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

am- 8.3 miles/ 60 min total; 20min warm, 20 min tempo @ 1min/mile slower than 5K pace, cool to time.

Today was great! Taylor Abel is back and came to practice!! Agh what a guy, good to see him again. So I thought we weren't gonna have practice cause of the lightning but it let up? hehe yah it let up I think;) We went up to the dirt mile and did a tempo, just 20minutes long. It was at 6:20 pace so nothing crazy. I was in charge of the time so I would yell out every once in a while. We had a solid crew up front, and kept that together til 20 seconds left when Xander stopped to throw up:) He was good though, so all is well. 

WORD OF THE DAY: today's word is in honor of our captains meeting today, and the word is "theme". Yah we are finalizing that to be ready for our Tuesday team meeting!! Agh I am soo pumped for XC this year. A theme is a general topic chosen for an event, meeting, group, etc. Ex: The theme for the LDS youth this year is "press forward". 

am- we did a 35 minute, half and half run today. Half road half barefoot grass. Felt real good. Striders afterwards, so 40 mintues total. Solid day at kids club so that was fun. I am tired rn.

am- Wow so we did weights yesterday and that has got me real sore! The run made it a lil' better though. Connor had his last day with us before he left back up north, good to see him down here, hopefully not the last before the mish but we'll see. For the 55 minute run today we ran to Grapevine but went up the dirt hill towards the park up there instead of through the tunnel. Good day, I am heading up north today for a Athlete Leadership Conference so that will be fun! The conference is tomorrow and thats it so I will be just running up north for tomorrow. Long run too:/ oh well it will be good.

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word is "transportation" because I am going to be using the worst mode of transportation to get to Murray today: a bus. I hate buses cause they make your butt hurt and get a lil bit sweaty. Agh. A bus is a large vehicle usually used to transport a large sum of people. Ex: Last year, a kid in my grade, Timothy Draper, crashed into a handicap bus.

am- So I woke up at 6:10 instead of 6:00 in the morning at our hotel so I just did 70 minutes. The workout was an aerobic run w/ 2x(1min, 1min, 2min pick-ups w/ 5min rec between reps and sets). So I went from our hotel east and then North up the road that goes right next to Cottonwood High. I ran to the Cottonwood Park where they have the Wasatch xc race. I ran around there for a sec, then came back to the hotel. I felt decent, but my legs were tired on the last 20 minutes. 

am- Back in St Geezy!! So practice was at Pine View park and we went out and just made a loop out to the Staheli farm and back over to the west and down to the park again. Total time was 55 on the run. Felt goodish, I am sore. Oh well it happens. After the run we had striders and that was that!

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word is "passion" because that was the P word that I was forgetting to tell Coach on the run today when talking about the Dare2Lead conference that I went to. Passion is to have a strong desire for something. Ex: At the conference, I said my passion was trail running.

am- 6.8 miles/ 55 min E trail run. Nice run today out in the Desert by the Hill's house with Alex, Julien, Mikey, Grant, and Xander. It was fun, a little annoying with the sandy sutff in the wash but good to work on picking up the feet so yah. Solid day.