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

First, apologies. My last blog is almost the exact same as the last 1, but i forgot the password, so i just made a new 1. Knee felt great in the morning, so i decided to risk a run. Did a loop i've done 4-5 times, and i didn't have my watch. THe loop is about 3.75 miles, but i walked for about .25 of a mile when my knee started to hurt. I went faster that i felt, probably around a 6:50 pace. Knee hasn't been hurting later in the day, so that good! Not ready for school to start.

Was probably longer, but i don't know for sure. I think i've lost my watch, which isn't good. First half downhill, 2nd up. I think i averaged just over a 7:30. The only thing different from my old blog is the blog name. My last blog was "spencesmith". My new blog name in honor of my PLeasant grove friends is "spankysmith".

Went to PGHS cause i had to talk to the driver's ed teacher, and on the way out i ran into zac slater. felt good to see an old face. Also saw tyler penrod, and he called me a traitor. But, my brother calls me a traitor every day. Zac said that PG is gonna be better than last year, but i had already figured that out. He asked about LP's team. And I said if i told him, he would haft to die. just kidding, i told him we have a amazing top 2, good top 4, but our 5th man is where were gonna struggle.

I've forgotten how much i hate 800's. I was reminded today. 20 minute warmup, 2.5ish miles. 4x800 at 5k pace. I was supposed to do 6, but my knee was hurting after the third and didn't do fourth and did fifth. Not very fast times. When I was in the "B" group, i won both of them. But the "b" group is really the c group. 20 minute cooldown but i cut it short. RYan bybee gave us a lecture on lifting weights afterwards.

I would say it was a crappy first day of school. I sat by myself during lunch, and during school hours i only saw 3 people I knew. Basically the whole day i was thinking of how i could be 6 miles away and in a totally different world. I would be goofing off with my friends, telling stupid jokes, wishing about girls(tanner), and having fun. THis probably made my day 10x worse just thinking about pg, but i couldn't help it. Before today i haven't had any big regrets about choosing lp over pg, but today flipped the switch. no offense to lone peak though, i will fit in eventually, it will just take time.

8 minute warm-up, 2 games of tag, 8 minute cooldown. I didn't get caught in the first game, but Zach R. was on my heels for close to 100 yards. Luckily, i'm actully not a bad sprinter. Second game was caught by galen and craik. I had just been chased down bt lil warner, jamison, and jacob jensen, i dodged craik for a second and gave up. I'm such a loser.

Instead of only seeing 3 people i knew today, i saw 12! At this rate, i should know everbody in the school. In a 7 more school days.

2.5 milw warmup at a 7:09 pace. A little fast, i think i would have done a little better if he did it shorter. 4x600 meter hill repeats. Didn't do the third because of my knee, did 4th and fifth. Okayish times, for me at least. Hot outside, but not crazy. ice bath afterwrds. Got my first Lone Peak shirt today.

no clue on the exact mileage, but i know it was at least this far. Went on the BST. Great running weather until the wind came. THe last part jacob jensen and i ran down cedar hills drive. When we were going by ithe roundabout i ran into my brothers. THey were just at the snow cone shack, and they came me the rest of theirs! nice after run snack.

had youth conference in the morning so i didn't go to morning practice. Haven't run yet today, and don't plan to. I ran 3.8 or so miles last week, and just under 25 this week. Don't want to go up too much. just found out solider hollow was today. It's my favorite course and i'm super bummed Lone Peak didn't do it.  Debating wether going to the black light dance tonight or not. Seems really fun, but i don't know anyone, and dancing by yourself is super aquard. Especially on the slow dances! :)

Ran a little past art dye, to the pond and a 12 minute game of dejavu tag. Don't judge me on my spelling. On the way to art dye we went pretty slow. On the way back stephen and i picked it up a lot, because we still wanted to get a good workout in. I think those 2 miles were right around 12, which is okay, but it was uphill on the way back, so i'm satisfied. Was 1 of 2 guys that didn't get caught in tag. Super pumped for grass relays, especially after the 2 mile tempo i did today. Finally finished with register my athlete. Josh Christiansen has been all over my back trying to get me to ask a particular girl from the team to homecoming. She's 1 of 2 cute girls on the team, but i think it's just weird. I will probably ask her just to get him off my back.

20 minute warmup, 400,800,1200,800,400, 20 minute cooldown. The stupid band had t be practicing, so we used a 400 meter lap. Times were slow at first, the picked it up. 82, 3:05, 4:48,2:48,76. The lap was actually 410 meters, so that made me feel a little better about my times. The last 400 felt awesome, reminded me of the best part of my race, my kick. Hated doing laps, reminded me of how much i am going to hate running 2 and 3 miles at AF. I am probably not gonna have a ping pong party. Met a girl in my seminary class that is way cool, and she's cute too. Haven't found out yet if she's been asked to homecoming, i will ask if she hasn't. Haven't ran over 6 miles in a day in over 4 weeks. Feels good to get back on track. My calves have been sore for the past week, for no particular reason. I think it might be going from 4 to 25 miles in a week. tomorrow is supposed to be a recovery run, and i hope we treat it like 1. I don't want to be sore on saturday.

About a minute into the run i had to use the bathroom, so I stopped at the seminary building. Seth, stephen and shaun were nice enough to wait for me, but it was their excuse to get a soccer ball and go to art dye and play. Once we got onto the art dye trail, seth and I flew. It was .8 miles, and our mile split would have been around 5:15. Felt amazing! Soccer was boring, as usual. We made an ab workout called Kim-jon-un. I would have rather gone up the canyon with the rest of the guys, but it was okay. Hopefully my knees won't be sore tomorrow. I don't think Mr. Revelli likes me, because he asked about ab workouts, and I tolally BSed it and siad we did a 20 minute ab workout yesterday. He believed my for a little bit, but the girls told on me. Today has been a pretty crappy day at school, but on the bright side, i haven't worn my knee brace all week, and my knee hasn't hurt a bit!

No run today. Was at the doctors during practice. I have poison ivy, and when i get it it is usually super bad. I have in a bunch on my face. I twas pretty embarressing when i was talking to some cute girls during linch. I got it from tag on monfay. I guess this is my punishment for playing tag when i should have been running. Rolled out my calves, which are still a little sore.

Slept amazingly last night, which was good. I'm not dure how far our run was, but i think it's a good guesstimate. Couldn't breathe very well for some reason. I ce bath afterwards. Pasta party at night. Excited for tomorrow. My last legit race was orem tiger trails, and i didn't do very well. Want to get under 11:45

As soon as I woke up, i could tell today wasn't the day. There were only 3 guys from Lone peak in my race, and they were both super slow. My first mile was around 6:30, which was way too slow. I sureged on the track, and passed about 10 people. After that i zoned out. I was thinking about stuff i shouldn't be focusing on, like who was going to give talks in church tomorrow, etc. I was super slow at the hay bales, both times at the gauntlet i got passed by at least 5 people. When i was heading around the baseball field the first time I felt like dropping out. My stomach felt terrible, which was weird because the last thing i at was some watermelon at the pasta party. My knee felt fine. I have some poison ivy around my eyes, and i had to slow down for a bit to get it out.  I had my watch on, and it said 2.04! That takes off about 15-20 seconds i think. That comeforts me a little, but still a bad race. That takes off At the end, i could tell i still had some gas left in the tank.  I would give myself a C- for this race. Price's time last year was 12:32, so i am definetly gonna get teased by the PG team. I passed a few people at the very end, the only bright spot about today. My spikes were way too small, and 26.2 was there. I got a a pair of flats instead of spikes, but i'm fine with that. Our varsity team did pretty well. We came in 4th of of 30ish. First was AF, Desert Hills, Lehi, LP. Seth had a really good race, he was in the 10's. and he was really close to beating zack. Lil' warner wasn't very happy with his time, which was 10:36. He got 10:15 last year, so i would be pretty mad too. Hopefully by region we'll be able to top Lehi. I'm pretty sure that we will make it to state. We came in 3rd out of 4 teams from region 4. I know that were faster than were faster than westlake, riverton, i think herriman, and 90% sure were faster than PG. Juston did really well, and came in 10th overall in frosh/soph. He dosen't show up very much, but if he becomes dedicated, he'll get up there. I'm pretty sire the guys fighting for the 6-7 spots will be: juston,craik,josh C., stephen, and spencer king if he gets back from having a bad IT band. After that it's me, jacob jensen, and josh ericksen. After that it's a big drop. It was great running weather today, and i was super mad about time, but mostly my place. This just fules me even more for upcoming races. I think with Pleasant grove racing against me, that i can push myself a lot harder tha i did today.I am still learning how to push myself to my limit. I am gonna get a new jersey!