No run today. I had to go to state for choir. I planned to wake up at 5 and go run 5 miles and do some heavy reps of light weights and some core, but getting between 2-5 hours of sleep for thw past four days due to calculus, AP English, and AP Chem finals. On another note, I'm super stoked to go to team usa XC camp in a little over a month. The week before I'll be in Georgia for a family reunion, but I plan on using the elevation change as a reason to increase mileage. Hopefully I don't get stabbed whilst running through the hood haha. But in all seriousness, I'm really hoping I'll learn a lot about dieting and strength at the camp. This year I haven't mentally in to running. Is train what I thought to be hard(this week alone is harder than any week my coaches have gave me). My sophomore year I was so into it, but I was pretty weak so I didn't get that fast. I got all PRs this year, but they could have been more drastic if I had put my heart into it. On another note, I'm seriously questioning my coaches thinking. They tell us never to do more than 30 miles a week, yet I know for a fact every one of those top ten at footlocker west did at least twice as much as that. I'm going to try to do 40 this week, 45 the next, and keep moving up until I'm around 70. I had a talk with my dad, and we discussed matthew matons breaking of 4:00 in the mile. I'm sure he does more than 30 a week. The first high schooler to ever break 4? Between 100-150 a week. Wow. If I increase 5 miles per week, I might be able to work up to that. I also am pretty excited to run a Ragnar in a month. I start the race off on the USU track. I want to average around a 6:20 pace. I have about a mile straight downhill, and those are my advantage, so I could average a low 5, and hopefully recover.
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