Ethan's runs

Ran the bonneville shoreline trail today right after a rainstorm during the sunset. It was super pretty. It was not too long, but felt hard. Easy pace.  My knees are slightly sore, but that's normal for me coming back from a break.

Today Stockton and I ran Cedar Ridge extended in reverse. It was a solid run, kept the pace pretty high and did a 6:14 mile. Knees still sore.
 

I ran with Alex, Stockton, and Jordan.  Easy 4, hopefully something semi hard tomorrow. We talked about STRAVA alot, Alex and Jordan are both gonna get one now, should be a fun new way to train!

mile warmup on the track, then a 1600 @ slightly faster then tempo: 5:14.  3 easy miles around smithfield with Stockton afterward.

Run around Smithfield with the 3 again.  We took random roads and found a cool new path.  Alex headed back @ 3 miles and we did 3ish more on golf course.

Went with brad up to a camp ground.  He showed me the cool CX bike racing course they built up there.  We did a little trail maintenance and I ran 3 miles on the road, 3 miles on the race track.  Good mental break, it was lots of fun and a good potential training area.  Mostly easy running.

after a fun night last night, I slept in today until 12:30ish. I didn't get around to running until the sun was going down.  I ended up running about half of it in the dark.  Boring route, but a good hill and I got to test my new headlamp.  I found it at Wal-Mart for only 15 dollars - 150 lumens.  It works really good.

I had an awful nights sleep followed by a hard day at school, but the run today felt really good, fortunately.  Ran Green to the top and back with Jordan Hunt at about a 7:48 avg pace.  It was chilly but felt really good, I also ran in the first snowflakes of the season although they were tiny, Indoor is coming up!
 

Legs feeling good after the 8 miler yesterday, my legs are finally getting used to the longer miles again.  We did golf course extended. Jordan turned early and just did golf course, I extended with Trevor Larsen. nice easy day, hopefully something a bit harder tomorrow.. not sure what yet.
 

Really cold weather today, Around 30 degrees.  Conner is finally allowed to run!! We did 4 miles with conner, easy conversation pace, then we stopped at the track.  I did a 2 mile tempo, and a 1 mile recovery after.  Conner ran around the opposite direction and yelled for me and stockton ran with me for a mile and a half of it.  Conner paced me for the last 400.  Altogether it was good. 10:53 ish for 2 miles and it really wasn't too bad. I am really excited for track now.

Today we ran to Conners house to pick him up, afterwards we did golf course and then I extended a little back at the school with conner and by myself to make it 7.  Cold day, First snow.  But, we had hot chocolate after! (not sure on my night sleep time below)
 

once again i guessed on the sleep time i got to bed really late, but since Im putting this info in a couple days later, I dont remember exactly what time it was... anyway... I did a 7.7 mile loop that went up to the bonneville shoreline and down past the roundabout.  I ran the Green canyon drive road pretty hard.  Then I did 5 repeats on the hill leading up to the roundabout and 1 on the full thing. (past the roundabout and up the next hill.  It hurt pretty bad.  Good workout. 7:10 pace overall.

Finally caught up on sleep, haha maybe a little too much.. Did green canyon today, and the trail leading back to kings nature park (not sure what its called).  Good run, cold and snowy but super pretty. It gets a little creepy up there with the roads closed and no one around.  Used the Yaktrax for the first time this year, those things are amazing! I ran on Ice almost the whole way and it felt almost like a sidewalk. 7:47 pace

Met at Stockton's house to do a quick 8 up Smithfield Canyon.  Good temperature once you got going, a bit cold.  Roads were a little icy.  We tried to hit the last 1.6 fast to bring our average pace down.  last mile was a 5:24.  It actually felt really good and effecient.  Total average pace 6:51

Of course, I got awful sleep (4 hours) ...actually its starting to be more average. The run was good, almost 11 miles with  a pretty solid pace.  1 beast repeat and 2 beauty. With Conner and Stockton for most of it, Alex and Caleb ran the first half.

2 mile warmup with Stockton, Conner, and Jordan.  3 miles tempo on the track (5:26, 5:28, 5:21). It hurt but not unusually.  Legs a little tired, but this has been a huge mileage week for me so it's all good.  Stockton, Jordan, and Trevor (met us at the track later)  ran parts of it.  Conner paced me the last 800. 2 miles cooldown.

Finally getting better sleep... 8 hours. I just wasn't really feeling it today, my stomach hurt, legs are shot and I was just weak mentally.  It was a good slow recovery.  Hopefully tomorrow goes a bit better.  Easy tomorrow and a 10k race on saturday.

(not sure on the sleep time) Today, we did a longish pre-meet. Golf course extended + a little bit of Smithfield Canyon.  My legs are pretty tired, but it was an easy run.  Hopefully the turkey trot goes well tomorrow!

Today, was the Turkey Trot annual race, Conner (didn't race but just ran the warmup), Stockton, and I warmed up in the gym around the track, just 1 easy mile to get warmed up.

The race officials had us meet inside because the weather was so awful.  We all headed outside into the crazy wind and rain and got on the start line.  One kid lined up beside me wearing only a singlet, shorts, and racing flats...crazy.  Anyways, they started the race, and that same kid and I immediately opened a good size gap.  We were neck and neck halfway up the first hill, but I surged partway up and really dropped him.  The 5k course and 10k course are the same for the first 2 miles.  I was able to get to the 5k turnoff first.  Even before any 5kers.  We cut across the road and were now facing the wind, this part was slow, and brutally cold. I widened the gap and from there it was a pretty boring race.  I got to the finish and won by maybe a minute or so in a 37:49.  It wasnt as fast as I hoped, but lots better than last years 40:02.  All in all, it was very cold, lots of fun and I ended up with 2 free turkeys! (1 for winning, 1 from a raffle) Hopefully I'll be back next year!

I went back to the track to do a few more miles later.

i think 8 hours of sleep

Today, I did a random mix of workouts on the track and a cooldown later.  4x400 @ R pace and 1 mile of tempo (5:15)  The 4's hurt pretty bad but the mile felt good.  I did some easy miles on the track as well making my track total 5 miles @ 7:05 avg pace.

Cooldown, (golf course) of 4.25 miles.  Ran, the first 1.5 with trevor, and ran the last 3 ish pretty fast low sixes and one sub 6.

Stockton and I ran golf course extended + Smithfield canyon + Sunnyside road.  This was a pretty relaxed long day and I felt alright.  Legs are tired as usual but that will pretty much be every day.

Did the first mile as a warmup and hit the next two tempo.  It was very hard as I was quite tired, but it turned out ok.  Alot slower than track tempo, but this is what I expexted.  5:33, & 5:44.  I saw Conner during his run, and I would have ran with him some, but I was in the middle of tempo.  5 miles fairly easy afterwards, but with a big push on the rollercoaster road.

Haha, well in one word I would describe my run as interesting, I was originally going to do a 9 miler. 3 up to the canyon, throw on some Yaktrax, do 3 on the canyon road, and 3 home.  At around mile 3.4, (im now in the canyon), there was a couple that needed help, their car almost slid off an edge into an empty river bed ravine (sorta).  Myself along with several other people tried to help the car, (it was sliding closer to the edge extremely slowly... like as slow as the hour hand on a clock, slow.) by putting rocks under the tires, and it bought a little time... Long story short, 45 min to an hour later a tow truck arrived and got 'em out.  Anyways, I finished my broken up run. goodish pace (7:08) and it all ended up good.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Easy run today around USU and the Island.  Good pace (6:57) and great weather.

More mileage building today, felt slow, but wasn't too bad (6:57).  It was a pretty boring route, but a good run.  That makes 50 this week!