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

am- 9.7 miles/ 80 min with a pick-up finish. Today was a beast run. We ran out to the Dino Tracks trail but then went on a different fork and ran up the Sand Hill and it was super hard. And all the sand in my shoes was really annoying going up. Then coming back down it was the best cause I just would try to kick my feet as far forward and the sand would absorb my landing. I felt like a giant bounding down a hill! Looped back and got some weird tasting water at the fire station and then finished hard coming back. Great run and hard too.

Rolled and stretched.

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word is "Kinvara" cause I love those shoes and I'm gonna get another pair cause they are so awesome. Kinvara is a Irish word that translates to "head of the sea" and is also a sea port village in Ireland. Ex: I went to Kinvara in my kinvaras and it was mind-blowing!

RHR- 48

am- 4.62 miles/ 15 warm, 8 striders, 15 cool. Today was the usual grass run at the baseball field and it felt real good. After the run we had kids club and a lil' gingey in my 7th-8th grade boys group totally broke my ankles in Capture the Flag. He juked me out hard core. What a beast! Wow these 7th-8th grade boys are a handful though; they dont seem to know what a line is.... Wow. 

RHR- 49

am- 7.4 miles/ 55 min Dirt Mile pace drop thing.  Today we went to the Dirt Mile and did some good ol' pacing stuff. We had a huge group which was awesome! I was super happy to see my boy Xander who has started coming out to XC, and he was leading our group!! What a beast that guy is, I am excited to see how he does in the season. I felt great with todays. I did feel a little hurt in the stomach because I was hungry. I seem to always want to eat.... wow I am a fatty.

WORD OF THE DAY: my word for this fine day is "parrot" because I just saw some sick BOA running shorts that has parrots all over them. I have a pic of it in this entry in fact! A Parrot is a species of bird and has a curved beak and can talk to you in a funny voice. Ex: My friend Seth Heinrich has a parrot and it is freakin' beastly.

RHR- 48

am- 4.33 miles/ 38 min E with striders. The usual .5 barefoot grass warm; today everybody was gone because of the Washington Fields stake had trek, so there was like 25ish people, which was weird comparing to what we have had the rest of the summer. Anyhow, the run today was out to the tortoise trail and Corbin lead us around. Great run and great morning. Came back and did striders and left. Just a real chill day.

I also stretched out, did some 100 ups, and ice bathed and it was nice.

WORD OF THE DAY: todays word is "vitamin" because I need to start taking those to keep myself healthy. A vitamin is a compound of nutrients that is needed by a living thing and given in little pills. Ex: My favorite vitamin is the gummy vitamin C ones because they are delicious. 

RHR- 49

am- 8.29 miles/ 65 min E. Awesome run today. We started at Sullivans Park and ran up Hells Hole and then out to the dump, which was horrid, and then looped back on the Washington Dam road. Great run and good effort. But for real, that dump was nasty.

RHR- 48

am- 5.26 miles/ 40 min with 4x3:00 min pace pick up's with equal recovery. Good run down to the river and up 2450 east. My 3 minute pace pick up's were not as fast as last week, but they were still good. They went 6:48, 6:45, 6:45, and 6:47. It is hot though.

RHR- 48