Step by step, mile by mile

7.5, 4x2 minutes in the middle. Went .38, .40, .39, .40. Hilly and humid. There were markers saying the distance, and I started at the beginning, and hit the ".4" mark when I was at .37. So either my watch or the markers were off, my watch has been getting weird lately, so I'm trusting the markers more, so add like .02 to the markers in the favor of optimism. "Happy Easter y'all" - Steve Harvey 

I woke up at 2:45 MST (AM)😑 The Atlanta airport was way backed up so we barely made our flight, so no breakfast. I ate one complimentary wafer given by the nice fly attendant. I didn't end up eating anything else until 12, so 200 calories over the span of 9+ hours. Also yesterday we had a large Easter dinner at around 2 PM, so I didn't eat anything really after that, save a few tortilla chips. So yeah. 8 hours in the car after that due to traffic in Colorado. Legs felt crappy. We stopped about three hours from Utah bc my dad had to take an important 30 minute business call. I stretched for a while and jogged around for maybe a minute and the ol' ponies felt better. When I finally got home I went to the rec, talked to Steven for a while, did a warmup, then a 600 @2 mile pace and a 300 @ 800 pace. Tomorrows paces, not UVU's. 400m jog in between. 600 in 1:56, 300 in 47. Both felt easy! Form was good, breathing was deep and steady, and felt a little quick the first 20 seconds of each, but then I eased in and it went well. Hopefully this good feeling stays for tomorrow. Cooldown and strides for 3. I wish I could have gotten more in, but I expected this. That's why I did speed on Sunday. Cooldown and strides for 3, maybe a bit more. Good day. S/O to me and Connor baller for getting our hearts broke at Virginias defeat yesterday. But he's getting his mission call to Florida so it's good.

Our meet at Wasatch got cancelled due to major snow. So we decided to have a home meet in the blizzard! It was snowing so hard. I had been feeling awful all day, but I still toed the line. We bunched the 800 and 3200 runners together, so I started with Mason on the waterfall. The entire track was full of snow and by the 100 mark my spikes were soaked. Kedric was going quick to get the lead but I got it. Hit the 200 at 35. Too quick haha. I intentionally slowed the pace a bit to hit a 77 first lap. I hit the 800 at 2:40. I was aiming for 10:45 btw. At this point I started burping which in turn made me want to puke, so it triggered my gag reflex pretty bad. From this point on Mason was right on my tail. I kept thinking "He can pass me at the end of this lap" but I didn't let him. Mile at 5:31. My gag reflex is getting triggered every thirty seconds now, and I'm praying I don't blow chunks mid race. I hit the 2000 and I started picking it up. At 600 left Mason's footsteps were more quiet but I remembered that Mason tends to run a 63 second last lap and has a 1:56 PR so I sped up even more. Entire last lap I'm about to hurl and gagging a ton. Last 200 I gave it all I had without pushing to puke, so still just a bit left in the tank. I finish and I'm immediately on the ground. Coaches are congratulating me, but they stop as I puke everywhere. It was bad. but I felt way good after. Cooldown to hit 7. Conditions plain sucked today, but I'm satisfied. A win is always nice, albeit basically a red and white meet.

I woke up three times last night with awful charlie horses in my calves. I rolled a lot today to get rid of that. 

Crappy conditions again today. Major wind this time. Since everyone else ran the 800 while I ran the 3200 I had to run it with the 1600 people. Went out fast, too fast. 28 second 200. Died after that and did 2:14ish. It wasn't even really a race, I ran it alone and the wind was awful, but I got first so I'll put a race report. I wish I had just toughed out another 800 because the winning 1600 time was Mason with 4:50 so I could have ran a 2:36 after. But who knows. Couldn't get a lot of mileage today, only five. I'll try to get some more in tomorrow, but I had spicy chicken... again. #prayfornathan

Yeah chicken was awful, felt like trash, but better towards the end. 4 @ 7:05 pace. Core and strengthening after.

Well my coaches aren't taking me to UVU. They're taking people who have barely made the JV mark, Aaron, who's injured and not even running, but not me. Sorry to my LP amigos I was looking forward to meeting. There are four boy runners on the team who qualified for BYU last year. They took all of them but me. When I say my coaches don't care about me this is what I mean. Sorry for the rant to anyone reading but im pissed.

Solid 9 easy, 7:06 pace. I went to team practice and they had a long talk with us after in the indoor(it snowed again) about UVU and they made everyone going stand up and it got my goat. Coach said 20 minute tempo to the distance squad, but since I raced the past two days I decided recovery run instead. I ran from the school down to the rec center, where I shed quite a few layers because I was overheated, and ran back.

I had the worst stomach cramps of my life when I woke up. I could barely move, it was awful. I was late to my second hour, and after 20 minutes I called my mom to check me out. The pain was nearly unbearable, it really hurt. We went to the doctor and got some medicine which made me feel a tad better. I volunteered to be a supervisor of a lock-in for the youth at my church. Probably got a solid mile in during night games. Really tiring.

I went to bed at like 2 AM last night, woke up at 7:30, ate some cereal, drove home, made a smoothie, took a nap at 9, set an alarm at 9:30, woke up at 4:30 PM. I was somehow still tired when I woke up haha. Got dressed and headed to the track with Trevor AKA Tbird Shurtdog AKA T_81RD. 1.5 warmup. Workout was 2 sets of 5x800, first @ current 3200 pace, second set @ goal 2 mile pace. 2 minute rest between repeats on first set, 5 minute rest, 3:30 rest on second set. My stomach still felt like trash. I ran 10:55 for 2 miles back in indoor, so I determined 2:40 was good for the first set. Went 2:31, 2:34, 2:37, 2:40. A bit too quick, with the stomach thing + no running yesterday + just waking up, I decided to do 4 per set instead. S/O to Trevor for leaving after 2 200's at like 31 haha. Second set I was pretty tired for, I just wanted sub 2:30's. Those went 2:24, 2:29, 2:27, 2:25. The last one should have been quicker but I hit like a 32 first 200m lol. Every 400 except the second one of the 2:29 was sub 75 on this set so that was good. For running alone I found these times pretty excellent. Did 4x200's, going 3200 pace and sprinting with 125, 100, 75, and 50m to go. I ran the 800's in my spikes and my calves were shot so I wore my trainers instead. Those went 32, 33, 33, 34. Long barefoot cooldown on the turf. By the end of the workout it was dark outside which was neat. 

Team did really well at UVU. Mason ran 4:35, Christian ran 4:39. Mason won his heat in the 1600 and steeple. Not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous of the two of them. I would very much like to run for Alabama, but how is that supposed to happen if coaches don't take me to fast meets? Ugh. S/O to fellow bloggers Zack, Ryan, Josh, Connor, Asa, and Tyler at UVU, and Sage, Nick, and Garek @ PV.