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

Met at legacy at 7, and it felt awesome to go in the morning again. Did the detour trail by lambert to the mountain run, and took a little detour afterwards. I felt terrible till we got on the trails. I never drink enough water on sundays. Russell did really well today, and towards the end was pushing me, stephen, craik and jacob. Josh C. ran up with jamison today, who was the only varsity runner there today.

Ryan had us go for only 25 minutes which i was suprised about. 2 Stride laps afterwards. Mr. Revelli was talking about pre-region, and the teams the guys would need to watch out for. He said something about one team and i bursted out laughing. I saw tanner when we were running, and i yelled his name at him, but it came out as a high pitched squeak. He didn't say hi back. What a loser.

Did terrible. On the 2nd lap i got tripped by a AF football player, and i landed on my bad knee. My race went downhill from there. Lone peak came in 4th pretty solidly, so we shouldn't have to much of a challenge of  getting to state. Saw my friends from PG, which was nice. 2 bad races in a row. I think I am allergic to the AF course. I am better than what i've shown in these past 2 races. Hopefully i'm over my knee by BYU, and will have a solid race there. The results for pre-region didn't show tteam scores so i did the math:

Af:15

Westlake: 72

Lehi:87

Lone Peak:93

Riverton: 194

Herriman:197

PLeasant Grove: 210

I was worried about my knee today, but it didn't hurt at all! Ran with Josh Ericksen today. Went on the BST. My calves have been "sore", for the past couple of weeks, and i'm starting to wonder if it something else. When I got home, i had my favorite recovery drink in the world:kale,cranberry,apples and cucumbers all juiced up. Everything straight from our garden except for the cranberries.

20 minute warmup, 400,600,400,600,400,600,400. THe field was wet, which was super annoying and gross. Times were a little slower because of that. 400's were within a few seconds of 83. 600's within a few seconds of 2:15. Did a barefoot cooldown which felt amazing. I haven't ran barefoot since running on the beach in North Carolina. Had an ultimate pushing bouncy house contest afterwards.

During halftime of the BYU game.

2 12 minute games of tag, 15 minutes before. We made a new cooldown called pole dance. Lil' warner told us about the sub 5 club shirt, and why we need to be funnier. we only have 4 quotes, but i have 2 of them.

We tried to convince ryan to let us do hills, but he wouldn't go for it. 5x800 with a 400 at the end on the field. It was super wet. We saw AF's team go by, and timo stopped and talked for a bit. One of my most consistent workouts i've done. times were: 3:02, 3:01, 3:00, 2:28, 2:53, 87. On the 400 i thought it was an 800, but everybody started to go super fast, and i was confused. once galen finished ahead i found out it was a 400. Went faster after that, but still a bad time for a 400. I felt pretty good afterwards, so i didn't push myself hard enough. I went up with the "A" group today, so that pushed me a little more. I placed well every time, finishing right behind craik on all of them. I neen to learn to find what my limit is. I know it's a lot faster than what i been doing in workouts and especially races.  My times are usually 2:52-2:55, so i think the mud slowed me down a little. 20 minute warm-up and a little shorter cooldown. I have about 4 hours of homework tonight.

I had an abnormal feeling in my lower left leg, so i turned around before most. I went through shady oaks on the way back, and i found a rotting dragon body. I will think of a name for it by tomorrow.

15 minute warmup, 5,4,3,2,1. 5 min fast, 5 slow, 4 fast, 4 sow, etc. I did really well on 4 &5 pretty good on 2 and 1. on 3 i was in no man's land. Craik, the back of the A group was 20 yards ahead, and the c group was 100 yards behing. 20 minute cooldown, went to icebath but the river was dry.

showed everyone my dragon their all pretty jealous i saw it first. I won speed at the pasta party, but i did terrible at the same time. THe ping pong party was a dissapointment. I won every game by at least 6 points. Not a disspaiontment in me winning, but i had no competition.

I got boxed in on the 1st mile, adn my first mile was in the 8's. Yikes! Sped up, but the damage was done. My last 800 was a 2:18, which isn't far from a PR. I passed 38 people with a half mile to go, and i'm glad i did to get into the top 100. I haven't had a good race yet this season, and i'm getting frustrated with myself. OUr team did pretty well considering we didn't have lil' warner. If he had been there, we would have been right with LEhi. Seth is a freaking beast. His time was faster than tanner's last year, and he didn't come very much during the summer.

Nice and esay up the canyon a little ways. It was super hot today. We found a great spot to take an ice bath, but it was 2.5 miles from the high school, so we bagged it. Talked to my dad about racing strategies. I haven't had a good race yet this year, and were almost halfway through the season. Only in 2 races have i been passed in the 2nd and 3rd mile, and that has been pre-region this and last year. I am gonna go out fast this first mile on saturday, around a 5:45. After that just keep with someone that is moving up. Hopefully this will help me. I'm tired of hearing talk about what a great race they had, and then they ask how I did. It's embarressing to tell them.

We always do hills when it's super hot out. 2.5 mile warmup, 6x600m on tawny's hill, 1.5 cooldown. One of my most inconsitent workouts lately. Times ranged from 2:15-2:27.

To AF and back, then a 12 minute game of tag. Got caught with 5 seconds left in the game.

5x800 at 5k race pace, with a nice long warmup and cooldown. Stunk it up today. I talked to ryan about my legs, which have been aching since the tempo last thursday. He said to ice and roll them out. Rolled my legs out for nearly 30 minutes when i got home, which felt amazing. I finally have my basketball hoop up, so i can start practicing for church ball and junior jazz. My last game was my very last practice at Pleasant Grove. My team dominated. My shot is off, and I need to get it back on track. I think i figured out why PG is having it's homecoming so late. It's on saturday, and we are going to the invite there that morning. It's because it's my homecoming too! People are supposed to win at homecoming, so hopefully i pull out a good race.

Super awesome adventure run. We cute through this person's backyard, and found a little trail. It went by a pond that had a few slack ropes going over it. It was way cool. Went through a few farmer's fields, jumped a few fences, and nolen almost shattered a windshield of a car with a golf ball.

I am finally moving forwards instead of backwards. Woke up with aching ankles, so i didn't know what to think of the day. My race: started out well the first mile, time was 6:03. My second mile i zoned out and didn't realize for nearly 800m afterwards. 2 mile split was 12:58. oops. Sped up in 3rd mile, but i didn't have it in me. final time was 19:12. Definetely my best race so far of the year, but i still know i can go a lot faster. I am right with jacob every day during practice, and he finished a minute ahead of me. Now that my knee is back to 100%, I have another injury. I am gonna ice and roll my legs out a ton this next week, adn try to be 100% by westlake, which is 2 weeks away. I want to get under 18:45 at nebo, and then under 17:30 at westtlake. Our varsity team came in 2nd pretty comftorably, behind AF. PG's top 3 came in before our's, so i got worried for a second that they would beat us. But our 3,4, and 5th man came in right after that. Justin is a beast. He tied Jamison's PR fromlast year today, which was 17:09. He'll easily get under 17 at westlake. Cade did pretty well considering running 3 times in the past month, with a time of 18:15. He'll probably be right behinf justin by the end of the season. Now that he's in, im 16th on the team. I know that I can beat nolan,russell, and jacob, but i need to get my ankles better. Tanner is bouncing back quiclky from being out so long. This is kind of a PR. I did a race simulation by myself during july, when i was actually fast. it was at westlake, and i got 17:48. I'm not counting that as a PR. Today's race was 3.05, so i will count that as a 3 mile, with taking about 12 seconds off.

Was at the orthodontist during practice, and i found out i will get braces within a month, and basically have them until my mission. Also finally went and got my liscense. Saw galen there. Was going to go for a run, but my ankle has been giving me a great deal of pain today, so i figured another day to stretch and ice it wouldn't hurt. Playing basketball was my exercize today. I was putting my older brother to shame, which dosen't happen much. Can't waith for JJ and church ball to start.

2.5 warmup, 4,6,4,6,4,6,4. Times were not at all fast: my ankle wasn't agreeing with me. 1.5 cooldown. Went up the canyon and took an ice bath afterwards. I got to fly an airplane today! Easily one of the coolest things i've done. I got to fly right over my house, saw a bunch of team members houses, and got to go all over the valley.

Slow miles. I hung back with howie today, since my ankle wasn't the happiest. I know that the best thing to do would take about a week off, but it's the middle of the season with westlake right around the corner, and i know i can PR by a lot. I might not run tomorrow, but if i do it will be less than 30 minutes.

Nice and easy. I want my ankle to be fresh for tomorrow. Turns out it's a stress fracture. Will run until westlake, then take a break from running and bike and swim a lot.

We got there a few hours before my race, so it was nice to sit around for a while. We set up camp right next to PG, which was nice. My race: My first mile was 6:05, but i thought it would be around 6:40. I was right with max and zack, and i didn't notice this for a while. i freaked out when i saw them and surged for a good 200 meters. Parker ran his first mile in 5:45, and after that he jogged the rest of his race. On the third lap parker stayed with me, and i put in one of my weakest kicks ever but still beat him by 10ish seconds. My anlke was hurting the whole time. Itook some ibuprofen before, but i don't thinkit helped me much. This makes me really mad, because I still PR'ed, but i had a decent race, with a stress fracture. If i can have a good race with no injuries, i could have been more than a minute faster today. Before i hurt my knee, i was tailing craik in the summer, who ran a 17:13. I can be sooooo much faster.  The varsity boys race was super exciting, especially the top 3 finish. Garek showed everyone what a kick should be. I still can't believe that casey won! Our team came in 4th behind af, desert hills and provo. When we were leaving i couldn't find our bus and i almost got a ride with the AF team. Thankfully i found seth who knew where the bus was. Not a bad day, but i know i can do so much better.

no run today. Ankle in a great deal of pain. It takes me about 30 seconds to go down a flight of stairs.

No run or bike today. I decided yesterday that I wasn't going to run at westlake. But parker has been trash talking behind my back about how he's gonna beat me at westlake. I will run on friday, and crush him. I don't care if i'm injured i will not lose to him.

20 on the bike. Miss going to practice already.