El Burro Blanco

I slept in this morning and decided to do my run this afternoon.  I ran again with the cross country team.  We started out at a 7:30/mile pace and then went just over a mile at 5K race pace.  I took the top runner with me and pushed the mile at a 5:26/mile pace.  The wind was blowing pretty hard so it was a nice push.  We finished up the run by doing a total of 6.40 miles.  I went home and then did a few more miles.  I warmed up for just over half a mile and then did 3 miles at 5:18/mile pace.  Last major push before St. George.  I just had to get it out of my system.

5 miles in the morning.

5.15 miles in the afternoon. 

I did an easy 5 mile run this morning. I didn't need to worry about the pace.  I went and did another 5.15 miles with the cross country team.  We didn't push too hard since we have a meet tomorrow.  Weber High will be their for sure but we will have to see who else will be there.  I am enjoying running with the team and helping them out.  It is a lot of fun.

The cross country meet went well today.  It was here at Fremont and we represented well.  It was an open region meet and the only school not to come was Davis.  The girls took 1st and the boys took 2nd.  It was nice to see this today with region coming up next week.  I helped get everything cleaned up and then came home to run an easy 5 miles.  Just want to keep the legs loose.  Nothing to exciting to report.

I woke up feeling great but decided to just do another easy 3 miles.  I have a long drive ahead of me tonight going too St. George.  It will be nice leaving this afternoon so I can have all day tomorrow to just relax.  I might have to watch Prefontaine or Rocky to get me pumped up.  I am already pretty much pumped up though!

I had the race of my life today.  It is still surreal with what time I got.  I am stoked to have gotten a qualifying time.  I feel extremely lucky to have gotten the time I got.  I think it is a little unfair because others I feel were more deserving of a OTQ.  I truly have been blessed so far during time running career.  My GPS got messed up for the last few miles of the race but here are the splits up to that point:

1-5:27

2-5:33

3-5:20

4-5:21

5-5:24

6-5:16

7-5:21

8-6:01 - got to love Veyo hill baby!

9-5:52

10-5:42

11-5:53

12-5:37

13-5:30

14-5:25

15-5:12

16-5:19

17-5:13

18-5:07

19-5:20

20-5:10

21-5:04

22-5:30

23-5:15

I hit the first at about 1:12:52 and then hit the second at 1:09 something.  I am too tired to do the math but that is alright.  The watch was messed up for the rest of the race but that is okay.  I knew I would be close to a qualifying time once I got into St. George.  I saw Mike Vick and caught up with him and decided to push it in from there.  I saw the finish line and it showed 2:21:30 and I knew I had to really get the horses moving.  I crossed the line and was smiling and crying.  I couldn't believe it actually happened.  Today has been one of the best days of my life.  Dreams do come true if you truly put your mind to it.  Congrats to all the other bloggers.  Many PR's were set and fast times were achieved.