Adam's Running

Lil' Warner and I had to take the AP Psych test today during practice, so we did the workout later with Lauren, Ellie, and Autumn. The workout was two sets of 400, 300, 200, with a minute recovery between intervals. It was crazy windy on the homestretch so our times all would have been 1 or 2 seconds faster probably on a good day, but we still ran pretty fast. Times were 62, 45, 28, 61, 45, 31. My legs wouldn't cooperate on the last 200, but I hit my goal times on everything else so its all good. I love tapering.

Easy miles down past AF and back. 

Went on the two mile guys cool down with them and the AF guys. Hagen cut up his shin hopping over a cement barrier and I felt kind of bad we took them off roading. Zack won the two mile and Justin ran a 10:00, which is awesome. Afterwards me and Lil' Warner did 4x30 seconds out on the road to kennecott to keep our legs sharp for tomorrow.

Ran the mile at region today. Got in a solid warmup then headed over to the line. It was windy, but nothing too bad, and I was feeling good, so I went in with high expectations. The gun went off and I just kind of went to the middle of the pack and tucked into the inside. The pace went out really slow, which generally isn't a good thing for me, but getting to the front and pushing the pace would have taken a lot of energy from where I was, so I just sat and waited. I came through the first lap in 70, and the pace just stayed there for the next 600. 800 split was about 2:20. Once we made the turn with 500 to go everybody all of the sudden just opened up their strides and the race began. The first 200 of the next lap everybody was still together, then with 200 to go Jamison and Lil Warner started pulling away and I tried to pass Thomas Heaps on the inside to go with them, but understandably he cut me off and I had to stop a little and lost some momentum. At this point I realized if I didn't move now I wouldn't qualify, and I turned it on. With 80 meters to go I moved into lane 2 to get around Ryan Raff and Thomas who were side by side and just went into an all out sprint. It came down to the final 40 meters but I was just able to outkick Ryan for the last qualifying spot in fourth! Final time was 4:30, which I was very surprised at considering how slow our first 1000 was, and my last lap was like a 63, so that was good. Lil' Warner won and Jamison got second, so we have four guys qualified in the mile. Afterwards I did like 40 minutes of cooldown. I am so pumped for state.

Good three games of tag with golf course at the end. I had a couple pretty good chases, including one really long one with Zack that I eventually caught him on.

Good speed workout at the track this morning. The rain was coming down hard and it was really cold, but we were still able to hit pretty good times. Times were 66, 65, 64, 65, 65, 64, 65, 62. Afterwards we cooled down inside the school to get out of the cold.