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

am- Oh baby! What an awesome workout today; tough but awesome. So today is the usual 4x1600 repeats but @91% and speed up to 93%. So the goal pace was 5:14 down to 5:06. So we start out and I was a little nervous cause we were stuggling to hit 5:18s before but whatev. But the first was right on at 5:14! And Preston was right with me and Alex was just right behind. Then the next one was the exact same as the first, 5:14, but it was just Preston and me. And thats how it was for the rest of the workout. The next one I was thinkin I would help out Presto and me by pushin hard the third lap so I took off and it worked out for us, cause we hit 5:07! Heck to the yes. The last I started out a little too fast cause then I struggled to go with Preston at the last lap and I ended up getting 5:11. But I am happy that I stuck right in there with Preston cause it was just awesome. And then we did the 2x300s all out. The first all the guys did a "elite" 1500m start where you run up to the line and then go. It was freakin' awesome and I ran it in 43! Heck to the yes! but the second one my legs totally gave up with 100 left so I only got 45. Oh well I was soo happy with the first:)

pm- Nice easy 4 mile run in 30 minutes. The breeze was just awesome running in cause it was soo relaxing. I saw Bro. Olsen the seminary teacher so that was cool!

WORD OF THE DAY: the word for today is "taxes" cause I wish I didn't know what that was..... I just started doing them for my paper route..... horrid.......

am- Nice chill morning, I wore a tank for the first time in the morning.

pm- Panther Relays!!!! So dope, I ran the 1200 in the DMR, the 1st leg in the 4x800, the 3rd leg in the 4x100, and the last leg in the 4x400! Wow what a day it was, I really wanted to do good in the 1200 but I didn't hydrate and didn't race smart either. Oh well. Then I did the 4x100 wid Sage, Boston, and Joe from dhills. That was dope cause we got 3rd to some sprinter teams! and then the 4x800 and 4x400 relays were lame cause the wind was horrid. But a fun time so yeah!

am- easy morning run with the guys. We found a boomerang on the run so that was dope!

pm- I had a choir thing so I kinda ran on my own. I saw Tanner Sharp at the choir thing so that was cool. Anywho, I started from my house and ran over to Harts and the guys were right there! They were finishing up their run so I ran with them and then went out and did the rest of the run/workout on my own. The workout was 3(2min hard, 1min rec, 1min hard, 30sec rec, 30sec hard). Hard to do on my own but good at the same time. I had to force myself to focus and push and thats often why I struggle in races: focusing. So it was good for me to really try to focus hard on pushing hard. Good run tho, my right foot in the middle of the palm of my foot really hurt tho!

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word was suppose to be yesterdays but I posted yesterdays runs today, so the word is "coherent" and I can't remember the story behind it so just like the word people!

am- the usual starbucks route

pm- Shoe run but it got rerouted cause the trail was closed. Then in the river we ran right up to a dead beaver! yeah this is for real people, a dead beaver! Wow that was just weirdish cool.... idk what to think. Dropped off the Minecraft sword at the Ellsworths and J-rod ran after us with it:) Then at Sandbergs resort I scared a lot of cows and it was a little scary cause if it just realized that I'm like as big as its leg I would be dead! And we were giving everyone star wars characters and I got named 10 year old Anakin Skywalker so that's cool. And then after the run we had 4x200s that were supprisingly harder than usual probably cause my ankle is just bothering me a lot.

am- the usual easy 4 mile / 30 minute run out to starbucks. My ankle really hurt last night. I hope I can get that taken care of by tomorrows 3200.

pm- So I didn't run any events so I just went on a run. The first 20ish minutes it was Josie, Jason, and me and we went up to the water tower and looped over to the road and saw Brianna and Chloe and another girl who are from dhills so that was cool. Then Josie was done with her time so me and Jason went out for another 40 minutes. We ran out to the water park and I saw Bro. Olson! Wow what a great guy. Got back to the high school and did striders on the field. Good day, but my ankle is still hurtin' like the motha-cussa at herriman xc course!

am- So we warmed up and were just chillin' waiting for the girls to get done. Now race time stuff. So the start is crappy cause the freakin' Canyon View dudes in my alley were all over the place cutting me off. That was really annoying. Then I finally got around them when they didn't know where to go after the alleyways merged. I got right in front with Josh and Spencer. Spencer was leading and Josh was right next to him. Then Josh seemed like he was wanting to use Spencer so he would have to work as hard in the first little bit but Spencer wasn't speeding up. So Josh took off and that was the rest of him. Came across the 1st mile at 4:56. Then I have no idea why but I fell off a couple meters behind the group, right after Andrew took the lead from me. At the 5th lap Coach told me I had to go up in the group I was leading if I wanted to qualify. So I kicked it in and got closer but they were speeding up. Each lap I was constantly trying to get up in the group but it didn't happen til Sage and Bryson fell off and Spencer and McKaid took off from the group. I made a move and passed 4 dudes in the last lap and a half I think. I finished and looked up at the clock and it said 10:07. Dang it! Qualifying is 9:59 so I didn't get that but I did PR by 11 seconds! Heck to the YES!!! Great race. I just need to pour it on during the 6th and 7th cause the 7th lap I ran a 1:18.....yeah. And the 6th lap is right before it so I might as well get going, yeah? haha good day tho.

WORD OF THE DAY: in honor of learning so many words, I have got Merriam-Webster's word of the day, which is "Verdant". Wow I literally have no idea what that even is. It sounds like Virgin so it's probably something super righteous.