The Mongoose

3 miles in the morning, felt fine. Workout in the afternoon didn't go so well, but there's no use in really reporting that. It was a good motivator workout though, and I realized that I need to be doing the little things outside of practice in order to be able to hammer the workouts. Also, I got my ACT score in the mail today. I didn't do as well as I wanted, but I'm not too bummed out because I didn't really study at all. I know that I can do a lot better if I just get the chance to study, but that's the hardest part: finding the time to study for the ACT when I'm not doing other homework or running or working. Sometimes I think I might just have a little too much on my plate. 

3 miles in the morning, pretty much the same old same old. Something funny probably happened but I can't remember it. It's too early at that time for me to remember anything.

Before afternoon practice we had a team meeting about uniforms rules and stuff. There are some pretty stingey rules when it comes to team relays and stuff like that! Anyways, after that we did 7 miles on the Arizona strip, pretty hot today. Tough workout tomorrow so I made sure to drink plenty of water after practice and rolled out so I can kill it tomorrow.

3 miles to the spectrum...yep.

Super windy and rainy in the afternoon! But no lightning so we were still out running. I was going to have a fast 800 workout today but Coach had me run with the 3200 guys and we did 12x400s. We didn't really have times to hit with the rain/wind and all, so we just based it off of effort. Ben, Josh, Rex, and I worked out a pretty good rotation so each of us would lead an equal amout of times. Good workout, much better than Monday, and always fun to run in the rain!

Tres millas en la mañana a Hidden Valley. 

3 mile Kenyan run in the afternoon, felt long today for some reason. 4x200m finishes afterwards. Ready to do some fast stuff tomorrow.

3 miles in the morning to the bridge. Josh and John started about 30 seconds after us and pretty much stayed that distance for the entire 3 miles. Pretty funny because Ben totally called that they wouldn't catch up to us, even though we were going like 9 minute pace.

Raced the 1600 at Pine View in the afternoon. Josh, Ben, and I jammed out to some 95.9 on the way over so that was pretty fun. When we got there we found out that we weren't in the fast heat, so we were pretty bummed. But we found out that we were still in the next fastest heat with a lot of good 3A runners, so we were pretty pumped again. Warmed up 2 miles and got down just in time to get our spikes on and do a few strides. I was lined up the closest to the inside on the second stagger, I really like that waterfall stagger! Anyways, I got out good and ran a good first lap, but let Byron and Garret gain to much space on me in the second lap. I need to stop doing that, and start being more aggressive with holding my position. I think I let too many people just cut in front of me, and they just slowed me down. I finished hard and took 4th in my heat. After I went through the finish chute and gave them my sticker I looked up at the clock (which was still going) and it was at 4:33! I was way surprised because I didn't think I would have a fast time, and felt like I still had too much left in the tank. My official time was 4:26.84 which was an awesome PR for me, almost 7 seconds! Hopefully I can carry some of that momentum into the 800 tomorrow and have another good race. Cooled down 2 miles afterwards with the team and some of the guys from Hurricane, what a cool bunch of runners!   

Got up around 8 to go watch the 3200 guys. Pretty sweet race, they all koala-fied! Well after that I just sat around for awhile until they called the boys 800 to the bullpen. I made it into he seeded race today so that was good. I warmed up 2 miles and got my spikes to go down on the field. They did the stagger start again so that was awesome. I got out really good in my lane but when I cut in I couldn't really get to lane 1 and I pretty much stayed in lanes 2-3 for the first lap and the backstretch on the second lap. I finished strong, but I think I could've run a whole second faster if I was able to get better position. Also I still need to be more aggressive with my position. Cooled down 3 miles and then did stuff for preference for the rest of the day. Between the dance and the meet, I'd say it was a pretty good weekend.