This is for you, Coach

am- 4x1000's with harts warm/cool. Hit 3:49, :51, :52, :50. Felt super good and it was such lovely weather too! Felt like i controlled my breathing a lot better. Weights after.. and i keep finding random ants coming out of my key board... anyways. filled up on gas, little chit chat with the gasoline lady, felt super happy cause i got a smile out of her, drove home and there was a hot air balloon in front of mi casa so i took my dog on a walk to go see it and help him get over his fears but he's a wimp. he wouldn't even look at it! little baby. then on the way back we spotted a dog and on cue we both booked it.. just an instinct of ours cause we hate other dogs. Thrilling to get chased by another dog but made it back safely and now it's breakfast! woooo! Today is going to be GREAT! 

pm- 3 miles with striders before lunch time. Took my dog so i could have somewhat of a companion and it'd be great exercise for him but half way i knew i should've left him because he was so captivated by the ugly cows but i dragged him on and on until we got to the grass field where i was going to do my striders. I tied him up to a shady spot and he was dead. Did striders, resurrected my dead dog and ran home! Got some weird looks cause i kept coaching my dog to keep up, and he actually did for the last 400 m! stretched and ate. still a lovely day!

drove 12 hours today and now we're in Albaquerkie..New Mexico! I can say that i'm not moving here.. it's pretty desolate populated with some creepy peeps. But every time we got out of the car (not enough) i just ran around and did some lounges and jumps.. The weather is amazing here though! When we got to the hotel, all i wanted to do was go running and i almost convinced my dad until we drove down the strip and i decided that i'm not running here... they don't have a weight room so i did a core work out instead. Tomorrow when i get to Oklahoma, hopefully the military guys will let me run around base camp! maybe they'll let me do there obstacle courses! just kidding.. i would die. But today was pretty fun, I was in 4 places at once with my soon to be seester-in-law! She's our surprise that we brought with us :) I'm pretty excited to see Kenny's reaction when he see's his soon to be wifey! Anyways, tomorrows another 6-8 hour drive to Lawton, Oklahoma and i'm going to try harder to run whenever and where ever we can! Oh!!! And my daddy got pulled over for going 20 over today, it was quite hilarious! But the officer was nice and didn't give us a huge ticket because we told him that we're going to my brothers graduation from basic. That's twice this month I've been in a car that's been pulled over by the poe poe.

am- every stop i ran around the 'welcome to..' sign or the gas station. One gas station i ran around it like 50 times cause we stayed there forever! But attempted some speed workouts on the little inclines of Texas. (ha. texas doesn't have that many)

pm- BUT! in Oklahoma they do have many hills! The freeway we drove on was just a rollarcoaster. My parents almost just dropped me off but it was too desolate that who knows what could've happened.. some cougar jumping out of the shrubs maybe. Anyways, luckily our hotel is equipped with the hottest weight room in history. Ran 2 miles with half mile of incline on the lovely tredmills.. and sweat like an old man. Nasty nasty nasty. Made up an ab work out of planks and crunches and our core exercises. There were two guys my age that had no idea what they were doing. They were funny to watch but anyways, Oklahoma has beautiful weather if anyone was wanting to come here! 

Saw PFC Hart today and spent lunch and dinner with him and his buddy PFC Jackson. So different from our nice town of st. george.. Base camp was nice and military like. They told me how much it really sucks but i guess they secretly love it cause why else would they have stayed for those 9 weeks! when we got back from lunch we decided to go back to the hotel and so while everybody napped (and i really really wanted too) i ran down to the hot savanna of a weight room and ran one mile on the tredmill and did a core work out of planks and sit up things then ran on the other tredmill looking thing (because some lady stole the normal one) and amped up the hill to max and ran that for a mile and golly.. i have never sweated so much! It was disgusting. But did another set of core and then on the way back to the room i did sprints down the hall.. hopefully nobody minded.