GOING THE DISTANCE

7am- Ran 7 miles out to Middleton and back.  Last two miles were tempo which were really hard cause of the hill by fire station and the hill back up to the school.  Really pumped but a bit nervous for the first race of the season.  Dont really know what its gonna be like or what time i'll get.  Excited to find out. 

3pm- For afternoon run today we ran the usual 3 miler from the high school, out to Arctic Circle and back.  At first I just felt like i was gliding across the road.  Then the last 2 miles i had a horrible stomach cramp so that pretty much ruined it.  After we did weights and got our jerseys.

7am- Today we ran 4 miles up to the dirt mile.  We ran a nice easy pace, nice and fast, but not hard to keep up with.  Then running club after and the last one!

7am- Today we ran 3 miles on the grass plus striders after.  Not much more to say.

6:50pm- Tonights race was really fun.  I wasn't very nervous and felt good the whole race.  Even though I had sideaches during the warmup.  Very sastisfied with how I did and excited for the next race.  I was about 50 feet behind Red Leader the whole time and my goal was to beat him.  So I went beast mode at the end and did.   

7am- This morning was a good workout.  We went down to hells hole to do our hill workout.  I woke up feeling a bit sore and stuff but felt good by the time we got doing the workout.  Coming back up out of hell hole was hard like always.  Then we stopped at a white church and got some water out of the spickit.  it wasnt too cold but i tasted really good.  Then when we got back we had already gone a little bit over our mileage.  Plus my mom had already left cuz she had to go to work and couldn't wait for me any more.  so i got a mile and a quarter extra today.

6pm- Normal 3 miler out to arctic circle.  After we did most of the plyos but no weights cuz we had to go to the runner center.  There we had pizza, got prizes and steve gave us tips on racing stratigy.  Good time.

7am- This morning we met at the trailhead by the dixie center.  I was really suprised when i looked on the pineview blog last night and level 2s only had 3 miles.  But it was fine with me.  We started on the trail then over the bridge but then decided to take a little dirt trail under the freeway.  100 meters later the trail was gone and we ran on the sand for a bit.  Then we had no choice but to turn around.  So we went back and went up the trail a bit then went back.  Nice easy run.

6:30pm- Me and my dad went to the new virgin river soccer park and ran from there.  At the end we ran up the hill on 300 east that goes up to telegraph for our long hill.  Felt good at first but the my heel started bugging me like it did as a youngster so that stunk but o well