Adam's Running

Today we met at 9 for our workout which was 4,8,4,8,4,8,4,4,4. The 400's were supposed to be at mile pace and the 800's at two mile pace. Times were 67, 2:24, 68, 2:23, 68, 2:25, 70, 68, 67. we had a minute and a half between each interval. I felt awesome until the last three 400's, for some reason after the last 800 my legs just felt like jello so it was really hard to finish it out. Afterwards we drove up AF Canyon and ice bathed in the river.

A big loop on the canal, then back on Timpanagos highway. Super windy and cold.

Down to the end of the AF trail and back.

Today was time trials, distance was doing the mile and 400 today. Since we had to wait for after track class to start we made the not so smart decision of playing basketball hard for an hour right before we ran, but my team ended up winning on a clutch three from Walton so it all turned out for the best. The mile was first and when we were warming up I didn't feel too good, but you can't feel good for every race. We went out and I just sat in fourth behind Marc and we came through 400 in 68. It felt in control and we just stayed in the same order of Clayson, Mike, Marc, then me throughout the next 800 meters. We came through 800 in 2:20, and I am not sure what our next split was. With 400 to go I passed Marc and made sure to make a move on the turn that he wouldn't be able to cover in the last 200 woth his kick. I was able to hold him off to the end and I came in at 4:45. Clayson ran 4:27, Mike ran 4:42, and Marc ended up in 4:49. It felt like a solid effort, but I definitely had a lot left in the tank after and I think I will be able to PR by a lot at Hurricane. We waited around for a while and got our heat assignments for the 400. I was in the fast heat, and it was all  distance runners and Ryan Jensen. This was the first 400 I have ever run, and I didn't like it. I ended up in 59 flat, but I was a few seconds back from pretty much everybody else. Jon killed it for having been injured since Nike and ran a 53, beating Clayson and Marc.

Today was the second day of time trials. We started with the 800. I have never been good at the 800, and I really don't like it. We lined up and I started pretty good, I was in third coming out of the first turn but on the backstretch Jon and Mike passed me. I Just made sure to not lose that front pack and they pulled me through the 400 in 63. On the second lap I just made sure that Jon didn't get too much of a gap on me and I actually almost caught him at the end, but in the end he beat me by like a tenth of a second. I finished in 2:08 which was a one second PR from the 4x800 at the ice oval which was nice. About 15 minutes later we were supposed to race the two mile, but none of us wanted to go very hard so we took the first mile out in 5:54. Tawny and Ryan were getting really mad that we weren't trying, so they told us if we didn't break 11:00 we had to do 800 repeats after so we picked up the pace considerably. Clayson did the next one in 4:50, and Mike and I did it in in 5:00, making us the only three that went under 11. Nobody else had to do extra repeats though because I think Ryan kind of meant if Mike and I didn't do it then we ruin it for everyone. It was kind fun to go out slow and finish fast like that. It was the easiest 5:00 i've run. Afterwards we icebathed in the river.

Biking to legacy was terrible today. It was so windy that while I was going up one of the hills it knocked me off my bike. It took me twice as long to get there so they almost left me, but I got there right as they were leaving. We did the exact same run that we did last Saturday but backwards, plus a little extra at the end. Afterwards we went to Clayson's for waffles.