Ethan's runs

Birch Creek after Conference with Conner and Stockton 7:30ish pace. Good run, legs still a little tired.  + My first fastrunningblog entry!

Today we did 2x800 3x400 4x200 in the grass.  Not a great workout for me today, I got way too little sleep and my liver is still hurting me (feels like a severe side ache). It wasn't too hard though. My splits ranged from:

800 2:33-2:43(i think).  These went Ok

400 1:05-1:11.  These were about right(downhill)

200 35-37  Pretty slow (half up half down)

Today, We did a loop that was essentially 6 hill repeats and 6 200's.  It wasn't too hard, although after the second hill, my liver started hurting again.  It went away for the rest of the workout though.  I need to get more sleep and I have started drinking a ton of water to try and flush it out. Speed wise, the workout wasn't super quick but it wasn't slow either. Pretty average.  We are starting to taper and I think it is the perfect time, It's getting to the point where my legs don't bounce back from a workout like they usually do.
 

We did golf course extended, ran with Conner and JC.  My legs were feeling really tired, and it was a really hot day, not a bad run though.  It was good to have a break from workouts.

Early morning practice.  We only did 2.5 miles and visualizations because of region tomorrow.  I'm getting a little worried about the energy in my legs, but I feel like I'm ready.  I have been drinking alot lately to help with my liver, so we'll see what happens tomorrow.

I slept pretty average but was feeling pretty tired throughout school and before the race.  I took a 15 minute nap under our team tent and then got warmed up and ready to go with the team.  It was a weird feeling when we lined up because we had been working toward this moment since summer, it was strange to realize that we're finally at region and state. The gun wen't off and I had an average/slow start, it turned out to be perfect.  I was moving up within the 1st 400 meters and we hit the gravel, still behind several bonneville kids (they start really fast)  I slipped in behind Nick and slowly made my way up.  I was feeling good and very loose, no liver issues.  We hit the mile pretty fast ( i never heard the split but was later told it was close to a sub 5, I don't know how accurate that is though.) by this point I think i was in 5th or 6th place. We went up around the big loop and coming in at 2 miles, I was running in a little pack with Travis and Mark, just hanging off the back (7th place).  Mark had this amazing surge at mile 2 (later he told me it was part of the plan) and opened a little gap, Travis and I held reasonably well, but the pace went significantly up.  at about 800 to go, mark summers was a ways ahead and Travis and I were neck and neck. I was starting to hurt pretty bad.  We rounded the corner into the last 300 ish meters and I have never kicked so hard.  He almost caught me in the final straight but I barely held him off. I ended in 6th place, and was very happy, no liver problems.  We took 2nd as a team and only lost by 5 points to Ogden. I ran a 15:51 (31 second course PR)  and 5:11 average pace. Im super excited for state xc now!

awful sleep. Wen't to bed extremely late due to a late night activity and had to wake up around 5 to drive down to snowbasin Ski resort.  We drove down to watch Brad Huber's MTB race.  He is really good and won the division 2 JV race! It was really exciting.  I ran 5 miles easy on the trails at the ski resort.  Some of the best trail running I think i've ever done, it was super pretty and nice trails. A really good mental break.

Today is generally a hard day, but we're starting our taper for state.  warmup around the block,  then an altered russian interval workout.  2x(3x300 R pace) 3x200 F pace. It felt okay, but my legs are very tired from the race/lack of sleep.  300's went 51, 54, 53, 49, 50, 52 (not super consistant) while 200's were 30, 30, 30.

Super easy day today.  Less than 4 miles of easy running with the team.  We did a few up's and a few minutes of "indian running " (short easy speed).  It felt good after yesterday's workout to give my legs a break.

Hill repeat circuit today.  Not too hard of a workout, we did the beauty 3 times+ lyons hill 4 times running tempo getting from one hill to the other, than a 150meter sprint on the run home. Not a hard workout although my legs are still tired.  The taper has been good, now i just need to work on sleep and hydrating more. (liver is barely showing up again during several workouts)

Fall break spent in yellowstone.  Katelyn and I ran an easy 4 miles around the back basin/porcealin basin geyser boardwalk.  It was a pretty amazing view.  It was lots of fun, good mental break. 

Last hardish workout before state.  4x1000 @ tempo pace (3:29) with 1 minute recovery.  I did a warm up, then 4x1000's: 3:29, 3:27, 3:25, 3:23.  They were pretty fast, but with a little extra recovery. It was extremely cold. Done on a rolling dirt road.

Today was a road run from our lunch spot in yellowstone to a super pretty scenic loop.  It went right past a huge waterfall and was thick with trees.  I'm feeling good, felt easy but managed a 7:00 ish minute pace. Very fast coming back as it was almost all downhill.

Today we did a premeet-like day with some really short 15 second sprints.  5x(15 sec R pace 30 sec recovery) finishing up the taper. 2 days to go until state!

Last day before the State Meet.  I'm super excited and super nervous.  We did some easy running, striders, and had a chat with the team.  Tonight is the state team dinner, tomorrow is breakfast with the team and then we had to SLC to race! I'm feeling good and ready to get some of my goals.

I went to bed last night at 11:00, too late. Fortunately, Sky View does a team breakfast and we get to sleep in a little bit.  I still managed pretty good sleep.  Breakfast was good, not too much, not too little.  This was alot of fun and good to take my mind off of the race.  We did visualizations and then headed to SV to load busses. We each got our own seat on the bus which was nice, so I took a 45ish minute nap.  We got to the course about when I woke up.  After watching several other races, and the after the girls raced, we warmed up.  I did a little longer warmup than usual, about a mile to a mile and a half.  We did several Up's and got our spikes/flats on.  Conner Mantz wasn't able to warm up with us due to his leg injury.  He warmed up on a stationary bike.  We got to the line, passed the uniform check (didn't have to do a last second uniform change this year), did some more strides, and warmups and got ready to go.  Fortunately, I started on the line and not behind someone.  The gun went off and I had a slow start.  I got pushed straight to the back and severely boxed in.  After roughly 400 meters, I saw my dad and he yelled to get out so I more or less pushed some kids out of the way and got to the outside where I moved up.  This was a bit rude, but I really had no other choice.  By this point I couldn't see Mark, Nick, or Travis.   Throughout the race I felt like I had more and more energy and was able to pass alot of people.  I came by Travis without knowing it because of their uniform color change. I came by Nick and Mark and thought they would stay right on my tail, but they didn't.  I kept moving up. With roughly 800 to go a woods cross kid and I were going about the same pace.  We hit the track and I started to kick, I held him off for a while but he got me by half a second.  We were able to catch Garrett Barton with about 30 meters left.  I finished 14th with a time of 16:11.  It was a really good race for me.  Last year i took 92nd. I also had the opportunity to be interviewed agian.  Our team did OK, better than last year but not quite what we were hoping for. 5th place as a team.  Alex took 6th.  Unfortunately, Conner Mantz took 2nd.  If he hadn't been injured I'm sure he would have won it.  A great experience and now I'm looking forward to more training and a good track season with these guys.

RESULTS: http://ut.milesplit.com/meets/180261/results/335730

NEWS: http://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/injured-mantz-nearly-defends-a-title/article_dd422cb6-5a71-11e4-a390-1b5edd625067.html

The "off-season" begins.  Time to take a bit of a break, and build speed and mileage for indoor and outdoor track season.  Today, we took a mental break and went on an easy relaxed run.  Explored some trails. Trespassed. Good  fun.

Another easy day, just Stockton and I, we attacked a STRAVA segment just for fun and then ran a half mile barefoot on the golf course grass. Sub 7 pace on the way back to SV.  Awful sleep the last 2 nights.  9.75 hours combined.  Its been rough trying to catch up on all the work I missed by being at State XC.

Sketchy run with Stockton up Green. Horribly inconsistent mile splits.  Our first mile we took a little steep, sketchy side/game trail and ran hiked making it like a 17:00 minute mile.  Saw lot's of bones, on that trail... a jawbone and skull, it was getting dark and super creepy we finally got back to the main trail and ran a low 6:00 minute mile and then an average mile.
 

Easy day, made up the route as we went.  Good pace (6:57ish) legs feeling good.  I'm trying to figure out if Ill go to footlocker or not. If so Ill keep running, if not I'm going to take a week off or so.

Just Stockton and I again today.  We did a 3 miler at a pretty easy pace up smithfield canyon, it was quick, but not hard. I'll probably take a break wednesday and thursday if not friday as well.

Recovery week. No run today.

another rest day.

final rest day, longish run tomorrow.

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!
 

Today, I did our Cedar Ridge and then Golf Course routes, both extended. First route with Alex, Stockton, and Jordan, second loop by myself.  The front of my legs.. not sure what that muscle is... by my shins was tired, so hitting a solid pace was hard.. hardish day, but 6:58 pace. Good run.

Today, We did 4 (pretty fast) with Conner first, then Stockton, Jordan, and I did 4.5 more on golf course. I finished by doing an 800 with Trevor.

Started today out with an easy warmup of about 1.5 miles.

I ended my warmup at the start line for our church run out and back tempo course. I started pretty average, but held my pace pretty steady the whole way. It was 3 miles in 16:24 (5:28 average per mile) At first, It hurt, but I really settled in and it felt really good. I hope this is still the case for track season.

Cool down with Trevor.

Did the first several miles with Stockton and then he headed back to Sky View because he didn't have much time to run. I did a bit more in Smithfield and then ran back to North Logan. (6:56 pace)

Stockton and I ran out to the beauty and beast hill repeat area.  We did the beast x 3 and beauty x 3.  We did the beast in 57, 57, 57 and beauty in 29, 31, 29.  It felt really good.  Then we extended up Smithfield canyon a bit.

We got back to SV and extended a bit doing a 3 mile loop. I slept 7 ish hours... I think.

I did just over 7.5 up to the canal trail that leads to the Logan River golf course.  I looped back down through some neighborhoods and headed home.  It felt pretty good, (6:48 avg pace) Good week and comfortably over 50 miles.

Later, I did an easy 2ish with my little brother Carson.  He is in 8th grade and training for XC his freshman year.  I think he will run pretty darn well.  We hit a 7:19 average pace and he has only been consistently running for about a week and a half.  We'll have to see how his freshman year goes.

total guess on sleep time
 

First today, I did 3 miles with some of the guys, with 6 beauty repeats mixed in.  I hit most of them fast for me considering that on friday our best was a 29.  I think the splits were 27, 27, 28, 29, 31, 28 ( or something like that).  We headed back to SV and went out for another loop of 4 more. (7 total now). Conner left, and Stockton and I hit up 3 more.  Weights and Core after.  Long day, but definitely a quality run.

4 with Stockton, Conner, and Jordan hunt first.  It was a pretty fast 4 (6:19 average). A few striders, and then home. Hopefully a timed mile coming tomorrow.
 

Started out today with a 2 mile warmup.

After a warmup, we did a timed mile. Conner paced us because he was told to do 1 tempo mile today. Stockton and I were running it.  We started off really fast, I sorta let them get ahead and just sat back.  I closed the gap and caught/passed Stockton slipping in behind conner, We did our laps in a 1:11, 1:14, 1:15, 1:10.  Stockton caught me with 125 meters to go and had a solid kick, he ran a 4:49, I ran a 4:50. It felt really good and it makes me super excited for track because that was a 7 second PR. I felt like I had alot left in me although it definitely hurt.

Cooldown up smithfield canyon a bit

Today, we did the turkey trot 10k route with a few extensions.  Stockton, Jordan, and I.  It really hurt. bad. The hills seemed to just shred my legs, and it went on forever. I guess you just have days like that sometimes.  We put down a good effort yesterday, so this was more or less expected.

Today, my run was split into 2 runs because I didn't have much time... First run @ 6 AM before school.  It wasn't too bad, just kindof slow as I was still waking up, had to run with a headlamp yet it was pretty dang warm.

After school, Stockton and I did a pretty quick 3.  I was feeling much better than yesterday, but still a bit tired.

Drove up to the bonneville shoreline and started there. I ran to the logan river trail head and up about a mile and a half, then turned around and did a trail tempo mile (5:51).  The rest of the way back was hilly. Kept the average pace at 7:02

ish

(not positive on the sleep time)

We went up on the golf course route today, my legs were a bit tired but its a monday... Extended up Birch and Smithfield Canyon, good run and fairly fast. (probably due to running with Conner the last mile and a half...)average pace was a 6:49

Upper canal trail today, its been a while since I ran there last so it was fun. Muddy but pretty quick (6:49 AVG) Maybe some tempo tomorrow?

Today I started with roughly 2 miles of warmup. After this Jordan, Stockton, Conner and I got lined up and did some tempo. Conner paced me for the last mile and it really brought my pace down.  Stockton and Jordan stopped somewhere around the mile mark but then hopped back in later. 3.2 miles of tempo 5:30, 5:25, 5:13 and a 39 200... 16:47 5k.  It felt pretty good and I tried it in spikes. Cooldown after.

5 outside today and 3 inside. Outside went well but I had to bundle up, 6:57 pace. 

Indoor my three miles went 6:22, 6:26, and 6:20. 

Started with a warmup with the guys, then I planned on doing triple crown (hill repeats).  Conner talked me into doing miracle makers for the first time.  It hurt.  More or less, its 3x mile repeats up some of our steepest hills (smithfield canyon, beauty, and beast).  You run them pretty hard and try to keep the pace low.  I ran 5:33, 5:24, and 5:16.  It was one of the more painful workouts I've done, but I feel like It's going to help alot. Cooldown back to SV.

Slept way in today and my legs are shot.  Nothing unexpected though.  I'll be back for monday after a rest tomorrow. Easy day and easy pace 7:16

10 miles with stockton.  We ran to his house to get some gloves and then headed up Smithfield Canyon via sunnyside.  10 mile run total. 1 mile tempo (5:13), half mile break, and then a final tempo half mile (2:28).   6:41 average

(guess on sleep time)  Ran with Trevor, Stockton and Jordan for the first four on golf course, did the next half on the way home.  Ran second half with Jordan.  It was a pretty good run, and we got chased by a tiny dog.. 6:56 pace

started today off with a 2ish mile warmup, and then started my 3.5 mile tempo.  The tempo was slow, 5:39, 5:38, 5:49, and a 2:50 final 800.  finished with a 2.5ish mile cooldown to make 8, Saw Trevor and Jordan on the way

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Met up at Conners house today to go for a snow run, Im so glad it finally snowed!  It was pretty darn cold. I felt good, but my legs started really hurting toward the end on the last few hills.

My first 2.7ish miles I didnt GPS, but we figured the total was close to 10.  6:57 average pace.

Hill reps today, Went up to USU and started there.  Ran down to the island and did 6 hill repeats on a shorter hill there (similar to beauty)  29, 29, 29, 29, 30, and 26.  I then went to another hill (in my opinion harder than the beast) and did 3 reps at: 1:19, 1:14, and 1:20.  Cooldown to make 8

Slept way in today and then went for my run.  Just for the record, a bowl of wheaties and a piece of pizza for lunch wont fuel you well for a run...  Did a run up to green canyon and back, it hurt but I think that is because I am sick. Had to stop to put on my yaktrax partway up. (7:19 pace)  I got some xc skis for christmas that I cant wait to take up green canyon!

Ran this morning and it was pretty cold.  My hands have been getting unusually cold lately so I need to figure that out.  I listened to music for the first time in forever and It made running a ton easier.  It was a really good pace for me also at 6:38 average.

Finally got some new shoes. Saucony mirage 4's.  They are OK but they pinch my little toe a bit.  I tried them for the first time today and they are really springy.  I love how they feel.  I ran 4 with conner and the rest alone indoor today.  The weather outside was horrible.  It was reasonably quick for having to do 118 laps haha....

3.5 miles of tempo withtin 5.7  It was really cold and I was spitting blood partway through the tempo (I think/hope it was related to the cold weather...).  The tempo went alright especially mile 1 and 3, but mile 2 was awful.  mostly uphill on mile 2.  splits were 5:37,  6:03, and 5:28 with a 2:50 ish final 800.  Went for 4 miles of nordic skiing after.

after skiing, I did 2.3 more miles on the treadmill to make 8 total.  pretty brisk but not too bad.