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

Just got back from Alaska today! I'm too lazy to put seperate posts for each day, so all of them are going on today's. I had a bunch of incredible running experiences, and some of the highlights were: getting within 10 feet of a moose on a trail and not noticing it until a bit later, running the famous mt. marathon, winning a 5k road race with a time of 17:05, and the best, meeting Allie Ostrander and doing a few 200 intervals with her, and a few miles after that.

Running in Alaska was awesome, but I'm ready to get back to going with the team.

First day back with the team! Unfortunately not many come on saturdays, and lots of guys weren't there. There were only 5 of us there, but it was still great to be back. We did mountain run extended and I struggled with the elevation change. I've been at sea level, so I was breathing super hard the whole time. Not the best run, but summer training is the best!

Not a very good run today. I felt kinda loopy(I didn't do any drugs this morning, I think).  As of now, I'm figuring that i'm the 10th guy on the team. It's still the beginning of the summer, so i can make up ground. Of the guys that are close to making varisty, it will be the hardest for me because: 1) i'm the slowest of them right now, 2) i'm going to be gone a lot during the summer. Runs by myself tend to go better though, which is kinda weird. I can make it though, and really the only chance of making it is getting much more mentally strong, which is definitely not a strong point for me. I feel like i'm usually in at least decent shape, but mentally i can't push it hard.

was bored later so I did a solid core workout consisting of 120 pushups, 120 situps, and other "fun" stuff. I'm on the lone faithful list and i've had 4 comments today. Weird.

Ran up to zig-zack cave and then finished 5 mile loop. I had a doctor's appointemt right after practice, so I had to do my core later by myself. At my doctor's appointment I found out i'm allergic to a ton of stuff, all in the spring and fall. Right during the peak of XC and track. The stuff is right on the trails that we run on up on the side of the mountain, and it makes it harder to me to breathe. So with some medication, i'll get better, so i will be able to do much better on trail runs, which are the ones I really struggle on.

4 and a quarter later with tannup the canyon.Went up the timpanooke trail for a bit. I felt terrible, buts that's okay, because i was a fun run.

I slept in a little bit, so I missed practice which stunk. So I went on Bonneville out to the dip, which is exactly 3 miles from my house. Averaged a 6:34, closed in a 5:47, but it was downhill. My bro goes into the MTC today. Gonna miss him. I'll see him in 3! Also mountain biked 10 miles right after. Good stuff. I have trek for the rest of the week so i might go for another run tonight. Probably like 4 miles,but fast. 3.5 on the canyon roaad loop, felt pretty freaking good. 5:58 average.

At 5:30 in the morning before trek. 6:48 average

Rough run. Hilly, and quite slow. 7:23 average. I lost 4.5 pounds at trek which was kinda weird.

Kinda sick today, so i wasn't able to keep up with the main pack today. I leave on thursday for new york for a month, so i'll have to make these last few practices count.

Decent run on the black trail. I started out feeling good hitting 6:20's, but i didnt do to well towards the end. I'm not very good at pacing.

5 mile loop, then timberline trail for a bit extra. Not sure on the average pace, but it was probably decent. saw seth while i was driving home, and he wasn't at practice, so shame on him. Just kidding. Ryan ran with us today, and yesterday he tied for the win in a really prestigious bike race, so good job to him

Tag today! Its one of josh c. Last days

,so we played tag for him. I had to run back after just 1 game because im super busy today. Starting on the way back, i was going normal pace(7:00) and i just gradually started speeding up till i was going like 5:20 pace the last half mile. I pushed it hard because this might be my last run for a.month.

Its been over 4 months since i've had a day (excluding sundays), where i have done some sort of streneous exercise. Im getting burned out. For some reason i feel this "break" will be better for me in the long run. See ya in a month!