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

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.