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

My ankle hurt a bit saturday after my run, so I decided 2 days off should do the trick. No run, but did a good core workout consisting of 5 different 90 seconds abs, and 5x25 sets of pushups.

I had to babysit when it was light outside, so after dinner I went to the PG rec center. I think my legs have something against that track, because my legs always hurt when I run on it. Did 3 relaxing miles, @a 7:10 pace. Did the eliptical afterwards for a hard 30 minutes. Was sweating buckets at the end.

My run started by racing down to the high school, hoping some guys would still be doing weights. Sadly, the last people were just leaving. I did run a 5:04 for the 1st mile split( A PR, but it was downhill, and unofficial with no witnesses), and I was super pumped with that. Despite that very fast start, I still felt very good and averaged a 6:18 for the last almost 4 miles. I've noticed that on days I do between 3 and 4 around a 7 minute pace, I feel super good the next day. Maybe I should do this before races, because my 3 mile split was 17:18( I had about a 2 minute break while going into the high school and talking to the guys), and I was still able to keep a pretty good pace for the remainder of the run. For the rest of the week, I am going to go on longer, slower runs. I've done plenty of short and quick runs, it's time for my endurance to get up. Good luck to all those running Footlocker!

Maybe the worst run ever. I wanted to go for 7ish miles. My parents had me bring my little brother along, who went on his bike. He was whining and complaining the whole time. I went to drop him off at our house so I could go for another half hour or something like that, but then my ankle started to hurt pretty bad. Good thing I have tomorrow off. I've had an overload of homework the past few days, so I haven't been able to go running.

Congrats to Connor and Garek for qualifying for Nationals! Two from the blog, thats pretty cool. Had 2 last year go, connor and Kramer, although he didn't use his blog. I wonder how many will go next year....  And congrats to my team. I looked like Zack had a phenominal race, and JAmison had a good one too. I miss racing a lot. My last race was in September. I wasn't planning on doing the indoor races, but will probably do them now because I want to see super badly where I'm at. That 5:04 on wednesday got me excited for track.

And congrats to American Fork for coming in 5th at NXN today. Not the way they wanted to end the season, but kudos to them.

LP turkey trot route from my house. Nice and easy. My satellites stopped working 1.5 miles in which was quite annoying. Luckily, I know the distance from my house to the start and finish, so I know the total mileage. A good ab workout afterwards. Haven't done a solid one in a few weeks.

Definetily a more dissapointing run. I ran home from my dentist's place, which is by the hospital. I was really ticked because I had a really, really small cavity, but big enough to call it one. If I wouldn't of had one today, I would have hit the 10 year mark with no cavities, and my parents said they would pay me $100 if I went 10 year without one. Anyway, I was really ticked about that. I didn't look at my watch the whole time, which was very dumb of me. I though it would take me about 40 minutes to get home, but it took about 25. I was about to go and do 20 more minutes by my mom stopped me. I did go at a faster pace then I thought I was, I averaged a 7:10. It felt really easy, which was a good thing. I gave my bag of floss and stuff to a homeless guy. Merry Christmas to him! I thought it wouls be about 5 miles, but I was way off. Not too happy with today, but every day can't be a good one. 100 pushups afterwards.

8x400 with 1.3 warmup and cooldown. Felt very sluggish, probably because the last workout I did was the tuesday before the Nebo invite. Times were within 2 seconds of 80 on all of them. I don't have much of a problem pushing myself hard on distance runs by myself, but with workouts, especially intervals it's super hard to fast with no one to run with. The sprinters had practice today, to start to get ready for indoor. I heard them making fun of the distance guys because they didn't have practice today. I went up to them and raced the smack talker in a 400. My times were around 80 on all of them but this one, which was my 6th. I got 63, and he got 70. Sprinters are wimps compared to us. Sprinting is a talent, distace running depends on how hard you work.

Easy miles on the BST. The reason for the low mileage this week: I need to start running every day again, but I don't want to go up to much in mileage in a week. Doing less than 5 most days this week, will go up like 3-6 miles a week after this week, until I get to 45 or 50 then will stop. I should be able to start running with the team again next week! Mo Farah ran 20 miles on the treadmill today! That would get super boring. 5 miles  is a stretch for me, I get way too bored on those things.

Slow miles. Didn't feel good at all. Excited for the next few weeks when I can go on distance runs that actually do stuff for me. Galen calls these runs garbage miles. I didn't agree with him at first, but I am starting to see his point of view.

Today dosen't count as the weekend. I had the ACT until noon, squeezed in a quick run, and am working on homework and projects for the rest od the day. I went by every guys house on the team that lives in Cedar Hills. Went by howie, jacob, shaun, galen, jonas, jacob bybee, zack, josh, max, seth and jamison's houses. Didn't go easy, but Didn't go hard either.

Good job to connor mantz and josh collins, 10th and 11th at nationals. Garek got 27th, and he's the 6th returner for nexy year!

The worst i've felt in a while during my run. I'm gonna set up my runs shorter this week, so on Saturday i can do a longer one, like 7 or 8 miles.

Easy miles to molly's and back. My right hand got really cold on the way back.

Randon fact: Casey Clinger is ranked #23 in the country for XC. Only underclassman in top 25, and 4th returner for next year.

Ran to one of my old friends houses and back. Was harder than it should have been. Nothing note worthy happened on the run today

Ran to art dye and back with a little loop at the end to get another half mile or so. Mediocre effort until the last half mile, which was half down and half uphill, and I ran a 2:28. I got a high-5 from Sheldon with about a mile to go, which was cool. Will do 8ish miles tomorrow. I might be able to go to practice, which is a lot dinner than running by yourself.

Mountain run extended with a little extra when I got home. Only lil' warner and josh were at practice besides me. I felt like crap the whole time. I averaged a 8:12, which shows how slow I went. It wasn't very cold today, but it was wet. It was pretty slippery up on the trails. I got 28 miles exactly this week, which is what I needed to get. Probably like 32 next week. I'm not gonna start following the 10% rule until i'm above 35 miles, because less than that isn't much mileage.

Black trail and then towards burgess, but I didn't go into it. 7 people at practice today. I felt better than I did on saturday, but still not very good. Ran with Spencer King most of the time. The wind seemed to change directions whenever we did, and it was always going in our face. My feet got pretty cold from all of the slush we ran through. Running through rain can be fun, snow is a blast, but super wet snow, which is what it was today, wasn't so much fun. I'm gonna do about 32 miles this week.

It was much colder today than yesterday, so we went on a sun run. Went up into the hog's area, and turned around with Josh Christensen before the other guys. We wnet down a road that was 1.2 miles long, and we ran a 5:31 for the mile split without even realizing it, which is pretty cool.

We just goofed off most of the time. Elle was the only girl there, so she went with the guys. We did hobbit hole and timberline loop, jumped a few fences, and ran through a few backyards. Ar westfield elementary their were a few balls in the field, so we played 4-square for a bit, and then played lava monster. Will do inbetween 4-5 tomorrow. the "run" today was fun, but looking back, I wish I would have gone off on my own and done an actual run. My fingers just about froze off today.

A super fun run. I ran at about 2pm, and it started to snow as soon as I came out of my front door. I went at a pretty slow pace the whole time. I went faster on the uphills than the downhills, because of all of ice. I found a good sized icicle (about 3 feet), and ran with that for a while, pretending that is was a baton and I was in a long distance relay race. It's been a great Christmas. I'm extremely grateful that it has FINALLY started to snow. I'm also glad that the temperature is finally going down, so that the pond can freeze over and we can play ice tag. Merry Christmas!

Another easy run. . It was in the low 20's when we went running.

2 good miles on the treadmill later, 5:45 pace. I'm super excited for track, and I feel like my goals will be defeated in the season.

Good, quality miles. Splits ranged from 6:12 to 6:56. I can tell i'm finally getting back into shape.

Easy miles through a lot of Alpine. I got seperated from the main pack, so I went a different way then everyone else. I ran by myself again. Since i've came back to practice, it's really stunk. I've ran by myslef probably 80% of the time. But I know with hard work, I can eventually catch up to the fast guys. I have more things to improve upon then they do. I'm finished with being one of the "slow" guys. Solid core workout afterwards.