GOING THE DISTANCE

6am-  morning run to arctic circle.  I felt like we went way fast and that i could barely keep up.  It was probly the 4 liters of soda saturday night.  but me and able were a bit behind and we had a good run.

3pm- 4 miles easy, 1 mile indian run, 4x100s, and 4 hill sprints.  I felt okay today but after my foot was feeling pretty sore.  so that why i have my foot in a bucket of ice water right now.  but i was a good day of running, not super hard but a good workout.  and it felt way hotter than normal today.  oh and we had a great time with some pv haters/possible hellians in the parking lot of albertsons.  hopefully they didnt report us for something, i dont know. 

6am-  arctic circle for 3 miles.  it was good and good and me and andrew pretty much ran together.  We were with the guys until a bit after we turned around at arctic circle, then they suddenly accelerated a lot.  So me and red follower just had a good run.

3pm-  7.25 miles.  michigans and 1m warm/cool.  So i was ready for this workout.  But when coach explained a michigan to us, Able wasn't sure exactly what to do so coach told him again.  In there somewhere coach said that we did two sets of it.  But i guess i didn't stay around long enough to hear that is was a joke.  So during the michigan i stayed with josh and it was way hard but i could have made it harder if i didn't think that we had another one right after it.  I could have pushed harder but i guess it was coaches fault.  he's not perfect so its ok.

6am-  a good arctic circle morning run.  

3pm-  4 miles plus 2x400's.  then we did weights.  so it was a good run up to green springs.  then we did the 400's and those were fun cuz they were fast but not killer.  i think we might have done them too fast, it felt more like a 800 pace instead of 1000 pace but they were nice.  and i almost lost my life when i got stuck on top of the pull up bar when we did weights.

6am- 3 miles, arctic circle

3pm- 5 miles, sandburg pond loop.  after we did 4 200's and my throat was burning so bad because of my cold. 

6am-  3 miles, arctic circle.

3pm-  4 miles and striders at salem hills high school before the varsity runners had there race.  When we did the 4 miles, my throat was burning the first bit, but as i got warmed up it was less as bad.  But when we did the striders it started burning again. 

9:30am-  Pretty fun race at cottonwood park.  We won as a team and i think i had a good race; it's hard to compare races in cross.  This course was a pretty hard course but fun too.  The hills were good to make it fun cause flat courses just seem more boring.  The race turned out way good.  It was almost like a miracle that i felt so good.  The day before my throat was still burning like crazy, and me and ryan and able and colton and jason didn't fall asleep until 12:30.  Any ways, once the race started the first part felt stressful cause i couldn't run where i wanted too, i just had too go around people and stuff.  Coach and everyone had told us the place to pass people was up the hills.  But the place I passed everybody was going down the hills.  I just let my legs go free and everyone else kinda went fast but tried to control there speed going down.  Halfway through the second loop, paul came up with me and got like 10 feet ahead and i told myself i was just gonna stay right here behind paul.  But before i knew it he was like 50 feet ahead of me and getting farther.  paul had a way good race, i could tell he really dared hardcore.  Half a mile later i was catching paul and feeling strong.  When coach said there was 400 left i kept going a little harder and going around the last turn i was right up with hobbs and paul.  and thats how we finished pretty much.  I had a good race but i wish i could have pushed it harder like paul.