GOING THE DISTANCE

Am -  easy run, 2.7

Pm -  Easy 25 mins and 4*200m on the track.  4.5 miles.  Fun run with friends.  Last region 9 xc meet tomorrow for me, ahhhhh!  Going for the W.

Am -  easy run, felt pretty good.  Wore my early birthday present, garmin 225.  It's pretty sick.

Pm -  Region today!  Had a good day and was pretty well physically prepared.  Honestly didn't have my best mental do us today, I know just what I need to do at state.  Race was in Cedar at bicentennial park.  I got 2.5 warmup and got loose and ready to go.

Race started out good, a bit quick but really right where it should be, 5:07.  I was right up with the hellians, things were going good.  I wasn't feeling as strong or relaxed in my breathing as I had hoped.  I was doing good working where I was, until about 1.5 Jaiden and Josh from DH pulled away and I just let it happen.  I can not do that, especially when like josh only finished like 10 seconds ahead of me!  So yeah from 1.5 to 2 miles I really just lost focus.  We all promised each other we would surge at 2 miles, so I was able to pull it together and give a strong 600m or so, then I really lost focus again.  Dallin passes me, then sage and spencer encouraged me, but I never responded until coach holt yelled at me and I pulled it together and busted my balls one last time.  I zoomed passed those three, then gained on jaiden till I blew passed him with 75m to go.  That musta awakened him cuz then he passed me back right after and I finished in 3rd place.  Time was slow, the whole race was kinda weird.  

State in one week, I know what I need to do.  Our team was the closest we've been to DH all year, we're gonna go get em. I'm glad I was able to have a strong kick, something I haven't really had all year, I'm sure tapering is bringing that out.  7 miles total on the afternoon.  Fall break starting Thursday, ahhhhh yeah.

Pm -  Easy 30 minute run.  Legs felt pretty tired, normal post race feeling ya know.  T'was a fun run through Washington with mostly all the boys.  I really like those runs with everybody cuz I just feel the team unity and brotherhood.

Am -  Rode my mountain bike on mustang pass trail a bit, up to where I did some work on the trail.  It's one of my favorites, so for my project in current issues class I'm restoring it.  It's gotten really crappy, I worked for like 2 hours and it went by so fast, it was just fun.

Pm -  Met at pvhs at 1:30.  We'll race at 2:30 for state, the girls at 1, so we ran later than 8am.  Did a short little speed workout.  16 reps of 50m/50m F pace and tempo pace.  Did it on the track, and it was over super quick.  Stomach bugged me the first 3 laps so I was a little off.  Same team from region running at state.  Cool beans

Am -  Met the team at pvhs, then drove to Middleton to run on a trail.  Pretty chill run, perfect weather.  5.15 miles, an out and back.  I'm really liking my new watch.

pm -  ran at 1:30.  met with my friends at pvhs, then ran over to pine view middle school.  Did a 15 minutes steady state tempo.  We were just chillin at about 6:08 pace, it felt good.  I screwed up on timing and the time was actually only 14:30.  Ha ha, hopefully those 30 seconds arent the difference at state.  After that did some quick uphill and downhill work, got the heart rate up a bit.  Then finished up the run back to the high school and got 5.6 miles.  I feel great, I'm super pumped for state.