Adam's Running

Solid run down to Discovery Park and back. We were going pretty fast, and averaged like a 6:10 pace. Afterwards we did strides on the football field. Twas a beautiful day. I think I am running the mile and two mile at BYU, and am pretty pumped. 

Fun workout, it was 400, 300, 400, 300, 400, 300, 400, 400 all at a little faster than mile pace, and we only had about a minute of recovery inbetween each interval. They ended up being closer to 800 pace, but I guess that's a good thing haha. Times were 46's on all the 300's and 64, 63, 63, 63, 62 on the 400's. Didn't really feel too hard, which is definitely a good sign for BYU. Afterwards we went and ice bathed in a river but kicked out of our original spot by an angry old lady claiming we were "trespassing", what does that even mean anyway? We ended up finding a better spot further down the river, so jokes on you old lady.

Easy run before we had to be back at the school to help with the meet. Went down past AF and back. I was the guy in charge of the flag saying if they could start or not. Fun stuff.

Super easy run before BYU tomorrow. I'm so pumped for this two mile. Out of the 12 5A guys running, 3 are from AF, 4 are from Davis, 4 are from Lone Peak, and theres 1 guy from Lehi. I don't think we've ever had more than one guy qualify, which is a good sign for cross country next year. I totes just shaved my legs for the race tomorrow, which should by itself take about 8 seconds off, so State qualifying is definitely within reach.

Killer race today. We got there super early so we just chilled and talked to Dom for a while before we had to warm up and stuff. After we got our hip numbers we did a bunch of strides and got lined up. The gun went off and I fell to the back of the race immediately. I came through in 68 then started moving up a little bit, and caught up to Lil' Warner. We kind of ran the rest of the race together and slowly worked our way up. My next few splits were 2:19, 3:32, 4:44, 5:55, 7:09. At this point I realized I was still on pace to qualify for state and made a surge on the backstretch with 700 to go, and passed Josh Thatcher and another guy. Josh kind of hit my back, but I think it was more of an encouragement hit than a mean one. Anyways, I came through with one lap to go at 8:24, and kicked as hard as I could. I passed Joe Benson, then just tried to hang on to Lil' Warner for as long as possible, but he pulled away on the homestretch. I ended up running 9:33, which was an 11 second PR, and I qualified for state! This track season has been kind of a bummer, so this race was a much needed breakthrough. 

Ok race today. Felt tired from yesterday and just didnt have it in the legs. Whatever. At least now I can focus on the mile at region and kill it.