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Location:

St. George,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 03, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Cross Country- Individual/team conference champion; qualify for NCAA nationals individually or as a team

Indoor Track- Individual/team conference champion; 

4:05 (mile); 8:05 (3000)

Outdoor Track- Qualify for NCAA nationals in the steeplechase;

3:45 (1500); 8:40 (3k steeple); 14:00 (5k)

Long-Term Running Goals:

See how long my knees hold up after collegiate running 

Personal:

Grew up in St. George, UT where I ran at Desert Hills High School from 2012-2015. I spent the next 2 years in Rancagua, Chile as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

Senior and member of the men's track and cross country teams at Utah Valley University. President/Founder of Mongoose Elite.

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3 in the morning. 7 in the afternoon on the trails behind the school.

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3 in the morning. 7.5 total for the workout in the afternoon (2 mile warm up, 2x200, 1x800, 1x600, 1x400, 1x300, 1x250, 1x200, 1x100). Fast times for the workout, but it was pretty windy so I was off on the 800 and 600 because I got out of it mentally, but I snapped back into it for the rest of the reps and hopped in with Josh and Ben on their 250, 200, and 100. I didn't think this was a very good workout for me today, but I know that I will do better.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 10.50
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3 in the morning. 5.5 in the afternoon, Kenyan run with 4x200m finishes. 

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 8.50
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3 in the morning. 3 miles in the afternoon, raced the 400, then cooled down a little bit to get to 4. It was weird running the 400 again, I ran 54.58, but I think I could do a lot better with a little more 400 training, but I'm not worried about it because I don't think I'll be running the open 400 at region or state.

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Did the 800 leg in the medley today and the 4x4. 6 total with the warm up and cool down. We qualified for state in the medley but we were pretty off on the 4x4. I think I had an alright split in both races, but it's weird doing relays.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 5.50
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3 miles to Hidden Valley this morning, Monday mornings are always the hardest to get up on. 

Workout in the afternoon was 2 mile warm up, 4x200, 3x600, 2x300, 1 mile cool down. It was pretty hot out today, I think it hit 80+ degrees. I drank a lot of water during school, and the temperature didn't bother me much so that was good. I hit my times for the 200s and the first 600, but the next two 600s were fast, 29 second 200 pace, and I was a couple seconds off on both of those. After the last 600 my legs felt like jello, I hit the first 300 on pace, but my legs were trashed after that and I was about a second off on the last one. Overall a really good killer workout, and a good confidence booster. I can feel myself getting stronger! 

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 10.25
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3 miles in the morning. In the afternoon we drove over to the Panther Relays and it was a blast. My legs were pretty trashed from the workout yesterday though. 2 mile warm up, then I got about 2.5 miles in doing relays and jogging around in between, and cooled down a little bit afterwards. It was a way fun meet, and it's good to do something like this about midway through the season just to have a little fun and not stress about things.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 6.50
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3 miles in the morning. In the afternoon we did 6.5 easy. My hamstrings were really tight from Monday and yesterday. I'll have to roll out tonight. 

Pearl Izumi EM Trail M 2 Miles: 6.50Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 3.00
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3 miles in the morning. Pre-meet in the afternoon. 3.5 miles easy plus 4x200m finishes. I felt good by my hamstrings are still pretty tight.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 7.50
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Race: Dixie Invitational (1 Miles) 00:04:26, Place overall: 3
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No morning run today, it felt good to sleep in. Dixie Invite in the afternoon, I ran the 1600 today. Well, I started to warm up with the guys and about a quarter mile out I realized that I didn't have the right shoes on (I was wearing my old Pegasuses to school and I forgot to change into my current trainers!), so we went back to the school and I got the right ones. My legs felt a little tired, and my hamstrings were still a little tight, but they felt better after the warm up. Anyways, they packed our heat and there was 3 runners per lane so that was pretty dumb, but I got out good both times (on the first one the kid next to me tripped). I didn't really want to lead though, so I let the Ogden guys take it out, but we were pretty slow through 400, 1:09-10 I think. We picked it up on the second lap, 2:16 (1:06-7), slow, but we were back on pace. I'm not sure what the split was for my third or fourth laps, but I think I finished pretty strong. I PRed by like .2 seconds, not as fast as I was hoping for, but still alright for the way things went out.

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Race: Dixie Invitational (0.5 Miles) 00:01:58, Place overall: 1
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Warmed up 2 miles before my race. I got out good, they did the alley start again which was good, but I got sort of boxed in on the backstretch. Towards the end of the first lap I just decided to go for it, so I surged to the front and basically just kicked from there. With 200 left I felt Nephi coming up on me, so I made another surge and was able to hold him off and got my first varsity meet win ever so that was awesome. Then I anchored our 4x4 team and we won by a hair! Pretty awesome weekend, got some PRs and had a lot of fun! 

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 5.50
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3 in the morning. Early out in the afternoon so that was great. 6.5 miles after school, my calf was pretty tight.

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3 in the morning. In the afternoon I was going to do 8-12x400s in spikes at 3200 pace to get ready for Thursday but I only did 4 because my calf was really starting to hurt, so I just got back into my trainers and jogged around the track until the other guys finished up. Pretty frustrating to have to drop out of a workout when I've been healthy all season, but I'd rather ease it back a little bit than make it worse and have to be out for longer. 

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3 miles in the morning. 5.5 in the afternoon, calf's still hurting a little bit, but it feels better than yesterday.

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Race: Snow Canyon Invitational (2 Miles) 00:09:59, Place overall: 2
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Had a bunch of homework last night so I had to skip morning practice this morning. In the afternoon I ran the 3200 at Snow Canyon. I was a little nervous because by calf/shin was hurting a little bit during school, but I started to jog on it and it felt fine. I did about a 3 mile warm up and then raced. I just wanted to qualify for state (9:58.22), but man that is a tough race! We crossed the 1600 at 5:00, pretty much right on pace, but the next mile was tough. I ended up going 9:59.00, so I just barely missed it. I think I could've fought just a little harder for that 1 second, so I was pretty bummed about that, but oh well. I think I did pretty good considering the 3200 isn't really my race and it was my first time ever running it. My calf felt fine so that was good. Then I went to the Thatcher's and Micah opened his mission call, he is going to Novosibirsk, Russia, which we found out is the coldest sufficiently populated city in the world! 

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 7.00
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Around 6 miles on the trails this morning, perfect weather. I felt pretty good, and my calf wasn't hurting me at all so that was good. I'll probably go to the running center later today to try and get some new trainers because my current ones are starting to get worn out and might be what was causing my shin to hurt a little bit.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 6.00
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Met up with some of the guys and we headed out towards the Arizona strip to do our 2 mile power run. Our pace was supposed to be 35 seconds slower than our mile pace, so I was supposed to hit 5:02 per mile. I knew that this was going to he hard though, seeing as I only ran 5 seconds faster than this in the race on Thursday. The first mile was about 10 seconds slow, but it still felt hard. The next mile was about the same pace and it hurt. I should pushed through it but I think I'm just a little tired from Thursday. Overall an okay week, my calf doesn't hurt at all anymore so that's good. Next week will be a good week and then BYU the next week. Should be a good race!

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Met up with the guys again for our run. 7 miles out in the trails with 8x100m strides afterwards. It was fun and we kept it easy. It's too bad that this break has to come to an end, I was really liking this no-school thing. Oh well. I'm ready to rock this week and gain some momentum going into BYU. Hopefully by then I will still have a top 15 time in the 800 so I can run in the golden hour. It's going to be close.

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3 miles in the morning. In the afternoon we were supposed to do a workout with some 1000s, but due to the crazy winds, Coach decided today would be a good day for our 200s competition. Every year we do a 200s competition, and Coach gives us all splits to hit and we do as many as we can at that split or faster with a 200m recovery between each rep and a 3 minute drink break between each set of 8 reps. Me, Josh, Rex, and Ben all had 33s for our splits, but I think we hit 31s and 32s most of the time. Coach stopped us at 36 because we wouldn't quit and it was getting late, so now we get some prize or something. I was pretty happy because I was about to die anyways. 9 miles on the track for the workout, pretty insane!

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Super tight this morning from yesterdays workout! 5 miles easy in the afternoon, still pretty tight. I'm getting a massage tonight so hopefully that will help out. I rolled out and stretched last night so I think I could have felt a lot worse today but I'm glad I didn't. 

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 8.50
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3 in the morning. 6 miles out on the trails in the afternoon, ankle was hurting a little bit, but I felt pretty good from the massage yesterday.

Adidas Adios 2 Miles: 6.00Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 3.00
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Did the workout in the morning to avoid the afternoon winds. The workout didn't go to well for me, I was supposed do 6x400 @ 58-60 seconds and 2x300 @ 43 seconds, but my legs were unusually trashed for some reason. I just wasn't able to hit my times. We lucked out though because it was super windy in the afternoon. 4 miles easy.

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 9.50
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10 miles this morning with some of the guys that didn't go up to Richfield. We were going to go up to Pine Valley, but the weather up there looked pretty crappy, so we just ran on a trail out by the dam road. It was actually a pretty sweet trail, I'll have to go back out there sometime. It was pretty cold at the start but it warmed up quite a bit. We went out 5 miles on the trail, and on the way back we did a fartlek, 5:2 4:2 3:1 2:1 1:1. I felt pretty good, still hurting in my ankle a little bit though. Hopefully the rest over the rest of the weekend will help a little bit. Good workout and a good way to end the week.

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 10.00
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Good 3 miles this morning. I can't remember specifically what we were talking about, but I remember laughing a lot. Always good to start the day off running with some of your buds.

Early out at school so that was grand. The workout after school went pretty good. We did a 2 mile warm up, then I did 2x200 at :33 to sort of get the legs going, then 2x200 at :29 to get the pace down for the other splits. After that was a 600 at 1:27 (I was a couple seconds off on this one, 1:29-30), then a 400 at :58, a 300 at :43, and a 200 at :28, with 1 mile cool down. Pretty good workout today, and a good workout going into BYU this weekend. I feel good and I'm hoping for a fast time on Saturday.

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 8.50
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3 miles this morning. Before my run I checked the entries to BYU on runnercard and I had the 11th fastest time in the 800, which puts me in the golden hour I think. If I am, that is going to be a sweet race!

In the afternoon I did 6.5 miles easy with 8x100m barefoot strides on the turf. I'm super excited for this weekend and I hope that I will be able to get out and race well and be one step closer to Brigham's record. 

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 9.50
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Spectrum Wednesday in the morning. In the afternoon we did sort of a shorter workout but high intensity. 2.5 mile warm up, 2x400, 3x300, 1x200, 1 mile cool down. I felt good, I hit my times even with the little bit of wind so that was good. Ice bath afterwards and  I feel great. 

Saucony Kinvara 4 Miles: 9.25
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