USU

did 5x mile repeates with a mile warmup and cool down. they were pretty pshyc (sick). pace was just threshold and goal times were about 6 minues. michael finch, casey kimzey and i were the only ones doing it thismorning because the rest of the team was raceing for the last varsity spots tomorow. anyways, we all stuck together on the first one with a 5:47 wich was mikes goal time, then we all got 5:43, 5:40 5:35 then finished with a strong 5:30. it felt awesome haveing the 3 of us all killing our times on a tough workout. it felt good sticking with mike the whole time as well. and the best thing was i feel good still! i dident over doo myself for the workouts later this week and im feelin good for the race up in murray this weekend.

am 3

pm went to larkspur park before the jv raced for the 5, 6, and 7th varsity spot to do some thousands on the course. it felt nice! got some sarcastic cheers when we did the last two durrning the 6th thrugh 8th grader race that were pretty anoying but they were tough  which is a good thing i guess

am 3

pm nice 5 with striders after. it was hot today! 

am 3

pm another 5 with 200s after. it was hot but we jumped into sandburgs stinky yucky pond but we dident care it felt good! kinda cought the girls off guard when we turned the corner though they dident know we were going thrugh sandburgs on our run too!

so i wrote all of this before then my tablet shut off and i lost everything!!! it would have been updated a whyle ago but i was just so mad i quit then the wifi at my house dident work for the next day. 

anyways we did a nice 3 miler in the morning and left for murray right before school started. it was a fun trip like always. me, casey and mike were the only ones who have been on a varsity trip before so lots of noobs and it was fun!

we got up to the state course and ran it with commentary by mike (with some contradicting points of view by casey). we stretched after and went to the mall to eat before the race. then we went to murray!!

 so we got to the race and it was super awesome! there were thousands of people everywhere! we watches a little bit of the jv races and started a warm up to some important parts of the course. it got me pretty excited! the girls started then we went to the line! 

ok so continure to the next paragraph then come to this one. so me and jayson pushed past the hells pack then ben and me and jayson kept passing and passing eachother. bens coach boosted his moral about 800 from the end and i just couldent kick with him. i beat jasons kick though and i felt that for me my kick was good. i past a few and got pased by a couple. anyways overall it was a good race! the ride back home was so fun! haha weird... anyways it was a nice trip and a good race.  

so the gun went off and the start was seriously super intece! people were getting pushed all over the place and some dummy kept kicking my feet! mike was right in front of me and we both werent in very great place to start and i tried to follow mikes push thrugh the crowd but there were just so many people! that first mile wasent as fast as it could have been. the whole rest of the race i did this push past a group then settle for another 20 seconds untill i got the balls to to it again. it worked pretty well. me and jayson just pased the dirt hill and the 4th and 5th or 3rd and 4th i cant remembe desert hells kids were there 

so i did a nice 3 today. not sure what i was suposed to run but i only had time for 3 anyways sorry!

nice easy 3 for am run

afternoon we did 2 warm up, 4x 30 second sprints, 3x 800 hard and ending it with the main part, 4x 1000s indian runs. the indian runs were tough. the beginning of the workout got us good and tired for the 1000s and it really showed who had it in them! i was really feeling pooped by the 3rd and 4th thousand but i kept it in and even helped push the group! i feet good on my 800s too keeping with mike. they werent real quick 800s but i was the only one  who stuck with him in all of them. the 2 mile cool down felt pretty quick though. could have taken it easyer but oh well.... getting ready for our last time trial tomorow!

time trial today. we did 3 in the morning then 3 in the afternoon, did the time trial which i'll talk about in a sec, a mile and a half cool down and some hill sprints to finish off with some speed.

so the time trial: i started out faster than i would have with mike and casey but that was good cuz it pushed me to stay with casey. at the end of the first 1200 loop i was strugleing but kept with casey. as the race went on i was getting into the rut so i tried passing casey to take 2nd (mike shot off like a beast a whyle ago) but every time he would kick it faster and pull both of us along. another 1200 came and went and i was feeling crappy but good that i was sticking with casey and the last 800 loop came and we pushed it harder. i wanted to outkick casey but after the hill he pushed it harder than i could. oh well i feel good that i finished 2 seconds behind him.  

nice am 3 miles. not much to say about it though.

so since wednesday i bought some kinvara 3s but they have been hurting my already hurt planters (it feels like stepping on a needle right thrugh the center of my foot/arch) so im going to return them. maby get some brooks pureflows. anyways another trip up north. sorry i havent updated in a whyle i have been useing all my free time for homework. but we had the harriman invitational. that course was the worst ever! its suuuuper tough. it was definantly a pear growing expirience if you know what i mean. i was worried my plantars would kill with all the fast downhill running but it actually dident hurt at all! that i noticed anyways. 

so we started nice and quick up a gradual incline then rounded a corner into a stepe downhill. i took it a little slower than i would have. eventually cought up with casey and we stuck together pushing eachother up the hills and over em and on the long kick sections. i passed him right before the mutha cussa (which i am not worthy of describeing...) and kept in front of him for that last half mile or so.

i was way way happy with my race. i definantly hurt more on that race than any other ever! but i finished good at 12th place (time dosent matter on this one but its like 1:30 slower than normal!) i was .....i cant remember....like a minute more or less back from mike. maby 45 seconds. i got a shnazzy shirt though they gave them to the top 14 sorry casey, youtook 15th;) and we beat desert hills and now they are ticked and tapering to beat us next weekend. they are stupid sometimes. i like ben though he is nice! i beat all but 1 desert hells guy in the race. 

so yah overall it was a pretty solid race! sorry about the bad spelling and organization im sleepy.

and ignore the last little bit down there 

sec. i got a shirth though they gave them to the top 15 (sorry casey, you got 15th;) 

ended one of my longest distance weeks of the season with a beautiful 8 miler with mike. just me and him. it was quite romantic actually...... bwahaha;) but really though it was nice! it hardly even felt like 8 miles we talked the whole time and did about 15 loops on the baseball feild at pv for some nice barefoot. 

nice morning run. i ran in my kinvaras to see weather or not i would really return them but the last little bit they hurt so i definanly am. 

pm we did 6 miles with 2 miles indian run with 4 hill sprints and 4 100 sprints. the sprints were fast and so were the indian runs. 

nice quiet fast morning run.

afternoon we did a mile warm up before michigans. we started and someone triped me whyle i was shirtless on the track. probably a dumb freshman who wanted to start the 4.25 mile workout like a frakin race. but i fell and slid on my back a couple feet tearing off my skin. hobes said it looked pretty bad (whyle everyone was a 100 ahead of me) so he dident say it was terrible so i sprinted to get back with the group (which tired me quite a bit for later) and kept with casey and mike untill mike picked it up and casey fell behind which left me alone and its tough to do michigans all alone! my pace definanly suffered durring the 2400 sections. i tried to get back faster on the next 800s and i did but it left the next 3 800 loops pretty poopy. i was barely under pace. goal time was 25:10 for A standard. i got 25:15:( my own fault though im blameing myself instead of the start. i could have pulled a measly 5 seconds from my keister but i dident push hard enough. oh well i'll definantly get it next time. it felt good seing noone but mike ahead of me though! i never would have though in my freshman year i would be this good. went to marks room to get cleaned up after cool down and i guess it was pretty bad. i could tell when he sprayed the hydrogen peroxide all over my back......ouch! oh well. it'll be wraped up for another day or so nothing too bad. it just killed my start!  

nebo invite today it was a bad race took 7th on the team and hundred and something over all. i ate too much probably because i felt like major barfage the whole race.

nice speed workout on the state course. kept up nicely and felt good. 

got new shoes today! the new blue brooks connects. my 2nd pair of connects i really like em. 

michigins all on the track today. got 24 somethin. a standard! 

swith monday and todays run. so today is monday. good speed workout stuff.

first sub 16 race! felt really good! got super close to beating dh.