GOING THE DISTANCE

Am -  start of summer xc practice today.  I really wish we had like another week, I wanna be able to sleep in.  Bumma.  But yeah, solid practice.  We just did a easy run, 3.5 miles.  I trip on a curb and went down hard, so I may be out for the season.  We ran into the north desert and it was dope.

Shout out to Julien a freshman who came out.  He's a good Mexican friend of mine and he kept up with us varsity guys the whole run, I was impressed.  He could be really good.

Am -  3.2 miles down on the softball field below where we have practice at Washington elementary. It was a splendid and eccentric time with my bros.  we talked about good times including when Preston got a pic with Aubrey argyle.  Our team this year is super beast; I still got pretty much all my friends cuz only Cameron graduated.  And he won't leave on a mission to Finland till September 9th.  He'll get to watch some our races so good for him.  Also on the run we did 8 striders.  Also we do a half mile warm up every day.  

Word out thugs.

Am -  Pretty nice 5 miler this morning.  We headed east, out of the city past Maverik into the desert.  We saw Colton, our best sprinter who graduated, at Maverick.  He was in his his suit going up to the MTC so like I felt some emotion, he was super cool.  I felt stellar on the run and it was fun.  Shout out to Holt for the big step he took in his life, if you know what I mean.

After went to the rec and lifted with Jake, Alex, and Julien.  Did upper body like arms, back, chest, shoulders.

Am -  4 mile easy run.  Then hit up the grass for striders.  Skylar said his brother his wife think we never landed on the moon.  This new guy, coach cluff shut that down like a beast.  I guess he's a moon landing expert?  Legs feeling pretty good so far this week.  I played a lot of intense pickelball last night so the feet feel thrashishly sore.

Am - Met at Pine View Park and went for a run through Washington fields.  My legs were pretty tired and so this run was difficult.  I check every crab apple tree for sustinence to give me strength, but there was no fruit on all the trees but one!  Sped the pace a bit at the end, more hardness.  7 mile loop.

Pm -  had youth conference allllll day.  It turned out pretty good I guess.  But it was a long day so I was really tired.  On my run I just ran around my neighborhood.  5 miles with 3 fartleks, each three minutes.  Those were flammin hard pickups, although they weren't too fast, because of fatigue.  My left shin is bugging me, I need to roll that joint.

Am -  Ran up to the dirt mile today to work on some laps, speeding up by the end.  I felt so garbage.  My legs felt totally wasted, a lot like saturday but worse.  I had to walk a few times on our warm up.  When we were going a bit faster on the dirt mile, I was laboring so hard, it felt like an AT tempo man, it was so hard.  This run really shouldn't have been hard at all but it was and I almost passed out.  Got 6 miles total, and wow it was a hard 6 miles.

Am. Grass run

Am -  7.5 mile run that made me tired.  Ran a loop including the parkway.  Found some apricot trees going through Washington so we got some sustinence. It was so exciting.

Am -  went for a nice run into the desert.  It was pretty basic, nothing much happened.  Do the Maserati, no basic.  Saw a smashed tortoise youngling.  Bumma.  Did stroders on the grass back at home base.

Am -  met up in heritage park in coral canyon.  Went up to the freeway and crossed under, got onto prospector trail.  We ran the whole way down that, which was beast, I could run single track through the desert for hours.  Then we crossed back under and ran back to the park on the road, which sucked after being on the nice soft dirt.  We had a dope talk about doping.  Dope stuff man, word out.

 took the act in the morning.  Last time I got a 31.  I took the writing this time cuz byu wants that, and that's where I'd like to go to college.

Went out at 4 and did Dino cliffs trail.  It was pretty hot, 105.  It really actually felt good, except on my fartlek repeats it got a little hot.  I saw a red tail hawk and it did that epic, iconic hawk sound as it circled around.  Dope elope, antelope.

Am -  ran into the desert up to all the trails.  I requested to coach we should do sand mountain and make it a loop.  That was stupid.  It was hell.  We were grinding along hardcore at a solid 12 minute pace pushing really hard.  I think last time I went it has rained or something, cuz today sucked.  But going down the other side was pretty beast.  Solid run for the rest, stopped at the fire station for some water.  Finished up the 80 mins with a strong push.  9.5 total.  My left shin is really tender

Am -  we did a grass run, supposed to be barefoot.  But my tibia is so tender, so I kept the shoes on.  Still hurt miraculously so I walked over to the rec and rode a stationary bike for 20 mins.  I ran 2 miles

Am -  ran on the dirt mile today.  Our workout was supposed to be an acceleration each lap.  First was 7:20, then to 7:05, 6:56, 6:30 then closed in 6:16.  It's just getting us used to finishing faster and to get us ready for tempos.  It was easy though and I felt beast.  Hardly was breathing hard.  Stellar werkin by our team, I love it.  6.8 miles on the day.

Shout out to the Warriors and to Lebron for a good series.  1st two games were the best though, that was good stuff to watch.

Am -  tendinitis in left leg was sore like voldemort yesterday.  So hit up the rec for some vicious pool running.  I spent 50 minutes in the pool.  Dang that was a long time, but I did some good work, threw in some random hard intervals.

After headed to the Boulder mountains for a backpacking trip.  5 miles up at 10000 feet.

No run.  Lots of hiking though, 11 miles at 11000 feet.   Big hills were a little tough, ha.

Am - 3 miles hiking out.  Good trip, I'm excited for when our scout troop goes to the Sierra Nevadas next month, it will be fun.  It'll be my second time up mt Whitney.

Later 3 miles hiking upper calf creek.

Pm -  got home around 3.  I wanted to go running right then, but it was 111 so I waited a while till 6:30.  Temp outside was still high, 105, but it felt really dope to be honest.  I ran past green springs golf course, then down into a creek bed which I ran up for 15mins, then back home.  Running in the dried up creek bed was so sick, it was really technical with tons of rocks like a foot big.  Really had to stay focused 100 percent.  6 miles total, saw some snakes.  Rad.  Tendonitis in left leg bugged me after.

Am -  long run into the desert, we did mustang pass.  Pretty brutal run at least for me.  I got pretty dehydrated Saturday and didn't drink enough yesterday so I was feeling it today.  Going up the north side of the pass was beanboozlingly hard, but I been reading this book running with the Buffaloes and I thought about Chris severy how he wouldn't have gave up so I didn't.  It's actually a way rad book, I recomend it.  Got light headed the last mile and had to stop a few times so I didn't pass out.  I enjoyed it though.

Am -  30 minute grass run.  nothing awesome happened, nothing sad happened.  maybe some humourous stuff happened.  it was just pretty average.  God bless America.

Am -  we ran on the dirt mile.  Sped up the pace a bit on every lap.  Got down to about 6:20 on the last lap.  It was really great.  I like how we are just building a big base and not working much on speed right now.  Got 7.5 miles

Am -  I'm up around fairview for a family reunion.  So me and my dad found some trails to run.  This morning ran up Benny creek trail, which took us up onto Mt. Loafer.  Pretty tough climb; it took us 26 minutes to go 2.2 miles!   We turned at 30 minutes and going back was a lot faster.  Could've hauled down that mountain, but there was a lot of really loose rocks in some spots.  Went 5.2 miles in 50 minutes.

Am -  Ran in the foot hills of the mountains near fairview.  It was me, Alex, and my dad.  Pretty fun time.  At one point, we ran right past a rattlesnake, which rattled at us and got into its attack position.  I jumped and let out some girl sound.  We stopped to check it out for a sec.  The rest of our run was pretty dope too ya know.