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!

Short run on the bonneville shoreline trail, because we started a little late. I didn't want to be late for Coach meldrum's strenght training, so I kicked my butt the last almost 2.5 miles, and went sub-6 that whole time. We know for sure now that coach meldrum held the world record in the 3000 meter steeplechase for a time, which is super awesome. Afterwards galen, jamison, justin, trevor, josh erikson, and me ran to mountain ridge, and then to take an ice bath in the river.

Did the workout by myself. 4x600m hills. Had a big headwind on the way up. Got 2:26, 2:25, 2:25, 2:24. Okay times, and it was hard to push myself with no one else there. I did a pretty long cooldown, and it felt good. Temperature was 53 degrees during my run! Felt amazing

Did 5 miles with the soccer team, then did 4 more through the art dye frisbee golf course and back. Did another core workout, and they aren't getting any easier. I feel like friday coach muldrem is gonna kick our butts during the core workout. We get chocolate milk every day now after practice!

I had a pretty rough day at school today, so I was planning on hitting the workout today, 3x5 minute pickups, pretty hard. But I couldn't do much of anything today. I was broke mentally the whole time, and wasn't able to push it. I know that it will take time to get used to the high mileage, because the last time I ran over 48 miles in a week was in July when I was at lake powell.  I feel like these miles didn't do anything for me.

Good modest run, a some extra miles by myself, strenght training, and then an ice bath, which was nice and refreshing. I was feeling better today, so i'll make sure to hit it hard tomorrow.

Super awesome run. I felt unusually good the whole time. Went on the Bonneville Shoreling Trail to Battle Creek and back. Averaged a 6:39, which I am super happy with. I think the reason I felt so good was going easier yesterday and thursday, and I think the ice bath yesterday helped too.

Did the mountain run from my house, and did a little extra too. Saw jamison pulling into his driveway about 20 seconds into my run, so talked with him a bit. Averaged a 7:13. My legs felt really weird the last few miles, so I rolled them out when I got home, which felt really good.

pretty useless run. About 2 minutes into the first pickup, my knee started to hurt EXACTLY how it did when I had runner's knee. I got freaked out right then and turned around and did the rest at an easy pace. Rolled out my legs when I got home. Probably nothing serious, but i'm not taking any chances. I'm done with being injured.

Definely a candidate for the best run of all time. If falls into the #2 slot behind my slot canyon run at lake powell. I was originally just going to go on the BST, but I wanted to do something different for a change. So I went up. And up. And up. Once I was at the top of the foothills I found a deer trail. FUNNEST TRAIL OF ALL TIME. It's flat, you have an amazing view of the valley from it, and you go by 2 small caves. Thr trail is now called Spencer's Trial. Pretty creative, huh? Oh, and my knees were fine.

I heard a pretty cool quote today:

"A goal without a plan is a wish".

3x3 minute pickups today. Did a core workout afterwards then strides. Felt pretty sick today, but will race tomorrow not matter how sick I feel. I'm SOOOO excited to race. I'm not putting my hopes up for a good race, because it's been a while. But even if I have a bad race, it would still have been fun, because racing is my favorite part of running and i've missed out on it for a while.

First of all, It was awesome just to get to race again. It was so much fun. We did a good 15 minute warmup, but it was a little early for my heat. I was in the 7th heat, most of the guys were around 5:12. I got a great start and settled into 3rd on the first curve. From this point on until the start of the last lap, I tried to keep the same pace. I zoned out, which is a really bad habit I need to break during races. Russell passed me with a lap to go, and I couldn't let him beat me. I started my all out sprint about 2/3 of the way through the final curve. Once i hit the straightaway, the clock was 4:46! I though I could break 5 but I forgot that the straighaways were 140 m insteadof 100. Well, I did close in 15 seconds for 140 meters, so my final sprint was good. I beat russell by 4 seconds, I think. I was a little mad at myself because if I had paced it right, I could have broken 5 pretty solidly. My original goal was to beat Craik, who got 4:58 in the heat in front of me. Good 15 minute cooldown with a few guys from Westlake. We now have 7 people already in the sub-5 club already, with justin oficially doing it today and craik getting it. Josh hit 5 flat, so he'll get it next time. We could end up having 12 or so in the club, which is pretty cool.

Overall, I'm happy with this race. I haven't raced since September, and this was a good race to see where i'm at. I raced in XC mode, which is a lot different than track. With only having done 5 workouts this year, i'm happy with the time. I still have much room for improvement. Starting next week I can go to practice on A-days, so that will help. Next mile race for me will be the team time trails, and I want to break 5 there. I will have craik and josh right in front of me, so I should be able to pace off them to break 5. Excited for an awesome track season coming up!

Felt pretty freaking sick. Might do more later, depending on how I feel.

7 more in the afternoon. Still not feeling great, but better than this morning. 

Met at legacy and did mountain run extended. Went to lil' warner's house and had waffles afterwards. found out josh though I was a freshman during the summer, which was pretty funny. Will probably do more later.

Pretty rough day at practice. Part of my shoes was rubbing into my heel the whole time. It was only annoying during the warmup, but it hurt pretty badly the rest of the time. Anyway, the workout was 6x600m hills with a continuos recovery. Pretty brutal, and I didn't do very well. Did a core workout afterwards and courtney had us do a bunch of sprints, which I thought it was  too early in the season to be doing those, but whatever. We were being told to do them by a freaking world record holder, so i think she knows what she's doing. My knee hurt a little afterwards.

Definetily a run to remember. I went up into the foothills till i got to spencer's trail(my trail), did that till it deadended on a cliff, turned around and then decided to keep going up. and up. and up. I came to this one point right before a really steep part of the trail, and stopped to take a breather. Then, I felt that something(not someone), very powerful was watching me. A voice in my head(i'll try not to get religious but i am 110% sure it was the Holy Ghost), yelled, "RUN"! So I booked it down the trail for a few minutes, then looked up the mountain. I saw 3 COUGARS up close to where I was. After that I got freaked out so i just kept going down. Ran into Josh Barton a priest in my ward, at a point almost at the bottom. I feel like it I hadn't listened to the voice in my head i wouldn't have come down the mountain.

Did the mountain run. The past 2 days have taken more out of me than I thought. my legs were dead, and I couldn't push my pace much. But i'm okay with that, because i want to be fresh for tomorrow, the first interval workout of the track season! I couldn't go to strenght training because i had an orthodontist appointment at the same time.

I ran from my house to the school, which was 1.3 miles, and a 2 mile warmup after that. We did 4x1000 at mile pace, so I should have been hitting 3:07's, but i felt sick today. I was around 3:25-3:30 on all of them, so kind of a dissapointment. We had an active recovery, which ryan said we will do on every workout from now on. Good long cooldown afterwards. My legs aren't in track shape yet. I have an ACT prep workshop tomorrow from 10-4:30, which i am not excited for at all. I have stuff to do also in the morning, so I can't go to practice either :(

Ran hogs early in the morning(6:30), becuase i couldn't go to practice at the set time. It was pretty chilly out, and I didn't geel the greatest, but it was still super fun.

Did 6.5 miles for practice. Pretty hilly, so it was a slow pace. There were 7 of us together at the beginning of the run, but we eventually split up into 3 groups and I ran with galen the last few miles.

Did 5 later at about 8:30. A little chilly out, but i felt good so it was fun. Averaged a 6:34

6x600m hills with active recovery. Hill workouts stink by yourself. I hit 2:24, 2:24, 2:25, 2:21, 2:20, 2:14. So good times for me, for running by myself.

Fun run up the canyon with jamison, justin, galen and trevor. Everyone else played soccer. The wind was super bad, and we had a good session of strength training afterwards.

I've been thinking about the difference between Lone Peak's and Pleasant Grove's coaching programs(not the actual coaches, but the different workouts and things we do). I feel like Lone Peak's program has been better for me, even though i've been injured half the time i've been here(no offense to PG). I really miss the buddy 400's at Pleasant Grove, those are my favorite workout to this day. I still miss my friends from Pleasant Grove a lot, and I think about them daily. Lone Peak had a very rocky start with both school and running, but it's gotten tons better. I can't believe i'm saying this, but I would rather be at Lone Peak that Pleasant Grove now. PG was awesome at the time I went there, I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else. But Lone Peak has become just as much fun. I've been looking back all this time since i've moved, 3/4 of a year ago today. I had my fun times there, but it's time to look forward.   (And all of this isn't about running, but other things too).

45 minute threshold run. Some of the miles weren't fast enough to call them fast miles. I didn't do well. Warmup and cooldown too.

For some reason my right foot hurt pretty badly. It started just being my arch, but my whole foot hurt towards the end. I walked the last mile or so becuase it hurt too much to run.

 I ran through these pretty cool trails in Ephraim. Good pace for the distance, a 7:18, and it was also pretty hilly. I had a goal to run 200 miles this month, and I got it! I didn't think I would get it because of my foot yesterday, but it was fine. It started to hurt around mile 10, and with about a mile left it hurt pretty bad. Once I got home(home home, not the place i was staying at), I iced it. Hopefully it's nothing serious, i'm glad O have tomorrow off.

I felt really good today, except for foot was hurtin pretty good. We went on the BST, wasn't as muddy as I thought it would be. I did 100 pushups, some abs and 5 minutes of planks when I got home. Iced my foot afterwards.

The progression run was supposed to be today, but we canceled it again. I was glad about that, so I could give my foot a day to get better. I got to practice late, and they were in the spinnin room. I did most of the workout by myself, and it was awesome(fun+brutal=awesome). I ran home afterwards with a little detour. I heard the progression run is tomorrow, but I doubt it because time trials are thursday and friday.

ran 6 miles later with my cuz, who is visiting from North Carolina @ 6:22 pace. Felt pretty good

Good modest run, and then to AF and back. My streak of 5 games without getting tagged ended today:( Did strides afterwards and the last one was a race and I won! We have time trials tomorrow, we are doing the 4 and the 8.

Time trials today! We did the 400 and I got 60. I wanted to get under 60, but whatever. After that we jogged around for a mile or so and did 800, 400, 800, 400. I got 2:33, 72, 2:43, 70. So I did decent except for the second 800. We did extended golf course for the cooldown and then ice bathed. 

Ran 4 miles later, @ 6:18 pace.

Yesterday took more out of me than I originally thought. We did strenght training before out run today, so I was tired from that too. I had a pretty rough day of school, so I decided to go on my own run just so I could think without interruption. It was lots of fun. I didn't go fast at all, 7:28 per mile. Running by yourself is the perfect getaway.

6.2 later at night. I usuallly feel good on runs that are dark, and today was no different. Ran to the top of Molly's and back. Averaged a 6:57, which isn't bad for running in the dark.

I ran up to the "G" and back. it was super fun, but tough too. I achieved a goal i've been working towards for a while. 60 miles in 1 week! Haven't done it since early July. I want to get at least 2015 miles this year. Meets start nexy week, and i'm super pumped! Ready for a awesome track season. My brother is opening his mission call tomorrow!

Mountain run extended in the dark. Super cool. Did strength trainin afterwards, and 200 sir ups when I got home. I made almost $1000 today! Dual meet tomorrow, I think I'm gonna do the mile.

My brother is going to Bangkok Thailand on his mission!

We had a dual meet vs Lehi today. Did the mile and 800. I forgot a lunch and only ate a piece of toast for breakfast, so I had no energy. That's all I have to say for the dual meet. We had a tempo afterwards, but everyone left me so I did it with Josh Skousen.

Once I had some food in me, I did some extra becuase I was pretty dissapointed and mad at myself for today's race. Averaged a 6:02.

Long run by myself today, felt really, really good. Ran up past timpanogous cave visitor's center and back. sub-7 pace on way up, and 5:45 pace and under on the way back. good run, was wiped out afterwards. I also biked to PG high and back, talked to the guys on the team for a bit.

We had the track class today, but it's basically a study hall period now, which is super freaking lame. We did 2x 800,600,400 with 90 seconds active recovery. I have a feeling were gonna do this again in a few weeks, but less recovery. I ran some extra when I got home.

Went and did the mountain run. Wasn't feeling good, but still fun. Strides afterwards. I went with the fast guys today, not sure if i'm officially part of that group but i'm certaintly getting there. Was only the 3 freshman, jamison and me. Time for some new shoes.

Sdly, no run today. I still get pretty decent milea in this week though. I worked with this one dude from 7-11:30 then aerated from 12-6. Did a good core workout though, and rolled out my legs and iced my foot which was hurtin some.

Shoutou o zack and Josh cause i saw then running on my  to pizza pie cafe. I didn't reak mt record for most pieces eaten, but I still did decent.

Today we did 3x1000 and 1x800 at mile pace. Noody was able to do it at mile pace. I don't remember my times exactly, but they were around 5:30 pace, so not too good.  Ice bath in the river after the cooldown and we dunked ourselves under afterwards, which felt awesome. Speed is the thing that I need to work on. I'm a decent sprinter, and good on distance runs, but i'm not good at interval workouts. Doing the 2 mile on Friday, should be super fun because it will be dark out when the 2 mile starts.

Strength training was before our run today, good session of it. We went on Bonneville until we were right under molly's and then most of the guys went up the front of if. Jamison, Zack and me just turned back. I had to stop at the bathroom at my house on the way back, then I ran back to the school and caught up to the other guys with about a half mile to go.

We had 8x400 today at a few seconds faster than mile pace! I was supposed to be hitting 73's/ got 73,73,74,73,73,73,74,71. Mountain ridge and timberline had a track meet at LP today so the Lone Peak track runners helped with all the stuff. Was pretty fun.

I'm not sure on the exact mileage, but I think it was close to this. I can't run tomorrow at the invite, which I am not too happy about.

I had to run by myself today. I wanted to do something fast, so I did 6x2 minute pickups at goal mile(4:45) pace. It was a brutal workout. For the pickup part I ended up averaging a 4:42, so even faster than by goal pace!  Still not to happy about not running today, but on the bright side school is now 3/4 of the way over!

Today at pracice it was only galen, justin, steven and me. We did middle spring in lambert, was pretty fun. On the way down I lost steven right away and kept close to galen and justin until I had to tie my shoe. It took forever to tie it for some reason, and by the time I was done I couldn't see them anymore. Once I was out of lambert I went on this one trail that we have done before ut idk what it's called. Overall it was pretty fun. Everyone did really well at the meet yesterday, and i've got some catching up to do. 3 more guys broke 5 yesterday, and i'm behind in the 2 mile too. This next week at the Westlake dual i'm doing the mile and the 2. I need to break 5 and 11 then.

6 miles later with my uncle. I felt good, averaged a 6:27. Getting super excited to race again. 

spent a good portion of my morning puking. So yeah, I didn't run today. I lost 7.5 pounds today! All fluids. Just FYI, thought you guys would want to know, haha.

Just a modest run. I feel much better than yesterday, but definetily not 100%. I was super dehydrated today, even though I drank a ton. My parents aren't letting me race until after spring break because there super lame. It does set me up for some pretty big PR's though. I want to run sub 4:50 and sub 10:30 my first races back. Gonna train super hard these weeks I can't race. Not in terms of mileage, but in effort. I can go harder some on the distance runs, but where I can do a lot better are the interval workouts on the track. I'm not happy about not getting to race for a while, but I am going to play it to my advantage all that I can. 

Distance run with Zack. I didn't feel very good. Zack said he didn't either, so we only did 5.

Ran later by myself. Didn't feel good again but I need to make up for the low mileage I have so far this week.

8x400 today. I hit 71,71,72,72,75,76,76,78. I obviously died on the second half. I'm still a little sick, and I almost threw up on the last few. We went over to the river to icebath afterwards, but I felt terrible so I just laid on the grass and took a short nap. I got new shoes once I got home! There are extra spots for the 3200 on saturday at UVU but I can't go. If I had a decent race I know I would PR by ton. I think I'm pretty close to my goal of 10:30. I haven't raced the 3200 yet this year, but I feel like i'm in shape for it. Once I get back to racing though, I will be overdue for some big PR's.

We decided to drive up to Legacy for our run today, for a change. We did a loop that went up through Lambert. The last few miles were sub 6 pace, I think. It still felt pretty controlled though. My feet hurt a little bit today, because my shoes haven't been broken in yet. And the shoe manager isn't working for some reason.

Long run today. I ran up to Lambert from my house and went on some different trails for 4-5 miles and then ran home. Super fun time but i'm exhausted because i've been working outside all day. Really wish I could have ran at the invite, would have gotten a big PR.

Ran up in Alpine today with only 4 others from the team. I fell behind a bit, so I took a wrong turn and did some extra mileage. They were going low 6's most of the time though, so I think I was hitting 6:40-6:50 on most of them.

Not the funnest workout today. 1200,800,800,400,400. I am a little sick, and I did pretty bad on them.

easy run today. Played a bit of basketball towards the end of it.

Run by myself, threw some pickups in there every little bit. One of the most uneventful runs i've had in a while.

Was feeling hills today, so I went up the canyon 5 miles and turned back. Lots of fun. Longer runs are my favorite. I think when i'm older I will probably be doing 10k's and half's, and maybe a few full marathons. Super pumped to race again, which will only be in a week and a half! Still a bit off, but I am going to do both the mile and the 2 mile. Want to get under 4:55 and 10:45. 

long trail run with my uncle. We wants me to do the timp trail half on may 30th. i don't know if I will yet.

We had practice at 8 this morning, and I had some blood drawn at about 7:25. I still went to practice, and it sucked. I should have waited until tonight to run. The run was super boring because it was on roads the whole time. I migth run more later if I feel better.

Ryan said that I can do the timp trail half at the end of may! It's an extremely slow course, as you gain almost 3,000 feet during the run, and it's pretty technical in spots. Only 13 guys did that half marathon last year, and if it's like that this year, I should have a good chance of winning! My uncle is doing it too, so it will be a blast!

4 later. I felt really good. When I run twice in the same day, it's weird how different I feel sometimes.  Averaged a 6:05.

Rough workout today. 1200,800,400,1200,800,400. I'm not used to doing workouts in the morning, and I had no energy. Long cooldown.

8 miles in the morning for practice. 

hiked in AF canyon with tanner in the afternoon. Did a little over 5 miles. Fun stuff. 

super fun run today. It was half adventure run half regular. We started out doing hobbit hole, which Josh E. has never done before. We then went on the black trail and turned towards Lehi Dip. By this time is was only craik, lil' warner, seth, josh E., and me.  We ran through some good sized dirt piles while lil' warner told us all about stuff we didn't really have any interest in. We ran through a backyard and the house next door had a few small dogs that started to chase us. Small dogs are the scariest. We sprinted through the backyard only to come to a dip 6-8 feet deep with a river in it. We all jumped down and crossed the river, I didn't even get my shoes wet! We then went through the field with the longhorns in it. Then we ran back to Legacy and stood around for 30 minutes and talked. Learned some useful and interesting stuff about patos.  Fun stuff.  I might run more later. 

When I say later, I usually mean in the evening, but I had nothing to do so I went 2 hours after I got home from practice. After waking up from a 45 minute nap feeling very refreshed I ran a little past mountain ridge and back. Not the most exciting run, but the extra miles were hurting, and that's a good thing ( not the injured hurt, the usual hurt). 5.9 miles total, 7:12 average pace. Last 2 miles were around 6:10 pace, and they were uphill.  

Rough workout today. 5x800 with first 400 at mile pace, the next lap 1-2 seconds faster. I really struggled on these, and i'm not sure why. On the last one Katie had us split the last 800 into 2 400's because nobody was hitting their times. I will run more later, because tomorrow i'm leaving early in the morning to go skiing at Brighton, and I will be super tired afterwards and I still want to hit at least 55 miles this week. And i'm only in 79 place for miles this year on the blog... That needs to go up. And galen is like 7 miles ahead of me. I need to put at  least 75 miles on him before I leave for new york. I only ran 126 miles in January because of being sick and whatnot, but in February I ran 200 and March 218. I'm in like 25th right now for the month which is good. I want ot be hitting double digits everyday, and I feel like I can w/out injuring myself again. But it's track season, and with all the interval workouts, I shouldn't be doing much more than 55 miles a week. In June before I leave, I will be hitting 60-70 miles every week, because even though I will have a month off after that, I still want to hit my goal of 2015 miles this year.

6 mile run later with lots of hills.

Today's run was just too long... No more super high mileage weeks until summer for me. I get to race again next week!

Another bad workout for me, 8x400. I need to race, because I don't have anything to be motivated about.  Ice bath up the canyon after cooldown.

I've decided to not run anymore besides at practice unless I miss practice that day. I've been running a few too many miles, at least for me. This last week i've been working my butt off, and saturday night and sunday I was completely exhausted. Ryan has a program to help us to the max, and to help us peak at the right time and stuff. It puts us in the high 40's and low 50's during the track season. 71 miles is too much. Until summer...

modest run. My knee hurt some today which isn't good. 

Meet got cancled cuz of the weather... lame. I finally didn't have a bad workout! Wasn't a particuarly good one, but I was able to hit the times I was supposed to. 600,400,200,600,400,200. I hit 1:55, 68, 30, 1:57, 68,28.

easy run down to the stop sign at art dye. Tomorrow i'm going to hit a solid distance run 8-9 miles, then on saturday a 10-12 mile trail run, so maybe Hogs. I am going to Brighton again on saturday, cuz my family somehow keeps getting free tickets. I will probably go running early in the morning on saturday because i will be to tired to run far after skiing all day.

I'm never playing tag again until winter. I've got poison ivy again. If the team plays tag, I will just go for a distance run, which is what we're supposed to be doing.

I rolled my ankle yesterday in a region church ball game, but was able to walk it off. It hurt today for some reason. I just went on an easy run. Also biked to AF to watch my teammates in the 1600 at the utah county invite.

Hogs early in the morning. I pushed it super hard on the uphill, not much on the downhill. Good training run for the trail half marathon i'm gonna do at the end of may.

I went to Brighton today, and my filling that was on my front tooth came off again just like it did at Nike. I have to wait until monday to get another on, so I to go to church tomorrow looking like a freaking doofus.

I want to race so freaking bad.

Ran on bonneville today. I didn't do good at all. Felt terrible and couldn't breathe for some reason. I don't get it. I've been working my butt off these past few months, and I have seen nothing but negative results. My workout times are terrible, I can't keep up with the fast guys for as long, nothing's going my way. I kind of feel like i'm not supposed to run. I've been running for almost 2 years and haven't had any real success. My parents are trying to get me to quit, among other things. Took an ice bath up the canyon afterwards, quite cold.

Easy run before dual meet tomorrow at herriman. Gonna do the 1600,800 and maybe 4x400 if I can get a team together. Want to get under 4:53, 2:13 and I want to hit 58 or under in 400 if I do it.

I couldn't  race today... again. Garbage. I'm starting if I ever will be able to again.  I  did the workout by myself that the fast guys did yesterday. it was 200,400,600,800,1200,400,400. I wasn't sure what the pacing was supposed to be at, but I ended up being pretty close. I felt amazing today and pushed it harder than usual. If only I could have raced with feeling as good as I did... Anyway, I hit 30,68, 1:51, 2:24, 3:57. 67,67.  I;m really happy with this workout, I either hit the pace I was supposed to or faster, despite doing it by myself. I always seem to do better by myself. Maybe for my next race I should put my seed time in super slow, and just get to the lead and run my race haha.

Good workout today. 3x(400,300,200). My times were 70,50,29,73,51,30,73,50, and either a high 27 or low 28. I wasn't happy with my last 2 400's, but besides that I did well. Ice bath up the river, found a good new spot right under the wall.

Good run just down to the stop sign at art dye and back and strides. The rain made for a good time.

Ran the timp trail half course in 2:02:46. I think I can go at least 15 minutes faster in the race.

Shoutout to zack for running a freaking 4:20!

I got a pair of spikes at ross for 8 freaking bucks. They are most definetily not the best spikes out there, but $8 spikes don't come around often, so I couldn't pass up on them.

I had to go to the bathroom 4 times during the run, so it was one of those runs... Ran by myself for all of it except for about a mile.

another tough workout for me. 400,300,400,300,400,300,400,400. I really struggled, and came in last on all of them. It is almost certain that I won't be able to race for the rest of the year.  I just have no motivation. I've been running low on it ever since the LP Lehi duel meet, which is my only race this stinkin season and I did terrible there. There are only 2 positives that I have got so far this track season. I've become much better friends with the guys on the team, and I am hungry to race again. From now on i'm going to treat every race like it will be my last. I had very high goals my junior year, and none were achieved. My goals for the year were: make varisty for all of XC season, 16:45 3 mile, top 50 at state.  Track- sub 4:45 mile, sub 10:30 2 mile, 2:07 800, and top 6 on the team for the 2 mile. I would have to be at 10:17 or faster to get that last one. I didn't achieve any of these. I want to make varisty extremely bad this next XC season, and things aren't going in my favor. By the way it looks now 3 guys will be fighting for that 7th spot, and both are faster than me at the moment. Our team can achieve great things this next season, and I will do everything I can to be a part of it. It's just not looking like I will right now.

Well, I didn't know I would be racing until lunch time, and I knew I wouldn't do well today, because I ate a big lunch right before. For the warmup josh and I went in the 2 mile(which was the first event, went on the same time as the hurdles, for some strange reason). Molen then got mad at us and kicked us off after 3 laps. I treated the race just like a hard tempo, because I knew I wouldn't be able to get the time I wanted. It's good to get a race on my legs, because this weekend I am running the mile and the 2 mile at provo invite. I want to get 4:52 or under there, if i'm feeling good under 4:48. I could score, because I will be in the fast heat, and josh is the to seed in the mile. I want to be under 10:25 for the 2 mile, because i'm more of a 2 mile guy.  I am go grateful I got to run today, it was a blast, even though I didn't do so hot.

Just an easy run before racing tomorrow. We played some good whonketball, was a good time. Super excited to race tomorrow. It originally was the mile tomorrow, but i thinks it's actually the 2 mile then.

I ran a tiny bit more when I got home so I could say I ran 222.22 miles this month.

there are 20 people in front of me with seed  times for the mile, so I don't think I will be in the fast heat which is a super big bummer. I will be in the top heat for the 2 mile though. There are actually some decent competition there, lot's of guys are in the 10:30 range which is where I want to be.

I was super glad I got to race today, but I didn't do well. At all. Went over to BYU right after and just stayed there the rest of the day.

Shoutout to galen for qualifying for state, and Josh for almost beating Christian Allen.

I did better than yesterday, but still not that great. My splits were all over the place, 71,79(yikes), 80(uh-oh), and 75. I am menatlly weak. If I want to get to the level I should and want to be at, this is where the improvement needs to happen. I'm in good shape, but this is my weakness. I have the crappiest mindset possible during races. I am always think about how hard I am hurting. That needs to change.

Was originally gonna do a solid run of 9-10 miles, but my shin was hurting a little bit so I decided to play it safe. Was kinda hot out, I am getting excited for summer when we can run in the morning again.

sadly, no run today. My shin was hurting again, but I don't think it's anything serious. My mileage has really dipped these past few weeks. I did get a super insane core workout in though! I did the workout Courtney did with us the very first session of strenght training. Felt a lot easier this time, but it was still super hard. Molen wants us to win region, so he's puttin a bunch of our guys and girls that have already qualified to score points, which is freakin stupid. He's crushin people's dreams out there. Good luck to everyone trying to qualify these next few days, especially if you go to Lone Peak(if you haven't already qualified), haha.

Played some pretty legit wonketball at the park. The last halfish mile back was a total party, because it was raining pretty hard

Ran more my myself later because I feel guilty about not running yesterday, and running in the rain is pretty much the best thing in the world. It's definetily in the top 5 of favorite things to do.

Good distance run up the canyon a ways. My legs aren't accustomed to hills as they once used to be.

A little extra later. I'm not able to race at JV region, so I might as well start getting into summer mileage(I'm not gonna do 14 miles a day, this is just to make up for low mileage earlier this week).

Shoutout to galen, jamison and lil' warner for all qualifying in the mile for state!

A few good games of tag and golf course afterwards.

On a treadmill.

haven'r ran rhe last 3 days. I'm not injured, life has just been pretty hectic. I feel so undedicated. And fat,  The only form of exercize I have done was some pretty legit basketball with the guys on the team yesterday. Will hit it super hard the rest of the week, will go like 11 tomorrow, 13, and then 15-16. I am already crazy excited for XC!

only ran 3 in practice today. I will probably run more later. I feel so undedicated.

ran to zig zack from my house. Lots of fun.

Good job to everyone that ran at state today! Good job to my teammate Brett Matheson, who jumped 6'11" and won state!

One of the best runs of all time. I was originally going to run down to BYU to watch my teammates in the 2 mile, but of course I couldn't go for a stupid reason. I then went up provo canyon a bit to timp park to do the course for the trail half marathon i'm doing in 2 weeks. I stayed on the course until about mile 4, then I accidently took a wrong turn. I went on this amazing trail for a few miles before turning back. There wasn't anything huge that stood about this run, it was just crazy fun. It was pouring rain the whole time, which only made it 10x better. The trail was super muddy, and I fell a few times, but that didn't stop me from having a super good time. 

Shoutout to my teammates who ran the 2 mile today. Conditions definetily weren't the best but they still did awesome. Our team actually did pretty decent, placing 5th for guys and 4th for girls. 

This was not the way I though my junior season would pan out. Nothing went my way, and I didn't achieve any of my goals. I haven't really had any high points this past year with running, and i've had a lot of lows. I'm gonna make sure my senior season is the exact opposite. Reaching all my goals, having fun, and having most things pan out the way I want them too. 

On that note, this was a bad week of mileage. Actually terrible. Next week i'm hitting it hard with lots of hills, and at a faster pace than normal too. So pumped for summer XC training! Even though I will only be at practice for like 3 weeks of the whole summer...

Played basketball during the track class. When I got home I started to go for a run, was planning on doing like 10ish miles. But I felt pretty good, so I decided to do a 5k time trial. I did a mile warmup, and then did a 5k loop I made from my house. I got 17:28! This is like a almost 2 minute PR for me, but it's not official. No one was there to see me do it, so it dosen't really count. But for all like 2-3 of you that read my blog, do you think I could put this as a PR? I also did some hardcore core(get it?) later. That's one thing i'm gonna work a lot on this summer. 

Root beer mile. I'm like allergic to soda. Whenever I take a sip of it, I feel terrible for the next while. I was one of the first guys with the first can down, but I threw up at the 150 mark. I then jogged the rest of the lap and started on my second, and after like a minute I had barely drunk any, so I gave up.

I tried to run later, but I feel like crap. This means long runs as in 11+ the rest of the week.

loooong run. Kinda zoned out for a bit. Did mountain run up to lambert and ran some up there. After a while I looked at my watch and I had run 10.8 miles! The last time before that i checked I was at 6.2. Scary. On the way back I though up this scenario where I was ubducted by aliens for a while and they magically added miles onto my watch, and then wiped my memory. And I am now convinced that is what happened to me. It's like I was unconsious for a bit during that 4.5 mile stretch. That's like 30 minutes! Sketchy stuff.  Did a tough core workout afterwards. Going mountain biking for mutual tonight which I am pretty excited for. We're going up to lambert so maybe the same thing will happen again...  It was actually canceled because it supposed to rain. My leaders are wusses.

Sadly, my watch is broken. From last saturday when it was pouring rain on my run some water got into it, and it hasn't been working well since, and it totally blew up on the inside soon after my run today. And suggestions for a new watch for me? I want to only pay 200 max, and I don't care about all the fancy stats.

Went to Battle Creek canyon and back on Bonneville. Good run. I went a little slower than usual(by feel, because my watch is broken), but I think I averaged around a 7:10. I only stopped once though, so that makes up for the slower pace. Tough core workout when I got home.

As soon as I got home I had to go to my sister's clogging show, which was dumb. I did see ryan there though, which was funny. I ran like .75 miles there with my lil' brother, who is 3. He's gonna be a good runner. He's already super competitive, and he did all of it without stopping much. I don't know how impressive that is, but .75 miles as a 3 year old seems pretty good to me.

Just ran up the canyon nothing exciting happened. Core afterwards

Lil' warner got the valedictiorian a few days ago. That's 2 years in a row that a guy from the XC team has got it. Sadly, it's not very likely that a guy will get it this next year. Maybe a girl on the team will. 

Really good long run. Was able to average in the 6:50's, so I am really happy with this run. 

I'm not doing the half marathon next week. I'm going to do a 5k instead so I can see where i'm at, and where my summer training needs to go, especially when i'm running by myself. 

4 mile loop in Alpine. I felt good and wanted to push it, but everyone is getting back from their week off so they didn't want to. I did some pretty good core after I got home, and I also stretched which felt awesome. Those last few spots on varsity on going to be coveted. There are 5-6 guys that could get those spots. It's a few months away though, so anything can happen. I'm the only senoir in the mix. I'm not going to let someone take my spot when they have another year to have it. This will be the deepest and most likely best team Lone Peak has ever had, and I want to be a part of it. (Not the JV part.)

I've decided the longest i'm going to run is 11 miles in one run this summer, unless we do more in practice. Endurance is not a problem for me. It's the speed I need to work on. I will still we doing inbetween 7-10 miles a day, but the pace needs to be faster. No more run's in the 7's. Only 6's and faster. I've said this a lot, but i'm so pumped for XC this year, I need to make up for my fiasco of a junior year with some killer times.

School's over! Done with that shiz. Skipped track class today because we weren't going to do anything and went home and did a good run. On bonneville, but I added a few hillier trails. Was hitting 6:20's for most of it, and I was happy with that.

A bit later I went deep into some stats for next  year. According to region last year, (w/seniors taken out) Lehi would win, AF, LP, Herriman, PG, Riverton and westllake. But of course it's not too accurate.  According to 2 mile times this track season, which is more recent, it goes AF, LP, Lehi, riverton, herriman, westlake then PG. I only did it for our region cuz the only super good team out of it is davis. State wide, it would be AF with 49 points, Lone Peak with 72 points, then davis with 72 points. Davis won the 6th man tie by 2 spots and 3 seconds. This year should be good. AF isn't the clear cut winner like they usually are, and either AF, davis, lone peak or lehi could get the state championship.

Ran a bit later with my new watch, which came today.

Easy run through art dye. A lot of people's shoes came untied, which was funny. I'm not going to miss running at the school. Found out Region is at PG this year and that stinks. I hate the course, whether it's the one they did last year or the original one.  Most guys got their sub-5 shirts today which made me sad.

Went mountain biking for mutual, and we went up to lambert. We took spring up and rodeo down. Super fun. Some people were going painfully slow, so after a few minutes, Nathan, Jamison and I broke off and sped way up.

Did the mountain run from my house. Probably my favorite trail that we do in the summer. 6:39 average pace. Running in the morning is so much betterthan the afternoon because you don't have to worry about what you eat for the rest of the day.

Ran/hiked the tree of knowledge today(hiking up mount mahogany). Super fun stuff. On the way up we just went straight up the mountain instead of going on a trail, cuz we didn't know there was one. With about a quater mile to go to the top, we ran into galen and his cousin, which was pretty funny. We had waited at the bottom of the mountain for a while for him, but we decided to head up after a while. This last quarter mile probably took 30-45 minutes, a few guys got lost. We just kept telling them to go up, which is pretty funny. We spent probably 20 minutes at the top, and it took less that 40 minutes to get down, because galen knew a trail that we could take. There was over 8200 feet of elevation change, and it you put that into the mileage it was about a 12 mile run.

Not doing the 5k today because my legs are pretty wiped out from yesterday. averaged a 6:55 which is decent but my legs we're pretty tired so i'm okay with it. My last post for the next few weeks, I'm leaving for Alaska tomorrow! I've found some pretty cool runs that i'm gonna do, and my family is going to be going hiking almost every day, so I will still get some good runs and exercize in.

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!

Im back! I had an awesome time in new york. Every time i ran, it was fast. I always raced this guy on his golf cart, so i ran multiple 2:20-2:25's in the first 2 weeks. Then i cracked my knee cap and have had to stay off it ever since. I should be able to start running next wednesday, maybe sooner. I did 150 pushups every day there, so i got some core in.

Backpacked 18 miles in the uintas today for highb as dventure. Originally. We were staying up there till Wednesday, but when we got to camp everyone was absolutely freezing. It was pouring rain thw whole way up, and even getting into dry clothes didnt help. I was going to sleep in my hammock which wiuld have totally stunk cuz it ciuld have snowed there and it was super windy. So we decided to head back down. I felt like sawing my knees off on the way down. My knees could handle the way up, but going down tjey killed. We got back to the cars at midnight and got home at 2 in the morning

My knees dont really hurt today, which is a miracle. However, they are incredibly dtiff. Im going to spend most of the day just doing my stretches, icing and rolling out my megs. I think i ciuld be back at running the 2nd week school starts. Awesome core workout, i did t thy e 10,20,30,40,50x5, whuc bug was the first workout we did with Courtney. I cant come to xc camp for the whole time sadly, but i am going up ob thursday just to hang with the team which will be fun.

Later looked at all the new 5a teams and stuff. Alta is 4a now, which i didnt expect

Ive decided i dont like being injured. Im getting antsy to run again. Im icing my knees as i type this. Sick core workout. I need to do some kind of cardio. I miss breathing hard, which sounds really weird

yesterday I went up the canyon and spent the night with the team for the last night of XC camp. I'm really glad I went, because I kind of have been in denial of running for a bit, and now i'm super pumped for when I can start running again. When we talked about the team goals, that just got me really excited for this season. Now i'm going to stay off my knee as much as possible, and do every little thing to get it better as soon as I can. I haven't had a consistent racing season since cross country my sophomore year. Hopefully I can race all the regular season races this year.

My knees have actually been feeling pretty good these past few days. Today i went to this physical therapy dude and did some stuff with him. I go back on thursday, and he's going to have me go on the treadmill for a bit, which is a really good sign. I get my wisdom teeth out today. Should be a good time

knee feels really good again today, and I haven't been taking my medicine for it so that a very good sign. I could be running by the time school starts up in a week!!!

Shoutout to Galen, Zack and Jamison because their names are mentioned in the Nike southwest article on milesplit for guys to watch out for.

Just physical therapy stretches and icing my knees a lot again. They havent been hurting since saturday, which is awesome. Tomorrow i meet with my physucal therapy doctor and he's gonna have me go on the treadmill for a bit which is exciting.

Casey clinger went to the nike elite camp, something i didnt figure out until this morning.

Yay for me because ive lost 8 pounds since i got my wisdom teeth out. Hopefully i will lose about 5-10 when i start running again, since ive felt pretty fat lately

Session #2 of physical therapy today. Sadly, no running on the treadmill. My knee still feels pretty good, and I'm going in 3x next week,should go on the treadmill on all of those times. I won't be able to start running by the time school starts, but i will be able to soon after. Super pumped to start running again!!

The usual. 10 on the bike, big core workout. Might go on a hike later tonight and go hammocking

Finally found a good use for the two trees on the side of my house. Hammocks.

Bike and core.

Shoutout to justin because if he blogs today he passes me on the mileage board

I WENT RUNNING!!! Did one mile at physical therapy on the treadmill. Exciting stuff. My doctor dude said to go running later today, with 3 minutes running, 1 walking, x2. So nothing hard at all. I guess you could say i'm already doing 2 a days...

Did the "run" thing and it was a party. I was smiling the whole time and wasnt even trying too. Knee hurt a little bit,but thats expected. Pumped to start doing some real training starting hopefully next week!

Knee was hurting today so no run. Just the usual physical therapy stretches and icing. Utah has 4 guys ranked in the top 25 in the nation, Casey at 5, alek at 11, garek at 16, and McKay at 22. Personally, i think McKay should be ranked higher.

Just over a mile on the treadmill at physical therapy today, It actually felt really good. We'll see how I feel later tonight though. I'm at the point where i'm still not running to get back in shape, it's just to see how my knee reacts to it. Later the doctor dude dinged at my knee with this metal thing for a few miutes and it hurt like something else. It feels good now though. Apparently i have a lot of scar tissue lumps on my knee. Saw the team doing their workout on the way home and was pretty jealous that i couldn't be there doing it. Utah is ranked second in the nation for individuals, behind California. But thats adding top 7 times. But if you only add top 5(the correct way), we win nation by 8 points

Knee hurt a little but not much today!!! I'm not risking a run though. Just the same usual stuff, physical therapy stretches, icing and core, except i did go on a 10 mile bike ride, while throwing in some random sprints every bit. Felt really good to breathe hard. I should be able to partially start training next week, like running every other day.

Running stat of the day (this may or may not become a daily thing, should it?) - With all times altitude converted, Mckay Johns is the second fastest individual in the nation behind Drew Hunter. I took 800,1600,3200, and 5k times and added them all together. Austin Tamagno is in third, with Casey Clinger in fourth.

Half mile at physical therapy in the morning. My knee felt pretty good. The doctor said not to run till Wednesday, and then hopefully i will be cleared to run.

16 on the bike,good effort. Thighs were burning pretty well at the end. Physical therapy stretches and a solid core workout afterwards.

Good bike ride just over 17 miles. I need to get my lungs back into shape. I was out of breath after every little hill.

10 hard on the bike. Im a teeny bit excited to start running again.

Super legit core workout because i couldnt go for a bike ride. It included 200 pushups, 250 crunches, 50 pullups, 5 minutes of planks and some other "fun" stuff. I cant lift up my arms now.

Last day of physical therapy. My knee feels good, time to ease back into running every day.

3 "easy" miles. At least the pace should have been. Getting back into shape is going to be pretty rough.

Running is fun. Tomorrow should be exciting.

Only 1 mile today. On monday I'm going to run a harder 5k(effort wise), just to see where I'm at. Then i can set a goal for.wednesday at pre-region, which i will be racing at.

Shoutout to all the guys on my team for doing pretty good.

I like to run. Even when I'm in horribly bad shape.

Easy for pre-region tomorrow. I've been looking at my past race reports, and they all seem like I had regrets at the end, minus the distance challenge. I am usually timid the first part of a race, and end with a pretty good kick, but still have lots left in the tank. My goal for tomorrow is NO REGRETS. I want to know what times i can run and I'm not gonna know if I don't go all out. So if i run in the 20''s tomorrow and say i went all out, feel free to laugh. I'm laughing at myself with what bad shape I'm in.

Racing is crazy fun. I have no clue what time i got but i put in a good effort today. I don't want to go into much detail with this race, but I'm not trying to say this was a bad race. I know what i need to work at. I'm pretty pumped for BYU. It might be a while before i run decent or good times, but that's okay. I'm just glad to get back into racing.

Shoutout to our varsity team (jamison, seth, justin, zack, galen, craik and josh) for winning it. Its about time for a new team to win something in our region besides AF

Just a run. Not much happened. Still haven't seen results from yesterday which is pretty dumb.I know the team scores, but I want to see my times, and other guys times.

Easy miles. I'm pretty pumped for tomorrow. I want to go under 19:45. Just want to work my way up slowly.

Another dissapointing race. I fell like i'm in just as bad shape as when I started a week and a half ago. Nest week i'm doing 3.5-4 miles a day. I need to do some kind of fast running besides racing. Maybe just a fast last mile or something. But I have a lot of things to work on. I believe I can still get some pretty decent times this season, I just have to work my way in right.

Most adventerous run i've been on in a few months. I went on Bonneville. It wasn't very adventurous.

Just another run on bonneville. Every run is still feeling pretty rough, but i can tell I'm starting to get back in shape. I made a goal today to be in the top 14 at wasatch rendezvous so i can race varsity at solider hollow because our 1-7 guys are gonna be at bob firman. 14Th place on the team got 18:31 at byu, so i need to drop at least 2.5 minutes off my time. It'll be tough, but i know i can do it.

Another crazy eventful 4 miles. My trek sister saw me with my shirt off and said that i'm skinny. I'm not racing tomorrow which is a pretty big bumma.

Shoutout to josh for passing me on the mileage board. Also to zack because the palmer ridge patos are going to be a legendary knowledge bowl team.

Really good run at night. Did canyon road loop, i averaged a 6:55 mile without really pushing it! So thats faster than ny last 2 races lol. I'm pretty pumped to race again after today.

Another pretty good run at night. Went 7:15 pace for first 3, then 6:10 the last one. Happy with the last mile, it was all uphill. I can't wait to race next week!

Decent run. My stomach has hurting a bit at the beginning and I think it's from something I ate, but i'm not sure what. My knee was hurting a little bit so I am icing it as I am typing this. Was thinking today, I have 3 races left of my high school career.  I haven't had a single one that i've been happy with ny results. So i'm going to make these the best I can. I know I am not in preferable shape, but I am confident I can take off at least a minute off my PR.

In the rain, so a total party. Wanted to go longer, but i know i shouldn't, so i did a core workout instead. In the rain.

First day where i got to do part of the workout with the team!! 2X600m hills @ 2:23,2:28. So okay, I guess. I didn't push too hard which i am a little mad about, but oh well. Next workout I'm doing 3 of the intervals, and will keep going up 1 interval each time. Excited to start doing some real workouts soon!

Played some pretty good games of tag. During the third game I feel on my knee while chasing Caleb which felt spectacular, to say the least. So i didn't do the 4th game or golf course and went home and iced my knee just to be cautious.

Easy miles. Tomorrow is going to be awesome. I'm shooting for PR. If I PR, with some luck I might make it onto the extremely prestigious Elsie list.

Ok race today. I guess I'm happy with it. The whole course was rolling hills which i really liked. I decided i wanted to go conservative the first mile and then slowly pick it up. I went out too slow, in about a 6:50 lol. I negative split the whole thing so that was sweet. I closed in about 5:50ish which is the first time i have ever gone under 6 in a xc race. So it was good I guess. Still know I can do better though.

Good workout of 4x800. Everyone else did 7. I hit 2:50,2:50,2:39,2:46. I'm not sure where that 2:39 came from, the effort felt about the same. I worked on keeping my form correct even when i got tired. Cool down and ice bath. Good times.

Squeezed in 4 quick miles in a very busy day. I actually felt pretty good, averaged a 6:47.

Surprise track workout today. My first full workout back. 8x400 with 90 seconds rest, then with the last 4 1 minute rest. I hit 75,75,75,76,76,78,78,83. I clearly was out of gas on the last one. 2 mile warmup and cooldown, with ice bath after which felt amazing because it was pretty hot today.

Shoutout to zack because its his birthday.

3 in the morning, knee hurt a bit so played it safe and didn't run after school.

Dissapointing race today. It wasn't bad, just dissapointing. My race was at 5, and the last thing i ate was a banana at 2:15, but my stomach was giving me issues the whole race. My goal was top 10 in the JV race, but i didn't come anywhere close.

Once the gun went off i settled in around 20th as we went up the asphalt hill. I stayed in this position till probably a half mile in. My stomach started to hurt pretty bad around here. I said screw it in my head and surged up the next hill into about 10th place. Then I threw up on the side of the course for like 5 seconds, but i probably lost close to 15 going through this. After that i said screw my stomach again and ignored the pain and all that crap and moved up into about 15th, about 1.5 miles in. Then I threw up again and probably lost another 15-20 seconds. By then i knew if i pushed it hard anymore i would blow a few more chunks, so i half jogged, half ran the rest of the race. Got passed by tons of people. Sprinted the last 100 and passed a few people. My cooldown was almost as bad as my race.

I'm pretty bumped about this race. I wasn't even tired at the finish line. If i was feeling good i could have gone under 19 i think. Oh well, gonna go kill it at region.

Ran the ridge trail for a change of scenery. My stomach was hurting but not nearly as much as yesterday. I think after region I'm going to run a few road 5k's, because this season isn't going how I want and I know I can run some much faster times.

Low mileage today. My knees were hurting, and it wasn't the pain I've had lately, its runners knee pain. And unfortunately I have lots of experience with that haha. I want to race well at region, but my #1 priority is to stay healthy. I'm sick of being injured. I know that if all these injuries wouldn't have happened I would be on varsity right now. Gonna go easy tomorrow, and if it's still hurting, will take a few days off. But maybe and hopefully this is just one of those weird 1 day injuries.

My knee felt fine today, which is good. Workout was 800,600,400x3. I felt pretty junky the entire time. Ryan had me sit out the last 800. My times were 2:43,1:57,76,2:45,1:47,79,1:54,72. I think I've been kinda sick these past few days. During workouts and runs i feel bad, after i feel terrible. Or maybe I'm just not eating right. I do need to eat healthier for sure. Especially for lunch.

Ran a little in the morning and tag after school. Good times.

2 mile warm-up, 1200,800,600,400, 2 mile cooldown. I struggled, felt weak. Maybe I'm not drinking enough.

Shout out to zack because he's still pushing hard and not giving up even though nothing is going his way.

30 minutes on the spin bike, average incline of 1.8%.

Later in the day i did 6 on bonneville @7:25 pace. Sprinkling for first half which was quite refreshing.

2 mile tempo. I wasn't feeling it today so I just told myself to negative split the 2nd mile by at least 10 seconds. I hit 6:43 (haha soooo slow), then 6:12. So 12:55 total. At region i want to get under 17:45, so i have a bit of work to do.

Last hard workout before region! 9x400 with 90 seconds rest. I hit 74,75,75,76,75,75,78,75,70. I was really mad at myself for that 78. I'm happy with this workout. So pumped for region. I AM going to get under 17:30. Cooldown and ice bath. Ice bath was one of the coldest I've ever taken. My right hip was hurting on the cooldown. I've had all sorts of aches and pains this week, so after region I am going to take 4-5 days off to make sure I'm complelety healthy.

Sadly no running today. Was kinda aching all over today but in particular my hip. Just playing it safe. Did part of the first leg of the tour de france on my ride.

Really shortvrun and strides. I'm just aching all over. After region going to stip running till I feel normal again.

I don't know whats wrong with me and racing, but I need to figure it out. I am confident I have ran faster than this at the end of distance runs multiple times. But the team did good and thats what matters most.

Lots of hiking this week. My knees and hips are still hurting a bit.

My mom went for a 2 mile walk on monday and got shin splints... That takes talent hahahaha

Hiked tree of knowledge with tanner and ben on monday. Was a good time.

Watched state today and ran around some. I wanted to race so badly. I know I can be fast. I just need to stay away from injury.

Got in some decent bike miles and did some good core workouts.

12 hard on the bike, average incline of 1.7%, 17.4 mph average. Solid core workout after.

Also walked like 3 miles and shoutout to the Ericksons for giving me a ride the last bit.

Just another day on the bike, with core afterwards. I'm not experiencing random aching and hurting all over my legs anymore, so I'm gonna bike the rest of this week and start running again next.

Bike and core

Cross country banquet today. I got the "stalker" award and I am quite satisfied with that. So shoutout to galen and jamison for coming up with it. I got sad thinking I may never race a true xc race again. Rumning has been awesome these past 2.5 years. Although my times don't reflect the work I've put into running, I'm glad I run. I don't know what I would do without it.

Oh yeah, did some more core today. I am sore.

Hiked box elder with tanner. We didn't quite make it to the top which was partially my fault. The stupid snow slowed us down a ton. Oh well, it was a good time though.

Ran around "G" mountain and it was definitely a good time. Ran some extra doing pick up runs for my dad. The loop is 8.5 miles. Will for sure do it again sometime.

Easy miles. My form felt weird but it will come back soon. I'm going to footlocker so I'm pretty pumped for that. I might sign up for the seeded race just for the fun of it haha.

Quick run because I'm super busy today. I passed conner mantz on the mileage board today 💯

Easy 4 on bonneville at 7:30 pace.

One hour on the spin bike.

Solid 7 mile run. Averaged a 7:08. It was one of those runs that you get into some really deep thought, so it went by quite quickly.

Just got some really deep thoughts about running today and for the rest of the (school) year.

At footlocker I want to get under 18:29, which is what craik ran last year. And this doesn't have anything to do with beating him. I think this time would be a good challenge for me. Craik went on to run 4:41 and 10:18 while having a solid winter. If I can stay healthy and consistent throughout the winter I should be able to reach those times, if not beat them.

But it all starts now. I am fully healthy and I need to stop slacking off. I am going to hit 30 solid miles this week and build up from there. I am going to sign up for a local turkey trot soon so I can just see where I am at. I know I can have a good track season and I need to start building a good base for it now.

5 miles in the canyon. Ran by myself for most so that stunk, but was still a good run.once I got home I stretched, used my marshmallow stick, iced my knees and did a bit of core.

Track workout and I struggled. 400,800,400,800,400, then I had to leave cuz I had to be home at 4. A rough workout but will make sure to bounce back for the next one. Chilly out today.

Good run looping down by the mouth of the canyon and going by the school. 7:02 average.

Felt rather junky so I did 10 easy on the spin bike. Shoutout to me because I totally called where drew hunter is going to college, Oregon.

Went around "G" mountain with Jonas. Was a most excellent time.

Accidentally slept in through practice so I drove up to lambert and did a bunch of sweet trails. On the way up spring I passed some bikers, which really motivated me to fast up so they couldn't catch me. Good first week back at it! I hit 30 even though i didn't run on Thursday.

On the treadmill

Good run, went by fast. Pretended to be ed cheserek winning the NCAA, which he will tomorrow.

Good luck to everyone racing tomorrow, especially the guys on my team. They're gonna kill it.

A little running but mostly biking today. My legs felt weird during the running. Rolling them out and icing my knee.

Workout of 800,600,400,600,400. There was another 800 but i sat it out because my knee was tightening up a bit. Hit 2:42, 2:02, 77, 1:58 and 70. I'm a little sick so I'm happy with the times. It's thanksgiving break!!

Slept in through practice which I've done a lot lately... Anyway did 9.5 very hilly miles on the stationary bike. Was wrecked after. Probably going to run 5-6 miles later today.

11x400 on the track. Definitely an off day for me. Aftetwards ryan talked to us about making excuses. And I make a lot of them. I know I've been injured for a significant amount of time, but that shouldn't be an excuse for why I'm not fast. Time to just buckle down and dealwiddit as talon hull would say.

Everyone go #optoutside tomorrow.

Went up box elder with tanner to where the big rocks are. The snow got quite deep, which you can see if you check my instagram. The run was quite a good time, but the drive down the canyon was even better. After driving down a icy steep section where a car went off the road, tanmer didn't hit 30 till we got out of the canyon lol.

Sick today but the guys are going to nationals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 on Bonneville.

For anyone looking for some entertainment, let me suggest flotrack.com. At the moment it is full of beer mile articles and predictions. There is no clear winner, but let me say this. In a few years, a legend will emerge(me),

Sick yesterday and a little sick today. Went decently hard on the bike. I think exercising when sick makes you feel better.

Bike again

Good run on bonneville by myself. I felt decent and have been frustrated with myself so I pushed myself harder than usual. Which, if I want to have a good track season, I need to do that everyday. Anyway, on the way out 1 was hitting 6:40's, 1st mile on the way back about 6:28 and than the rest was right around 6 flat.

Shoutout to my boys because they are going to destroy tomorrow! And justin said hi to mo farah and he said hi back so he's famous now haha

Wow what a great day. I went on mountain run and it was a extremely good time. I've decided that next while the team is on break I'm not going to run, but I will do the bike. I still have aches and pains a lot and want to get rid of those. I went fast on my run being motivated by some excellent performance by utahns at both NXN and footlocker west.

Shoutout to my team for finishing the team 11th in the nation! There are over 15,000 high school's in the nation, and they are the 11th best. I guess that's decent.

Wow what a great run. dejavu then gooofed off on the pond, which should be ready for some hockey and ice tag soon. Golf course after. When I got home did 20 pushups and 10 situps 💪💪💪

Went down to the pond and goofed off till zack and craik fell through the ice. Darn that was scary but they're good now. After just went through art dye and back.

First run back from a break is always rough and today wasn't any different. Getting really excited for indoor track!

Did timberline loop and dumpster this morning. Later today I am fat biking and snowshoeing, so today is a very active day for me.

Ran in the black trail area in the morning. Didn't feel good but running in a snowstorm is a good time.

Did the bike later. Wow I'm tired.

5 miles in the morning on bonneville. Spin bike a bit later.

Balled some later with the ereksons and conner baller. Was a pretty good time. Didn't do too well but excited to play more.

Wow fun run on the canal. Never thought I would say that.It wasn't plowed but running in a foot of snow is fun sometimes. Reading a highly motivational book called "The boys in the boat". Look it up if you get the chance. Merry Christmas.