GOING THE DISTANCE

pm -  Did a 50 minute run with 20 min steady state tempo.  felt good and pretty easy, about 6:05 average.  7.2 miles

pm -  Trail run.  We went 3.8 miles in 38 minutes so the pace was pretty slow but we were trailblazing and jumping over cactuses the whole.  super dope run.

pm -  4x800m hills. my form is getting very solid.  

pm -  I've retired my green lunarglide 5's after 850 miles.  They were making my feet hurt.  So now I've got some Pegasus 30's.  They felt super dope today.  

Pm -  pretty beast kosmin.  Me and Paul were able to push each other a lot.  I got 820 meters for the 2 min/800m kosmin test.

Pm-  today was the St. George 5k and that was fun.  Warmed up 2 miles then raced at 9:15.  I was hoping to win this year after getting third last year.  The first mile was quick like 5:03.  Not bad but coulda been slower.  Then the guy who got second last year came on me then him and a kid from AF dropped me almost to 2 miles.  Then the guy who won last year passed me.  So I was just chasing them till the last 400 meter when I saw the AF kid was slowing I really kicked it in and passed him for third.  So the same 2 guys beat me again but they switched spots.  2 mile cool.  That race was beast, a pretty decent 5k I think.

am-  did suicidal tendencies with the team.  It was a fun trail but my legs were super tired today so it was freaking hard.

Pm -  did some solid 1600m repeats.  Goal was 5:17.  I ran 5:17, 5:20, 5:17.  My pacing was perfectly even on the last one.  Paul did 1000m repeats so i ran alone.

pm -  nice 8 mile run out east along the river trail and back to school.  it was good.  i didn't feel to great in my anklers but just being a happy brit made up for it.  did 4 strides on the grass and lifted weights.

am - 2 miles

pm -  did a 15 tempo on the track.  it was nice.  all our varsity boys were together for the first mile then just me and coach and paul picked up the pace about 20 seconds for the rest of it.  like 5:40 average or something.  It was pretty fun, I liked it.  My black lunarglides are getting retired today.  Today was their last day.

pm -  We went and did ice house trail.  It was really stupid because of a freakin huge hill and the trail sucks.  The only fun part was the technical downhill on the way back.  #feastonyeast

am -  I went out and did a beast 12 mile loop.  I got some LT pace in at about miles 2-5.  I was able to get about 5:10 pace at least during that, it was 15 minutes.  

Pm -  did 3 mile repeats.   I felt like I had the flu but I think it was food poisoning.  I got 5:24, 5:20, and 5:11.   I was gonna do 4 but I was just feeling like crap.  Coach ran with me cuz my times are like 20 faster than everyone else's.

pm -  Temple Quarry trail.

am -  4 mile easy run.

pm -  6 miles.  We did an 18 min AT tempo on the track.  Paul started out very fast the first mile.  So the second mile I slowly caught him.  Last mile we switched off laps.  It was pretty good, it didn't feel very hard either at 5:40 pace.

pm -  did some hill repeats.  3x800m and 2x400m.  400s were killer and the whole thing just really tired me out.  7.1 miles.

am -  3.9 miles.

pm -  Today our team did our annual Root Beer Mile.  I was coming back from a third place last year and hoping to improve on that.  Jason was strong favorite to win again.  So the race started and Jason chugged his first root beer in like 10 seconds.  Me and Mitch weren't far behind and I came into the second lap in the lead.  Jason got a big lead on this rootbeer and Mitch got a lead on me too.  I still felt great running on this lap.  By the third Root Beer Jason was already way ahead.  I struggled on the 3rd rootbeer and Mitch got further ahead but I was able to run like a 1:20 and gain a big on him.  On the last rootbeer I could tell Mitch was struggling so that pushed me to chug harder.  I was about 50 meters behind Mitch going into the last lap and he was really struggling.  I passed him with 250 to go and started sprinting.  But then with 100 to go, I felt everything coming up.  I slowed down and tried to keep in it.  It was just too strong so I stopped for a second then cruised in fine to get 2nd place.  Solid race, very sold I improved about 40 seconds from last year.  Oh and it was raining the whole time.  

After we drove over and did prospecter trail.  It was really fun.  6.9 miles

pm -  i felt very tired.  I did Dino cliffs from my house with some LT tempo on the way back.  My watch died on my run too so I don't actually have any idea how far or how long I went.  

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.

Am -  The run this morning kinda sucked.  We went to fast.

Pm -  Did 1000m repeats today.  First off, did a 2 miles warm up then 4 reps, goal time 3:10-13.  It was a bit different for me cause i've been doing 1600m repeats so far this year.  But it was a nice workout and I enjoyed the change.  times were 3:13, :09, :11, :13.  Me and Paul ran those all together.  Its nice to be back doing repeats with Paul, it really helps me push myself.  After that we did some all out 300m's.  First one was 40 seconds, next one my legs were so tired i only got 44.  Also did some nice lifting, I moved up to 140 pound benching instead of 135!  next time i'll do 145.

Something that raised hell today:  it was actually saturday night when some noobs painted on my car windows.  just wow...

Am -  cold and rainy 3.7 miles.  It kinda sucked but my legs felt decent, so I enjoyed it a bit.

Pm -  A nice easy run in the afternoon.  We headed east on telegraph to hell hole.  Down in hell hole, the creek that runs through it was hardcore flooding.  We stopped to check out the rad red water, and I stuck my arm in to see how deep it was.  I slipped a bit and some of the water went en mi boca.  The rest of the run, my stomach was churning hardcore.  I'm pretty I sure drank in some hardcore parasite.  I had to stop like 15 times, it really sucked.  I barely got back to the high school after 6.4 miles.  My legs felt reall good though today, I'm ready for a good first race of the season this week.

Something that raised hell today:  Taking the ACT.  It was actually not that hard but it took forever.

Am -  3.9 miles.  It was a'ight.  Really cold though.

Pm -  Today's workout we did 400's at 1600m race pace with 1-2 minutes recovery.  It was easy for like the first 3.  Then it got progressively harder till the last few were a strain.  It was a good workout though, I hit my time of 1:07 each time.  After that we did some lifting, which was just super rad like always.  When I lifted I did various lifts where I lifted weight.  It was good.  Yep, it was good.  6.25 miles in the afternoon

Something that raised hell today:  gee, I don't really know.  Probly when that old granny won this sick motorbike on The Price is Right, which we watched at Carli's house during lunch.

Am -  I woke up a bit late so I didn't run with the team.  But I still had enough time to run before school.  So I just did a nice 3.3 mile loop around my neighborhood.

Pm -  Wow! What a swag afternoon!  Our new uniforms came and they are lickin cool.  The run was super dope, we did a 6.15 mile loop that included going across the top of majestic Foremaster Ridge.  Dang, what a beast ridge.  On the run, we talked about the 1-10 scale of female attractivity.  We talked about like where various females would fit and how it should be scaled and if holy beings are included and we just really just dissected it hardcore.  On our run we did 2 200 meter surges then 2 more back at school on the track.  

We got our first meet tomorrow.  It should be dope.  I'm doing the 3200m which I've only done once in my life, so I'm pretty excited about that.

Something that raised hell today:  that would be the fact that Jake got his gpa above 1.0 today!  That's good cuz he's one of our top guys.  What a beast

Am -  It was such a nice morning this morning.  The morning was nice.   Wow.

Pm-  Yeeeeeeuh boy.  First meet of the year!  It was at Hurricane which sucks and it always windy.  We should up at 3:20 to find the meet was changed to 3 and the girls 1600m was already going!  That was asinine!  Anyways that kinda sucked for the 1600 guys cuz they didn't get any warm up.

The 3200m was pretty interesting.  I've only done it one other time in 9th grade.  So yeah it was different.  The race went out really slow, like a meager 1:18, lol.  We kept picking up the pace lap by lap.  Really the only competitive guys in the race was us 4 Pine View guys.  In the second mile, after a belligerent 5:07 I think, me and Preston started changing the lead every 200.  Then with 800 left I just kinda took off and then finished in 10:07.  Now I just need to run it one more time and get it qualifies for state, which is like 9:58.  I definately prefer the shorter track races.  6.1 total with warms and cools.

Also then in the 4x4, my team threw down on some noobs and posted a swag 3:42 for the win.

Something that raised hell today:  when Controversial Cam scared the living, pumping blood out of some innocent walking ladies on our morning run.

Am -  Me, my dad, and Alex ran Prospector trail today.  It was such a beast and beautiful today, wow.  Probly like 60 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.  The trail was so fun and my legs felt super great.  We went 9.8 miles and I listened to some beast music.  I listened to all of U2's lately album and think I really like it.  Anyways yeah it was just a perfect day.  

Nothing raised hell today.  It was just so beast.

Am -  We met at 8 this morning to to our main workout cause it's spring break.  Our war ups were cool, I felt like a really cool person as the sun was just peaking over the brilliant horizon of Zion National Park to the east.  We warmed up 2 miles then did our workout, my groups was 4x1000m and 2 300's.  The 1k's were mucho dificil este mañana, no se porque.  Pero, yo trabajadé como un toro.  My times were 3:14, :09, :08, :07.  I put what speed I could into the 300's, I was already extremely tired.  Still got a decent 42 and 43.  After that we lifted and got super swoll.  6 miles total.

Pm -  I went out for a run at around 4.  Man it was hot!  I haven't warn a shirt with sleeves for a long time, and for good reason.  It was just a good but boring run.

Something that raised hell today:  I went to Ross for like the 10th time this month and they didn't have any track spikes.  I get so unlucky.

Am -  This morning our team just went on a nice 60 minute run.  We ran along the river trail till River road.  Then ran on that road basically all the way back to school.  Our pace was pretty fast, it was kinda hard but leisurely at the same time.  We talked about floating down the river all the way to lake mead, then down the Colorado to the gulf of California, then out to Japan.  That sounds like a pretty fun adventure.  Our loop was 7.9 miles and then we did 8 barefoot strides on some garbage grass the was like rock hard.

Pm -  I was shooting baby heads out in Warner valley with the fam.  So before we left, ne and Alex got a head start and ran back towards the city.  We did 3.7 mile which was good.  Would found this lovely grass field in the middle of a new developement Stuck Farms.

Something that raised hell today:  what Tony Almeida did on the episode of 24 I watched today.  I don't want to ruin it for everyone, so I'm just gonna say wow, it RAISED HELL.

Am -  Today for practice, us guys in the 800/1600 crew has a workout of 10 400's at 1600m race pace.  So my pace was 1:07.5.  We did a 2 mile warm, then ran the running workout.  I've been coming down with a cold the last couple days and it wore on me a bit today.  I probably averaged like 1:08 though, even adding some hurdles on like half of them.  It was a really hard workout though.  7 miles was the total miles for me.

Also we did some lifting after.  Someone had a fire playlist going with some Ice Cube, Notorious BIG, Warren G.  Probly controversial Cam but idk.

Pm -  Me, Cam, Paul, and Alex went to the new Fiesta Fun to bowl and just check it out.  It was pretty rad.  After that we ran out in the desert behind my house, just like a nice slow run with luscious cloud cover.  We ran through all the new bulldozed area and stuff.  3.3 miles.

Something that raised hell today:  ha ha ha when we cashed in our tickets at fiesta fun and the lady had to count out like 500 frooties, lol.  She got kinda butthurt.

Am -  We met at the high school at 8, then drove up to Green Springs Park to run Mustang pass trail.  It was actually a flammin good time.  But the trail is totally being overgrown and destroyed.  If more people don't start going on it, in 6 months it will probably be gone.  If anyone lives in St. George, I compel you to go walk, bike, or run this trail.  TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE A INOCENT TRAIL!!!   Please, I love trail running and this is a great trail.  We ran 6.8 miles.

Pm -  I went out to the river trail and did the 10.5 mile loop on my rollerblades.  It was pretty hard, but very fun.

Something that raised hell today:  Nicole painted my finger nails.  I honestly feel kind of ashamed of myself.

Am -  This morning we did some hill repeats.  Workout was 2 x (800m, 400m, 200m) then 400m, 200m.  Man, this workout was really tough.  On the first set, I honestly struggled a bit.  Especially on the 800, where my form was garbage.  On the second set though, I had kinda woken up a bit and had good form and some speedy running.  So yeah, I just finished out the workout really strong, then we ran back to school then went home.  Today is gonna be a great day, the weather is so fine.  7.5 miles

Pm -  I went for a run in the desert.  Since all the 4 wheeler trails are getting destroyed, I mainly did some trail blazing.  It was slow and hard, but I actually enjoyed being in the hot, majestic desert.  

Something that raised hell today:  I was waving my hand around in the kitchen and smacked a full glass of milk.  The delicious, pure milk went everywhere.  It was so sad, and I had to clean it all up.

Am -  I went to go running at 11 o clock.  My goal today was to get a long run in with at 20 min tempo.  I headed down the road, I was running.  As I was running down the road I was listening to music through my iPod touch, 4th generation, black, 32 gb.  I really need to buy an armband, I hate holding it in my hand.  My plan was to go run my tempo on the track at school, but when I got there I saw there was a big soccer game going.  So I decided against it and chose to run my tempo on red cliffs drive/telegraph cause it was the flattest street I could think of.  Turns out that was a stupid idea.  After I got about 8 solid minutes, I had to stop at 3 intersections.  That really threw off any rhythm I had.  But really, it ended up to be an ok workout.  I ended up with 9 miles.

Am -  My body was a noob and I fell asleep like right after I turned off my alarm.  Luckily I woke up again at 6:15, so I went on a run alone around the neighborhood.  It was really sketchy cause it was really dark and there's not many street lights. 4 miles

Pm -  We did our usual Monday workout:  4*1000m and 2*300.  It was pretty dang hard.  Like probably hard a a nice limestone rock.  My times were 3:07, :07, :12, :07.  I was pretty consistent except for that third one.  I think it was really hard. so I kinda didn't want to push all the way hard so I would have something for the last one.  But I just used guts to get through that one so it all worked out.  Also the 300's were really hard, I was just super tired today.  Lifting was also really hard.  6.5 miles total today.

Something that raised hell today:  it didn't really raise hell, but it was pretty funny.  On our warm up, some little black kid with dreads told me, "nice undies" as we ran by.  Lol, I guess my shorts were lookin pretty short.

Am -  I was very tired this morning.  I kinda fell asleep a bit.  3.6 miles

Pm -  Wow!  This afternoon was so savage.  We got out quick after school and went for a super stellar 5.3 mile run.  At first we headed to my house which is made of brick.  We ran down the desert trail right next to my house did some epic swag stuff through the desert.  Then we got back in the city and ran all the way down main street.  Then past sandberg' pond and back to school.  5.3 miles

Today we held a kid track meet for 3rd to 8th grade.  There's was actually a beast turnout for the first one and it was fun to help run.    After the meet a few of us did barefoot striders.

Something that raised hell today:  that was when I wrote a DBQ essay in apush.  Wow man!  I was just spitting fire hardcore.  I couldn't be stopped.  I bet that essay totally gets a 7.

Am -  It was a nice run this morning, I felt great for the 4 miles.

Pm -  Really tough work on the track today.  I had to do 8 600's at goal 1600 pace (4:20).  It was really freakin hard.  Coach kept saying like we gotta get our mind and body used to that fast pace, ya know.  My legs were really flammin, and by the end me and Jason were a little slow on our times.  So coach had us do the last 2 as 400's so we could get the pace.  It really helped me focus and I shot out a 1:02 and 1:03.  Total mileage was around 6 I think.  We also lifted weights.  

Something that raised hell today:  On our cool down, we passed the discus throwers, one of which was Triple B (big black Bryan).  Preston yelled, "bu bu bu…" and as he yelled, he tripped.  Preston fell and his face slammed right into coaches butt.  Wow, that was funny.

Am -  another great morning run.  My legs felt so fresh and eatable. 4 miles

Pm -  Just an easy pre race run which was 5.4 miles.  We did the classic shoe run, and those of us who live by the principles of YOLO jumped in Sandbergs pond.  That felt so great, I could really feel the coolness as the nice, wet, damp water wrapped around my body.  Cuz that's what it's all about these days, being damp.  4x200's when we got back.  Also me and Paul worked on our handoff for the Medly tommorow, which I'm doing the 800 in.  I also got the 800 on Saturday so that's dope, it's my favorite event.

Something that raised hell today:  for sure when John Proctor accused Abigail Williams of being a whore.  Wow!  What drama. 

Am -  nice 4 miles

Pm -  Hurricane Invite!  It was a very fun meet.  Today I only did the medley 800m so I just chilled in the shade for a long time.  I warmed up about 3-4 miles before the race.  In the race, we just had a small lead going into Paul's 400.  He did good and made the lead a bit bigger.  Then it was my turn, swag.  It didn't feel like it, but I went out really fast in a :55.  That made me pretty tired, so the last lap I was really diggin.  I was totally alone and we ended up winning by over a hundred meters I think!  So yeah, my unofficial split was a 1:59, maybe quicker (timer dude said 1:57 but I trust coach holt more).  

Solid first day getting some hardware and stuff.  Now I gotta go get some more in the open 800 tomorrow.

Something that raised hell today:  Trevor Thompson did some crazy magic tricks.  Ryan too.  That was some freaky deeky shiz.

Am -  back to Hurricane for day 2 of the meet.  As soon as we got there, me, Paul, Cam, and Bryan went on a nice run about 6 miles.  Later I warmed up more for the 800.

This race was a super beast race.  Nephi took the lead right from the start and I stayed right with him.  I trailed him till 350 meters in and then came up on his side.  At the 400 mark, I surged and took the lead and just kept attempting to accelerate from there.  The last hundred meters, I was just holding on for dear life.  I knew Ike had to be coming quick, and he was.  But I still won by a second in 1:58.3.  Yeah!  My first win in track.  

Something that raised hell today:  raising hell on the track raised hell today.

Am -  pretty fast run.  It was hard.  4 miles

Pm -  Tough workout on the track.  We did 4*1000m.  I got 3:04, :05, :08, :04.  I actual felt very good today.  This felt even a bit easier than last week when my times were a bit slower.  I also ran in my new lunarglides, which are super beast.  There was some wind today so that was annoying.  But overall good day.  5 miles.  Did some nice lifting.

Something that raised hell today:  again, a scene from The Crucible movie where John Proctor hanged.  It's actually pretty crazy when I remember that that shiz actually went down.

Am -  hard easy run.  4 miles.  I'm really hating waking up right now.

Pm -  Me, Paul, Jason, and Andrew drove over to Snow Canyon cuz there was a JV meet there.  We went on a nice run up a trail through some dope lookin lava fields.  On the way back we found something in a creek. 5 miles.  Also did some barefoot striders.  Later, I made a YOLO decision and "jumped" into the high jump.  I cleared 5'4" so it was ok, but really fun and swag.  The power of The Tuna Wiggle really helped me.

Something that raised hell today:  the something we found in a creek was a bike!  I went in and got it.  I got all muddy but it was worth it.  I had a lot of fun on the bike for the hour I had it.

Am -  Just a nice 4 miles.

Pm -  Wow, tough day on the track.  8*600m at 1600 pace.  Coach told we gotta do this so we could get our bodies and minds used to that fast pace.  I was still not able to get 4:20 pace on all of them, but I was an average of 4 seconds faster for each then last week.  And I did all 8 as 600's, so it was pretty good.  My legs are getting in the groove of running fast.  I think this workout would be easier too if I wasn't doing it alone.  5.5 miles.  Also did some quality lifting.

Something that raised hell today:  this rediculous hand shake that my sister and coaches daughter made up, lol.  It's like 30 seconds and they chant during it.

Am -  4 miles of luscious running.

Pm -  Today we did our pre race run, which was sooooo dope.   We did the classic shoe run route.  First we stopped at Sullivan Park to hit up the baño.  While we were there, Bryan caught a duck and threw it into the air.  Instead of it flying, it slammed into the ground.  We also found a dead fish in a bag, which we dropped off on the Ellsworth's porch.  Then we rubbed the Eagles beak for good luck and headed toward the pond.  When we passed the pond and got into Marlar territory, Mitch got stung by and be and screamed hardcore.  Back at school we finished with 4*200m.  Sickest run in a long time.

Something that raised hell today:  when Mitch got stung by a bee.  He was totally freakin out and stuff.

Am -  4 easy

Pm -  Did the 1600m today at our own invitational.  I got a nice warmup in, like 2 miles.  I didn't have an exact time goal, just to get a nice PR from my 4:30 back in November.  I was in the second ally and I got a pretty good start.  The race was pretty physical and the first 2 lap was a lot of jostling around.  First lap was like 1:05 then second I came through at 2:11.  Third lap I focused on keeping my turnover quick.  In the whole back stretch I had like a hardcore elbow battle with some noob.  It kinda pissed me off.  Third split was 3:20 and I was like, "wow! I could get a nice PR."  I surged nicely past some dudes and just kept accelerating till I was kicking to the finish.  I PR'd by 5 seconds and got 4:25.  And I qualified for state too so that's dope.  

Something that raised hell today:  wow, Josh Collins with a meet record in the 1600m.  He beat Ben Saarel's time by like half a second.  Also, my dope PR

Am -  4 miles

Pm -  We had such a beast run today.  Prestons mom told him his ACT score had come in the mail, so we had a plan to run past our houses to see our scores.  We went to my house and I got a nice 31.  If I actually study for it I think I could get a pretty good score.  Then we went passed Bryan's.  But poor guy, his hadn't come today.  The run overall was nice, we added some fartleks in.  6.7 miles.  My right Achilles is super sore, that's a problem I gotta fix quick.

Something that raised hell today:  we went to pizza pie cafe after out run, then went to jakes for his "ACT score opening", (he got 27),  and then watched Star Wars 2.  The whole was totally dope and raised hell

Am -  no run this morning.  my achilles was really sore yesterday afternoon.

Pm -  ran an easy 4.5 then quickly got back to the high school to help out with the little kid meet.

Something that raised hell today:  I went through a 100 meter long pitch black tunnel full of water and mud.  sketchy stuff bro.

Am -  Didn't run again this morning cause achilles.

Pm -  We had a meet today over at desert hills.  There was the decathlon and heptathlon, the distance events, and some relays.  It wasn't very big, just a few teams and not much people from those teams.  I warmed up for this race and felt fine, my achilles wasn't really bugging.  The race was 'aight.  I got out pretty good actually in a 58 and made a move right there with a lap to go.  But it didn't last long and I soon got passed with 200 meters to go.  I really just kinda felt like I ran out of gas.  It was weird.  Im sure mcdonalds for lunch and wendys an hour before sure as heck didn't help.  oh well, it wasn't a great race, but this stuff doesn't get to me so thats good.

Something that raised hell today:  Wow it was pretty crazy actually.  All day there was this wierd haze surrounding the city.  At lunch, Pine Valley Mountain couldn't be seen at all.  wow.

Pm -  Nice solid race.  It felt much better than yesterday and i ran a pretty good time.  I was alone the last 2 laps, so I never really got going all out the final bit.  Its really hard to shift gears to all out with nobody around.  I felt great though, so with some top Dhells guys, I think I could have PR'd. 5 miles total.

Am -  did a run at 5:30 before going to the grand canyon.  I meant to get up at 4:50 and do a lot more, but i didn't happen.  

Am -  Did a 1000m repeats workout.  I struggled today. I wasn't able to run since friday morning cause I was backpacking in the Grand Canyon, and I think that was part of it.  I was just a bit out of shape.  So yeah, I did 3 repeats.  Then I gave the 300's a shot and did much better, i think cause that more anaerobic.  Threw down some solid 39's/40's on those.  Didn't get to lift weights because me and Alex had to go get our physicals for next year. 6 miles total.

Pm -  went out in the desert for my afternoon run.  It was pretty sweet.  Coming back home I had an experience that raised hell.  Also, as I passed the golf course, I found 4 golf balls.  That's like a new record for me.

Something that raised hell today:  I was on my run and running through some sand when I saw some fresh snake tracks.  I stopped to check em out.  I followed them to a hole.  There was a long stick next to the whole so I stuck it in and a huge snake popped out a different hole somewhere.  Wow, that was sketchy.

Am -  cold morning run 4

Pm -  Panther Relays today.  I'm not gonna lie, i usually love track meets.   But this one kinda sucked.  First of all my legs were still feeling hammered.  So my races in the distance Medly (1600), 4x800, 4x100, and 4x400 weren't too hot.  Also the wind was absolutely horrible.  Especially with it blowing my long hair all in my face and stuff.  The wind was also blowing around a bunch of crap so I was sneezing a ton.  Good meet to get through.  6.25 total.

Am - 4 easy.  It even sprinkled a bit of rain.

Pm -  we ran up into green springs and passed my house, then down through old Washington and back to school.  We did a nice fartlek workout on the run.  My legs still are feeling super tired and hammered, but they felt a bit fresher after I rolled out a lot.  We saw my dog when we passed my house, that was cool.  7.9 miles.

Cool fact of the day:  there is a documentary called Hasselhoff vs. Berlin Wall.  It's highly recommended by Mr. Holt Sr.

Am -  same old Starbucks 4 miler.  Colder than usual.

Pm -  today was a nice pre-race run.  We did our normal shoe run route passed Joy's house.  When we got to the wood bridge to cross a stream, there was city workers doing stuff to it.  So we took a detour in the river and found something that raised hell.  At the Ellsworth's house we dropped off a foam minecraft sword, lol.  And then yeah, we got back and did our 200's.  We also practiced a lot of handoffs for the 4x400 on Saturday.  7 miles total.

SOMETHING THAT RAISED HELL TODAY:  we found a freakin dead beaver in the river!  Dang man, that was really something.  I even grabbed it.

Am -  nice and slow run in the morning, 3.5 miles

Pm -   Meet at Desert Hells today.  I did the 1600 meter.  Ya know, I think I prepared pretty good for this race.  I didn't really give myself enough time to warm up though.  In the race, I had a solid first two laps.  I was right behind jaiden from desert hells.  Then on the last two, I totally lost focus.  My mind wasn't even in it, I was not racing at all.  It was just a crappy race for me.  I hardly kicked it in to the finish.  Whatever, it sucks but all I could go is look forward.  One interesting thing though looking at this race is how much I have improved as a runner.  I mean, this race was pretty sucky for me, yet I still ran a 4:33!  That's faster than my PR last year.   I find that very interesting. 6 miles total

Pm -  my only race today was the 4x400m.  So until then I did a nice 4.4 run, chilled a lot, ate a small lunch, then finally did a small warmup.  We dropped the baton at PV invite 2 weeks ago so we really needed to qualify this for state.  Colton went first, then Skylar.  The time on the clock seemed slower than it needed to be so I was doubting if we would get the time.  Then Paul got the baton.  By this point we were already like 150 meters ahead.  Then it was me and I just busted my balls and gave it all I had.  After I finished, my feet were flammin hot and I quickly took off my spikes. Anyways, we ended up not qualifying by .4 seconds, bummer.  But we got first place medals!  6.65 miles total today.

Am -  ok run in the morning.  I got tired from it. 4 miles

Pm -  wow, what an intense workout.  We first did a 600 meter at goal 800 pace.  So I did that in 1:26 and that got my throat burning.  Then we had 400's at 1600 pace until coach had us stop.  I was going for 1:06.  My head was really feeling the heat today and I got kinda dizzy and stuff.  It had to be like 90 degrees.  Our recovery between each 400 was 1 minute, and after 6 my body could only pull out a 1:12, I was completely exhausted.  So yeah today was freakin hard and brutal, yet also beast.  5.25 miles

Am -  4 easy miles.  It was beast temps, and I even took off my long sleeve cause I got too hot.

Pm -  Wind from hell is the story of the day.  It was flipping horrible.  The JV in the town Hurricane was canceled because it was even worse there.  Our workout though was a Coe workout.  We started at 100m at 1600 race pace and went up intervals of 10 meters.  The speed gradually got faster also till at 200m it was our 400 race pace.  So it was pretty tough.  5.5 miles total. 

The wind today is just raising hell hardcore.  As I write this at 6:38 the visibility is like 2 miles or less from all the dust.

Am -  Wow this morning blowed.  It was freezing and windy.  Me Jason and Zach did 600 meter repeats.  I did 6 and they were all around 1:46 except the last was 1:41 and it was freeeeakin hard.  I had a hard time staying awake. 5.25 miles

Pm -  4 miles in the afternoon.  Just a short, easy run, then I worked on some starts from blocks.  I'm not sure yet if I will use them for the 400m on Friday.

Am -  I was a bit late to practice.  So I had a nice run alone for the first half, caught up with the team coming back.  3.75 miles.

Pm -  Pretty dopesmack pre race run.  We headed down towards the river and saw the same dead beaver that was there last week.  It's getting pretty gnarly.  Yeah, then we ran around, up a hill, found some crab apples to eat, ran through a desert, smelled a dead cow, found a bone, just the usual.  6 miles.  Then back at school did some 200's and I worked on my starts out of blocks. 7 total.

Am -  today's run was blazin.  4 miles.

Pm -  Woohoo, Dixie invite today!  Yeah, I love track meets.  I ran a chill 3 miles upon getting to Dixie high.  Me and a few guys jogged around, to Arby's, I got a sandwich.  It was dope smack.  Then around 5 was the 400.  It was freakin beast 😛.  Me and Paul were both in heat 1, me in lane 5, him in lane 4.  So yeah it was my first open 400 and I got 52.02.  That placed me 3rd in the heats.  Unfortunealy though, I'm gonna drop out of finals to do just the 800.  It's is gonna be a beast region 9 800.  5.25 miles.

Am -  Day 2 of Dixie Invite 😛.  Got to the track and ran some laps.  My right hip joint got kinda jacked up and really sore from the 400 yesterday.  So I was just really working on loosening that up all morning till the 800.  I was nice and warm for the race and ready to go.

Had a good start and got out next to Kale Sharp in our alley, the first one.  At the break, a hurricane guy and I think Adam Proffit came in front.  On the curve after 200 meters I slowly and smoothly and luscious came around them into the lead with a lap to go.  Coach said I really made a big gap 400-600 so that's good.  Wow, last 100 I just kicked as hard as I could cause I knew those guys were comin.  I was able to win and get a 1 second PR down to 1:56.86.  6.3 miles total on this dope smack day.

Am -  2 miles only.  Hip was feeling jacked so I went back and used that extra 15 mins to do some deep hip stretching.

Pm -  4 miles.  I started on our 3*1000m workout.  It started beast with a 3:00.  900 meters through on the second one I had to stop just cause, I can't explain it.  Then I tried to cool a bit.  I attempted a 300 but my hip was not going for it, felt very just weird.  I'm gonna do a lot of yoga tonight and get that crap worked out.  A rough Monday, but it is what it is.  

Am -  right hip felt very tight and weird and it feels like it's affecting the rest of my leg.  No good.  3 miles

Pm -  got in a 2 mile warmup.  Then our workout was 200's at 800 race pace but a few seconds faster.  I ran the first few, my it felt like my hip had just gave out.  Such a horrible and weird and painful feeling.  So I went in the locker and went balls to the walls on a foam roller.  My butt area and stuff is freakin sore.  2.5 miles.

Something that raise hell lately:  my good friend Paul Gaona got back on the blog, also Alli Peterson started again.  And my good friend Jason Hall got a blog as J-word Jason.  Check them out

Am -  Took the morning off to try a help my leg get better.

Pm -  Ran on my own out into the desert after getting home from Las Vegas.  My medical anatomy class went down there for a field trip.  I ran through the desert to the dirt mile, did 2 laps there, then ran home.  Whole right leg just felt really shizzy.  I guess my hip felt a bit looser, but like some tendons and stuff are flippin tight.  I tried to sprint and wow, that doesn't feel good at all.  Both of my soleuses were dope smackin tight too.  My whole body feels like its falling apart and it really sucks.  Just a week ago I felt great.  I did some nice yoga when I got home.  7.75 miles total.

Something that raised hell today:  at CSI in las vegas, they showed us some pics.  one was of a scene where this guy had shot his head with a 30-06 and his head was blasted everywhere, they found pieces of his skull every where and his eyeball on a shed.  Another one was where this lady jumped off a building and got her head decapitated, blood and guts everywhere.  WOW, dunno if im gonna eat great the next few days.  Those pics were literally the most gruesome stuff Ive ever seen.

Am -  did part of a coe workout.  I actually felt good for the first few reps, then it got to fast and my hip hurt.  5.5 total

Pm -  Hip felt really crappy today.  We practiced our hand offs and when I would just go a bit fast it hurt.  And on our easy run it felt very uncomfortable and awkward.  Normally feeling this way, I probably might not race tomorrow.  But it's the medley and my team is counting on me.  Also I gotta help us qualify the 4*400m.  I wish I had more time.  3 miles.

Am -  Went for a nice 2 mile walk while the team did their morning run.  Did it in 27 mins, it was swag and beast.  Got some blood flowin in my legs.

Pm -  Snow Canyon Invite today.  I went over, mainly to watch my teammates race the 1600.  I also got in 5 miles that actually felt pretty good.  I think I will be good to go for the 4x400 tomorrow.  Didn't race at all today.  Skylar's race was nice, he got 4:36-37.  We have a lot of guys right there, who if they have a really good race they could state qualify. Hopefully that can do it.

Something that raised hell today:  the weather.  Dang it was even lightinging so hardcore the meet got canceled for the day after the 400.

Am -  back for the second day of Snow Canyon Invite.  Really rainy still, but not really any wind so that was nice.  Just did the 4x400 today, so I say around for a very long time. The timing system for this meet was so slow, so we didn't end up racing till about 2:30.  I was about to warm up during the 800's about an hour before when I got this excruciating pain in my stomach.  It was so hardcore and I did so much stuff to get rid of it.  Luckily it got better and better till I was feeling pretty good.  So I didn't run as much as I wanted but oh well.  

Our race went pretty beast.  Colton ran awesome to give us the lead after one leg.  Skylar did good, probly the slowest and he got passed.  But then Paul ran beast and with a great handoff between me and him I was in the lead.  I was able to hold canyon view off for the win in 3:30.31 by a second and a half.  It was a good battle with them.  Now we are second in 3A right between DH and canyon view is right there too.  And we finally qualified for state! The race really made my hip hurt a bit and now it's pretty sore.  

Ran a bit when I got home.

Am -  Got up and before church went for a 30 minute walk then did yoga.  My hip feels freakin so crappy, its so depressing.  Idk what will even happen with this week.  My hip slowly got more and more tightened up last night.  I been working on it hardcore though and I really hope it can get better fast.

Am -  slept through my alarm but still had enough time to go for a quick 20 min walk.  My mom (who's a PT) gave me a good massage last night.  That really helped loosen things up.  I felt so much better.

Pm -  wasn't sure what would happen today.  Team was doing a kosmin test today.  I wasn't sure if my hip would be up to it so I just ran the warm up.  That was kinda hard.  Before they started I did an acceleration to see how fast I could get going.  And yeah, I got up to like 5:30 pace and it hurt.  So yeah that freakin sucks, I just want to get running for reals again.  I did 5 miles total, I tighten up more and more but not to bad.  Did yoga on the field after which felt dope smack good.

Something that raised hell today: I totally beasted, got 100% on the urinary system test.

Am -  Went for a beast 20 minutes walk.  My form was sooo prime.  I got another massage last night and my hip is improving a lot.  It almost feels like I could get through a race on Friday, I just don't know if it would be worth the risk to be hurt for region and state.  We'll see, then. Also did yoga.

Pm -  Went to the rec center and did some clutch pool running.  At first I was doing like a pyramid interval workout.  But I really ended up just doing random hard intervals of like 1, 2, or 3 minutes.  Doing that didn't bug my hip, super rad.  Pretty sure I saw Mr. Gentry, my elementary school PE teacher, so that was dope smack.

Am -  1.1 pretty slow to shake things out, get the blood flowing.  Had another massage last night.

Pm -  did a nice 3.6 miles with the team, then .5 on the track.  Feeling ok, not ready for speed for sure, but on easy pace I am almost feeling normal

Am -  2 miles really slow.  Felt 'aight.

Pm -  swag run.  It was pretty hard.  It feels like I don't have much strength in my hip joint, so my hammies and quads are working harder and getting sore. 5.3 miles

Got home and did a nice yoga sesh.  Also rolled out good.

Am -  did 2 miles

Pm -  we went up to salt lake for the Herriman Invitational.  I wasn't sure about racing today, I didn't want to if I felt any pain.  Then I would just jack up my hip even more.  I ran a mile and was trying to be really positive about it.  I tried an acceleration on the track, getting up to like 1600 pace.  And that hurt pretty bad so I knew I gotta back off.  It was really depressing watching the races I would have been in.  I got about 3.5 miles that night. 

Overall this meet was pretty good.   Yeah, I didn't even race here, but I definately like everything about BYU's meet better and I hope we could go there next year.

Am -  we got up at 7 after getting to sleep at 1.  Our hotel was in sandy, and we headed east up a hill, then ran north along the railroad track, the dropped into a gully and ran up that a ways.  It was pretty nice run.  I'm felling really good running at a chill pace like 7:00.  We found a sweet swing thing off a tree.  Which I didn't get to do cuz everyone was being stupid.  6.1 total

 Am -  2.75 miles.  Pretty easy run and I felt pretty good.  Groovy stuff man

Pm -  did 1.5 warm up.  So our workout was 600 at race pace, then 300 200 100 all out.  I did one lap of the 600, and i was really disappointed.  I still just had that pain in my hip that wasn't letting me run.  I kinda had a limp in my step.  So I just kinda did the other reps at a relaxed quicker pace.  Coach talked to me and I told him how it was.  It's not looking great for me to race region.  I almost started crying, this whole thing just sucks so bad.  I just wanna run fast.  It's so frustrating this happened and after all the yoga and intense rolling out and all the work I've put in I thought I would feel better today.  Coach said I just need to chill out about it though, and if It happens that I don't run at region, then I don't.  State is the ultimate goal.  I got 4.5 miles this afternoon

Am -  felt alright.  It was some nice morning weather.  2.75 miles

Pm -  had a decent run.  We just did a nice 3 miles the 4x200's.  My hip felt better but still I wasn't able to hold 1600 race pace quite 200 meters.  It feels like it's healing up pretty quickly now.  4 miles total

Later after our kid meet, I went and got a hardcore massage.  The lady said it was super tight and she said it released really well.  Wow it hurt my glute like a hell fire storm.  I won't run on it till tomorrow morning, so I don't know really how it feels yet.  Maybe racing on Thursday will be a possibility.  I probably won't do anything though if I can't sprint totally pain free. 

Am - 2.75. Had a nice morning run.  Preston was a really distraught over what AA did last night. Poor guy

Pm -  went over to Dixie high hopeful to race.  Warmed up then did some 200 sprints.  It hurt, I was not gonna be able to hold out for a 1600.  I'm feeling much better though, right almost ready to race. After I ran though, my hip did tighten up a bit, so that's kinda no good.  I wish region was on the weekend or something.  So tomorrow, I'm really hoping to do the 800.  I'm kinda scared I will start to hurt bad halfway through or something.  I want to race really bad but also want to win state really badder. I got 4.25 miles

Am -  2.5 miles.  Last morning run for a looooooong time, that's awesome.

Pm -  5.5 total.  Went over to Dixie for day 2 of region.  When we got there I did a good shake out, then tried to mimick how I would start in the 800 to test out my hip.  Yeah, it's not there yet.  So that's sucks, but I still got a decent amount of easy miles in.  It turned ok that I missed the 800 because Paul got 4th place and qualified for state.  Also Dallin in the 3200m by place so that's dope too.

Took the APUSH test this morning.  I feel pretty good about it.  Hopefully will get a 5.  Freakin glad to be done with that though, that was a hard class.

Pm -  around 1:30, cause we got excused after the test, I did 45 mins with like 5 fartleks.  I felt alright.  Not 100% on the fast stuff, but it's coming along real good.   I got 6.1 miles

Pm -  I went out at 6 down to the Virgin River Trail for my run.  It was pretty sweet, all rainy and whatnot.  The temps were pretty nice so I went shirtless too.  My watch died after 3 minutes, and I was supposed to do 45 minutes, so I just guessed on distance and tried to go around 6 miles.  Hip felt decent.  Trying To Be Cool by Phoenix was going through my head the whole entire time.  I thought a lot about state next week, and I am feeling very confident in my ability to win both my open races.  

Something that raised hell today:  washed my luscious 2000 honda civic, and about 15 minutes later it started raining.  wow.  Also my new case for my phone came in the mail.  dope.  Also I got premium for spotify cuz right now its only 99 cents for 3 months.  life is full of hell raising thing right now.

Pm -  really short mileage today.  Started out with some handoffs, trying to perfect ours for the medley so we each run the optimal distance.  Then 4 400's, did like 1:14, 1:10, 1:08, 1:03.  Right hip felt uncomfortable on those.  Not really painful but could be better.  After I went in to the trainer and got E stem.  Later it tightened up so I did lots of stretching and yoga.  Hopefully I can hold on this week and it will be good enough to get through 4 races.  Then I'll have two weeks to heal it for good!!!  3.5 miles

Pm -  did 1.5 warm. Then we did some master blasters, basically a bunch of 200's at pretty quick pace.  I went pretty fast which felt pretty good at the moment. Later my butt got tightened up.  The good thing though is that running pretty fast is feeling pretty good. Worked on 4x400 and medley handoffs then cooled 2.25 miles.  4.5 total and then right now im getting e-stem on my but so that feels pretty luscious.

Pm -  did a nice easy run of 4.8 miles.  Also tried to do a bit of speed when we got back, but my hip was not feeling as good today.  We practiced handoffs though.  Getting through state is gonna be tough.  I'm gonna have to dope up on ibuprofen and get warmed up really good.  Hopefully I can race without it messing me up, cuz I'm super feaakin ready to go!!!

Pm -  got to Provo and went over to the high school.  We ran 11 laps on their track, when the lighting started.  Do we were just done after that.  2.75 miles

Am - did the 1600 meter this morning.  I did a few miles warm and had some ibuprofen and all that.  I felt pretty good.  The race started slow s bit like 1:07.  It was raining a bit and so water was spraying up in my face.  I guess lap 2 was really slow too.  I dunno what the split was though.  I kept a good position through the 3rd lap and then the leaders made a move at 600 to go and we really picked it up.  I just battled the rest of the way and ended up 4th in 4:30.  Not a great time, but I'm happy with how it went.

Pm -  Around 4 I anchored our medley team.  It wasn't too good.  I did ok the first lap, and tried to make a move with a lap to go but nothing came.  I just felt completely exausted.  We ended up getting 5th.  

Pm-  came into the 800 very positive.  I got a good warm up and was pretty pumped. Race started and I got out good.  I was into about 3 going into the final lap.  Usually I have so much energy left right here, but I didn't have it.  I tried for the pass, but didn't go any where.  I was kinda just hanging on with 300 to go and coming onto the last 200 I had nothing left.  It was such a horrible feeling, my legs feeling so dead.  Pretty disappointing getting 10th.  

4x400 was better.  We went out and ran like a PR 3:30.  The other teams beasted though and we ended up 8th.  It was a pretty fun time.

Over all it was a good track season.  I had some good PR's in the 800 and 1600.  Hurting my hip really messed with my season at the end, I wonder if things may have been different had that not happened.  But I ended up with a medal at state in 1600 so I can end with that positive.  Cross country with be great to kinda get a new start and get things rolling again.  

Balled so hard in the volleyball tournament.  Got some sick blocks and spikes.

Went to the rec center and balled with my bro.  I'm glad to say my jump shot is still money.  I got buckets all day.  Beat Alex in horse like 30 times.  Then I went and lifted.  Got huge 

Am -  I'm in Oceanside this whole week, so that's dope.   I went to the weight room and lifted.  Did upper body.

Cruised around a bit on my rollerblades later in the evening

Am -  went to the workout place and rode a stationary bike for 30 mins.  It was decently hard.  My bod ended up soaked with sweat cuz it's so humid and my heart rate was like 160 the whole time.  After that I lifted doing legs. And some Core

Like an hour later went on a nice rollerblade ride on a bike trail while my mom and dad and aunt ran.

Walked a ton at Knotts berry farm and probly got some brain damage from going on the silver bullet 4 times in a row

30 mins on a stationary bike.  Lifted, upper body

Swam a few laps in the pool.

Freakin beast roller blade ride on the bike trail along the San Luis Rey river trail.  Went total of 7 miles.  Passed a skate park and wanted to go ride in there but I didn't have a helmet

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.

Am - Easy 45 minute run today. Got 5.7 miles on the run. We ran up Main Street into the desert. The desert was super dope in the morning. Adam from Lone Peak came and ran with us so that's cool. Legs are feeling pretty decent.

Pm - Easy 30 minute run in the afternoon. It was great I really enjoy the heat, not gonna lie. Legs felt pretty solid after feeling like trash yesterday. Lifted weights, got swollen, ya know all that baller stuff.

Am - nice 60 ,I mute run into the desert starting from greens springs park. We ran along a dirt road to the turkey farm road and up that a ways, then back. Got 7.3 miles in and it felt great. Talked to Adam Jensen a bit. Had otter pops at the end of the run. What a stellar way to start the day. Now gotta grout tile and make stacks.

Am - I just ran around my neighborhood. It was very peaceful and dope. I did a little fartleksi workout in my 40 ,minute run. 4*3 min fartleks with 3 min recovery. I really felt strong and solid and so it was a beast swag run where I saw lots of cool old people I know walking. 5.3 miles about. Feeling great after the backpacking trip last week around Mt. Whitney.

Something that will raise hell today: imma grout tile with my homie Jake Taylor for 8 plus hours and make stacks.

Am - Showed up to practice with a nice rain. We had a 90 min run today so the rain was really beast for that. We headed out on telegraph east to hell hole. We dropped in and on to the trail next to the river. We ran on the trail all the way down almost to the new bridge, then came all the way back. Wow what a nice run, I felt so good especially on the strong finish at the end. It's raining again right now; I hope it rains all day.

Pm - Went out for an easy 30 mins around 4 with Alex and Jake. It was nice we ran to green springs park and back to my house. Got in 3.9 miles. Feeling pretty got after a lot of miles today.

Something that raised hell today: Pizza Pie cafe sent out a text deal; buy one buffet and get one free.

Am - nice easy barefoot run today on grass. It was a lot relaxing and it felt really good to just have an easy run. Especially after yesterday which was possibly my highest mileage day ever.

Pm - Ran a run in the beast neighboring city of my hometown Washington. So I ran in St. George with my team. We ran from our school to Starbucks and back. The heat was hot and a bit humid and it felt great. I really love running in sweltering heat, it just invigorates me and it feels like a luscious sauna. We ran 30 minutes and got 3.9 miles. After also lifted some weights to improve my physeek and muscle strength.

Something that raised hell today in a race: In the running club 1 mile girls race, I saw one of my pupils Kya Cottam almost take down the revered Alli Baker, another one of pupils. It was a gutsy race, and all of my pupils really raised hell it was sick.

Am - nice progression run on the dirt mile. I felt good as we went like 7:00 down to 5:58 for 5.6 miles. It was easy pretty much but my legs got a bit tired by the time we finished up. Solid day. Finished up with barefoot striders on the grass.

Pm - ran at about 2:30 in my neighborhood. Just up to green springs park and back. It was 4 miles in 30 minutes. I saw Alli when I passed her house, that's always fun.

A fact about my life: I like to backpack and I do it a lot.

Something that raised hell today: my little sister told my mom to kill my brother cause he stole some of her candy. Luckily she didn't do it.

Am - Me, Alex, and my dad went out at 6 and ran prospector trail. It was very nice and easy. Got to watch a pretty cool sunrise, the oranges were way rad and majestic. Leg muscle felt destroyed when I woke up but gradually felt a lot better as we got going. Now I'm heading up to the Boulder Mtns to camp with the fam. I'll get some nice runs at high altitude up there.

Pm - nice easy 30 min run in Boulder Mtns

Am - nice fartlek workout with my bro in the Mtns. Felt great, not feeling the 8000 feet at all

Am - nice easy run. Got up early and watched a beast sunrise come over the Henry mountains. Saw a lot of dear. Great run 5.3 miles

Am - nice run around on Washington parkway. Really pumped to go to XC camp. It's gonna be super dope. Got 5.7 miles in 40 minutes then striders.

Pm - got up to camp and eventually ran at like 4:30. Nice run got 4 miles. Later balled so hard on the volley ball court.

Am - super dope long run. Had to take a little stop and pretty much ran the whole run along. But it was beast and my soul was able to connect with nature. 12 miles

Pm - Easy little run by Pine Lake and jumped in after. It was rad.

Am - went out for SD Wednesday to the lake at 6:30 before we ran. It was very refreshing. The run was great. We ran 4.15 mile right up the mountain it was hardcore. Then back down for 8.3 miles.

Pm - ran on top of Boulder mountain. Saw some awesome views and took team pics from the top. A few of us guys got to the top and doing a radio tower. We climbed up it and tied Logan's camp shirt on top. 5 miles it was beast

Am - final run at XC camp, how sad. It was a great run though we ran on some trails around pine lake. Temperature was perfect it was a legit run. The beginning of the end it starting for my high school running it's a bumma.

Pm - got home from XC camp really tired. I wanted to just rest but i decided I wanted to just get my last double of the week over with instead of do it tomorrow. So I got out and did it. I had more incentive too; my new shoes got here while I was gone and it was overcast so the temp was only like 102. It was pretty nice, I just did my normal 30 min route; to green springs park and back. 4 miles in the new brooks glycerin felt good.

Happy birthday to Alli she's finally 16

Am - Woke up around 8:30 and went for a nice 6 mile run by myself. I just ran up through my neighborhood past Green Springs park into the desert a little ways and back home. It was one of those runs where I get really lost in my thoughts about what I want to do in my running this year so it went by pretty fast. I did pass this car with some sketchy looking dude at the park, I thought he was maybe waiting to do a drug deal. So I thought for a while about what I would do if he started shooting at me and chasing me in his car.

Am - went out for a 45 min run on church rocks trails. I had to do a fartlek workout 2*(1,2,3 min w/ 2 min rest) so doing church rocks loop was actually a stupid route choice. I should have run this trail on yesterday then ran on the road today but whatever. It was a good time I saw a frenzy of police cars and fire trucks going up and down the freeway. I got 5.7 miles total.

Am -  Met up with the team for practice after 3 days apart, it felt like so long.  It felt great to be back with mah homies as we did a 70 min trail run with some dope striders after.  Running prospector trail I felt tired but then when the shoes came off and we did striders, I felt robust and rejuvenated with the energy of a young tortoise.  8.5 mile run, 10 total, word out.

Pm -  Went out to do Dino cliffs trail with Alex and Julien.  They didn't feel good so they turned back at 10 mins.  As I got to this one part where the trail turns and goes down the cliff and also looks like you could keep going straight along the cliff, I decided YOLO and went straight.  Turned out to be a beast illegal trail.  I went over my 30 mins and got 38 but it was worth it.  The most fun I ever have running is days like today when I'm out by myself discovering new trails.  The trail was sick it went right along the edge of a cliff it was so cool.  Got 5 miles, word out.

Am -  easy grass run, 4.2 total miles it was a good day.  Mitch had a dream last night that me and him tied for first at Nike nationals.  I had a dream that AA totally wanted me.  She told me she was single in some weird code way, it was weird.  Preston's jealous no doubt.

Pm -  Had practice at school at 3.  Ran to the outlets and back.  Just a nice, chill, robust 4 miles in like 105°.  Had quite the convo with my buddies about buddy stuff.  Can't disclose it on here, wish I could.  After, lifted n stuff.  I wanna get my 2 rep bench max to 170 before I graduate.  Right now I'm at 150 so it's plausible.

Am -  Had our teams first time trial today.  It was pretty great.  I felt super good on it.  We usually do it at our school, but because the baseball fields getting wrecked, we did it at Bloomington hills.  Race was fun, coach wanted us to pack it tight for most the time, then at this hill with about 500 to go we all just go from there.

I felt really good, I just chilled behind the leaders for most of it.  Paul kinda got antsy I guess a mile in and surged hard, got a lead.  Really, we were fine and we were gradually speeding up but whatever.  We regrouped, then with 700 to go everyone kinda slowed as we went around the bottom of the park, so I got to the front and started moving.  I got to the hill and shifted gears one more time.  I finished good, could've finished harder for sure but an uncontrollable variable prevented that today.  I got 10:41, pretty solid, with skylar right behind me and everybody else right after that.  I'm glad our team is looking beast. Honestly this wasn't too hard for me.  I'm pretty excited for some of our main races like Herriman and nebo.

After that did a little workout on the rolling hills at the park, then striders and a few more miles on the grass.  About 7 total today.  Oh and me and skylar saw Aaron Metler in the bathroom before and we were 1&2.  No doubt connected.

Am -  5.7 miles on city creek trail.  It was a good time.  Hamstrings were feeling sore and my right glute/upper hamstring is pretty tight and kinda bugging me.  Been workin on it a lot though.  Nice trail though, one of my favs.  

Pm -  4 miles in the afternoon, met up with the team at the school for it.  Felt nice with a bit of cloud cover. Legs felt tired.  After lifted and got pretty swoll bro.  Took a cooler of ice home.  

And now right at this second I'm takin an ice bath and it feels great.

Am -  Our team met up on the temple quarry trail.  It was a nice cool cloudy morning, great for a trail run.  We got 3 miles in and turned around, and it started to rain hard core and lighting.   Me and Jake did some epic chiva  running, jumping off boulders and doing tricks and stuff.   Got 100 percent soaked it was an awesome run with some beautiful views of St george.  Got 6 miles about.

Now heading off to cedar mountain with some of the team, should be sick. 

Pm -  Had a beast trip up to Navajo lake.  I drove my 2000 Honda civic and me, Alex, Paul, and Jake jammed to Katy Perry the whole way up it was awesome.  The run felt good, just a chill 30 minutes by the lake.  Got 4 miles.  Jumped in the lake after; had a great sd friday.  After that we went to mammoth caves and explored them hardcore.

Am -  we were up till midnight playing risk, so we got up at 8 for our run. Drove up to the start of the road to Brian Head peak.  Ran a bit up the road and got on a trail we thought would be a funner way to the peak.  Ended up it only took us to the top of the ski lifts.  Saw two nice bucks then we all scramble up the cliffs to the peak, it was beast.  After that ran on some trails, and eventually ran a 20 minute tempo and finished up with 9.7 miles.    Great adventure run and great trip.

Am -  Met a the high school for practice so that's where we're running from now.  Headed up into Green Springs and did a loop up there past my house then went east around Washington Parkway.  Good long run got 11.5 miles.  Did strides on the field when we got back.  Legs felt pretty tired today.  Oh and also lifted weights so we all look huuuuuge.  So 12.5 total.  Now off for a date with the lovely Alli P.

Beast hike in the day.

Pm -  Got out around 5 and did my usual up and back to Green Springs Park.  Got 3.9 miles.  I extremely did not want to go cuz I felt tired, but as I got warmed up and going, it was great.  I truly feel so free and alive in my body when I run, and I have enjoyed it so much the last 4 years.  Some tendon in my right ankle was sore from rolling it on Saturday, and so was my right knee from taking a spill on saturday, but other than that I felt pretty good.

Am -  Good grass run, I felt ok in my body.  We ran over at my old elementary school Sandstone so I could really feel the presence of the raptor spirit.  Feel pretty bad though.  I guess we had practice yesterday and I must not have listened, so I missed it.  That no excuse though, I really need to pay attention when coach is talking.  4 total.

Pm -  So had first race of the season.  It was pretty good.  Game plan was to hold a tight pack basically the whole race.  As the race started out, there was a bunch of JV guys out quick and we didn't get out fast enough so we had to worked to hard to get our pack together and in a good position.  I really chilled the whole race just trying to help keep the pack together.  On the 3rd lap everybody started to kinda slow down and I wanted to get going.  So I tried to wait for everyone.  Then I passed coach and asked him if I should just go.  He told me yeah so last half mile I started going pretty good and passed like 5 guys.  Finished really good last 300, I just had a lot left.  Really, this race was pretty cheese, I never was hurting at all.  But you know, those races will come #evildevilemoji.  8.1 on the afternoon

Also did some striders after

Word out.

Am -  Met up at the high school.  I felt kinda sore from last night, not too bad.  We headed over to Old Man hill and did 4 800m repeats up it.  Felt good and solid.  Last one I felt really tired and it was pretty tough, but ya know just a good solid workout.  Only 50 minutes, 6.7 miles.

After that lifted and got our lockers.  I'm not looking foward to 5:30 mornings yet.

Pm -  Had team practice at 3 at the high school. It was really hot today.  Run was pretty good though.  I'm feeling tightness though in my glute/upper hamstring.  Gotta ice and roll that mutha.  Wow, school starts tomorrow.  Pretty depressing when I think of it.  

Am -  tried to sleep in super long, but with everyone getting ready for I couldn't really do that.  Got up and ran at about 8.  Felt pretty good, took it really easy.  3.9 miles for 30 mins.  School today, wow I can't believe it. One more year of kid school.  Gotta wash my car so it looks beast on the first day.

Pm -  After a pretty good first day of school, had a chill 50 minute run.  T'was fun.  It felt pretty savagely hot, and I sweated the most of the whole year probably.  After practice, went to coaches room and bought one of the dope uni's we ran in freshman year.  Donut Friday tomorrow, can't wait.

Am -  First early morning run of the season.  I got to bed ok so I wasn't too tired.  But I can do better, I only got like 7 hours 40 minutes. 

Pm -  Wow what an afternoon.  Chilled at the school after school and changed my classes.  Then headed over to Bloomington Hills park at 5 for Desert Relays.  It's so dope, one of my favorite races, just a chill 3×1 mile dual race with desert hills.  I got warmed and I felt super good, so when the race gto canceled because of hardcore lightning, I was pretty bummed.  Everyone had to get in their cars for a 30 min wait to start again, but soon our coaches called it.  Oh bumma.  Got 3 miles though.

Am -  Woke up around 9 and ran at 10:30.  Weather honestly sucked already in the day; it was super muggy so the heat was brutal.  I ran to the double churches in Green Springs for a warmup, then did 5*4min intervals around the edges of the churches.  I ended up making a cool loop that was like 75% grass and about .4 miles long.  While I was doing my intervals, which were pretty hard, I came up with a good mental thought process for my running.  I gotta forget any excuses I may have to not run hard and do my best, and focus on the reasons I have to do my best.  Got 8 miles, 55 minutes

Am -  easy morning run 4 miles

Pm -  it was so hot it felt like hell.  11 miles in 110 degrees,  it was brutal.  Barefoot striders after 

Am -  rough morning run.  Legs felt destroyed. 4 miles

Pm -  race, desert relays.  The race was nothing special for me. We did a workout after: 3x4min intervals.  Pace was 5:30-5:40 for those.  With dead legs from yesterday, then just racing a mile ,they were freakin hard.  Got 7 on the afternoon.

Am -  I was sooooo tired that I unconsciously turned off my alarm when it went off.  So my dad came down and woke us up at 6:25.  We rushed to school and still got in 2 miles.

Pm -  just had an easy 30 min grass run.  We ran over to sandstone to do it.  Run felt good.  Got 4 miles.  I did an ice bath at home. And my upper upper hamstring really tightened up a lot and hurts. 

Am -  4 miles.  I actually felt pretty good.   Except a few times my hamstring/glute twinges with pain.

Pm -  Today we did a hill workout.  We ran through Washington over kinda towards my house to the sand hill we run up.  The workout we did was 2(3*1min).  It was tough in the deep sand.  My hamstring has been bugging me but it felt fine running the workout.  Ended with some mileage back to the school, I think around 6.5.  

Am -  4 miles, it felt iffy but I wasn't too tired.

Pm -  Easy pre-race today.  Ran toward the lucky eagle to stroke it's beak.  We weren't sure if we would make it within our time, but it worked out.  After did 4 200m strides.  I felt super smooth on them, I'm ready to race tomorrow.

Am -  RACE DAY, what a beautiful day for a race.  Headed up to Cedar bright and early at 6:30.  Wow, freakin Jake missed the bus, luckily he still raced a solid race in JV.  Listened to some beast tunes by The Killers on the way up.

Had a nice warm up, felt pretty good. this race was good.  the race started out good with our pack in a good position.  1 mile I just kinda sat there. pace felt fast but I guess that's racing, I gotta get used to it.  fast foward to last loop, me and dallin were going strong.  coach said to break up dhell's perfect score so I got going and digging hard.  then rounding the top, things happened and I slowed a ton and It jacked up the end of my race.  whatevr.  my hammy felt fine, I'm happy about that.  now I can go party later.  

I though I saw some improvement in our racing this week.  We'll just get better everyweek.  Word out

Dont know my exact time so I'll post it later.  I'm just putting 16:10 for now

Am -  Did the usual 4 mile easy run to Starbucks and back.  I felt pretty good.

Pm - Wow, quite the after noon today.  Workout was 85 min run with fartleks, then striders.  started out feeling good.  It was only like 105, it felt so good.  then about halfway right as we finished our fartleks I began to feel cruddy in my stomach till Jason's house it was intense pain I was about to explode.  so I did in Jason's bathroom.  had to stop again at slick rock park and 2450 park.  I lost a lot of liquid between excretion it and sweating it out in the burning hot baños.  last mile was hard, I felt really dizzy.  I weighed myself during lifting I was 143, 7 below normal.  but since I've been home I've downed over 100oz of water and milk and lots of food and I'm back up to 150.  Even read some beautiful poetry by Robert Frost.  haven't peed yet either

Gracias to Jason's mom for letting me in and saving my life.

Am -  4 miles easy.  Legs feeling like slow roasted zebra meat from Costco.

Pm -  Another easy 4 mile run.  Nice recovery day today.  Everyone was feeling pretty beat.  The run was chill and we had fun, ran down to Pine View Middle.  Wow, it's a lot less cool.  They took out like 8 pretty big trees when they did construction.  Oh bumma.

After practice, went down to the rehab center for the physical therapist to work on my hamstring.  He had these metal tools and went hard on my hammy, it hurt good.

Am -  Swag easy money run, 4 miles.  Afterwards in the locker room  I did some of the exercises Jona the PT gave me to help my hamstring.

Pm -  Our teams second time trial was today.  We had to do it at Bloomington Hills park cause they are still doing hardcore construction at our school.  Weather was a lot hotter than last time.  The time trail went down good.  We were able to race a lot better and stuff.  We really got rolling half a mile into it, people were exchanging the lead and got stuff was happening bro.  The wolf pack was strong today.  500 to go things happened and I slowed a lot for a bit, then was able to mentally regroup and have a power full kick.  Today we had 7 guys at or faster than my leading time (10:41) 3 weeks ago!  Things are goin great.

After the race we had a little workout, 2*800m @ race pace.  Did them in 2:33, and 2:34.  Got a total of 7 on the afternoon, word out.

Am -  Run this morning was hard, everyone just kept throwing in hardcore surges.  4 miles

Pm -  In the afternoon we drove over to the grapevine trails and did prospector.  Nothing spectacular happened, it was just a dope trail run.  5.5 miles

Am -  Turned up at practicar a little late so I didn't get as far, only 3.6 miles.  I actually quite enjoyed the first half, mostly alone.  And I talked to Carson for a bit.

Pm -  Easy money 30 minutes in the afternoon.  First a few of us boys ran with the birthday man, coach, to take some money to the bank.  Then we ran down to my aumamauter Sandstone Elementary to do some barefoot on the grass.  After like 10 minutes, this hardcore battle between the boys and girls team started.  Lol, I have no idea how it started, but it was over the possession of a little foam football.  The battle went back and forth.  Eventually it got intense, like Andrew wrestled hardcore with his graduated brother, people lost their dignity, and little meskerem the Ethiopian was tackling people.  

Boys won though, so no worries.  After we hardcore surrounded Sylvia and ripped it from her hands.

4 miles in the afternoon.  Lifted weights.  Later at home did a lot of core and other strengthening stuff.  Really appreciating my foam roller lately. word out

Am -  Our team didn't have a race or anything today.  We did have our annual car wash fundraiser at 10, so we still met up decently early at 7.  Meeting place was Sullivan "Soccer" Park, where they are finally starting to build the 4 full size soccer fields after 3 or 4 years.  I think it should end up being a dope place to run, maybe have a race there, I dunno.  Anyway, we just a 60 min run.  There was about 10 of us guys there and we ran up towards telegraph, then east to Washington parkway, and up that all the way.  The way back was dope.  Ran through majestic Hell Hole.  Good times.  Legs are feeling strong and swag.  Got 7.6 total.

Went to Controversial Cam's LDS mission farewell today.  I will miss him 10 folds

Am -  Good run 4 miles, I felt good and wasn't very tired.  I felt like I had plenty of energy.  Me and Jake conducted a social experiment of sorts this morning.  We showed up 10 mins early to park in 2 of the 3 open parking spots, even though we have paid ones, to see what would happened.  Lol, some fine folks got PO'd.

Pm -  Killer long run today.  It was great, everyone ran really strong and all 10 or so of us held it together the whole time.  I felt decent the whole time, but the run seems to go on so long.  At 65 mins i felt like we had gone for 3 hours.  We ran a cool loop all around Washington city. Ended up about 11.25 miles. Back at school did a mile of barefoot striders.

Lifted weights, felt strong.

Am -  dang, woke up feeling insanely tired.  The run was a struggle.  4 miles

Pm -  Did a pretty dope interval workout today.  JV was running Dixie allcomers at 6 so about the top 10 of us boys ran at bloomington hills park at 4.  We did 1600, 1200, 1000, 800, 400 all at race pace.  It wasn't supposed to be killer, but we were all feeling yesterday so it was pretty hard.  It was good though, probably hardest workout of the season so far.  Ended up with 8.1 miles.  After we went over to Maverick, I grab a nice 44 oz blue powered with free limes.  As I drank I felt all the beast electrolytes flow through my veins.  

Watched our JV do awesome, I thinks the boys might have won.  

Am -  3.8 miles #morninggrind.  Life's hard right now with school and running, but honestly I couldn't be happier.

Pm -  WOW this afternoon was so lushus.  Just a cheese recovery run on the grass at sandstone.  Got 3.8 miles.  Ha ha, now I'll have time to do calculus #thumbsdown 

ATTENTION!!!  This weekend our team is doing our all night run-a-thon.  To make a little bit extra money we are doing a special ceremony where we will be sacrificing Dallen Gillespie.  We are gonna put him on a stake and light him on fire.  YOUR FUND WILL BE GREATLY APRECIATED.  Feel free to donate unlimited amounts of money.  Bring cash to PVHS or email me at 16hillnicr@washk12.org.  Dallen is sacrificing himself willingly for the greater good of the team so don't worry if this sounds too harsh.

Am -  What a great run.  I switched my watch to kilometers last night, as I'm gonna try to rewire my brain to the metric system.  It went by so fast, we pounded out K after K.  The run was a solid 4:40 pace, 6.4 kilometers.

Pm -  Today the Pine View Panthers ran sand hills.  We ran through Washington over to our hill and commenced the workout of 2 (3*1min).  Man!  Doing these in the sand is so killer.  The super deep sand makes them such a quad destroyer.  After the recovery day yesterday, I felt good and rested and was able to give a beast effort.  Everyone else ran studly, I was barely able to beat everyone on some of them.  Got 10.3K

Shout out to Definition Dallen today, he raised hell and really helped me push hard on the hills.  

Am -  nice run, 4 miles.  Started out feeling pretty ehhhh, but warmed up a lot and felt really good by the end.  Glad I have my team to run with every morning or it would suck.

Pm -  this afternoon our teams all-night run-a-thon started.  We were broke into shifts of when we ran so from 3-5 was the A shift.  It wasn't my turn but I went and ran a few miles, not sure how many.  Later when we commenced again after the football game, it was my shift so I ran 2 miles and a few more minutes.  Idk how much at what times, but for Friday from 3-11:59pm I got 6 miles.

Am -  Crazy night man.  I gotta say, probably the funnest run-a-thon Ive been to.   It was legit we did so much dope stuff!  At 10 I went and picked up 24 pizzas so we were loaded there.  We had two flat screens set up; we played some beast call of duty zombies on Julien xbox.  We had a sweet game of ultimate in which my brother DIDN'T break my nose, that's always good.  Me and Jake and Zach and Bryan and Cam had fun for an hour rolling a giant tire around the stadium (it was getting late).  Me and Bryan Rollerbladed around a bit.  Danced to some Katy Perry, she's great.  Oh yeah and our run-a-thon was at the track.  Controversial Cam came and partied with us, I sure will miss him.  

I did some running too.  From 12-8am I got 8.75 miles, not counting a fair amount of running in ultimate.  I ran 3 times for my relay shift from 3-5am.  During that time I also just jogged around the track for a while with Coach holt, cam, jake and alex.  I got kinda emotional on the last lap of my last turn in the relay, just thinking about how it's another one of my lasts of high school and high school running stuff.  At 7am, we did the dash for cash, where within our 3 teams we each do just a 400m then pass the baton.  It was brutal man, I was using the last bits of energy I had.  Lol I dunno what I split, maybe a 1:02.

Typed this at 5pm.  Legs feel destroyed.  Life's good.  Word out

Am -  Got up at 7 and went to go do suicidal tendencies trail with Alex and my dad.  We started down from the road, not the trailhead, so that added on a mile each way.  The run was pretty brutal.  When my dad asked me the night before if we should do it, I told him yeah it's super beast and easy.  Wow I forgot that the first 5-6 miles are all up hill.  So yeah it was a hard run, I also did some speed ups on the way down.  It wasn't any farther than my usual mondays, 12.8 miles, but it was really hard and and long, 102 minutes.  I love running trails though and had a great time with my brother and dad.  

Dope, time to go not labor.

Pm -  Final team time trial of the year today.  It went beast.  With some problems I've had, this was really kinda my first race of the year in a way.  I just went out and pushed hard and did my best and things went great.  My time was 10:15 so a nice PR for the course.  Our pack was strong and I'm pretty sure our team ran really good.  I looked right behind me after I finished and saw all our guys roll in.  

After the race, we had a workout.  Me and a few guys did 2*800m at race pace.  I went both 2:33, they were good and strong.  I focused on having a quick cadence and good knee drive.  Total with some warm and cool was 8.6 on the afternoon.  

Said goodbye to one of my best friends today, Cameron Brown.  He's leaving to serve a mission in Finland tomorrow.  He came to watch so it was our final farewell.  He's become one of my best friends the last 3 years.  Not gonna lie I cried pretty much the whole way home.

Pm -  Just a easy 30 min barefoot grass run at Sandstone elementary.  It's really felt ecstatic to not have morning runs, I've felt very rested.  Murray this weekend should be great.  

AM -  Easy 30 minuter got 4 miles.  Felt very good, maybe a bit tired like I always do in the morning.  

Great day of learning knowledge.

Pm -  More easy mileage.  Man, we will be very ready to beast and feast at murray invite tomorrow.  We just did easy 25 min run, got 3.3 miles.  Then finished up with 4*200m on the track.  Feelin great in my body.  Gonna go to a sweet team dinner tonight.  Life's dope right now except for AP Calculus.  

Since one of the spike holes on my nike rivals is stripped out, I tried on my frosh/soph Saucony Kilkenny 4s.  They actually felt beast, I wore one on one foot and one on the other and my Saucony felt a lot more like they kinda launched me foward in my stride.  So yeah, I'm gonna race in my good ol yellow racers tomorrow.

Am -  Easy 4 in the morning.

Pm -  Left from pvhs to go up to Murray for the murray invite.  Got to Murray Park around 2pm and soon after ran the course wit a lot of the guys.  I seemed pretty cool but confusing at a lot of places too.  Chilled in the shade for a bit then ran a little more 30 minutes before race time.  I felt pretty good.

Started out strong, a little faster than I like to cause you gotta get good positioning in big races, ya know.  First mile went pretty quick.  I felt a little off kinda because the last two races I've done have been 2 miles.  In the second mile I felt kinda tired, and was sticking in with a group that fell a bit off the leaders by 2 miles.  Ha, except Garek he was already out in narnia.  I was kinda scared i would be too tired for the last mile.  But starting mile 3 I was feeling good, so I made a move and broke out of the pack I was in.  I gained some on the lead pack, and coulda caught them if I had 400 more meters.  I ran mostly all alone the last mile and finished up 12th.  Im pretty happy with how I did.  I'd say my mistake was not trusting my strength to stick on the front pack.  Then I could have out kicked some guys and got a t-shirt!  Ahh, it's good though, just gotta keep racing and getting better at it for state.  

On team terms we did good.  After I finished I looked back and was a bit worried when I didn't see our guys for a second, then our 2,3,4 all rolled in.  Then our 5th was way back and that killed us.  I guess that's what happens when 3 guys have bad days.  We finished around 10 points behind Lone Peak in 4th.  Good vibes though man, I love our team.  Except maybe how Preston is a freakin weirdo with the davis girls, smh.  Lol, some of the things he does. . .

Am -  After a luscious sleeping seshun, got up early to go do a workout on the state course.  Wow, I was excited to finally see how the last mile goes.  So we first ran it easy as a warmup.  I like it better except for how there is a sharp turn right before the finish.  Workout was great, did 3*(1,2,3min) at goal race pace for state so mine was 5:15.  I just ended up breaking away from everyone else a bit at the ends to hit my pace.  Good reps, they got fairly hard by the end.  Didn't do the 3 min on the last set, we were almost at our 60 mins for the day.  So we just cooled a few minutes to the bus and finished up with 8.2 miles for the day.  Fun team trip up to salt lake.  Word out.

Am -  Usual easy 30mins this morning.  I think I felt a little better and fresher legs than normal. Got 4.05 miles in.  Skylar and coach continued their Twitter discussion about BYU playing dirty.  Lol, I don't really care.  BYU won and all teams do crap that doesn't get put into the media.

Pm -  Long run this afternoon.  Started out just normal, we ran up to the intersection of telegraph and greensprings by hart's where the girls were waiting for the light.  So we're waiting, and I look over to see coach holt crouching over some dude, and wow!  It turns out coach Roberts is passed out behind a bush.  Me and some guys ran back and grabbed coaches tahoe, rushed back and coach holt drove coach Roberts safely back.  Luckily he's okay, go check out his dope blog, @ vis.fastrunningblog.com.  

So then we just finished our 90 min run going up around Albino resort passed pioneer park,  then back on red cliffs drive.  Ended up with a 11.6 mile run.  Legs felt very tired by the end.  The weather was great though, I'm not sure but it felt around 90 or something.  Did a mile of barefoot striders after and lifted weights.

Resting Heart Rate - 48

Am -  easy 4 miles.  It was pouring rain all night, then right before 6:15 it stopped.  Last 2 miles, my soleus down kinda by my inner ankle, was really bugging me.  Weird pain.

Pm -  Went over to Bloomington Hills north park for our (about top 10 guys) interval workout.  The rest of the team had a duel meet vs. DH after.  It was cloudy all day with rain on and off, wasn't raining when we started.  We did 3*(1000m, 3min rest, 600m).  The 1000m intervals were pretty cheese.  First one was 3:27, around 5:30 pace.  Then a 600m around 1:50, I think like 4:50 pace.  The 1000's got a bit quicker, down to 3:15 for the last one.  The 600's stayed about the same, but had more and more uphill.  The last one was all uphill so it was pretty tough.  Total of 8 miles.

I really felt great.  Our recovery week last week has really helped my legs feel fresh this week.  My form felt great on the repeats, except I was slipping some on the wet grass.  It rained a bit during the workout, barely though.  Team did splendid and today was just baller.  Didn't get to stay and watch the meet though, had to go home and do loads of calculus work.  Oh bumma.

RHR - 51

Am -  Easy run like always, did 3.85 miles.  Dallin lives along our normal route and he said some sketchy shiz with a gunman was going down over there, so we ran towards my house.

Pm -  Finished off the easy day with a chill 30 minutes on the grass just over at Sandstone Elementary.  Nice run, legs feeling suprisingly good after the last 2 days.  Ran 3.8 miles.

RHR - 53

Am -  easy 4 miler into Green Springs again.  Did 101 ups in the locker room.

Pm -  Did a hill workout today.  Same as we've done the last few times, 2*(3*1min).  Went over and did them on our hill of sand.  The construction people are really going hard at destroying the desert.  Their about to pave more road.  Sand was a bit firmer from all the rain sunday-tuesday.  Nice hard workout, I pushed myself very a lot.  It's been a good week, one more workout to go on saturday.  Total of 6.5 miles.  

Lifted weights back at school, good seshun.  My right upper hamstring has tightened up a bit, it's not feeling 100% right now.  Haven't been able to get in with the PT but I will next wednesday.

Am -  nice, chill 3.9 miles this morning.  Back to the normal route along red cliffs drive.  Wow it felt great this morning, even a bit chilly.

Pm -  Swag easy run in the afternoon.  Had a dope day of school, I got all my calculus done so none for the weekend!  Our route today was into Washington then down into Sandbergs desert.  Dang, we passed through Marlar breeding grounds and that was sketchy stuff.  We've had so many guys get stung by his spawn going through there.  3.5 mile run then 4*200m to finish up with 4.25

Am -  JV ran at the Canyon View Invitational today.  So varsity ran from CVHS over to bicentennial park, where region is this year, to do a workout.  Over to the park was 1.6 miles.  Then we did the first set of 1min, 2min, 3 min in our normal shoes.  After that we stopped and put on our racers and did the other 1.5 sets in those.  We didn't do 3 min on the last set.  It was good, coach holt wanted them to be at race pace for region, so we were hitting 5:05 pace on them.  I felt not great on the first set.  But after putting flats on I just felt pretty good the last part.  On most of them I was a few meters ahead pushing the pace so we could get that pace.  After, ran back and watched swag races, 8.6 miles today.  Good day, word out.

Am -  Early morning today, we met at 5:30.  I went to bed at 9 but i can never fall asleep so i laid there for an hour.  So i felt a bit tired.  The run was nice and cool, we ran on the river trail for part.  and so that was all black.  Did striders after.  legs feel way sore.   i dont feel very tired though.

Pm -  Had an early out today.  After a quick pep assembly I went and ran.  Just 3.9 miles.  Jake and Alex came with me but most of the other guys waited like 5 minutes, idk why.  My ankles and calves didn't feel too great, more like destroyed.  Had a beast feast of food at PPC after with my homies.

Am - Easy 4 to Starbucks and back.  Felt alright, bit sore.

Pm -  Had a pretty good, hard workout this afternoon.  We ran down to the middle school to do it.  All the fields at our high school are under construction.  We started with 4*1000m repeats.  My first three were solid, like 3:19, 3:15, 3:14.  They were pretty good on a rough field with lota of hills.  Then my last one got kinda messed up, my stomach was bad and I went over to the seminary building to do stuff.  Came back to do 4 wave hills, and the boys had already done them so I did them alone.  I was hauling on the down and it was sketchy.  Ran back to the high school, ended up 7.1 miles.