How I became the best

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.

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

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.

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

2 miles at soccer .

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. 

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

Rest

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. 

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.

I'm taking this week off till Friday.

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.

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!

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.

7 miles easy. 

7 miles

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.

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.