GOING THE DISTANCE

Am-  4 miles.  My fibula is really bugging me, it's not getting better.

pm -  my fibula has bugged me alot all last week from banging it really hard on something.  so its been where i cant push off my left foot full force cause it hurts too much.  so I went into the trainer and he checked it out.  either a bruised bone or some damage to some tendons.  I really smacked it hard but i dont actually remember what happened its kinda weird.  Lucky for me though I'm a pretty good swimmer and will be able to keep my cardio up by doing some hard workouts in the pool for a couple days and see if it gets any better.  

One good thing though looking back on this school year is that this is the only injury I have had and its not running related, so my legs have gotten a lot stronger since last year.  And especially since freshman year.

Pm -  went over to the rec after school and swam.  I did 32 laps (about a mile) and threw in 8 50m sprints throughout.  Good workout.

Pm-  went over to the rec after school.  Planned on doing a mile swimming, but I had been going hardcore and strain muscles in my left forearm on lap 27.  It hurt to bad to even swim so I stopped.  Then I went up and did 12 mins on a bike, doing some hardcore intense intervals.

Am- went to the rec and rode the bike hardcore.  I did 35 minutes and my average heart rate was 165.  Last 5 I picked it up and last 2 minutes I turned the difficulty up super hard and just went ham, imagining a epic 3A 800m duel.

pm -  I ran 6 miles today.  While the team was doing their repeats, I picked it up a few time with them as they went by to do some fartleks.  Got in the weight room and lifted.

pm -  We drove in cars over to Chuckawalla trail head and did Chuckawalla trail.  That was pretty fun.  We were cruisin on the way back, and I love going fast on trails.  I think we did about 6 miles.

Pm -  Today our workout was an AT tempo on the track.  Me and Paul worked together great, switching off every lap and hitting consistent 5:35 pace for 15 minutes.  We do work when we run together good.  We ended up with 12.75 laps for the tempo, and I ended up with 7.25 miles on the day.  

Then we lifted.  I can feel my whole body getting stronger.  I'm where I can easily bench 135 pounds.

Pm -  today's workout was 10 200's at 1600m race pace.  So my times for these was a 33.75.  It was really hard for me to hit my times, I kept going like 2 seconds too fast cuz it was just so cheese.  So it was a nice easy workout.  6.5 miles total

Am -  2.5 miles in the morning.  I haven't ran in the morning for about 2 weeks so it was kinda nice.

Pm -  We did a pretty cool run that none of us boys had ever done before.  We went through Middleton, the by this ghetto trail park in the industrial area north of the freeway. We went through the desert, then came out near pioneer park right by the animal shelter.  The we went straight back to the school.  Doing a new route I've never done was dope.  We were all shirtless today and got lots of shouts and whistles today.  The loop was 8.25 miles.  We did 8 barefoot striders after.

Am -  This morning our school held a fundraiser 5k for a kid with some sort of disease.  So a few of us XC guys and girls went and ran it.  It was a pretty good race.  I split away from everybody a ways by the time we were at half a mile, so the rest was pretty hard to stay focused.  I will still able to run a 16:07 all alone so that was pretty good and i got my LT tempo done.  

After the race I went over to the grapevine trails and finished my run on church rocks loop.  It was pretty awesome; the weather was absolutely perfect.  There was literally not a cloud in the sky.  I ran 5.3 on the trail and got 10.3 total on the day.

Am -  Me and a few guys and coach went on a beast run in Werner Valley.  It was pretty dope as we smoothly ran through the lucious desert and did some extreme running.  We jumped off boulders and ran up dirt walls and some intense stuff.  Thats just the way it is.  10.5 miles for the run

Am -  I don't know why, but it was just a really rough morning with waking up and stuff.  So I went my own pace on 3.8 miles.

Pm -  I had a pretty great workout this afternoon.  We did some 1600m repeats, and these are always pretty tough because I do them alone for the most part.  But today Preston was beasting and he helped to push me a bit.  Times were 5:23, 5:20, 5:13, 5:08.  The second one I struggled a bit, so I pumped myself up on the recovery and threw down the next two fairly easily.  After, I ran some pretty speedy 300's.  I got high 37 and 41.  I want coach to put me in a 400 this season just to see kinda where I would be.  Props to The Warbeast again for pushing me to some good times.

Pm -  Did a lucious 6 miles run in the afternoon.  We ran to epic Dambergs Pond and back.  It was such a beast run, cept my legs felt like absolute garbaje.  I pushed my leg a bit too much yesterday and it ended up pretty sore today.  So I didn't run in the morning, just iced it with some cold ice. 

Got a 800m time trial tomorrow.  Me and Paul should be able to run together and go sub 2.  Swag.

Pm -  Today was our teams first time trial of the track season!  It was pretty dope.  We warmed up a bit then the 800m race was first.  I pretty much went straight to the front, with Paul right behind me.  We came through the fist 200 in about 28 seconds, so that was lucious.  So then I kept running.  I completed the first lap in 57 seconds and kept running, cept I tried to go faster right here on the 5th 100m section.  I think that's really the key is to serge right here.  Then I dunno, I just held on for the rest of it.  I pulled away from Paul by about 1/12 of a minute.  So yeah it was pretty good I would say, only my second time going sub 2, and this time I was basically running solo lobo.   Spoice, 1:59.38 was my official time.

Am -  I ran 2.5 miles on the ground today.  Also the air that I ran through was cold and uncomfortable.  Also shout out to my left leg for being sore.

Pm -  Just an easy seis miles around sandberg's pond in the desert.  We ran through the mating grounds of Marlar, wow that was so sketchy.  Especially being a male human.  But yeah good run.  I didn't do our striders because of my previously shouted out sore foot.  I got my .5 mar tomorrow, that should be fun.  I'm going for a 1:05.

Am -  Good day today.  Me and like 10 boys and girls from our team ran the half marathon.  The race started out at a good pace.  I just felt like good.  I was in 3rd place and just chillin.  Aaron Melter totally dominated the race, I couldn't see him after 3 miles.  But I was just chillin with this guy Walter for a long ways.  Then my beast teammate The Warbeast and some other caugh up to us at about mile 9.  Coach Holt ran with us from mile ten to eleven and helped us gap those 2 guys a bit.  Mile 11 was Majestic which was insanely hard.  Preston gapped me and also a guy past me.  But then it was downhill the last mile and so I passed the guy to get into 3rd.  Preston was not far in front of me and I knew that if I got second I would get 200 bucks instead of 100.  So I passed him with a half mile to go and gapped him by 14 seconds.  Pretty fun, intense race.

When we were cooling down with coach after, he told me and Preston that we couldn't accept our cash prizes because it would make us ineligible for high school track I guess.  So yeah, I'm major butthurt about that.  It really sucks.  I get to keep the giant fake check though, so I'm gonna hang that on the wall.

Am -  My legs were tired and sore from the half marathon on Saturday.  So it was just a chill, easy run.  In a nice snow storm too, that was pretty crazy.  3.8 miles

Pm -  I wasn't doin to hot this after noon.  My left plantar is pretty sore, I think I strained it in the half.  So we just did like 5 miles on the track today.  Also we did some events for our track teams decathlon, which we have to see what people are good at.  In the 400 I ran 55.83.  That was a pretty thug time for the conditions.  Also I threw the shotput a beastly 26 feet and 11 inches.  5 miles

Something that raised hell today:  when I walked through the slush from my friends house to the school 4 miles away and froze my toes.

Pm -  Today we did about 7 miles overall.  We started out with a nice loop, with the highlight being as we passed fantastic Deseret Industries.  The we hit up a few more luscious miles on our track, The Ringworm.  My left arch was still feeling pretty sore, not too good.

As the epic decathlon of Pine View High School continued today, we did the 300m hurdles and the javelin.  In the 300m hurdles, I threw down a solid 44.62.  I felt like a majestic red tailed hawk gliding over the hurdles.  I definately could have gone faster, but i mainly wanted to have good form and not fall.  In the javelin, I threw a decent 101 feet and 10 inches, despite my form not being great and my footwork being garbaje.  

Something that raised hell today:  when we were running around The Ringworm, I came down on my left foot and an excruciating pain shot through my left plantar for a split second.

Am -  Rough morning run.  My foot hurt and my legs still feel trashed from the half last Saturday.  Only 2.4 miles

Pm -  I felt a lot better in the afternoon, actually pretty good.  Our school decathlon is still going on this whole week, so just in between events we ran laps on the track.  I got 5.3 miles total.  

In the 110m hurdles today, my performance was adequate.  I ran a time of 17.89 seconds. In the 200m, again just another adequate performance with a meager time of 24.19 seconds.  The high jump was going pretty good until some MAJOR NOOB broke the stinking bar!  That happened last year in the decathlon when jake aka somethingdope landed on the bar and broke it.  Me and two other guys had cleared 5 foot so we will finish that tomorrow.  

Also after all that I lifted and got swoll.

Something that raised hell today:  that was definately when Nicole, our fastest senior girl, got beat in the 200m dash by a 6th grade girl, Alli Baker.   WOW.

Pm -  Today was pretty stellar.  Practice today was just like some easy miles with some hill repeats.  That was all pretty cheese stuff and my legs and feet felt bueno, so life is just good right now. 5 miles.

In the delicious decathlon, the events of the day were the 100m dash, long jump, and discus throw.  I really sucked it up in the discus; i threw a weak 80 feet and 3 inches.  Last year I got like 98 feet.  Whatever.  The 100m dash was pretty solid as I barely edged out Paul in my heat with a 12.49 second time.  In the long jumped I soared a fine 17 feet and 4 inches.  

Something that raised hell today:  when our sub in Spanish, Mr. Harrison said the S word.  I had no idea he had that in him. 

Am -  Hard morning run.  My legs felt like garbage.  3.8 miles

Pm -  We did our second Kosmin test of the season today.  2 miles warm up, then we did it.  I got 821 meters for the 2 minute version.  I think that is pretty close to how much I got about 6 weeks ago.  But I feel it was pretty good for my legs feeling so tired and flat.  Then added more mileage for 4.5 miles.

Something that raised hell today: when Alli Baker, 6th grade girl, got farther in the Kosmin than all our high school girls.  We have some insanely fast young girls.

Pm -  Quite the run this afternoon.  Me, Alex, and my dad did a trail called the Sand Hill trail.  It goes over this freaking huge mountain of sand that is like a mile to the top, idk.  I started out feeling totally garbage on this run.  The first 30 minutes, my legs were just like burning and I had to take some breaks.  It sucked.  Then like 45 minutes in, going up the sand hill, I finally felt decent.  After getting off the sand hill, I started a 20 minute tempo to finish up my 80 minutes today.  It was alright; part of it was on soft dirt, some on road, and finally up a long hill to my house.  So the paces for the supposed to be AT - LT progression were off, but the effort was right on.  It was flammin hard and my mental game was strong.  This run ended up to be alright.

Something that raised hell today:  Our boys basketball team won state today!  It was a beast game to watch and they beat Dixie 46-43.  It really got me thinking about how much I wanna be a state champ, and how real it is that I could win state in track and XC this year.