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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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70.15
Total Distance
16.00

Did my long run today because I'm going to Heber on Friday and Saturday and I don't want to run 16 miles in the mountains at high altitude. I'm going to do my tempo run up there instead. I'm also going to do my first track workout on Wednesday. I'll probably just do some 800s and 1200s, nothing too bad. So this long run wasn't going to be super hard, but I pressed and got a decent overall pace. I wanted to explore some places I hadn't gone before, so that was fun. I started up canyon road, went down to the golf course and instead of going on the river trail I kept going. I turned left after a little bit and went up some ridiculous hills up the mountain. I was going to try to go all the way to the reservoir, but I saw a sign that said no trespassing. I was going to go anyways but decided against it. Looped around back down to the golfcourse and on the river trail. This time I took the river trail all the way down to the end of it and turned and went back home and added .25. Average pace was 7:05, including a slower than normal warmup and a slow mile up the hills (7:59). Hit a 6:20, a few 6:30s, and a lot of 6:50s. Really pleased with this workout, I'm so excited for track! 

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Total Distance
12.00

8+4=12 Sore from yesterday.

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12.15

Decided to take another recovery day today. My quads are still sore and all the tracks were covered in snow anyways. I'm for sure doing it tomorrow though. I decided to do either 8x800 at 10k pace with lots of recovery, or a 4 mile tempo on the track at 5:40 pace, nothing thats really going to hurt. Anyways, 8.15 miles at 7:33 pace. I might go do 4 miles later but we'll see. 

4 easy miles, 7:53 pace.

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Total Distance
9.00

Didn't get going for a really long time, like 3 o'clock, and it was freezing cold. Warmed up a fast mile, 7:20. Workout was 4 miles tempo. I wanted anything under 23 minutes but I got bad cramps near the end and ended up averaging 5:48 or something. Splits were 5:44-5:28-5:50-5:58. Cooled down to 9 miles.

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12.00

Was going to do 8 and 4, but we were about to leave to Heber so I got in 12 all at once. Nice and slow, averaged 7:33 for first 8 then 7: 44 for the next 4. Legs are pretty tired.

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Total Distance
9.00

Ran up in Heber in the mountains. Pretty tough hills, put in a good effort. 5.5 miles overall. Went sledding after.

Later I went rock climbing with my sister, we'll say 9 for the day.

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70.15
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