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Salem Hills Dual Meet

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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
41.75
Total Distance
6.00

6 miles in the heat. We should have only gone 6, it was too hot.

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Race: Salem Hills Dual Meet (3.107 Miles) 00:16:46, Place overall: 2
Total Distance
9.00

Pretty good race today! Warmed up on the course with the whole team, and then cheered on the girls while we jogged around some more. Stretched and did some drills. I got in 5 strides before the start. When we started the kid in the alley next to me like pushed right into me which made me push Heston and he got a terrible start. Right after that though I got out in front and I lead until 400 meters. Heston passed me at 600 and I hung on to him for a minute. I was feeling good, and I really wanted to be Heston! So, I took the lead and opened up a gap pretty quickly. I never looked back, but I'm pretty sure they were far behind me. I just kept pushing and pushing and there was just nobody around me. When we crossed cement I could hear spikes 5 to 10 seconds back. I put in a few surges to make sure nobody caught me. Passed the mile in 5:14, about where I wanted to be. Then at about 2 miles I could tell Heston was catching me, and I through in another surge to get away. About 30 seconds after that he blazed past me, using a downhill and pretty much sprinting. I stuck with him, and kind of nudged him to get the inside of a corner. He passed me back 50 meters after that and used an surged up a short hill. I let him go a little bit, but made it up fairly quickly. By this time we were on our second loop. I stuck right behind him for a while, then with about 800 to go there was another short uphill. He surged up that and my legs locked up and I couldn't follow. I never looked back to see if anyone was behind me, but I just pretended someone was there to motivate me to keep it up. When we got on the track I put in a half hearted kick, but overall this was a good experience. I've never been the frontrunner in a race, it flet amazing! I was so in control! I'm actually kind of suprised Heston caught me. He's a great runner, but he's only been doing 30 miles a week this summer, and he's more of an 800 runner. I thought I would get him if I pushed from the start, but oh well, we still have the whole season to battle it out. Nate was 45 seconds back, and I felt pretty good about that because I had done all the work to get us that much ahead of the pack! Nate also beat all the Salem kids in a sprint finish, so we got first, second, and third! Our next guys were 9 and 14, this was our first time beating Salem, and they are really our only competition in our region. Super excited for this season! Cooled down a mile and rolled out.

Post race workout: 2 miles @ 6 minute pace. Warmed up a mile and did the workout on a treadmill. Felt super easy, but I didn't want to push it. .5 mile cool down.

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Total Distance
6.50

Another tough day today. Warmed up to Park Elementary (1 mile) and did mile repeats on the hills. Course was up the hill about 300 meters to Diamond Fork, then down the hill next to it, up a shorter and less steep hill through neighboorhoods, back down, up the hill by Diamond Fork, and back down to where we started. This was one of the hardest ones we did last year, and it was pretty tough today. He wanted us faster each time, so the first one was slow. I led for the first 3 repeats. On the last one, Heston took the lead at the top of the first hill, and the down hill was really fast. The next uphill was faster than we did it on the other ones, and thats when I really started to struggle. The downhill was super tough too. We turned the corner and I was too far outside so he got ahead and I started to fade. I kicked it in again to catch up, and I actually did. But after a few seconds my legs locked up and I faded really bad. By the top of the hill he was 10 seconds ahead, and he got even more on me on the downhill. Splits were 6:29-6:09-6:04-5:39, Heston's last one was 5:25. 1 mile cool down. 

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Total Distance
5.25

Warmed up 2.75 miles at 8:30 pace, then coach had us do a 1000 at mile pace, but it ended up being quite a bit slower. 3:06 for me, probably 3:05 or so for Heston, 4:55 mile pace. My legs were really sore from 2 hard days and I'm ready for a lot of recovery! Cooled down 1.7 miles. Grass relays on saturday.

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Total Distance
3.00

Easy miles and some ultimate frisbee.

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Race: AF Grass Relays (2 Miles) 00:10:28
Total Distance
12.00

Got to AF at 7:10 and ran part of the course. Then I waited in the port-a-potty line for 45 minutes, not even joking. Cheered on some people for a while and asked someone to homecoming #slayin Layed down for a while, and warmed up again with the Varsity team. Our top 4 ran and our number 8 had to run. This day felt soooo long, I should have just driven up at like 10. Heston was first, I was second, Nate was third, then Fletcher and Tanner. Heston started and was about 5:10 at the mile, came through the second time at high 5:1X. We were in 9th at that point. I quickly caught the kid ahead of me and another kid caught up to us. I moved past them and started catching another guy ahead of us. Btw those hay bails are freaking annoying. I caught that other kid ahead of me and the one guy that came up to me the first time kept getting in front of me then slowing down, so I just stayed behind him. My coach told me to move up and not let him slow me down, so I swung wide and surged hard. I wasn't feeling that bad, I think I could have gone faster if I had had fast guys to run with, I need to work on running hard by myself. The whole second lap I was trying to catch this guy that was like 50 meters ahead or so, but I never got him. I got a really big gap on the guys behind me, so I was really happy about that. Finished strong with 5:28. Thats a good course, but seriously those hay bails... When I finished we were up in fourth. I think I could have run much faster if I had taken this race seriously and had some good runners to go with. Its really hard for me to push it when I'm by myself. Cheered the rest of my team on for half an hour then cooled down half a mile. Rolled out.

8.2 miles at 4 o'clock. Felt alright until the last few, they were tough. 3 surges in the middle. One on the golf course hill, one on the hill by the canyon, and a 1:30 surge through the grass hopper fields. There were so many bugs today, on every step like 5 grass hoppers would freak out and try to get me.

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Total Distance
41.75
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