So much depends... on the run you do today!

am: easy 3. warm this morning, which means hot this afternoon.

pm: workout of 4x1600m repeats. my stomach has been hurting still. i dont know why. its annoying, but probably not as bad as i'm making it sound. warm and cool was 1.5 and my goal pace was 4:56.

it was a very hot, dry, windy day today. first one i did it just like my race last weekend racing hard on the non windy side then carrying it through the other side. my splits were good and i hit my 4:56. next one i hit my same splits but i guess my millaseconds were high, 4:59. next one was the same story and i figured that might happen so i pushed hard on the last one, but the wind had the same idea and i was at a stands till, plus i couldn't lick my lips because my throat and tounge were just as dry for these last two, 4:59. last one i went out 3 seconds fast trying to give me more room for the end but then my third lap was 3 seconds slow...4:59.

overall i was happy with my workout today. i gave my right effort that i was supposed to. This weekend we're going to the davis invite and i'll get to race some big name people in the 2 mile like conner mantz, chuk mitchell, and tomy gutierrez! kramer is doing the mile so i wont race him, but close enough.

forgot. weights after. felt good. then did 15!!! pull ups. new record.

am: 3 nice morning. pretty warm.

pm: warm and cool 1.5. then workout of 10x400's are race pace minus 3-4 seconds. which for me is 1:02-3. the cool down was 1:15 for the first three, 1:00 for the next two, :45 for the next two, then :30 for the next.

first one i hit a 1:02.  then a 1:03. then a 1:03. then the rest got shorter and shorter and i tried hard to hit my times. i dont remember the exact ones after that but some were 3 seconds slow and some were right on. i was dead when we finished i felt like i had done well. i figured out my average after the workout and i remember that: 1:04.3. which is only a little slow. good workout. the rest of the week will be easier now in order to prepare for davis. i'm pretty excited!

am: 3. kind of cold

pm: easy 5. fairly good weather today. good run. weights after. went up 10 pounds on all my lifts, i sure am getting huge! :) ...or you could call it closer to normal.

am: 3

pm: coe #2 workout. 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300. times started at :32, then gets progressivly faster till the 300 is :43. all the times were right on or a little fast. it was a lot easier than last week. felt good and smooth.

I'm very excited for the 2 mile this week. its going to be quite good and i'm sure i'm going to have a big PR.

am: 3. good run. 

pm: we drove up to slc today and ran 5.25 once we got here. really good weather up here. did 4 striders at a park...wish the ladies weren't there for a one of them :(

tomorrows the race! here it comes

race was at 5:10 so i had all day to sit around and get nervous for my race. abel ran the mile and got a 4:24 so i was excited that i would be a fast track and i could get a sub 9:20. i thought a lot about my past races and thought that i had been warming up too long so i went 2 instead thinking it would help my legs stay fresh in the race. then i went on the field and did some striders and got ready to race.

race started and i got an alright start. all of us in the first ally were kind of pushed to the back but i knew it was a long race so i just stayed and hit the first lap in a 1:08. mantz already had a 50 meter lead on us so my goal was just to push our group and slowly pull him in. but after the first lap everyone just slowed up and didn't want to take the lead, so i got frustrated and surged to the front and tried to pick it up. the next 3 laps i ran solid but didnt gain a single thing on conner (now 100m ahead), but after the first two laps he just stayed the same distance and it really frustrated me we were going so slow. hit the first mile in 4:41ish. My stomach hurt like crazy but it didnt affect me too bad other than i had to use the restroom.

i still led the race the next lap and tomy and chuk kept me on my toes but i could tell i wasn't leading it very good because we kept hitting slower and slower laps. but i just couldn't get the time down. i threw in surges every once in a while but it didn't help. with 600 left chuk past me..and i fell right off. i tried to finish hard and gave it all the last 100m but i still finished with a stinkin 9:30.  afterward i laid on the ground and i couldn't breathe. i felt really hot and dizzy all over and i couldn't see straight. when i got up the air hurt my lungs so i grabbed my pants and breathed in them and that helped. it took a long time to settle down and even after that my head still hurt for most of the night.

i am just really frustrated right now. a 9:30 is not something i'm happy with. i mean, i was happy with it at the beginning of the season, but not after 4 races. i'm trying and training harder than ever but nothing is coming from it yet! Chuk ran a really good last lap which gave him a good time of 9:24. Conner ran a very fast 9:14 race by himself. tomy ran a 4:14 mile then a 9:36 in our race. very good day for them.

~50ish minutes later i had the 3rd leg of the 4x800 race our team was doing. i still was feeling terrible and my race showed it. i think my split was a 2:04 or something. we missed our school record my half a second or so.