Adam's Running

Nice and short speed workout today before region. Just 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2. Was feeling pretty good and hit the times on all of them. Times were 59, 45, 28, 59, 45, 28. Fun stuff overall.

Easy to the mouth of the canyon and back. Did some strides after, then went in the gym and played 7 on the line for an hour before the bbq. Ready to win tomorrow.

Region two mile today. Got a solid warm up in, then watched the slow heat and started. Immediately 3 Westlake guys went to the front and led for the first 1200. At this point their coach told them to stop cuz we were all just drafting off of them so they went back and I went to the lead. Came through the mile in a very modest 4:55. For the next little while Justin, Adam Wood, and I kind of switched off leading like every 200 pretty much. With 1k to go I decided it was a good time to try and separate from the rest of the field, so I surged and it worked perfectly, the top 4 broke away and got a nice gap on everyone else. With 300 to go Ryan said that we had big gap and just coast it in, so I maintained my pace and ended up getting 4th in 9:44. It was definitely the easiest 9:44 I've ever run, and I feel like I could definitely go under 9:30 at state if I have a good race. Excited for tomorrow, hopefully I can get qualified in the other two events. Afterwards cooled down on golf course with the PG guys.

Last Region meet today. started out with the mile, it went ok. Definitely not what I was looking for, but whatever. First three laps were fine, splits of 65, 2:11, 3:18, then my butt tightened up and I felt like I just couldn't run fast. I watched the other guys pull away and it was kinda sad. FInished in 4:27. Next up was the 800. I had like 30 minutes and I tried to stretch out as much as I could. Strides felt really hard, but I still wanted to race. Gun went off and I immediately wemt to the back, probably about 12th place. I just chilled there the whole first lap and came in around 59 or 60. Second lap I realized I wasn't as tired as I thought I was and Craik and I kicked past like 5 guys in the final 250 and finished in 1:59 for him, and 2:00 for me. Got seventh overall. I think if I had gone out faster I couldve been in the hunt for qualifying, but I'm happy with a PR. Not quite the region meet I wanted, but now I am hungry to go run fast in the 3200 at state.