Step by step, mile by mile

About 11 easy miles on the trails. Rigorous run though. Some parts were so steep I had to crawl up. A little under 90 minutes, and it did wonders to clear my head on some matters, both XC and not. But mainly XC. My phone was blown up when I returned to the corral, which was sick. Except my stomach doesn't feel A1, and I haven't eaten the 1000+ calories I gotta consume that I burned, not even accounting for the regular ones. Time to get stuffed

Mile warmup. Feels weird being that there're 9 people left on the team. Found out I got accepted to Colorado School of Mines, which is sick. We did a 50 minute easy run. The others went a little too easy considering how hard this week is supposed to be, save aaron and I who went on a difficult and hilly run at 7:05 pace. Still felt easy. Bonneville offered to take our varsity team to Nike Southwest, which would be way cool if we can go. Time to start the fundraiser. Also everyone yells at us when they see us running now because of winning region, I feel like I should be in McFarland or something.

Warmup. Some good core and strength, then ran around town going to various places to get sponsors for NXRSW. I managed to smooth talk a bank into giving us 150$, so that was sick.

Yellow Hill repeats, aka murder ^2, because they killed me, but I killed them back. Won every one by at least a few seconds, not to sound pretentious, but it made me happy. Won one by an entire pole, which was crazy. Good day. Forgot to mention this but I've done core every night since saturday, and plan on keeping that up, so core tonight.

Mason, Aaron, Austin, Christian and I were told to meet at the indoor track at 7, so we did. Galley came and had us warm up, do some stretches, lift and do core, and then had us do an easy run. We did about 5 miles around mainstreet, looking for sponsors. Not too fruitful of a day. Senior feels are starting to hit a little harder knowing this is one of the last distance runs we'll do together, as Utes, since in track Aaron will go to distance, Mason and Austin sprints/mid, Christian hurdles, and I'm just lost.

Easy speed day with Mason, Aaron, Austin, and Christian. Galley had us do an 800 and kick at the 400, after a 400 at 5k pace. Hit a 79 for the 400, so around pace. After that I flew in with a 66 second lap, hitting 2:26(Decimals and such). Aaron and Mason were on my back coming into the second lap, but I blew ahead in the last 300m. It was great. Next was a 400 kicking the last 300 and I came in at a 60. Next was a 400 kicking the last 200 and I told myself I'd pace well. Hit the 200m at 40-41 seconds, and then went straight ham and smoked 'em. came in somewhere between 68-69. Next was a 200 kicking the last 100m somewhere between 28-29. Mason was right behind me, or maybe he beat me. The 200's were a blur. Next one kick at the 50m. Didn't get the time, but I'm pretty sure Mason barely got me at the end. Next was a 110m, kicking the last 75. Everyone took off at the start except me, and when I hit where we were supposed to kick I caught Christian and Austin. Took off my flats to discover my toe was bleeding. Tubular. Cooldown afterwards, then we recieved State uni's, then we spent the next four hours getting sponsors for NXRSW. Currently on the way to a group d8 and the 64,000 dollar question is who am I taking, Mckenna or Jacia, and I think that question is rhetoric

Last night was sick. Jacia and I ended up wandering around the corn maze for a couple hours, which involved people chasing us with fake chainsaws which was stupid. somehow during the date I screwed up my neck.

8 miles at 7:21 pace. The last 1.5 were pretty hard, I was feeling good, attaching the uphills super hard, but after five miles the difficulty of McCoy started to hit me. Also I had to run with my head positioned strangely because of the whole neck ordeal. Worth it. ;)