The Mongoose

Two-a-days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday this week. Had a pretty tough workout today. 1.5 easy miles to Webb Hill where we did 8x1:00 hill runs, and an easy 1.5 back. When we got back we did 6x100m striders. Overall I had a pretty good workout although I did start to cramp up on the way back from Webb Hill. Easy 3 miles later today.

AM Total: 7 miles

PM Total: 3 miles

Took fourth in the Bloomington 4th of July 5k. It was a little longer than 3.1 miles but it was a good opportunity for me to finally participate in a 5k race. Ran later in the evening with Brigham and did an easy 3 miles to get some extra miles in. Happy 4th of July!

Ran from the high school over a little past Little Valley for 6 miles and did 6x100m barefoot striders. Then ran 3 miles in the afternoon for two-a-days.

Great run over in Bloomington again today, ran 6 with some of the team on a fun trail by Navajo Dr.

Ran 6 with the team over to Jake Powell's house, took the last week off for scout camp (bad mistake) so I didn't do very well today. Going to do the Chelsi Run later today. I've already run 1 5k this summer so I'm excited to see how I will do.

Just got back from the Chelsi Run. I had a pretty good race and finished with 18:48, by far my best time this summer. I took fourth behind three other Desert Hills XC runners so we all had really good races.

Did 4.5 over to Hidden Valley Park where we did 4x2:00 at race pace then ran back to the high school to do 6x100m striders. Had youth running camp again today so I did a little running with them too. I felt alright this morning but was pretty sore from last nights race. Got home and took an ice bath so I'll be ready for today's afternoon workout. Just doing an easy 3.

Today was our first day of team camp. We got to Brian Head in the morning and ran 7 miles. It was a pretty tough first day of running at the high altitude, there was some pretty steep uphills and downhills. Later we ran 3 miles which was pretty much all downhill. Before we went to bed we got to hear from Andy Powell and the great John Powell about preventing injuries and setting goals. It was a good first day of camp.

For our second day of camp, we were shuttled down to Panguitch Lake where we ran 6 miles and got to stand in the water for a little bit afterwards. I felt really well until the last about half mile when we started to go uphill. For our afternoon run, we all did a four-team relay. We each ran 3 times for about half a mile. The team that I was on, which we called "The Dream Team" took first with a little extra help from our captain Brigham. Later that night we had a team talent show. It wasn't really a competition, but if it was, Brigham and I would've won. After that, we watched "Prefontaine." It was a great movie and made me want to go out and just run! Today was a really fun day of camp and I started to feel a lot better at the high altitude.

Today was our last day of camp. We got up early in the morning to go out and do our run of a little over 6 miles. We took a few wrong turns but we got back on the right trail and had a really good run. I don't know if it was the movie that we watched last night but I was really pumped to go out and run this morning. I felt great, the high altitude hardly bothered me at all. We did have to run up this insane hill though, but other than that, the run was great. After that we packed up and went home. I had an awesome time up at camp this year and I can't wait until next year! I'm getting really excited for our first race to see what I'll be able to do.

Today we did 7 miles over by the Dixie center. It was really hot and humid this morning, a lot different than the past few days at Brian Head, but I still felt pretty good.

Today was the first day of BYU XC/Distance Running camp. We did a 2.25 mile threshold run to put us into groups based on our speed. I did a 1 mile warm up and cool down to get to a total of 4.25 miles.

For our morning run at camp today, we did 5 miles by the Provo River trail. I did a 3 mile optional run in the afternoon by the Canyon Glen Amphitheatre. For our evening run we did a fartlek at Kiwanis Park. Our fartlek was 4 minutes hard, 4 minutes easy, 3 minutes hard, and so on. The mileage for the fartlek turned out to be about 2.5 miles. 

For our morning run today we ran 4 under the Y. In the afternoon we ran another 4 on the Stewart Falls trail. 

Today was our last day of camp. We had a small track/xc meet. I ran the 2 mile xc course race with a time of 10:47. After that I did my evening run with Darian and did 7 by my uncle's house.

Did an easy 4 this morning again with Darian through my uncle's neighborhood.

First 8 mile run for me this morning. Some of the other guys on the team were pushing the pace a little bit but I decided that I would stay at an easy pace. My pace at the end was about 7:15 while the guys ahead of me was a few seconds faster. Over all it was a pretty good run. I enjoyed the fairly cool weather. 3 miles later today for two-a-days.

Today we did a ladder workout in the grass at the Bloomington Hills park. 8 miles total (3 mile warm up, 1:1, 2:2, 3:3, 3:3, 2:2, 1:1, 2 mile cool down to get mileage.) 3 miles easy in the afternoon.