Train insane or remain the same

Recovery distance run today. We were supposed to be at 7 minute mile pace but I was feeling good and averaged 6:50's. We went to the gazebo and looped back by freedom and the junior high. Then me, @sirmatthewtodd, @dbrickasean, and @strrt went and got swole #swolemates

Shout out to the little junior high kid for yelling "put a shirt on you fatty's" (even tho I'm pretty sure I weight less than him) I hope you know that bullying is wrong, Matt went home and cried thanks to you #growup

Tomorrow we have a mile time trial, I am hoping for a PR, so sub 4:40. If someone goes out at a good pace then I can get it

Shout out to Sami Austin for bumping up the high mileage this week, she's up to 2 miles a day! #callherGarek

Shout out to Matt Todd, my homie. Coach Jamie was talking about some of the good performances from the meet and wasn't gonna talk about my 9:51, then he stepped up and reminded her, then he clapped for me really loud. Thanks Matt :)

Shout out to Sarah for putting me in her favorite blogs 

Sorry for all the shout outs, I'm just really blessed #tooblessedtobestressed

Ran 4 miles and then had a mile time trial. I stayed relaxed the first three laps. Picked up the pace a little with 600 left, then a little more with 300 left. With 200 left I started sprinting as hard as I could and gained some ground on the other guys. I finished with a 4:40 so that ties my pr. I was on pace all my laps except the second. We ran way too slow and I didn't realize it. That was the difference between me getting a pr by a good margin and just tying it. I am really satisfied with it because I am already at my pr from last year and its only indoor. And its only been three days since my two mile at the oval, so hopefully that means good things in the future. Finished up 10 after that. 

Mile warm up then 2x1000 3x800 4x400 on the track. It was at 2 mile pace with 90 second rest in between everything. My splits were 3:06, 3:07, 2:30, 2:28, 2:27, 70, 69, 68, 73. I felt crappy at the start, like everybody else, but then I felt better as we went on and I lead most of the workout. Since we have four hard speed days in a row we did low mileage today and will do high mileage on Saturday. After I did some hard core core with my homie Strrt.

Warmed up a mile, then ran a mile to the cemetery where we did a speed workout. It is a gradual hill and we did a 200 then a 400 and then a 200 with a little bit of active rest in between. This was one set and we did 4 sets. It was at goal indoor mile pace. Although the 400 was not a complete 400, it was a little short and then the second 200 route was not even close to a 200, it was probably 150. So my average times were 34, 63, and 23. But remember only the first 200 was right. But we ran them all fast and it was a good workout. After we finished our mileage at 7:15 pace. Tomorrow we have another speed workout. It's the one we did the last day of awesome week last year. It should be fun. 

Another speed workout today. 4x400's at mile pace with 2 minutes rest in between. I hit 68, 67, 66, 66. Then 6x200's at 800 pace with 1 minute rest. I hit about 31 every time. Then 4x100 all out with 30 seconds rest. This week has been very hard. Almost a pr in the mile on Tuesday and then 3 days of speed in a row after that. I didn't have that much of a problem with this workout when we did it last year, but today I just felt so tired. This week has taken a toll on my body. (Jamie did say she modified it, so maybe she cut some rest or something, and it was a lot faster for sure cuz our goal paces are way different) Hahah after the last 100 my lungs felt like they were gonna collapse. But if I wanna run some crazy fast times in May I gotta be putting in some hard workouts, not all right now but you get what I mean. We finished up with 5 miles and the last 2 miles I had recovered and I felt pretty good. Then I went and benched with Strrt and did some core.

Then Stewart found a basketball and we wanted to play, but it was flat. Then I remembered Brady kept a ball in his locker and I knew the combo. So I grabbed the ball and Me, Stewart, and Michael played 21 for a good half hour. I'm gonna call this cardio and stuff cuz I was really working hard. They don't call me Connor BALLER for no reason, I was hitting jumpers like no tomorrow. I should change my Twitter name to LBJ.

10 miles tomorrow in the morning then I'm off to sweethearts! I have some shot blocks I'll take cuz imma get hecka turnt. I'm way excited for the distance challenge in a week, it's gonna be so fun! I don't think we are gonna run the 4x800 at simplot :( I'll still run but just not the 4x8. Speaking of the 4x8 if you haven't heard yet, my boys from Davis ran a U.S. #1 4x800 time of 7:49.59!!!!!! They ran at the new balance indoor meet in Idaho tonight. Holy cow is that fast or what! (And I thought our 8:21 was fast) shout out to them for always being good guys, they aren't cocky they just go out and work super hard.

Matt's been killing lately, hope he continues to kill it and kisses his date @TarynRoyall tomorrow night! I see you Matt ;)

Oh and thanks to all of you that look at my blog, I wouldn't have all those views without you! #connerimcomingforyou #chasing500monthlyviews

Today felt awesome, I am loving this weather, it makes it feel so much better. I ran out by eaglecrest elementary and then back on the bike trail. My average pace was 6:46. I saw Jamie when I was going over the overpass, so she knows I got in a run today. 

Huge shout out to CONNER MANTZ!!!! He killed it today at the USATF junior somethings and took down THEE CERAKE GEBERKIDANE. He will now go to China for the World Junior Championships. Shout out to John Dressel because he got third and also qualified for World Juniors. These guys are so fast. 

Katie Rainsberger and Lauren Gregory (who is only a sophomore) qualified on the girls side taking 5th and 6th