GOING THE DISTANCE

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.