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

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.