Snow Canyon Warriors Track

Man it was an excellent General Conference over the weekend wasn't it! Monson and Uctdorf's talks were my favorite and great, but all the talks were great. That was way funny when Monson wiggled his ears.

Anyways i woke up this morning around 5:30 (my first early morning in a while). I went over to the school to lift, not to run. I had a great weight full body workout and did an intense cycle weight workout with 500 situps and other stuff. I was spent by the end, it was all good though, so i could get my strength back. After that i went for a 1 mile run, just to check up on the body, and my leg supriseingly felt good. Not dareing enough to try the speed work yet though. I am still going to try and recover it and my sickness this week and slowly build back up. Definetly feeling alot better this week and looking forward to a great week. Can't wait for the meet on Thursday. (Stratus: 108.58)

You can fight without ever winning,
but never ever, win without a fight.
--Rush (the Band)

Good 6.25 mile run tonight with my two friends on bikes. Kept a good pace and good conversations. My leg felt okay, still a little sore, and i was spitting up my cold, but all good. Man i love running at this time like 7 or 8 pm.

Slept in. Went after school felt a little sore from weights. Did 3 easy miles with a girl on the team. Warmed me up for 3.10 hard 6:00 mile miles. Total 6.10 miles. Felt good, leg felt just a little sore, but almost back to normal except a little fatigued from weights. Still spitting up the cold and coughing. Good run and good conversation, if you know what i mean. 1 mile warm up.

 (Stratus: 115.68)

4.5 mile hike,run,climp adventure with my cousin who is almost a professional rock climber. It a pretty cool adventure up a canyon by my house over by Kayenta. It was pretty intense and we got up pretty far because my cousin taught me how to free climb a little on some small stuff and he did some even bigger ones. It was fun and i think deserves to be my miles for the day since i have a meet tommorrow at Hurricane, Im excited!

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
-- Alberto Salazar

Man i don't know if i can even call this a race. I have been sick and my leg is still hurting so i ran crappy. The wind didn't help either. It felt so horrible and i am not feeling to happy right now. My hip flexor in my quad tightened up again in the race and it was killing me. (Its this stupid speed work that is killing me, i have laid off, but this meet did not help). I could still feel my cold too. After my leg was killing me more than it ever has before. I guess its back to iceing it and what not. I am sick of this and hopefully it doesn't ruin my season. I thought it was all better, but i guess not. I guess i might go get a massage from April, if i can afford it, otherwise i am back to the basics. Good job everyone else and Trac Norris for beating me. Any advise is helpful, thanks.

Slept in, have been iceing, ibuprofening, wintercresting, etc. I called April today and scheduled a massage for Tuesday. I ran after school and did a .75 mile warm up. It felt okay, at what Dave calls, "Grandpa Pace". If i try to pick it up, or sprint it kills though. So i am going to do what Sasha said and do alot of slow long runs for about a week and a half.

Don't have a meet next week so i should be able to recover by SUU, and also get this cold completely out of my system. I guess i just need to toughen up though too, ha ha (their you go Dave i did it). I am in alot better mood than yesterday though, still frusturated, but trying to look at the good side. Who knows it might help me recover faster.

Anyways decieded to do a 10 mile grandpa pace run with an ace bandage rapped tightly around the thigh, have have that all day. It was a really slow run too. It felt okay though and stretched out that quad. I got to see alot more of the world at this pace and worked on my stride a little. I tried to make it an adventure to so it would not be so boring. It was allright, and at least i am still getting the miles in. If i keep doing this i'll be ready for the 3200 for sure. Thanks for the advise everyone. Now its up to me and my leg.

 (DS Trainer: 133)

"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."

-Lowell Thomas

Went on a hike/run/swim with my friend. We went to the Santa Clara River Reserve and hiked up the river, sometimes in the river to a cool swimming spot we found. It was a cool adventure and we had a good time and got a good tan. It all equaled about 4 miles. My leg is feeling better. I am still worried it will still kill me when i sprint though. I will take this next week easy still. Just try and get those long runs in. Man it was a hot, but nice day today. The summer is coming.