GOING THE DISTANCE

Am - easy 4 miles, felt good.

Pm -  wrote a semi long race report but it went away so now I'm kinda irked to the core.  Didn't have a great race at the Dirt mile.  Never showed up with a racing mentality and couldnt stick it.  It was way way windy.  Taking it as a tempo and moving on.  Gotta focus on some good training for DH race and Nike.  7 miles in the afternoon.

Am -  easy 3.9

Pm -  Did the classic shoe run.  Haven't done this one in a while.  Left some cardboard and a few desert flowers on Joy's porch, it wasn't our best delivery ever.  Legs felt pretty sore and my stomach hurt a bit.  Pretty average but good run.  5.8 miles.

Am -  easy run, it was fine.  Wasn't able to consume an optimal breakfast cuz Sadie royalty practice assembly.  4 miles

Pm -  Did the same interval workout as last wednesday.  Splits were this:

100m= idk it was just hard

     30s rest

1000m= 3:10

     3 min rec

1000m= 3:10

     3 min rec

400m= 1:04

     5 min rec

1000m= 3:06

     3 min

1000m= 3:03

     3 min

400m= 1:03

     30s rest

100m= idk it was all out

Really nice workout.  I was able to nicely bring my 1000 times down when I was feeling tired.  Weather was crazy, it dropped to a frigid 45 probably.  Along with a nice chilling rain.  My hand went numb but it was actually great weather to run in.  With some warm and cool, 7.5 miles.

Am -  4 miles easy.

Pm -  Another easy 4 miles in the afternoon.  I attempted to go unbury my bowl in the construction zone, but a guy was yelling at me and started to get out of his tractor so I ran away.  Special operation bowl rescue tomorrow morning.

Am -  4 miles easy.  Then me, Carson, and Corbin, attemped to rescue my bowl from its endangered burial place.  We got caught though so failed mission.

Pm -  Early out day sooooon!  I love short days.  We had practice at 12:30 after a pep assembly.  Ran over to Foremaster Ridge to do some intense hills.  Legs felt pretty tired before beginning, but I still had a solid set of hills, pushed myself hard.  Got 5 miles.  

Am -  Me and some guys met up at 6:45 to run before a long day of Sadies stuff.  We met at my church and from there did mustang pass.  Checked out everything that I need to do to improve it.  The main thing I need to do is clear a bunch of growing tumble weeds from about a 1 mile stretch.  Then it will possibly be my fav trail again.  I got some sweet pics so thats swell.  8.4 miles.

Am -  4 miles.  It was hard getting up this morning, and as it gets colder it'll just get harder.

Pm -  5 miles.  Did about 1.5 warm up, then did a 200m workout.  We got into teams of three and did relay 200's pretty much all out.  So a 200m then about 1 min rest for the other people to go, then another all out 200.  Then a 5 min jog.  4 sets of this, and wow my legs were feeling weird today.  I didn't feel very fast, but I'm not suprised; it's monday.  Did a about a mile of cool down. 

Am -  4 miles.  Not bad temps.  Legs, especially hamstrings are really sore.

Pm -  Easy run just through neighborhoods near la escuela.  A storm rolled in and it got cold.  We finished before it started raining pretty good.  My legs still felt stupendously sore, but that's alright.  I always race beast when I'm sore.  3.8 miles.

Am -  Pretty chill run, talked a bit about our dreams.  I died in 4 different peoples dreams.  feel good for the 2 mile today.  3.9 miles.

Pm -  Drove out towards treasure valley park, way out in washington fields, for the race with desert hills.  I started to warm up with my friends and geez, my legs are still waaaaay sore from 200's on monday.  Same with everybody else, for some reason they like destroyed our legs.  Got a nice warm up in, then started the race.  I got out into the lead about 400m in with Dallen, we should have chilled out a bit probably.  The dirt road we were running on had like tiny rocks on it so i felt like I was slipping the whole time which was a bit annoying.  At 1 mile, I'm feeling tired, but ready to start going hard.  All the sudden Jaiden makes a massive surge and I try to go with him.  I'm pushing hard but he keeps pulling away.  Josh, Sage, and Tanner come up to me and I hang on them a bit, but my legs just didn't have much today.  I just kept pushing hard and dang Bryson passes me with 100 to go.  DH beasted today props to them.  I had a good effort, I know when I'm not pushing and that wasn't today.  Idk i guess my legs are just tired.  This was a good tune up for Nike, I'm feeling very confident in what I can do there.  5.4 total.   

Pm -  Easy run today, it was great recovery.  Energy level was prime without a morning run today.  Legs were still pretty sore, but felt fairly better than yesterday.  I bet the race kinda flushed out the soreness and stuff.  4.2 miles.

Pm -  Did some good track work today.  A lot of guys were gone today to Red riot, some party thing at SUU, so good for them.  Varsity guys there was me, Skylar, Carson, Mitch, Alex.  We did some worm up then got into 10 minutes of tempo on the track.  It was pretty cheese, around 5:45 pace.  

Then did 3 800m repeats.  1st was 2:35.  2nd was 2:28.  3rd was 2:18.  Those felt good, I wanted to just start going balls out.  Man, I love the 800m in track.  After did about 10 minutes of cool down then stretched.  

Am -  Got up at 6:45 and drove up to run Mustang Pass.  I took my rake and headed up to work on the trail.  Ran 2 miles up, then spent about an hour clearing the trail.  I was using my rake like a scythe on the tumble weeds, and then it broke after about 40 mins.  So then I just used my hands.  I made pretty good progress on a section of the trail.  After I was done, I ran back and forth twice on about a mile section of the trail to give it some wear, then ran back to my car and went home.  Now going pheasant hunting.  7.4 miles.

Yo everybody who reads this and lives in St George area:  please go run Mustang Pass.  It is such a fun trail with amazing views of Pine Valley, but not enough people run it so it gets bad.  If lots of people run it it will stay in good shape.  

Pm -  Today was the day of the great Pine View Dream Mile.  I've been pretty excited for this.  But it didn't turned out as beast as I had imagined.

The weather today was cold and insanely windy. Warmed up in a hoodie and beanie and gloves.  My legs felt great, I was ready to break the race record and possibly PR.  Coach had us run backwards starting at the 100m start line, then the wind wouldn't hit us as bad.  I got out good, through 200 in 32, but then the first lap was 1:08.  The wind was just too powerful to run good times, but I kept pushing.  I led the whole time, had a solid 3rd lap, and started kicking at 300m to go.  I was getting into my all out sprint at 200m left when a profound wind just stopped me and wow I was probly going 7:00 pace.  Battled in for I think 4:42.  It was actually a pretty beast effort, unfortunately the time didn't reflect that.  

Nice cool down, saw the SUU guys.  Shout out to them for making nationals.  5.4 total today. 

Am -  easy miles, 2.6.  It's getting cold.

Pm -  More easy stuff in the afternoon.  Nice, relaxing run to the top of Lion's Head.  Such an epic view of Pine Valley mtn up there.  4.1 miles.

Am -  2.7 easy miles.  Lost my left glove, my hand got cold.

Pm -  Did a chill 400m workout today.  Ran a warm up, then 4*400m from 1:13 down to 1:00.  I felt really great, I'm ready to beast and feast on saturday.  Good ol Mike Finch came ran with us; it was good to see him.  He's my inspiration for the race cause of when he got 10th in 2012.  A quick cool down to 5.3 miles then stretched and went home.

Am -  2.7 easy.

Pm -  Got to Flagstaff around 9:30, on our way down to Nike south west.   Saw a huge dead bull elk on the way over.  Had a great shirtless run around the NAU campus.  It was sure invigorating.  Saw some fine women and ran on their track.  Swell time.  3.7 miles.

Am -  about 5 miles mile in Buffalo Park in Flagstaff.  Mostly ran on dirt/small gravel trail.  Very prime 

Pm -  Ran the NXN southwest course in Cass grande.  Ready to beast and feast.  3 miles

Am -  Got to the course around 9, was just feeling whatever, kinda tired.  Did about 3 miles of warmup then stood around forever at the start line during introductuions.  Man, I probably yawned 8 times in 10 minutes.  Didn't feel super pumped up.

I got out pretty good.  Came through 1 mile in 4:55 which felt crazy fast and tiring, even though that should have been pretty good.  All the little bumps felt like freakin huge hills, it sucked.  I can't remember a time I've felt more tired/crappy in a race.  Each time the course turned to the south I attempted surges of speed and couldnt hold them.  By 2 miles it was getting to my head and it felt like the race would never end.  Turning onto the final stretch, I gave one last mental push and probably passed 5-10 guys.  Pretty dissapointing to have Nike go the way it did.  I had the total belief I could get top 21 and then my body just wasn't there.  Did some cool down, like a mile.

Luckily bad races don't get to me too much.  I'm ready as a desert chiva to get redemption at footlocker.  

am -  Dang cold, shoulda worn more than a long sleeve.  2.7 miles

pm -  Forgot my watch so I don't know exact miles.  But I think we went about 45 minutes so 6 is a solid guess.  I'm excited for Thanksgiving break so I can go hit up the trails. 

I'm a huge fan of The Killers so I finally got around to listening to Brandon Flowers album The Desired Effect.  I recommend it if you're into that stuff, it's pretty rad.

Am -  Layered good, wasn't cold.  Hurray for last morning run of the year.  2.7 miles.

Pm -  Throat is getting sore and I'm gettin a coff, musta caught whatever Paul's spreading around.  Heading out to practice I was just feeling slow and tired, but we had 3*1600m repeats so I snapped myself out of it.  Did warm up then did the reps at 10-20 secs slower than race pace, on pace, the 10-20 faster.

1 - 5:25 solid rep me and Dallen worked together

2 - 5:12 a bit slow but it was good me and Dallen worked together against some wind.

3 - 4:53 it really wasn't too hard even with an incedent starting the last lap.

Cool down to 7 miles, solid workout.

Am -  Me and Alex ran up to Mustang Pass and did some work on the trail.  It looked like someone had been up there and done some stuff so that's legit.  There was even some mountain bike tracks.  Run kinda sucked it was windy and my throat is killing me.  At least I'm healthy enough to run and have fun, there's plenty to be grateful for. 

Am -  Went and ran Dino Cliffs trail with Alex and my dad.  And Sally our dog.  It was prime time, such a majestic morning in Saint George.  The last mile of the loop I did some strides.  5 miles.

Am -  Got up and had a beast breakfast my mom made, then at 10 me and Alex ran up to Green Springs Park to do our workout; 3*(1000m, 400m).  We did a cool little loop around the park that ended up just longer than 1k so it was pretty rad.  

The 1k repeats were at 5k pace so I went 3:15, 3:08, 3:11.  They were a bit slower than I wanted, but with being sick and the loop had hills and sharp turns, they were good.  Last one was pretty tough.

The 400s were hard like 1:05s but I mean they were only 400m so not really too bad.  Cooled down back to home for 7.2 miles.  It was cold like 40° and wow I'm sick of being sick.

Am -  Me, Alex, my dad, and our dog drove over to hurricane and ran Hurricane Cliffs trail.  Never done it before so it was fun to check out.  Had some nice climbs and sick downhill.  Funnest trail I done in a while.  The downhills were rad.  Those are my fav moments of running when your flying down some technical single track and a misstep could legit land you in the hospital, ahh the adrenaline.  Good stuff.  Out and back 6 miler.

Pm -  Dang it was 21 degrees this morning, glad we weren't running.  Ran over to our sand hill in the afternoon and did some work.  I balled pretty hard.  Did 3 hard up the hills, about a minute each.  Then 3 down the hills, working on some hill stuff for Footlocker.  I'm feeling good on hills lately.  Ran back to school and finished with 6.3 miles.  Still felt some sickness today.  Glad its going away though.

Wore my Lone Peak shirt from the nike t-shirt exchange today.  good luck to you guys at nationals.