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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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Total Distance
59.95
Total Distance
11.75

6.4 miles at xc. Last 2 miles were really fast, probably tempo pace or faster. Finished with  Heston, fletcher was about 30 seconds behind. Averaged 6:55. 

5 really slow miles when I got home. Averaged 8:00.

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10.00

6 miles with Nate. We went pretty slow and met up with Wyatt and Alivia after a mile. Probably 8 minute pace

4 miles later. Also really slow, I felt out of energy though. Speed workout tomorrow.

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Total Distance
8.75

Woke up at 5 then set my alarm for 6:45, and did wake up till 7:20. So I got ready in literally 30 seconds and remarkably made it before the workout started. I got maybe a quarter mile warm up. The workout was 4x(400 building strider-200 all out-600 race pace). All of these had a 100 to 200 meter jog in between. The first one I stayed with Heston for most of it, but I've was going really quick. Even on the 600 it was hard to stay with him. The second one went pretty much the same. Then We had a long break and started again. I was out in front the whole time with Nate not too far behind. Heston wasn't far either. On the fourth set I stayed with Heston for the sprints but when we got to the 600 his speed was ridiculous. Heston is and 800 meter guy, then fletcher passed me, he's a quick sprinter as well. Nate and I were behind them on that last one. From this workout I think I see I can beat Heston if I push hard the whole race. Waiting until the last 800 or less won't work out for me. 1200 cool down, I'll do more later.

Did some more speed stuff because I just felt like it. My mom took the kids to north park and there's this grassy area that's .17 miles (275 meters) so I did loops on that. 6 laps warming up, then 3xloops at full speed. First was 41.9, then 41.98 and 40.4. There was a hill so I incorporated that into the loop. Shoutout to my mom for timing me <3 1 mile cool down.

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Total Distance
10.20

10 miles. For some reason I have a problem taking my easy runs actually easy. I kept speeding up involuntarily, and my legs still felt pretty tight by the end. I'm hoping they'll be good for tomorrow, I've got a killer workout planned!

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Total Distance
13.25

Went to the track at 7:20 and ran a mile warm up. My workout had intervals decreasing from 1600 to 400, with 2000 tempos thrown in. So 1600-2000-1200-2000-800-2000-400. The mile was perfect. I hit every 200 in exactly 40 seconds so got 5:20 pretty easily. My pacing was super good today. The 2000 was in 6:55. 1200 was also 5:20 pace, I got 4 minutes exactly. The next 2000 was 7:05. My 800 was 5 minute pace, 2:30 exactly. Next 2000 was 6:55. I tried to kick the 400, but didn't get as fast as I wanted. First 200 was 32, and I finished in 64. My splits were like perfect today it was weird. 800 cool down.

4.5 mile trail run to the hot pots with the team. Nobody got in the hot pots, but when we got down back to the start we all jumped in the river. It was cold but good.

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Total Distance
6.00

I was up in Kamus at my family reunion. Instead of running 6 miles I was going to do a 2 mile swim. I soon found out that swimming long distances takes a lot more upper body strength than I had! Yeah I only got a quarter mile in, it was bad. I was really active today though so I think I'll cheat and say I got 60 miles this week haha.

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Total Distance
59.95
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