USU

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