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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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First day of xc camp. We went down to Mt Pleasant to this sweet cabin in the woods. It was like 7000 feet elevation. Once we got there we went on a team run, really easy about 4 miles. Later we did a 5 mile run with a 2 mile tempo thrown in there. Despite the altitude it felt super good! It was also downhill which probably made it easier, 5:30-5:28. There was a strong headwind which didn't seem to hurt us at all. Had a pretty sick game of capture the flag afterwards, #teamhéroe.

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Second day of camp. Woke up and destroyed everyone at ping pong for an hour (not to brag or anything) and then had a great hill workout. It 2x(4x90 second hills). We had to get further each time, so the first one was supposed to be easy. A bunch of the younger runners got excited and ran hard the first few though and it made it tough to get around them. I was ahead of Heston for the first 4, then we stayed together for the next set. It started really hurting on the 6th one. To practice surging and catching up to opponents I let Heston go about a second ahead of him and I would real him in in the last 200 meters. I tried to stay with him on the last one but I had nothing left, but I gave a good fight, I only finished 2 or 3 seconds behind. After we jumped in literally the coldest water I have been in, like it was probably 33 degrees. 

Later we drove all the way up to the summit of the mountain and did a 4 miler with my boyz on skyline drive, 10000 feet elevation. Legs were dying from this morning but it was an amazing view. 

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Race: SFHS Uphill Mile (1 Miles) 00:06:45, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
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8.50

Last day of camp ;( Our run today was a mile race up the road to the cabin. The course had over 1300 feet of climbing in one mile so it wasn't going to be fast. We ran down to the start as our warm up and stretched for a while. We started and Heston made a 5 meter gap. I ran with Nate and Fletchmeist for 2 or 3 hundred meters and we caught up to Heston. I immediately put in a surge when we caught him and put a 5 meter gap on everyone. We came up the first big hill and I just relaxed and focused on not dying. At the top of the hill I could still hear footsteps and I looked back and only saw Heston about 5 seconds behind me. It flattened for a sec and I regained my energy for the steepest and longest hill. Part of it is steeper than 50 percent grade. I pushed up really hard and realized I may have gone too hard. My quads were frozen and I could barely move my feet. It was a relief getting to the top of that thing, I flew down the other side. Halfway up the next hill I looked back and Heston still had not gained any ground on me. It was then that I realized I might actually beat Heston at a race this short. I made it up and down that hill then up the last hill and won by about 10 seconds. I went back down the course with Heston and cheered people on. Team héroe won by 25 points! #yeeyee The time was ridiculous, 6:45. 

At 7 I went for a 6 mile run, felt good. 

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4 in the morning with Nate and guts.

8 later by myself. Pretty easy.

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6 at xc practice. Probably 7:15 pace, my knee was really bugging me so I'm going to take it easy tomorrow and ice it.

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3 miles at my sister's soccer games in park city. Pretty slow. I have efy next week so I get to do what I want so in going to do a few workouts specifically targeting my half marathon.

Later I did lots of squats, sit ups, crunches, planks, push-ups and pull-ups.

 

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