Step by step, mile by mile

Got maybe .1 out, and I decided I'd rather just do some easy barefoot running instead. 3 WU, .5 strides, .5 CD. Ready for tomorrow.

Warmed up 2 miles and strides. Got out and by half a mile it was me, Connor, the Riding twins, Collin, Thom, Jamison, and some college dude. Collin and Jamison dropped off at the mile and the college guy sped up. My watch isn't loading so I'll go by what the mile markers said for now, which were a bit off. 5:12, 10:31. Lost the pack around here. I started to get weird back pains and shivering like crazy, need more salt, gotta be like salt boy lol. 16:22 for three miles. I lost focus after that, got passed by a couple dudes. At about mile five we had a long hill with a 180 turn at the top. Joey caught me here. We turned around and I saw there was Asa and Jared maybe 30-45 seconds behind, and this long haired dude a little closer. I caught up to Joey again but he started kicking hard. We turned and the last mile is on a hecka long and strenuous uphill. Hair dude caught me and we talked for a second. Then I realized the twins were not too far ahead and I sped up quite a bit. Caught both of them and had to weave through a ton of dumb 5k people. Finished and cooled down with Adam, Connor, Asa, Tyler, and Jared. Good learning experience today, I learned that it's WAY worse to go out quick the first 2 miles in a 10k bc there's over 4 miles left lol. Also need more salt. Fun time overall, the course was way more hilly than I thought but I didn't do terrible. Gonna train hard and drop a large PR at deseret. S/O to bloggers Connor, Adam, and Thom who got top three in our age division. And good luck to Kenny!

4.8 once I got back. About 7 flat pace.

Easy run in the morning. Felt like crap at first but better as it went on. Still went really easy. 7:24 pace. Planking while typing this. AP scores are out, I haven't checked but I really hope I got a 5 on AP Bio. No one's ever got a 5 from uintah and I think I have a good shot. Except the fire alarm got pulled during the test so we had to evacuate. Threed times.

Ran 7.8 pretty easy in the heat, avg pace 6:55. My last mile was a 6:15. It was really really hot and bright.

AP Bio: 4

AM - 7 easy rec/canal, no watch. Pace was probably 7 flat-ish. Stayed up last night waiting for some stuff to go down that never did so waste lol. Neither of my alarms went off so I ran at about 9

PM - 30 min WU(4.2). 8x200m w/ equal recovery, 30 min CD(4). It was crazy hot out today. I read Alli's blog and I guess she's just such an inspiration that I started to have stomach problems on this run bc I aspire to be her. 200's went 31, 29, 32, 29, 30, 30, 31, 28. Good work. Gonna stretch and ice in the canal.

Ran the long road at McCoy. First 5 I felt good, then soaked up the view at the turnaround ledge for a minute or two. Turned back, got about half a mile in, realized my picture i tried to take didn't work, so I turned around, took the picture again, then turned around again. After that I felt pretty trashed. The trail was pretty hard, there were some points so steep I had to walk down, but I ran up every hill so that was good. I saw a snake, and by saw I mean stepped about 6 inches away from a rattlesnake in the middle of the road, to which I jumped about 2 feet in the air and made a pretty girly noise(don't tell Alli). 11 for the run. For these next few days I'm just gonna get all my miles in on a single run, then just do some core at night and see how that works. 2 hour progression run tomorrow. I'd like to get 17 miles in the time limit but we'll see. Stomach felt trashed again today. Iced in the creek again. It was brutally freezing.

Long progression run, and very possibly the hardest run of my life. It wasn't crazy painful, I just really had to dig deep to press on. 2 hour run, first 40 minutes easy, next 40 picking up a little, pushing the pace a bit that last 40. Splits went 7:41,7,39,7:28,7:24,7:16,6:53,6:52,6:39,6:40,6:45,6:33,6:18,6:10,6:19,6:21,6:13,and 6:30 pace for the last .6. Avg pace 6:48. Hit a half marathon at 1:25:57. I didn't think I'd be able to even get 17 miles, so I was pretty happy today. Bonked those last couple miles but still kept it up pretty good. I ran on road, trail, everywhere. Cooled down for 19.

AM - 7 miles on the 1400 route. I usually go super slow the first couple miles, but I went normal pace instead, and slowed down around mile 3. I felt good again once I hit the uphill though. I slept in until 10 so it was pretty hot out. Avg pace 6:48.