Step by step, mile by mile

Played about three hours of tennis with my dad. I made myself run literally every time I had to move, so it was intense. Was dead tired for the run, just did the loop around Aggie. Avg pace 7:06 which is good considering how fatigued I was.

Over the break I want to work on my left calf because its circumference is almost a full inch smaller than my right and I think I may favor putting my weight on it due to that. I also want to work on my lower four and because my upper and look nice but it'd be nice to be shredded with swimsuit season approaching

No running today. I was gonna wake up at 5:00 to run but I overslept. On the way to Denver airport now.

Excited to anounce that I'll be running the "5 to Thrive" 5k in Atlanta this Saturday. I'll see how the elevation drop feels and such, but I'm really hoping for a nice PR. If the course is not long/aided and someone good is there, who knows, maybe I can't finally get that sub 16.

Hour of conditioning in the morning, got in two miles and a lot of good core.

Meeting with the university of Alabama XC/ distance coach later today! Hopefully it goes well.

Manohmanohmanohman I hate humidity. And warm weather. I decided to start my run at 4:00 PM, in the middle of the blazing day. It was awful. The sidewalk I ran on for the first two miles was nonexistent, so I ran on loose gravel/overgrowth instead. Once I got past that I ran past the U of A track to the soccer fields and ran around there a bit. Ran around the parking lot after. I felt dead today, my legs were way tired, then I looked at the pace and knew why. 6:38 avg pace. I was sure it would be 7:30, I stopped at like 5 red lights. Oh well. There's a pool next to our condo/dorm, and the water is FREEZING. PERFECT. Sat it that for a few minutes, after stretching.

Meeting went pretty well. I really like Coach Walters. Since I have my 33 ACT and current 4.0 GPA, the school already gave me full ride, so he wouldn't have to pay a nickel to have me run for him. He laid out somewhat reasonable times. 1:55 800m, 4:23 1600m, and 9:38 3200m. He told me to email him every week about how I've been performing and hopefully I'll drop some times soon to make him proud. I think with my 4:46 from last year the 1600's my best bet. If I make any of those times, I'm automatically on the Track/XC team for Alabama. Any advice on how to get those times, however, would be greatly appreciated because I think Mason, Christian, and Aaron are the only three runners coaches care about right now on the team haha. Or advice on how to handle humidity/70+ weather. Thanks.

Long campus tour today. Walked probably three miles around campus during it but I won't count it. Three mile warmup from the condo to the soccer fields. I was joined by a fellow runner about a mile in, and I talked to him for the remainder of the warmup. I thought him to be a U of A track runner, turned out he was the distance coach for the Ohio track team. We talked about our schools and how crazy fast Garek and Casey are back in Utah. He seemed like a really cool guy. Anyway workout was 2 sets of 3x800 with 2 minute rest, active rest, 7 minutes between sets, on the fields. Path I layed out was about .15 straight into the wind, with one really brief downhill, maybe 5ft drop in like 2 seconds. 90 degree turn, like 100m, 90 degree turn, then run straight for about .2, going back up the hill, then a 45 degree turn and run in for an 800. 400m jog back to the start. I measured to make sure all were accurate, and my watch had them usually at .49, so about good. Splits were 2:31, 2:32, and 2:34 for set uno. Felt pretty crappy towards the end. I went up probably 12 flights of stairs, walked a ton, and ate a hefty college lunch. The ground was soft and my trainers stuck in a bit when landing. Humidity sucked. It was tough. But then I started thinking about how much I wanted to run for college, and how I'd have to push to get there. Times after that were 2:26, 2:29, 2:28. I dig deep on those ones, I imagined myself running in a collegiate uniform and when I felt tired I just kept pushing. I know the times weren't crazy fast, but I pushed hard by myself and I'm happy with it. Cooldown back to the condo. 

In other news, Alabama was voted to be the 27th best college in the nation in respect to attractive ladies attending. If Utah was a college ID have voted it #1, but the girl population here is like 60%. And it's like 30% at mines...

4 miles in Savannah, GA. We were meeting with my aunt and uncle, and they have a 2 year old with a early bed time, so I was rushed. Ran from our hotel down into this neighborhood that had a huge sign that said "Covenant protected" only in Georgia lol. I realized after running in it for a while that my shorts and no shirt might offend them. Then I remembered, this isn't Utah, standards aren't higher than the top floor of the Empire State Building. Went really quick. About 6:15 pace. Didn't feel too hard, but I don't think I've sweat that much in years. Sure my readers were dying to know that. I took a fl*pping cold shower after in approx 47 seconds, so a post run shower PR. Gonna try to run after dinner, we're going to an Indian place so pray for ya boy.

3 at the gym after. Man I felt awful. Spicy chicken had revenge like montazuma, I swear it was like 100 degrees and I was sweating more than the run before dinner ugh. Biked and did my core after. I was in the gym from like 9:30 to 11 #pastbedtime

Weird day. Probably seven hours drive to Atlanta. After I went to the nearby park to do a five mile tempo. The only place to run was a like .8 mile loop around the park. 2 mile warmup. Did the first mile in 5:49, and I felt trashed an I had to stop. The past three days workouts have been really solid, but they took their role today. Plus the Panda Express we had at Macon was trash. Anyway I decided to do 5.5 around after. At about 7 I started picking up the cadence a little on accident, next thing I know I look at the pace and its 5:30 and I slowed down pretty quick after that haha. I think for the day, with the first mile, 7:08 pace is about right

8 in the morning. Felt like any other morning run. I woke up, immediately ate a clif bar and layed there for a few minutes, went to the bathroom and left. I ended up going to bed at midnight, the room I'm sleeping in hast this creepy small door in the corner and there's a lock on it but the way the door is it looks like something was trying to get out from inside whatever's in there. Spooky stuff, anyway I kept hearing weird sounds in the night and it lowkey freaked me out so I had trouble getting to sleep. Hard to get the legs moving, just like any other morning run. Pushed the hills just a bit on the second half. Good run, there were next to no cars and it was really quiet so it was nice to have some time to think. I mainly thought about UVU next week haha. I think I'm gonna race the 800 and 3200. I don't want to go ham in the 800, just barely qualify for BYU, so a low 2:10, high 2:09 would be ideal. I'm also going to run the 3200, and if all goes well I hope to do great. 

Also since I keep seeing S/O's to him, shoutout to Zack from LP for qualifying in the 3200!

Another 4, 6:50 pace.