GOING THE DISTANCE

3pm -  1k repeats today for our workout.  I felt pretty good but the last one my body just had nothing to give.  My mind was still strong, my body just wouldn't be strong.  But its ok, nothing to stress about.  Tomorrow ima take it easy so I can go totally ham on the time trial on wednesday.  Coach wants me and Paul to stay with Byron and Abel as long as we can.  I'm actually excited to see how long I can last with them, if not the WHOLE TIME!  I think I could do it.  Why not.

4pm -  After a long activity with Mrs. P.  We finally got going on our run.  I went easy today, just doing sandburgs.  I had some knee soreness when I was done though.  I jus dream of the day when I can just run and not have any major pains.

4pm -  Time trial.  3rd one of the year and I think the last.  I have a good effort and I am satisfied with my time 11:07.  But I want more.  I want to go so hard at bob firman I puke.  I've never puked in a race before.   Today coach wanted me and Paul to stay right on Abel and Byron as long as we could.  So I did and I made it about 1200m. And they started to pull away.  Then at about a mile Matt, Paul and Kyler pulled up with me.  I went with them but at the hill I really struggled.  The third lap I stayed consistently behind Paul.  With 200m left Paul was about 10m in front of me.  I imagined him as a desert hells guy and I though to myself there's no way I would let him beat me.  So I gave it my all and me and Paul had an epic sprint off.  I would say we pretty much tied it was really close.  Good day.

5pm -  Got to Salt Lake and ran 5 miles on the state course.  It felt good to get out of the car and shake the legs out.  Headed up to Boise for the Bob Firman Invite on Saturday.  Each time I run on this course I get more excited for state championships.

7:30 am -  Me and Paul ran 2 miles in the neighbor hood in Sandy near coach holts inlaws.  We didn't know that the morning was our main run so yeah oops.  We thought everyone else was going 3 miles.

5 pm -  Finally got to Boise after 6 hours of driving.  We dumped our stuff at the hotel and went over to run the course.  Fun course, pretty flat with a pretty nice hill.  After we ran the course we went over to the start and practiced how we would start.  

11:50 am -  Race Day!  Woke up at 8 and ate a pretty good breakfast.  It was nice to get so much sleep.  We headed over to the course and watched the boys D2 race.  Then went on a warmup, 2 miles.  Then we got all of our stuff ready and headed to the start line.  We had to draw a card for our spot at the line. We got right about half way, which didn't turn out to be that bad of a spot.

The race started and I tried to get out pretty good.  The first turn where the race bottlenecks I stayed to the outside and wasn't really slowed down at all.  About maybe a 1/4 mile in, maybe more, a few people went down right in front of me.  The kid who fell got like trampled and let out some blood curtling screams.  It sounded like he was being spiked all over his body.  He tried to get up but got smashed down again. Poor dude.  Anyway the race was good and we got on the beach.  This part was pretty tough.  I got to the hill and went up it pretty good, then sprinted down it.  Not many people used this downhill as much as they could.  Finished loop 1 and started a little surge, just continually passing people. The group of Paul, Matt, and Kyler was about 10 seconds ahead and I was gaining.  Coming up the hill second time, people were really slowing down and I passed a few there.  Then coming down I just totally let my body free and passed maybe 5 more people.  I remember how coach said to use the downhill to start your finishing kick, and that you should be going balls to the walls right here on the last 500m.  So I did and probly passed 10 more people including matt and paul before I finished.  This race was really fun and I'm glad I was able to finish strong and get a decent time.