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Member Since:

Sep 07, 2014

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

World Class

Running Accomplishments:

Freshman PRs:

      I ran for American Leaderships Academy my freshman year, so I was in 2A and facing much easier competition than I would in higher divisions. I really only did cross country because it would get me in shape for soccer, But when I realized I was actually good at it I made running my number 1 priority. I barely made it to state, but had a bad race and did not place very well. I decided to try a half marathon in November and did pretty good (considering I had only been running seriously for about 4 months.) I started off track running my fastest time in the mile, and didn't get another pr in the mile until state championships. I realized I was better at the 3200 and thats what I have been focusing on since then. At state track I got prs in all 3 distance events, which was a huge confidence booster!

      800- 2:15(?) Sprint Medley State Chamionships 2014

      1600- 4:51 State Championships 2014

      3200-10:40 State Championships 2014

      10000- 37:10 Speedy Spaniard 10k 2014

      1/2 Mar- 1:25:33 Thankful 13 2014

Sophmore PRs:

      My sophmore cross country season went much like last track season. I started off with my fastest time and didn't improve on it until one of the last races. I struggled a lot during this season, I got down on myself after every bad race I had, that was probably my biggest problem. At region I had an absolutely terrible race. We were planning on getting the team qualified for state, and I'm pretty sure it was completely my fault we didn't. Haha yeah it was bad, I ran about a minute slower than what I wanted and got 20th or something. I kept training through to December, did a few races, and had a really succesful race at  Footlocker West. I got 14th in the Frosh/Soph race. Even though I got out kicked by two people in the last 100 I was really pleased, especially after that bad season. I started indoor track running 10:37 and 4:49. Soccer conflicted with track a lot and I think it was really detrimental to my times. I'm thinking about not doing soccer next year and just focusing on track. I had a few good races, and managed to destroy this kid in the last 300 meters at region and make it to state! Unfortunately I let the fact the I was seeded last at the state meet get to my head, and I got last by over a hundred meters. Not only the worst race of the season, but also the most humiliating. On to cross country!

      800- 2:13 Snow Canyon Invite 2015

      1600- 4:40.02 BYU Invitational 2015

      3200- 10:03.14 Snow Canyon Invite 2015

      3 mile- 16:09 Cedar 2014

      10000- 34:03 Provo Freedom Run 2015

      15k- 55:04 SLCTC Winter Series 15k 2015

      10 Miles- 1:00:24 One Hour time trial

Junior PRs:

     Junior cross country season went well. It was rough but I had some high points. Finally broke 16 for 3 miles at region with 2nd place, broke an hour in the 10 mile and 34 minutes in the 10k. State xc went really bad. I missed my goal time by 40 seconds and my goal place by 25 people. Footlocker wasn't that great, I got the same time as last year and missed my goals on place and time. Trained really hard with high mileage through the winter. 

      800-2:10

      1600- 4:42

      2 mile- 9:57

      3 mile- 15:39 Pre Footlocker

      5K- 16:14 Pre Footlocker

      10 mile-58:58 One Hour time trial

Best Races:

6th place in the Orem Earn Your Turkey 4 mile Run 2015

16th in the Footlocker West Regional Sophmore Boys Race (17:14.5)

10th place at the 2015 SLCTC 15K (55:04)

1st place-3200 Copper Hills Invitational 2015

8th place-Provo Freedom Run 2015

2nd place Region 8 Cross Country Championships (15:43.5)

5th place Distance Challenge 2016 3200

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train consistently and have some good races in the next few months. It would be nice to break 15 in the 5k soon as well.

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Get on BYU's XC team after my mission sometime. I also want to run under 29 for 10k and 14 for 5k but we'll see!

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151.25
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Didn't go to track today because it was the byu invite. I'm running tomorrow, so I took it pretty easy at soccer. 2 miles.

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Race: BYU Invitational 1600 (1 Miles) 00:04:40, Place in age division: 6
Total Distance
7.00

Got to the meet an hour and a half before I ran. I probably did 4.5 miles warming up. It was a little more than I usually do, but I don't think it affected me that much. I was on the outside of the second alley, seeded 13th. When we started I got totally boxed in. I couldn't go anywhere, and the entire first 400 was like that. That was a 71, I wanted a 68. The next lap was 69. On the third lap I wanted to surge and get around this group, but some kid kept pushing me to the outside as I tried to pass him, so I just settled in behind him. I really should have just passed him because that lap was way too slow, 72. At the 400 I saw I was at 3:32, and I knew I had to really push it if I wanted to break 4:40. I passed a 2 people  on the back straight. Someone passed me at the 200, and I stayed right behind him. With like 120 left or something I tried to pass him, but he surged and passed someone. I stayed pretty close behind him and I thought I would catch him, but my kick wasn't enough. I looked up at the clock as I finished and realized I had missed my goal by a tenth of a second! I was still happy with a 2 second pr though. 0.75 mile cool down. 

1 mile of soccer

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Total Distance
6.50

Pretty easy workout. I got there late so I warmed up and had to jump in when they had like a lap left. It was 6 laps tempoe with 150 meter strong surge at the end of each lap. Each lap was 80 to 85. I had to run the last 5 laps by myself, so that was a change, I usually have Heston in front of me. 800 cool down, then went to soccer, probably 2.5 miles.

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Total Distance
5.00

1 mile warm up.1.5 miles tempo with 150 meter surges each lap. 800 cool down. 

2 miles at soccer .

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Race: Region 8 1600 (1 Miles) 00:04:40, Place overall: 6, Place in age division: 6
Total Distance
7.00

Warmed up for probably 2 miles with Nate. Me and nate both wanted to break 4:40 today. I was pretty confident that I could. When we started, Heston and a Salem kid went out super fast, I think they're first lap was 62. Mine was 67, still too fast. Heston and the other kid ended up running almost an 80 on their last lap. Heston still ran 4:27 though. I felt pretty good, but this could out sprinted me in the last 209, which doesn't happen all too often. I finished in 4:40.02, so close to 4:40!!! This was my last mile race for probably 8 months :( but I guess I can't really complain about a pr. 1 mile cool down.

Ran the 800 on the medley, it didn't go that well. 2 miles including warm up and cool down. 

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Race: Region 8 3200 (2 Miles) 00:10:06, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 4
Total Distance
8.00

Great race today! Probably 2.5 miles warming up. We started pretty slow, I think 76s. After about 2 laps of that, Russell and someone else moved away. I kept in 3rd for a while, but I got passed after 6 laps. On the seventh lap another kid passed me, and I knew I would have to beat him if I wanted to get to state. On the last lap he gapped me by about ten meters. With 250 to go I increased my stride frequency a lot and made up the gap quickly. I passed him on the inside at the 200 meter mark, and we both started big kicks. I moved outside just a tiny bit to make it harder for him and eventually he fell back. I kept my kick going all the way to the line just to make sure I had him. Really good race for me! Probably just one lap cool down. 

Soccer game about an hour later, 3 miles.

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Total Distance
8.50

8.5 mile moderate run. This was the first semi long run I've done in a while!

 

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Total Distance
7.25

I had to do my workout by myself today which was tough. Warmed up 1 mile. I had to run at the junior high track, and all the kids who had p.e. were on the track which was really annoying. I did 2x800s in 2:23 with 600 rest, 2x600s in 1:49 with 600 rest, then 4x400s in 72 with 400 rest. Then I did a 300 with the first 100 at the same pace I was doing, then a big 200 surge. Finished with a 200 in like 29 or faster. Cooled down 2 laps.

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Total Distance
8.50

8.5 miles pretty easy, did 3 strides spread throughout. I'm super excited for state! I'll be running the sprint medley on Friday and the 3200 on Saturday morning. 

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Total Distance
3.00

800 meters warmup. Workout was 2 miles at 7 minute pace with a 50-150 meter surge each lap at like 800 pace, it was super easy. 800 meter cool down.

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Rest

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3.00

So I had to do the 800 in the medley today, it was so bad haha. The first exchange was terrible and they dropped it on the second exchange. I was in last by a hundred meters when I got the baton. I gained maybe 15 or 20 meters on the other guy, but that's it. Little warm up and cool down. 

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Race: utah track champs 3200 (2 Miles) 00:10:35
Total Distance
18.00

Definitely the worst mental race of my life so far. I am extremely disappointed in myself for this race. I though I was so ready to get a breakthrough. So I warmed up 2 miles and passed josh and Conner and all those cool guys and it got me super excited. I was seeded last, so already I was mentally hurt from that. I started way too fast. 70 for the first lap. I knew it was too fast for me but I was in last place and still having trouble keeping up, so that also hurt me mentally. Then I had a bad tactical error when we hit the mile. It was 4:50, so I slowed it down and lost contact to the guy in front of me. Big mistake, after that I lost all motivation to put in a good effort. Multiple times I started to slow down to walk off the track but I didn't want to look like an even bigger idiot so I just kept going. I moved to the outer lane so Conner could lap me with like 120 to go for him. Finished in 10:35, goal was 9:50. I guess I'll just have to forget about it, I'm going to do some serious damage next year!

So later I went to my sisters soccer game in park city, and I found a little trail through the mountains so I went to go do a quick run. Yeah I got lost and ended up being gone for an hour and 45 minutes. My mom was so mad at me when I got back! I bet it was 14 miles, I was running pretty quick, nice hill workout.

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I'm taking this week off till Friday.

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Total Distance
8.50

8.5 miles moderate. My knees and ankles hurt really bad for the first mile. I was considering stopping and just going back, but it got a little better.

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Total Distance
10.00

10 miles at an easy to moderate pace, I think it took about 1:15. The same thing happened that did on Saturday, but it got better. Swam a little in a 55 degree pool after, it was so cold!

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Total Distance
11.00

5 miles before soccer tryouts. I really focused on my form and it actually made me feel totally relaxed! 

I'd say 3 miles at tryouts. I'm thinking of switching to a new team. So far it looks like we have a good group together. I'm doing tryouts for my old team too tommorow and friday.

3 cool down miles as soon as I got home. Felt less sore than I did during soccer.

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Total Distance
7.00

7 miles easy. 

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Total Distance
7.00

7 miles

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Total Distance
9.00

7 miles in the morning. I had soccer tryouts at 6:30 and it was a disaster, I played terrible. Probably 2 miles at soccer.

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Total Distance
15.00

15 mile long run today. I'm pretty sure I averaged 7:15 pace. I felt really good until the last 2 miles and then I just felt out of energy. After that I had the cultural celebration for six hours in like 90 degrees, so I didn't recover that well. 

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Total Distance
151.25
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