Rob Murphy

AM: Took the dog to the park so he could run some intervals. Walked around the neighborhood with Andy so he could hunt aluminum cans. Watched talking heads on TV drone on about the election. Ate blueberry pancakes that Abby made that were done perfectly on the outside but filled with runny batter on the inside. Vacuumed the house. Read my new favorite website/blog - www.grantland.com. Contemplated whether or not the Ute's move to the Pac 12 was a wise move or not. Cleaned up Abby's pancake mess because she's great at cooking but not so much into cleaning up. Took the kids to church.

PM: Niner around SHP in 68 minutes. Pretty warm and muggy. Came to a decision about my running for the rest of the year. 

Didn't run today but I did give my "Three CrisesThat Led To The American Revolution" lecture three times which gets my heart rate up pretty high. That's four hours of lecturing.

Blasted Redcoats! 

Four miles on the elliptical plus 30 minutes of weights and core exercises.

Two mile walk around Sandy while my boys ran in the early AM.

Skipped the evening workout in favor of swim practice, violin lessons, and TCBY with Jake, Andrea, and LuLu. 

This is a race report for Andy Murphy - dominator of all 1st grade runners.

Today I ran the Jog-A-Thon at my school. We were supposed to be running for 20 minutes and my dad set a goal for me to run 2 miles even though I just turned 7 this week. I ran a lot because my dad wouldn't let me walk very much like all the other kids even though my face was really red and I was super tired. Then they made us stop at 19 minutes which made my dad cranky because his Garmin said 1.83 miles and he was planning on making me sprint for the last minute to see if I could get 2 miles. I think he was going to file a formal protest with the principal but my mom convinced him not to.

My 1 mile split was 10:07 and my dad told me that I would have to pick it up some and that I wouldn't be able to swerve out of my way to high five my mom at the end of each lap because it was costing me time and making me run farther. 

Still, I think my 13 laps around the playground was the most from the first grade and I crushed all the kindergarten kids. 

PM: A brisk three mile walk. Stopped at Great Harvest for a loaf of bread along the way.

I really liked the free water bottle with my name on it that I got and the snacks that they gave us when we finished. 

I took my team up to the Park City Invitational today. This meet keeps getting bigger every year with 28 teams this year. They have a tough, hilly, three mile course and usually lots of good competition. The main reason we chose this meet and not Westlake was because Kramer and I wanted him to race Ben Saarel from Park City who is currently ranked in the top 25 nationally. We just assumed Ben, from Park City, would be running the Park City Invitational. Racing Ben has been Kramer's obsession all week and we liked his chances so we were really bummed to learn that Ben was on a college visit to the University of Colorado.

Chuck Mitchell from Herriman gave Kramer a great race though and Kramer at least had the satisfaction of crushing Ben's course record with an awesome 15:08. The old CR was 15:21.

Alta Times:

Kramer Morton - 15:08

Conner Anderson - 16:39

Jacob Crosby - 16:44

Pasha Gledhill - 16:59

Blake Bennion - 17:05

Brad Biggs - 17:16

Davis Mcdermott - 17:23

These are good times for this course and the 6000 foot altitude. Normally they would be good for a lot better than 6th place overall but such are the crazy heights XC running in Utah has reached. Still, I'm thrilled with Kramer's 4th straight win. I don't like the 1:30 gap between my#1 and #2 runner. Need to get that down to about a minute.

The Sugarhouse Park CR for state is 14:54 set by Luke Puskedra in 2007. Kramer is going to go for it on October 17th.

Gave myself two miles for my running around the course. 

AM: Walked to Sugarhouse Park and back for cross country practice. Had the boys run the state course plus a few extra miles

Went to the gym after and lifted weights plus some stair mastering.

PM: Three mile walk in 51 minutes.