GOING THE DISTANCE

6am-  I ran 5 miles with Jake, Andrew, Mr. Gunn, and Boston from desert hills (trust me cool kid.)  We went down a dirt road from La Fortuna and just went down 2.5 then came back.  It was cool we were in jungle and little shacks and stuff.  We talked with Mr. Gunn about 100 mile races and stuff.

5:30 am-  Well this morning Andrew didn't come cause he wore 5 fingers for the first time yesterday or Boston i guess he didn't get the message.  We wanted to run on a trail in the rain forest so Mr. Gunn hooked up with a guy to take us to a place in the morning.  So me jake and mr. gunn went into town at 5:15 and caught a ride.  We started just as it bareley started getting light.  We ran straight up the side of a huge volcano.  It was way foggy and the visibility was about 30 feet.  the first miles was like really steep in grass farmland.  Then we go onto a little skinny trail going through the jungle and we couldnt even run anymore it was so steep.  Even when we started hiking, Jake said this run/hike was harder than any AT workout he had ever done.  Thats how steep this was.  My legs were shaking when we turned around.  Going down was way sketchy but none of us fell so that was bueno.  I had never sweated like that in my life, the humidity there was like 95% so i was soaked of sweat.

7am-  Me jake and mr. gunn ran two miles on the beach barefoot.  Then our feet and ankles got sore (me and jake not mr. Gunn).  bueno

7pm-  had to get some miles in so i went and ran 4 miles with my little sister riding her bike behind me.  

4:30pm-  After waiting for 7 hours to run, I finally ran the 800 meter.  me and paul warmed up a mile and a half.  then we ran the race which i did pretty good considering i had a pretty chill week.  I can't remember much since its such a short race, but i paced my self good and ran my best.  later at 5:30 me and paul and cameron and casey ran the 4*400m.  that was fun even though we didn't do too great. I ran my leg, the third, in 59 seconds.  Today was a very long day but fun.