegasus every other. any other suggestions for a chronicly problem plantar?

well, first run of the xc season and the journey to a state championship! i'll finish up my goals but the jist of it is competing for the individual title for region and state, and hey, why not shoot for things bigger than state too!? i'll also be running real hard for scholarship offers as well...hopefully:)

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preston and i are on vacation, we just ran around the block twice and some in anehiem cali. we were excited i can tell, we averaged 6:53 pace, i finished at 6:30 pace the last little bit haha! the altitude just pushed oxygen in me! it was great haha. preston did really well too, he was strugling though (we were going faster than last years xc race pace for him after all) but good for him right?

i hope the team did well with their first day back in st. George! we are eexpecting a HUGE turnout!

didnt want to wake up early again so i went before lunch. feet getting tired!

Man its a chore running on vacation but i went again before lunch. its nice having the hotel right across the street from the park! 

i hope running on vacation is easyer on my cruise in august, even though by theni'll probably haave tempos and double runs. but disneyland with all its walking and standing is making me feet sore! especially when your familymakes you the designated fast pass getter;) but hey, the run was refreshing today! 

most coolest awesomest 4 miler ive ever ran for sure! we went to a beach at laguna and i brought my running stuff because i knew a oceanside run would be legit and yes, it was sweet! it started in the middle of like, bel air area with tons of nice beach houses (more like beach mansions) along the cliff by the ocean and it was legit, and anybody who knows me knows that i have a love for awesome cars and nice expencive things so when i ran by this house that you could look down into the courtyard and there was a porche 911 and a Rolls Royce (a 4 million doller car...jk;) i was in heaven! but that wasent all! after i got out of the rich neighborhood, i got to this park thing with a trail right by the cliffs overlooking all of laguna beach and laguna beach city and holy cow what an amazingly scenic mile or so of the run! then i got on to pacific coast highway and then the cool cars...wow. ferraris, bentlys, maseratis, gtr's, lambos, aston martins, mercedes mclarens, i was on cloud 9. by the turn around i didnt want to turn around! so i added another mile:) the wayback was basically the same but backwards. next time in cali i'll have to arrange a barefoot run down a long beach or someting, maybe santa monica? hey coach! maybe at footlocker?? great run today though, nice, easy, scenic, luxurious, awesome:)

blegh:P 110 degrees! thats okay, i was getting sick of perfect weather this week anyways:'( time to extra hydrate! like mo fara once told saarel, your pee should be clear!

Nice 4 miler up turtle trail! 

easy 3 up to maveric, with kids club after. we did two 200 ish meter sprints as part of a relay (my team won) but dang it got me sore....

nice run down to sandburgs, took a dip in the pond. felt nice!  nikes still feelin fine. missed tyson today though! that lazy cheek!

barefoot day at the soccer field. didnt even bring my shoes, just rode my bike to practice barefoot. grass felt really nice! headed up to scout camp for a couple days.I gave a run planned with my leader up at altitude, should be fun!

nick and I could only go for 30 minutes, but that was plenty of time to get our milage (i think it was supposed to be 3 but we finished somewhere between 4 and 4.5 pretty easy. doing minutes though was very inconvinient though, the first half was all downhill and at 10000 feet going back uphill all the way at the same pace was tough but all in all a nice hard heartrate run!

I ran at the region course with Taylor today. it was soooo hot especially on that humid grass. i think it was 104, but yah. and i was at camp for a couple days before that so i wasent even close to as hydrated as i ormally am. just goes to show ya what hydration can do! but we did the whole course quick, 21 or 22 minutes, even though we were dying.

first speed workout of the season! we did the vvo2 test. we did it around a .25 mile grass loop (the grass was quite wet unfortunately). I took the lead and the first lap was a 1:14 maybe? ish. took out pretty quick but abel passed me and that lasted for about 3 seconds before a sharp turn on the wet grass took him down and nearly leveled me as well! he rolled right back up though, kinda ninja like, and his adrenaline put a good sized gap between us but i caught back up with him and stayed one step behind him the rest of the time untill the last 45 seconds, we started our kick and we were shoulder shoulder and finished the same distance, 1813 i beleive? tied with taylor. i know we could have gotten in the 1900's if: #1: wider turns, the sharp turns killed the momentum. #2: dry grass. i understand why we do it on the grass, xc races are often on grass, but the wet grass really killed our grip, but i guess it teaches you to really push of the grass! all in all i'm feelin good about it! proud of paul too, for just coming out he placed with the top group! matt did really well too, along with reed and brayden! kyler kept in it too, so we'll see how things go the rest of the summer:)

I'm up at SUU with Taylor for a medical career thingy, so we got up today at 6:30 and ran up to Ceader high and did our 2 mile hard (6:30ish average, nothing hard really, just a pick up) on the xc course. i like that course! then we ran back to the dorms and got ready for the day!

just an easy run around campus. we woke up early again, and went to the track since Taylor and I have never been on it before (went up to davis invite this year instead). nice track! then we went over to the soccer fields to do some barefoot because the grass looked heavenly! unfourtunately it was freezing cold, but i dealt with it. the grass wasent super soft anyways, ive ran on better. then we did some striders, and we did them pretty quick! then we went back to the dorms

so we did long hill loops today. two of them actually. we held a 6:40 pace up the mileish straight up the hill. everyone kept up, them on the 2nd one we kept it 6:45 pace till we hit the steepe part, then everyone gave  it more effort, most of us got down to 6:15 for parts of it. probably harder than we should have, well then most of us should have, but i've just been itching for a tough hill workout so it hurt so good;) each loop was about 2.3 miles, we finished at 6.8 miles.

just a quick easy 4

easy three in thr afternoon

ran .5 to and from practice (coach said it would be good to do that, since it would get my mileage up just a little bit, 5 miles a weekish. i'm not too woried about it negatively effecting me because I have 3 years and thousands of miles in  my legs to make the extra running benneficial.) and besides, i like the easy .5s before and after:)

today we had our Vo2 max test, 15 minutes, goal of getting as far as you can, and boy it was appropriately named max for me today! went out with taylor Abel withthe first mile at 5:09, then he broke away from me, i tried to stick with his surges but i was only able to keep with his first 3 or 4, and soon he got too quick to keep up with. he was about 5 seconds ahead of me by the 2nd mile ( he was a 5:23 i think, i was around 27ish) and then he kept it strong whyle i was struggliing to keep pace! my legs lungs head and throat were on fire! although i was maxed out for sure i think i might have been able to go farther if i would hav paced myself better, but then i would have been alone at the beginning and it helps phycologicaly having abel to run with, when he dropped me it got way more tough keeping pace all alone. but i got 2 3/4 Miles exactly though! (well, 2 miles 1199.999 meeters but i'm just going to round up to 1.2K) and I'm very very very plesed with my effort and performance. later tonight i went to the rec center and did hamstring and leg workouts to get strong and keep my self less prone to injury. i also stretched and rolled really well. definantly in shape better and earlyer than last year so by the end of the season hopefully i'll be in the best shape ever! looking forward to tomorows workout! theres something awesome about workouts when they arent over untill you physicaly cant run them anymore!

40x152 meeter dashes today, had to do them in <30 seonds. first 15 or so werent too bad but when we got around 30 it gottough because we only had 30 seconds rest. coach stoped us at 40 though, but i think i could have done another 10ish. we had kids club after, got a mile or so in. and i ran to and from practice. i stretched really well, so hopefully i wont be too sore tomorow!

nice and easy grass barefoot day with striders after. half mile to and from practice. nice running with trevor thompson today too!

oh and coach, the place i was talkin about is called fire and ice. its on the top level of the garden walk plaza or whatever about a block away from disneyland, my family went there for lunch twice when we were there, we just walked it isent too far away. but dang girl, it was delish!!! and about the price of an ice cream cone inside the park;D