"If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail"-PRE

Goals for the week: 

• Go to every morning practice
• Do my exercises for my hips every morning
• Run a sub 10:10 3200m at PV Invite 
• Get 8+ hours of sleep every night
• Believe in myself and my teammates

am- nice easy 4ish mile run. I am feeling like this week is gonna be a great one which is good considering my bad weekend. 

pm- Todays workout was the usual 1600 repeats but Alex, Mitch, and me only did 3 cause we are racing tomorrow. Wow what a confidence booster from the weekend! Goal time was 5:21 and I was hitting times nice and fast. They were 5:19, 5:19, and finished with a 5:20. Then we did the good ol' 300's and that was spot on, too! 46 and 46 again! And after that I went in and beasted in the weight room, upped my bench press by 5 pounds.... yeah thats it.

THE WORD OF THE DAY: I have started this dope thing cause I am so clueless and dont know what a lot of words I hear in school and running and stuff. So todays word is........pimp! What does that even mean, like I feel like it has this secret meaning.....

am- nice easy 4 miles over to starbucks

pm- Well today was the "Redeem Yourself" meet for me, as I did bad at the hurricane invite. So I did the 1600 today and that was good, not amazing, but good. We start out and this Dhills kido gets in front (I think his name is Josh gibb?) and then I was like 'this is too slow' so I went out in front and it was mitch, Alex, and me the rest of the way. I lead the first and then I told Mitch to take the second. He went in front and then seemingly hit the breaks hard core! I literally shoved him so I wouldn't run him over, and he spead up a lil', but I was feeling like we were going to slow. The third lap Alex went out in front and then I jumped next to him for the last 100m of that one. Then I was like "I gotta go if I want to get a PR today!" so I took off in an 'almost' sprint. I hit the last curve and was definitely feelin' it and gave a finish, but could have been stronger. The timer person said 4:52/4:53 when I came by(but i just found out by my good friend Controversial Cam that the guy was wrong! wow), and Alex was like right on me just like at the Las Vegas Invite! Solid race, and it definitely boosted my confidence. I for sure need to improve on how I raced, but it was a good start of a track season I am looking forward to!

WORD OF THE DAY: aight well todays word is "epaulettes"? I read it in my LA book and it sounded like they rolled up Paul in an electric cigarette!

am- wow I really did not want to run this morning.... but I did cause the more I run, the sooner I will get better! And KSL said that successful people exercise in the morning;)

pm- Oh baby what a great workout! We had 6x800's at the 3200 race pace(so goal pace was 2:30). So we start out and just were putting out 'peats like crazy! 2:30, 2:29, 2:30, 2:28, 2:28, and finished with another 2:28! Mitch told me that the level 3 guys had only 5 compared to last weeks 6, so when I found out that he was wrong I was a lil' BH to be honest. I think all of us 1600/3200 guys felt tons better than last week. I am so lookin' forward to the 3200m this weekend. State Qualifying sounds pretty nice right now;)

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word is in honor of Mrs. Goncalves 5th period portuguese class, and the word is "veado", or should I say "Brian"!

am- nice morning run with Andrew back from being sick! 3.9 miles total in 30 minutes

pm- pre-race stuff for the Invite tomorrow, we once again did the good ol' shoe run but we put up a run for the best drop-off ever! And at the park brian caught a duck and that poor thing is all I'm gonna say! Then we dropped off the stuff at "you know whos" house and dashed for Sanbergs. Mitch got stung by a bee and it was actually pretty funny how he reacted. It looked like a third nipple tho. Then we did our 4x200's and that is a wrap.

WORD OF THE DAY: the word today is "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia"..... I just dont even want to try to figure out what that means.

am- nice easy run in the morning. I am super stoked for the PV Invite today!

pm- just did tons of loops around the stadium to help out with the meet. And I did the DI loop wid Warbeast and Mitch. Wow what a day for the invite! Lucy Biles threw down with a 5:00.61, and Josh Collins broke the meet record with a 4:16.21!! dang that was super impressive, and then all the attractive girls, wow. I also got a pic with Conner Baller, Sir Matt Todd and their bud so that was legit! AND I found out that I surprisingly got into the fast heat for the 3200 tomorrow! So dope. Man I am really happy I am running in the morning tho, it was sooo hot today! I got burned hardcore

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word of the day is "voracious". Wow I read this in the practice ACT test thing(btw i might take that thing this summer!) and I was just perplexed. 

am- well today was another hard day for me in the 3200m. I was really excited and just ready to go out and race a qualifying time. Well I got in a great spot for the start; it was the waterfall of the first two lanes. The gun goes and I get out good! Wow the first mile I thought was gonna be way quicker than it was. The whole front pack was coming across at 4:53ish til me in the back of that at 5:00 flat. Then everybody spead up and I didn't go with. I got psyched out and really sucked it up the rest. Dang Connor Baller is so beast, he beat Warbeast so now he gets AA. sorry presto, but that was so beast to qualify for state! After the race we ran out to Starbucks and back for the rest of our time. The rest of the meet was solid. I wish I could have done better but I guess I will have to prepare better mentally for next week. 

WORD OF THE DAY: well I dont know if this is even a word cause my mom said it and she tends to make up a few words;) anyways, it is "demoaned". yeah I was suprised my momma said that cause it doesn't sound too good:/