The Renegade

Morning run with the good ol XC team at practice. Jack came too! Ran up to USU and then the cross country course mainly with Jack, Paul and Kalin (the coaches turned around at 3) I felt a sense of freedom knowing I could mess around as much as a wanted and not get in trouble but I figured I would be a good example ;)

Drove to First Dam at about 9:00 and did a run at dusk on the Canal Easement for 3 miles then I finished up on the Shoreline Trail to get a little elevation. It was cool looking at the lights in the valley but it got sketchy when I couldn't see anything. Felt meh. 7:32 ap.

Easy night run out to the River Trail then I looped back by Icon on 10th West. 7:01 ap, felt decent but started to get pretty tired towards the end. Having Kanye in my ears helped a bit though.

Finally had a decent workout today, meaning I didn't feel completley crappy for it. I was meaning to get up early and run but I slept in and then I had a dentist appointment (not a checkup, fillings ugh) and then I worked from noon to 4:30. Waited till about 8:30 and then I drove to the USU XC course. Warmed up a mile on the brand new canal trail that is connected with it. Workout was a marathon workout I got out of the Daniels book. In the book it is 3xMile @ T w/ 1 min jog + 3 X 3 min H w/ 2min jog, but I took out one of the miles to reduce the volume. I kind of followed the way the 5K course goes. First mile was a 5:45, next mile was a 5:58, at this point it was convenient to head onto the canal trail and explore more so I went out on it for the first 3 min push then turned around. The first two didn't feel too good. When I started the last one I was on the far northwest corner of the course, and I decided to see if I could get to the finish line in that three minutes (includes looping around the grass field) but if the three minutes were up I was still gonna finish it. Well 3 minutes came and went and I wasn't super close and I was going to finish through but the sprinklers had switched and my bag was in the line of fire so I just stopped it where the final straight starts and grabbed it. Recovered then did two long strides, one downhill one uphill. Then cooled down and decided to check out the track. It was pretty dark at this point and I took a couple steps on it before I realized it was a BRAND NEW SURFACE which was hasn't even had lanes painted yet. So that's pretty cool. Decided to stay off though.

At around 3 I was debating whether I should go run somewhere or not, but then I ended up going to the pool for about 3 hours. After that, I ate half a pizza and then I was ready to run lol. Just ran from home ugh. Took a new loop that I haven't done just to switch things up so I ran all the way to Maceys which was about 3 miles from my house, and I was havin stomach problems and tried to use the restroom but I couldn't go just yet, then moved on running to Ryan's Place Park (this whole time I had that great sluggish tired feeling) and I still couldn't go there, then I just headed straight home from there, luckily without an accident. :) 7:31 avg.

I met Paul, Kallin, and Collin at Green for a morning long run. We took it really relaxed up (or I took it because I was leading the whole time) so about a 9:15 average going up for 5 miles with 1300 verticle feet, which is low 7s with GAP. Kallin and Collin turned around at 4 so it was just me and Paul now. We turned around and I thought we going at a pretty good pace down but it was only like 6:50 for 4 miles. I feel like I need to work on ankle strength because I don't feel like I can run down hill on trails like I could a year ago. The trail is a bit more groomed further down so our last mile was a 5:56. 8:00 ap.