called to serve: Florida Tallahassee

Still recoverying from surgery. My face is really swollen :-)

XC PRACTICE!!!!!!!

We started cross country practice today and I am excited. We went through the desert and out by the freeway and back to the school. It was a good run and I ran pretty fast. There was a lot of people, new people and others that I knew already. We will see who stays and comes as we go along. This is going to be a fun year.

I felt pretty good running and I ran pretty fast. I could see the front and that made me go faster, trying to catch Baker and Ruth and Steve O. My mouth didn't hurt from the surgery but it is not back to normal yet. I am going to try and do some extra running to get ready for the 10k this weekend. Hooray Running!!

1- 7:25  2- 7:51  3- 6:32   4- 7:07   .70 5:10

7:16/mi average   34:07 total

Wasatch practice. We did repeats today. Two 1 mile repeats and four 800 repeats on the way back. We ran from the church to the trail by the river and ran on the trail for our repeats. My watch ran out of batteries but coach D had times and it worked out good. 

1rst mile- 5:59  2nd mile- 6:15 1rst 800- 3:15  2nd 800- 3:30  3rd 800- 3:12  4rth 800- 3:02 

The first two mile repeats I worked hard to stay with Decker and did pretty good. The end of  my last mile felt fast. I might have gone out to fast on the miles because I was really tired for the 800s or I just needed to work harder. On the first two 800s I got a little sick but mostly just negative and slowed down. On the 3rd one I pushed through that and did better and the last one was good. This was a good work out.

XC practice. We did an easy 3 miler today, I tried to take it pretty easy because of the 10k summer games tomorrow. Ran with Decker and we kept up with coach and Ruth for a while untel them and J. Ells. and Tayson T. pulled away from us. I was really tired but I am excited for tomorrow.

1- 6:48 2- 7:22 3- 8:21  7:31/mile average 22:37 total

Summer Games today, it was really fun. The course was very awesome. Down hill a lot and the temp. was cool, beautiful run.

I think I started out to fast, I couldn't keep the pace I started and then I got slower. I got really tired in the middle and I didn't fight through it.

This is my second 10k, my first was Butch Cassidy. I got a PR by 4 minutes. I am happy with my time and pace because I was trying to get around 46 minutes like my last 10k with 7:30 average mile. I did a lot better this time with 6:45 average (6:45 on my results card. 6:54 on my watch. I don't how that worked out but I am going with 6:45. do the math sometime.) and 42:01 race time. I am happy with this but I feel like I could have done a little better. Got a cool shirt.

1- 5:47  2- 6:22  3- 7:01  4- 7:26  5- 7:25  6- 7:26   42:01 total   6:45 average

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