You don't need to run every day to be a runner

Had practice at 1 in the morning just to say we did it. Ran 3.4 slow miles. Quite cold out.

Ran to Pleasant Grove high school and back. It's weird how close lone peak, american fork and pleasant grove's high schools are.

My Physical(Running) goals for this year:

• Run over 2000 miles in the year
• 4:45 mile, 10:30 2 mile, 16:15 3 mile
• Stay away from injury
• Make varsity at least 2nd half of XC season, because I won't be able to run for most of July(more details on that later)
• at least 50 pushups every day

2014 has had it's ups and downs for running, but mostly downs. I'm not planning on changing schools this year, and I think that will help, haha. I'm ready to rock 2015's world!

was sick yesterday, and felt a little better today.. Hopefully i'm back to 100% by monday. Took a big step back this week in mileage. It's gonna take me a while more now to get up to the miles I want to be doing each week, which is around 50.

woke up with a very abnormal feeling just below my right hip, but it didn't hurt. However, the more I walked, the more it hurt. Rolled my legs out when I got home from school and also stretched it out. Probably won't go for a run tomorrow, just to be extra cautious. I'm sick of being injured...

hip hurt again but a lot less than yesterday. Will probably do easy tomorrow to see how it feels. Rolled my legs out again and stretched. I have a church ball game tonight which I can't go to, which I am NOT happy about.

Cross country skiing at soldier hollow. Amazing workout, and it was tons of fun. This is kind of cheating counting these miles, but 8.5 miles running would be easier than this. My hip didn't hurt today which is good. KInd of a stinky week, running wise. These past 2 weeks have thrown me off track . I scraped un my right knee pretty badly tonight. I was answering a girl for preference, and as I was running across the streetI tripped on something and almost face planted. Luckily she didn't open the door right then, cause that would be super embarresing. 2 weeks ago, 2 guys from Lone Peak had blogs, including me. Now there are 5.

Planned on going fast, but I didn't. My stomach wasn't agreeing with me at all. I stopped at Walmart on the way back and put my beanie in my pocket. On they way out, a Walmart worker shoved me onto the ground and yelled "SHOPLIFTER"! He thought the lump in my pocket was something that I stole, but once I showed him, he could tell that they were pretty used, and that I didn't steal them. Kind of scary, but hilarious at the same time. I hope nobody that I knew saw me, that would be embarressing.

First day of the track class, which I can tell will be super nice. Went on the BST until we were right under Molly's, and stephen and I decided to go down to the canal. We went on that the rest of the way home. The batherooms were still open on the canal, which I was extremely grateful for. Averaged a 7:10, I am happy with. My stomach didn't hurt much during the run today like yesterday, but it started to hurt a lot more soon after I finished the run. DId weights afterwards and Gunnarson got mad at us for tracking mud in the weight room, so we cleaned it up. I got to use a pretty cool vacumn, and so did justin. I don't think anyome felt too good during the run.

Still not feeling good, so I just did some very easy miles @ a 8 minute pace by myself.

an easy run and 2 games of tag. Played hockey for a bit on the pond, was kinda iffy in some spots. Had a competition with a few guys to see who could slide the farthest on their belly on the uce.

I stayed up until 4 in the morning last night at my young men leaders cabin playing ping-pong, so I was pretty wiped out. Did 8 slow miles. Went on the canal towards smith's marketplace. Around the 5.5 mile mark I started to get really light headed, and I sat down for like 10 minutes to get back to normal. For the rest of the run I would have to walk for a bit after 5 or so minutes of running.

In the morning I went up to sundance to teach my little brother how to ski. At one point we wer sitting dowm and this ski comes up behind me pretty fast(somewhere between 12-15mph), and runs right into my butt. I've got a good bruise from that now and it hurt quite a bit during my run. I did the wall and explored some trails above the mountain run. Stats for the wall: .34 miles long, gains 497ft in elevation, highest grade 64% with an average of 42. Afterwards I ran around a bit more just to get some decent mileage.

Solid modest run, and halfway to art dye and back. I would have gone to the stop sign, except my stomach still hasn't been agreeing with me as of late. I don't think I will be able to go to BYU on saturday.

Ever had one of those days where you go home from school right away, and homework until midnight? Well, that was my day and it stunk.

I was feeling pretty decent today, so I decided to stick up with the leaders today. Did the mountain run from the school. We got kicked out of the golf course on the way back for throwing rocks on the pond, which was quite exciting. Did strides afterwards, which felt nice. The last time I did strides was at Nike, and those strides were the best. Found out trevor won't do football next year, and he be a big + for the team. However, this makes it harder for me to make varsity next xc season. This is the order right now: galen, zack, jamison, justin, trevor, josh & craik, and seth is somewhere in there I have been able to keep up with Craik the last few weeks, so i'm pretty close to him. I'm not going to be able to run at all during most of July, which will probably be why I don't make varsity. Well, xc season isn't for over 7 months, so a lot can happen. And I will do all in my power to make sure i'm in that top 7.

Did mountain run extended from my house. The extended trail is quite tough going backwards.

Not feeling good today, so went short and and easy pace(7:34).

4x600 repeats on Tawny's hill. 15 minute warmup and cooldown. I got 2:23,2:24,2:23,2:18. Decent times considering the last workout I did was either in late november or early december. Once my legs get into faster shape, I wan't to be hitting, 2:15's on them. Did a super insane strength/core workout with the new coach, and it was a lot harder than the hill sprints we did. Afterwards the coaches brought us chocolate milk, which was awesome.

3x5 minute pickups on the canal. I didn't push at hard as I should have, but I still did decent. I just hit a cruise speed on them and stayed the same pace the whole time. The only ones that did it were galen, justin, lil' warner, craik and me. Cut the cooldown a little short with craik because we were both feeling sick afterwards. Did the strenght training stuff again, but it was different. Did some suicides, which if you've never played basketball, you have probably don't have a clue what they are. Reminded me of my basketball days... I miss those days, but running is super fun too. We basically doing crossfit for a half hour after our run every B-day. The first race that I can go to is the distance challenge. My last race was the Nebo invite, and when I think of that, I think of how bad my XC season went. With such a low start to my junior year, I need to finish it on a super good note. I feel like i'm finally getting to where I should have been during the XC season. I'm already super excited to run the race, even though it's 2 weeks away!

I ran by myself today. I started and felt pretty darn good, so I decided to make this a progression run. Did it on the canal. Here are my splits:6:54, 6:41, 6:32, 6:28,  6:18, 6:10, 6:02, 5:57, 5:49, 6:00. The last mile was all uphill, and it felt like a 5:20 something pace. I wish I would have raced today, to see what I could have gotten when feeling as good as I did today. I broke my 3 mile PR 4 times, which is cool, but also dumb. Shows what a bad xc season I had

I din't have any motivation to go fast today, but I still wanted to go far. With about 3 miles left, I had to use the bathroom super bad, and I walked for a little bit. My brother drove by and asked if I wanted a ride home, and I accepted. I haven't hit 40 miles in a week since September!