Adam's Running

We are in California all this week for spring break/Arcadia so I get to do my runs at low altitude :). Had a workout today, but when I got to the track it was protected like a maximum security prison and there was no way I was getting in, so I headed down to the beach and did 12x1 minute hard with 1 minute jog in between. Felt really good and I was going pretty fast. It got kinda windy, but it felt nice cuz I was super hot. On my warmup I went down to this ravine thing cuz there was all these cool trails, but ended up running through a hobo village. There was a ton of tents and they were all just chillin. The people were friendly but their dogs weren't so I headed back up to the town.

just a few easy miles. Ran down and did a loop around the harbor. Legs felt really flat and tired so I cut the run short, sunrise on the harbor was beautiful tho.

Had a workout today, so I had to run like 3.5 miles away to find a track cuz Oceanside high school is stupid. Sadly I got to the place where there was supposed to be a track and it was nowhere to be seen so I went over to an empty field full of weeds and used my watch to mark out a 400 meter loop on a little dirt trail that went around the perimeter. Workout was 8x400 with 90 seconds rest. Times were 64, 65, 63, 63, 63, 64, 66, 60. Felt really good on these and was really happy with the times, especially cuz there was a couple really sharp turns hat slowed me down. Getting pumped for Friday.

Easy run on a trail by my hotel

Arcadia 4x1600 today. We raced at like 10:00, or 11:00 Utah time which was fun, but kind of weird. Warmed up with the Timpanogos dudes then went and got situated. Jamison was first leg and ran a 4:20, then handed off to me. At this point we were just a little bit off of Great Oak and the Woodlands, and I made the mistake of trying to immediately close the gap. My first 400 was a 60, which was way too fast, then my next was a 66. 2:06 is a bit faster then I can handle right now and at this point the top teams took off and I faded into no mans land. I had nobody to run with and was feeling the first two laps and ended up running a 4:30. Pretty bad. Anyways Justin ran pretty similarly to what I did and ran a 4:29, then Zack brought us home in 4:18. We got 10th, which wasn't too bad looking at the teams who beat us, and we still averAged 4:24's so not too bad Of a day for us, but we could've done better if Justin and I had raced smarter, oh well.

Two mile today. We got in a good warmup and the temperature felt nice even tho it was raining pretty good. Gun went off and Zack and I got horrible position in the very back, but moved up to the middle about 300 in. The race was huge so I ended up running in lanes 2 and 3 for the whole first mile. First mike went perfect to plan with splits of 70, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40. Next lap I also ran a seventy and came through in 5:50. Sadly at this point I started to fall off a bit and faded over the last couple laps to finish in 9:28. It's frustrating because before I got sick I was right with Zack and Jamison who ran 9:09 and 9:12 ( huge shoutout to them). I still PR'ed so I can't be too mad, and I feel like I'm getting stronger every week, so I just need to focus up and work hard and I know I can run around 9:20 at altitude when these big races roll around. Still a super fun race tho, really wet but I had a lot of fun. Afterwards cooled down with the Lehi homies and watched Casey win in 8:50.