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

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!