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mile repeats today on the dirt mile. goal times were 6:50. this was the first repeat session (3 repeats) that i actually had a hard time going slow enough! the first one was like 6:15, 2nd was 6:30 then 6:40. I mean come on! i do this pace on shorter runs for the whole 4 or 5 miles sometimes! oh well, the are going to get alot harder

grass run

30/30s today. last week we did 40 of them (coach made us max at 40) but this week coach told us to make our recovery much more active, so abel and i kept together and recovered much more actively, in fact, we didnt stop to walk, or even catch our breath once! last week we did about 50 meters recovery and stoped to wait to go for 5 to 10 seconds but this week abel and i woud recover 75meters, and sometimes even almost 100 meters and we would just go when coach yelled for the 30 seconds to start. let me tell ya, that made a HUGE difference! i was struggling at #13, and it felt like the 30 sec. hards were way faster than last time! its crazy what 5 seconds of rest will do for ya, but in this workout you shouldent be doing that. abel and i dropped at 20, but we could have done a little bit more. next weeks goal is 25! 

i bought some asics gell lyte 33 2's today, much better than the first gells. i like em!  

ran in my new asics, very comferable and pretty light! didnt hurt my plantar even for a hilly run so thats a good sign!

we went 6 miles down to hells hole, and turned left ant the fork for the ups and downs of the half marathon course mile 3 to 4.5 or something like that. the way up was strong! like 7:30 pace. the way back was something like 6:15 averagge pace but with all the downhill its hard not too! impressed with kyler, krenny and daves performance 

ran out in green valley/bloomington today. 8 miles with an average pace of like 7:45 to 7:30 or something (i finally ordered a new garmin strap to replace my broken one and it got here wednesday so i finally know my paces!)

we went out on the river trail then me, krenny and matt decided to make it a loop through bloomington. the loop turned out to be 6 miles so we went out and back another 2 miles.

I've really been suprised seeing how  much i can do compared to even a year ago! i remember this time last year i had a hard time keeping up on a 7 milerun, and even had to stop a few times and now i look at myself and my breathing wasent forced whatsoever even for a good pace durring a 8 miler early in the training season! the only time i breathed hard was when matt decided to pull a 6:10 last mile! i'm pretty confident that i'll be in really good shappe for the race season! 

woke up this morning to run but I remembered i'm doing a late night run today, so i finished the yardwork i was told to do like 2 months ago. 

now, i'm going to spend the next 3 hours updating approximate mileage from track season, and do a quick recap on all my races! make it worth my whyle and read my races at least;) DONT PROCRASTINATE THE DAY OF YOUR BLOG UPDATE!!!! 

all done updating! it only took 2 hours! go to the last day of may for the whole sh-bang.  you dont need to read the races though, i can hardly remember anything about them! 

so we had a night run, abel krenny hunter and I. ran by the shone estate/castle/whatever and went to her vacant neighbors house and pool hopped. to our suprise we hopped the wall the same time a group of foul mouthed adolecant delinquants were hopping the other side! so we had pool buddies for a second. we chilled in the pool for a minute or two, did some flips off the diving board then continued on our night run.  afterwards we went to sonic for half off shakes, i got coconut creme pie, soooooo delish yall have to try it. i think i got jipped on the price though, hunter also got a medium and his was like 50 cents less than mine! maybe they had to import the coconut from tahiti or somethin. thats seriously how good it was. 

placed an order for some neon green and yellow connect 2's to replace my warn down red ones, more infamously named the "infernos"

name ideas for the new ones coming in? 

AM:

strapped on my new asics gell lytes for some "speed" (if you could call it that) today. ran to and from practice for an extra mile. we went up to the dirt mile to do 4xmile repeats. i was suposed to get 6:50 for 80% of my VO2 or whatever but i went like 15-20 seconds fast and finally on the last 2 coach told me to run with abel and i was greatfull because I felt akward trying to keep a conversation going with him like 10 meters in front of me haha! my splits were like 6:20, 29, 35, 33. the pace was easy and abel and I basicaly talked the whole time, but thats probably going to change soon... hopefully. I've been itching to go fast lately!

coach was all ticked off today! freakin weirdo... disneyland did not go well for him I think. Maybe he just needed a hug! maybe the fact that I'm updating right after my run will put a smile on his face! .......    :) 

I signed up for this run for chelsi 5k next monday, I'm hoping to get like a 16:30 at least and I think i could do it! 

 pm: lets say I have had better doubles. i couldent make it to practice with the team, i had to teach piano across town at that time, so i went shortly after dinner and if you know me...well, lets just say i was in a big hurry to get home the last mile and a half! i was about .3 from home and 3 dogs started chasing me! almost scared the crap right out of me literally... then i ran to and from the rec center which was another .7 ish and lifted weights. it was only 102 i think so it wasent as soul suckingly hot as last saturdays run but still quite warm. ive been drinking like a russian alcoholic though (just a joke, dont cry) so i felt allright in the heat:) 3.7 total

Barefoot on the grass today, 4 miles with striders. The legendary Josh Decker and his beard and the amazing RJ came today. And also this girl named...baylee koyer I think? who cares;) nice easy run, felt grrrrrreat!

ran to and from practice like always, 1 mile round trip

we did 30/30's again today, abel and i did 25 of them with 152 meters durring the hard 30 seconds and at least 75 meters on the 30 seconds active recovery. I'm still amazed at how much the very active recovery changes the intencity of the workout! we got 20 last week, 25 today and opposed to 40 two weeks ago when we would only do 50 meters of recovery and rest for 5 seconds. we all did a mile warm and we just cooled to 5 miles. that baylee koyer person came again today... does she not have any friends? we may never know...

went down to hells hole and did some bounders and sprints up the hill

i had to cut my 30 30 s short today, the side of my foot was really hurting on left turns, which happens to be the only direction you turn except for once a loop. so i only finished 11 or so. then i iced all day, took my double run off.

bare foot on the grass. i couldent do my striders after cuz of my foot (this is actually tuesdays update, replace with wednesday)

9 miles into middleton with a couple quick tempo miles. felt good. afternoon run in the afternoon easy 3

3 miles easy on the region course, then went to webb hill to do 2xmeat grinders. (a grueling one mile long hill that grinds your meat) it was really hard not to stop on the last uphill stretch! but i did pretty good i think!

6xmile repeats at about 6:30 pace more or less, mostly less. then 3 miles afternoon, well night. the lightning was scarry! did all this up at the dirt mile.

30/30's today, abel and I did 31 of them. felt pretty good actually! hot afternoon run.

5k today up in enterprise. we woke up early and met at coaches at 5am to get to the 6:30 race up in enterprise. we got there, registered then searched for a restroom. when we got out, everyone was gone. apparantly there were busses that take everyone clear up into the canyon where the race apparantly started... it was a very very stressfull 10 minutes whyle all 4 of us ( abel matt me and kyler) had to catch a last minute ride up the canyon from one of the locals. made it just in time luckily, but we had maybe a half mile warm up...

the race started and placement started pretty quick with abel and i, coach holt and the DH coach fielding in the lead (coaches were doing the 10k) with matt and kyler right behind us and colton not much farther back. not much else happened actually. matt and kyler fell back a little, but held a good pace throughout. same with colton. abel and i were helped out by the coaches as they kept the pace about 5:15 the whole race. the last mile came in no time and i took no hesitation on making a move into it by catching coach fielding who pulled ahead 10 or 20 meters or so. abel slowly caught up and we had another .75 miles or so. we kept a quick pace up untill the last 300 meters or so and i tried making a move on abel but he was going pretty quick as well. i think if the race was a bigger deal like a HS race i would have caught him easy, but that kid has quite the kick, so you never know! i shoulda gone for it but i knew we both ran really well and i just let us finish quick. Abels time: 16:20, mine 16:23. matt and kyler and colton were about a minute or two behind.

Pine view had the top 12345 sweep! and coach won the 5k so PV all the way!

(radioactive green beans, 5 miles)

afternooon did a quick 3 miles with the team, and had a swim party after at coaches. planning for camp too! super excited. 

half mile to and from practice. half mile barefoot warm up with the usual core and agility warm ups. then we went down into hells hole for hill workouts. the usual rolling hill trail we use for these washed out and there was work being done on it. so we went to the hill that the canyon gets its name from: hells hole, named appropriately. we did 4x1:00 sprints and 6x:30 sprints. they were tough on that steepe of a hill, but actually werent too bad! i can definantly tell im getting stronger.                                                                                                                                                    :: pm, went to the school, did the usual 3 then lifted some weights.

nice easy 10 miler, about 7:30 pace average. i was chaffeing really bad though, i put on A&D after though and hopefully i can survive camp next week:) shoulda wore my pegasus or something though, the connects seemed kinda thin for 10 miles. im also really likeing my new asics gell lyte 33 two's! maybe my new favorite?