Dakota Cobler

Ran a bunch around the course with Andy then did some more warm-up around the loops at the first part of the course. Got to the start and did 10 or so strides. Perfect conditions. I had a pretty good start but was pretty far back in the back. When I got to the mile I was around 30th and at 5:10. Pushed up the switchbacks fairly hard knowing that I would get to recover coming down the other side. At this point I was constantly passing guys which just kept feeding me. I used my momentum coming down the hill to carry me to poop out hill. Still passing guys I pushed up poop out hard and got my downhill reward. At this point I knew I just had to push to reservoir hill and get up it and I could handle the rest. I was slow going up reservoir with a couple guys passing me but I passed them right back when I got to the top. Got to the top and knew I had to go all out to the finish. When I got to the stretch next to the road I saw the screen pointed at the kid in the lead and realized I could see him and was right behind him. This is where I first realized where I was even though I had been trying to count the whole race. When I got to the little up on to the track a couple guys passed me but I passed them back as soon as I told myself I wanted top 10 more than the other guys. Then I was really able to start my kick where I flew passed 5 guys. One guy came up on me and I latched onto him. He carried me all the way to the finish but I wasn't able to pass him right at the end. Very happy with this race because I tied Tomy's time from last year and was top ten. For cool down I ran around on the course with my dad. I think I can pretty easily say that that was harder than the actual race with all the weedy hills and the fence climbing but Im glad he does it because he definitely helped. I don't think I saw a single other person get to as many spots on this course as him. Good day even though we got stuck on the bus ride home.

Stuck in St. George all day

President circle to the fire station on 11th and back the normal shriner run way.

To 2100 south down to 900 east and across to 9th and 9th where we went up to the school. Felt kinda sick and had to stop but it was pretty good other than that.

Ran to sugar house did 2 road laps and went back on 1500 east. Felt good.

Ran down to liberty for 2x2 mile tempo at 80%. Me and Garek were supposed to hit 12:00 but apparently we think 6:00 pace is a lot faster than it is so we went too fast. Went into the run feeling sick and was too sick to do the second one so I went back up to the school.

Felt sick and wasn't going to run but ran to the Christmas tree lot. Stopped once around the 2 mile then felt ok the rest of the run cause I had to catch my dad. I made the goal of catching him before highland drive and barely caught him at the corner. Passed him and had a good rest of the run.

Ran the salt lake marathon course backwards to sugar house and finished there. Averaged 7:50's the first 8 with my dad and then decided I wanted to get my average to 7:30 so I pushed to 2 even 6:20's for the last 2 miles which got my average down to 7:35. Went to the gym and then porcupine grill after.

Still haven't really been feeling very good so I quit after my one 10 minute mile and now my dad is giving up on me but oh well. I'll do everything on my own and get where I want to be on my own.

Am- Did a lap in old mill golf course for 3 miles. It was really snow because of the snow on the path that thought would have melted. 8:18 average.

Pm- went up to park city and ran on a groomed snow trail to get out of the bad air and cold temperatures. All slight uphill out 7:11 average and all slight downhill back so my total average was 6:48. Good run that felt good.

Went up to park city again before indoor track practice. Did the same 8 as yesterday but only 6:53 average this time. Felt ok but it seemed a little bit harder because the snow was more melted and softer today I think. Indoor track sucked. I'll definitely be sore tomorrow. Hopefully I can get myself to wake up and run tomorrow morning cause I couldn't this morning.

Ran 10 with Andy up shriners run to 11th to city creek and memory grove down to south temple up south temple to 1300 east and across back to the school. Felt ok but really sore and tired from yesterday. Way under 7:52 average because I didn't stop it at any of the hundreds of lights we hit. One mile had so many lights it was a 10:08 so it was much faster than 7:52 average

One mile warm up on treadmill at 8:04 then stretched a little cause I was really sore then finished the other 7 miles so my average for all 8 was exactly 6:30. Felt really good once everything totally warmed up. After the run I did weights. Adductors, abductors, quads, hamstrings, and calves. I was going to do my usual abs but my mom was waiting to pick us up so we just left. Happy I got it all over with.

Well you guys know how you have to be the fastest one in the gym when you run on the treadmill? Well that wasn't happening today unless I was going to beat Cam Levins. Apparently his wife is from here and he's here for the holidays. I wasn't really feeling the best so I really didn't want to go but I made myself go anyway. It was a good run, about the same as yesterday but shorter. I started at 8.0 then as I warmed up in the first mile I bumped it to 6:00's which made my average 6:15's. Felt ok but my lungs were burning pretty badly from not feeling well.