GOING THE DISTANCE

Am -  Easy recently very run 3.8 miles.

Pm -  Solid race today!  I PR'd by .6 of a second.  I got at good warmup in, a little over 2 miles.  Got changed into my Saucony spikes which I really like, did a few strides and got to the start line.  Luckily Garek made it barely.  The start was kinda bad, a bunch of guys cut in way quick and formed and packed and just totally chilled.  We went through 200m in like 35 it was ridiculous.  I got out on the curve to go chase Eric Lambert and Jaiden Melendrez who got out good, also Garek came around me to get up to them.  Next lap I tried to stay with Garek, then 3rd lap he and Jaiden got away from me a bit.  With 500m to go I felt a surge of adrenaline and started going a bit here.  Going into the last lap, I saw that I was in 4th and though, I gotta go get that medal.  Passed Lambert with 300 to go, and came up and passed Jaiden on the final turn.  Kicked in as hard as I could and got 2nd.  I'm happy with it after a 1:09 first lap and 2:15 for 800m.  I'll get below 4:20 in a good fast race.

Did like 7 miles with Dallen up to Coach Holt's house and back.

Am -  Ran 3 miles with our 3200m crew before the meet started.  I wanted to run more, but was super busy giving out medals all day.

Pm -  Went out with my dad around 4 and ran Mustang Pass.  It was fun.  Feeling ok after this week, a little sore from the race.

Am -  walk up to the guys in the morning and what do you know, there's Connor Arnell, what a surprise.  Good to have him with us for the classics Starbucks morning run. Nice 4 miles.

Pm -  Introduced some speed today.  Did 10 minutes of warm up then got going.  Started off with a rep at 800m goal pace (1:52) up to 600m.  I got 400m in 57 so I stopped there.  Unfortunately I felt pretty flat today.  Then 3 400's at mile pace (1:06.25), I got 65, 66.1, 67.2.  3 minutes rest then 2 400's at 800m pace (1:56), I got 62 and 65.  Just really feeling tired and not fast.  Recover another 3 minutes and just did what I could on the last 2 which were supposed to be goal 800m pace.  I went 65, then was able to relax and run a 62 which was good for the moment.  My body's not used to speed it's been 10 months.  Cooled to 6 miles.

Gonna go get me some shades.  The light has been killing me lately, I can barely open my eyes after workouts cuz their so sensitive.  

Am -  Easy 4 to Starbucks.  Right soleus tight and bugging me.

Pm -  Sunrise hills, always a solid run!  8x20secs hard, with 10 seconds rest, break going back down between rep 4&5.  Legs felt way tired and flat running over to the hill, but I felt OK doing the reps.  Led everybody after Paul kinda disappeared.  Went back to high school to run the kid track meet.  6 miles total.

Am -  3.8 miles easy.  Kinda mad at Alex cause he never care about going to sleep and we share a room so I'm way tired.  Kinda feel sorry for him though, he's not in our 4x800 on Friday and I think he should be.

Pm -  Started off with yoga which is something.  After that ran 3.9 easy then 4x 200m accels.  Feeling tired and worn out, need some good sleep tonight.  4.9 total.

Am -  Easy 3.7 in the morning.  But no, they are never easy.

Pm -  Had a busy day today.  Therapy sesh at 11, bowling tourney at 1, Sterling Scholar interview at 3.  Got to the meet at DH at like 4.  Was supposed to do the 4x1600m at 4:45 ended being more like 5.  It was our 4x800 team, just did a chill mile each, I ran 5:20.  Ready for a beast 800m tomorrow, first of the season.

Gonna take tomorrow morning off, right calf has been so tight, starting to really bug.  Done everything, it just needs some rest.

No run this morning, my body needed the rest it felt waaaay good.  

Pm -  Headed over to DH around 5, warmed up at 5:30.  Like the 4x1600m yesterday, the only team in the 4x800m was us, and our girls.  The goal was to take down our insane (sarcastic tone) school record of 8:20 from I think 1999.  Some how all the great runners who went through Pine View the last 7 or so years could never beat it.  Warmed up 2 miles, got spikes on, did a few strides, then I ran the last leg.  Felt tired and flat, but I ended up splitting about a high 1:56.  HUGE positive if I can run that and not have it feel fast.  We ended up with a 8:13, a school record.  Honestly I believe our guys in 2 years can beat they, but ya never know.  Cooled down to 7 miles.

Am -  Got up at 9am and ran.  Me, Alex, and padre drove up the road to mill creek trail head.  We ran 5 miles up into Washington Hallow.  It was super sick, going up into that wash, into the sandstone mountains below Pine Valley.  They're so much bigger than they look from my house.

Am -  3.4 easy run.  Right hamstring feeling weird and crappy, so I took it pretty slow.

Pm -  Had a PT appointment before practice and that helped a fair amount.  Warmed up 10 minutes then the workout I did was 2 800s and 4 600s at mile race pace.  Recover to 120 bpm.  It was supposed to be 6 800s, but I was not even close to getting the time 2:12. It frustrated me but Paul helped me chill and I had 4 solid 600s.  My legs felt super tired, idk why but who cares, we're right in the thick of the season.  Cooled down to 7.6 miles so I could have 11 for the day.  

Lifted weights after.

Am -  Easy 4, it actually felt pretty good.

Pm -  Nice recovery day today with an easy 3.7 miles in the afternoon.  Ran through some parking lots and desert exspances and lucious parks.  After that, did a seshun of yoga in Holt's classroom.  We always do the same beast routine if you would like to do it, it is Yoga for Runners Injury Prevention with Fiji McAlpine.

Am -  Starbucks morning run 3.8 miles.  Felt a bit tired.

Pm -  2 miles of warm up, then Coe workout.  Second real speed workout of the season and it was tough.  It makes it hard when your 400 is 52.  After that did 5 little 10 second hill sprints.  Then after than me and Paul did some handoff practice for the medley at DH on Friday.  Cooled down to 5.8 and then lifted weights.  Overall I'm feeling decent.  

Am -  3.6 miles and I went slow cuz I was just tired and sore man, tired and sore.

Pm -  Had a therapy appointment right after school so I missed practice.  Those treatments are really helping my hamstring stay alive.  Got home and ran 5 miles, and I did four 200m pick ups at the end.  When I was running up the street, some guy yelled to me "keep running Bruce Jenner, you'll get the medal!" which didn't really make sense since he already won a gold medal.  Hopefully I reminded him of a beast decathlete and not a weirdo transgender dude.

Am -  3.8 in the morning, right hip flexor still feeling a bit crappy.  Found out that the medley is tomorrow so that's weird and stupid.  I was really looking forward to having nothing on Saturday.

Pm -  8.4 miles total in the afternoon.  I ran the 1600m today at DH Invite.  Warmed up 2 miles on a cool loop I invented last year, then another mile on the track before the girls seeded.  Got my spikes on and did like 4 strides then raced/tempoed.  Man I sucked, I just didn't race.  Got out in a solid 1:06 but after that idk I just didn't race at al, I ran.  I'm racking up in my mind as a nice touch up tempo for the medley tomorrow to get the negative feels out of my karma.  After that I ran the cool loop but added on to the golf course to get my miles for the day.  Honestly probably could have felt a bit better with 5 miles of warm up, I felt good after 8 miles on the day.

Am -  Got to the track around 8 so had a long time to chill till the medley relay.  I started my miles with the 800m guys on their warmup.  Ran 2 miles with them, then kept running around till 6 miles.  Getting closer to my race I jogged forever under the bleachers in the shade and got another mile.  Went out to the field, put my spikes on and did a few strides.  Felt decent, a bit tired but good.  My teammates did great and Paul gave me a great handoff into first place.  Two guys hung with me for 500 meters then I got far I head of them.  Solid run for me… then the drama began.

Snow Canyon coach was attempting to get us DQ'd for a long time and a bunch of bull crap.  Paul did take a few steps off, after he got pushed off the track. I was cooling down on the field forever to get my 10 miles in, just waiting for them do medley awards.  Our team was pumped cuz we are pretty sure we broke the school record.  They call it, and what do you know, they give Snow Canyon the first place medals.  I was so pissed wow.  Went out far for a second and chilled.  Turns out nobody who had authority ever DQ'd us so we won!  Shout out to Coach Holt for fighting for us.  Should be fun asking SC coach for our medals back at Dixie next week.  He walked off that field so smug, smh.

Shout out to Eugene, finally met him he's a cool dude.

Am -  Ok morning run today.  I felt good, but it was really cold.

Pm -  Such a rad, intense, speed workout today.  Did 10 minutes of warm up, then got into 400's of death.  Started with a rep at goal 800m pace (1:52) as long as I could up to 600m.  Came through at 57 and just dug till I lost the smoothness at like 475m.

Full recovery then three reps at 1600m pace (4:25), two mins jog between.  Times were 66, 65, 66.  Felt pretty relaxed on those, getting a bit tired on the last.  Had a head wind on the back stretch the whole workout.

Four minutes jog then two reps at 800m pace (1:56). Went 58, then I was so tired on the next one I kinda sucked with a 68.

Chilled for five minutes then went for another good rep, got 60.  Took five more minutes rest to get another good push, ran 59.  Had a hardcore headache for about 20 mins after but Alex got me some Ibuprofen and I was able to cool down to 6.8 total.

Overall a nice improvement from the same workout two weeks ago.  

Am -  Nice run this morning.  My legs felt much better than I thought they would.  A bit cold though.  4 miles.

Pm -  Easy 4 miler in the afternoon, then five little hill sprints after.  Someone stole my Pine View basketball cutoff while we are running, that is very sad.  

Did a lucious seshun of yoga with Mitch and Andrew after the run.

Am -  Easy 4 miles.  Tired.  Feeling the grind rn man.  Peg 30's may have to be retired this week when my K6's come.  They're feeling dead.

Pm -  Tempo this afternoon.  Did 2 mile warm up.  Then started 15 minutes at 5:20 goal pace.  It really wasn't too bad, I didn't really strain at all.  1st mile felt easy, 2nd mile my legs got a bit tired, 3rd mile was a bit hard but not bad.  Wore some shades today and it really helped to relax and not strain my eyes. 

Two 300's after.  I was pretty tired so only went 41 and 40.  Cooled down to 7 miles, then lifted weights for a few minutes after.  

Am -  Easy 4 miles. 

Pm -  Long run this afternoon with Paul and Julien.  Skylar and Jason ran with us for 3 miles then they didn't.  We ran all over a bunch of random places towards the dump, Hell Hole, Coral Canyon, and Highland Park.  It was fairly sucky and windy.  Ended up with a bunch of salt caked on my face.  Hard run and long day but hard things make champions so it's all good.  10.6 miles.

Am -  Quite a beast run this morning.  We saw some deer 1.5 miles in.  I stopped to stretch and was observing one.  It lept over the cement barrier guarding I-15 and it jumped over it and tried to cross.  The freeway is elevated so I didn't see it, but like 10 seconds later I heard a way loud thud and a crunch of metal.  So yeah that deer got wrecked, happy earth day to him.  Finished off running east back to the high school and observed a freakin beautiful sunrise.  3.8 miles overall.

Pm -  Drove to Dixie High after school to watch our milers race and do my run.  It was incredibly windy so they didn't run fast, but they ran alright.  Did 4 miles after that with some 200m strides.  Would have hung around at the meet but the wind just sucked so bad.  I got the 800m and 4x400m tomorrow.  5 miles overall.

Am -  Got to the meet at 8 chilled for a long time and watched our 2 mile crew.  My boy Julien did awesome, 10:11 and he's a freshman.  So proud.  After the 4x100m me, Paul, Skylar, and Alex went warming up.  We just ran around Saint George right in the middle of it.  I got about 4.5 mile then some strides before my race.

Race started out good speed, except we came through at 200 in 28 and it felt way to fast for a 28.  Usually I'm feeling great with 400 to go, ready to beast but man I had nothing today.  I felt pretty flat and just tried to hang on the last lap and qualify, which I did so that's good.  I had a good hard week of training so I ain't worried, it was good to get my first open 800m out of the way.

Jogged around for a while cuz I was anchoring our 4x400m team of me, Paul, Skylar, and Kawika.  It was such a beast race.  Kawika started out good enough we were in like 5th.  Skylar ran and another good leg and bumped us up to 4th.  Paul also came in clutch and got us into 3rd.  Our handoff was clutch and I was in 2nd chasing D-hells with Ike and a cedar dude right behind me.  I was gaining hard and I was thinking, "ooh baby I can win it for us."  Going onto the final straight Ike passed me and we caught d hills and we were all going ham.  Cedar came on me with like 10 meters left.  And bam, they ended up getting 3rd in front of us by .01 so yeah that sucked I wanted a medal.  But we qualified for state and I split a 50, possibly 49 so I'm very happy about that.

8.5 total for the day.

Am -  Easy run this morning.  Felt really good. 3.9 miles in my K2s.

Pm -  Speed seshun after school.  3 miles of warm up then 6x300m at 800m pace.  2 mins of jog in between each.  It was good, I wore my new Kinvara 6's and they felt awesome.  I got great grip on the track and they were super light.

Times were 45, 44, 43, 44, 43, 43.    Last two got hard, definitely got some lactic acid flowing in the legs.  Had nice, cool and cloudy weather for this so that was awesome.  Cooled down to 8 miles on the afternoon then lifted weights.

Am -  Easy run, 3.8 miles.

Pm -  Did a seshun of yoga before another 3.8 easy.  Felt really sore and tight.

      I found "preliminary plans" to the new high school that's being built just south of treasure valley park.  I find blueprints and that stuff really interesting.  I just hope they have a good track, cause I really appreciate a good track.  Here's a link to it https://www.washk12.org/images/additional/Crimson_High_School__Middle_School_Preliminary_Site_Plan_20160411.pdf#view=fitH 

Am -  Did our workout in the morning today.  Coe #2, it was good.  I felt fast and I hit my times.  Had trouble catching my breath though.  I think I'm getting a bit sick, I woke up with a sore throat and my glands are swollen.  Gotta keep chugging the agua.  5.6 miles.

Pm -  Felt sick through out the day, but felt pretty good on our rainy run.  3.6 out and back into Washington, hill sprints after.  Also lifted weights and I felt good until now and my head hurts and it's hot and my through is sore.

Am -  Nice chill run this morning.  Stretched out the miles a bit longer than normal, but it felt good.  Watched a beautiful sunrise.  4 miles.

Pm -  9.4 mile run in the afternoon with a mile of barefoot striders after.  We ran down 2450, across the bridge, along Sandia Drive, up to the Squaredesac, then back to the high school.   It was a nice version of Dope Loop.  Hip flexor sore, I need to ice it.    

Am -  Nice run in the morning.  I felt a bit sore and tired but not too bad.  4 miles.  Leaving for Orem at noon.

Pm -  went over to Orem and we ran an easy 4 from there.  Did 4 200's on the track after.  It feels pretty good I'm excited to race there tomorrow.

1600m -  Did a nice warm up with our mile crew over at a park near Orem high, I did 3 miles then put my spikes on and did some strides.  It was pretty chilly but the wind calmed right at the start of our race, that was dope.  I got a good start and chilled the first lap.  Not sure what any of the splits are.  I saw Zack from Lone Peak and Patrick from AF were almost to split from the group so I surged passed some guys up to them.  Hung right behind zack for lap 2.  Start of lap 3 they started to form a gap, I responded and surged right onto Zack again.  4th lap we all just started to split apart.  I ran a perfect 3 laps and all I need was a decent last lap and I could have been like 4:18-4:20.  But I couldn't bear down hard enough and ran like a 1:08.  PR though, I'm happy with it.

Cooled down a mile with Alex.  Had lunch at 11:30.  

Warmed up almost 3 miles for the 800m.  Start was ok, first 200 was 27 and I was chilling mid pack.  Chilled till 400 and tried to go but couldn't man.  I just tried to finish with a not horrible last 300m, lol it kinda was though.  I feel like the mile in the morning took a lot out of me, cuz dang I felt very tired in my legs.  Ran a 2:01.  I'm not worried though, I know I can run a beast 800m.  Just need a few things to come together.  I'm sure the sharpness in my legs will come out too these next few weeks as we start to taper.  

Cooled down to the Secra Park I think with Paul and Skylar and we play disc golf with some random dudes we met.