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

Ran a little past art dye, to the pond and a 12 minute game of dejavu tag. Don't judge me on my spelling. On the way to art dye we went pretty slow. On the way back stephen and i picked it up a lot, because we still wanted to get a good workout in. I think those 2 miles were right around 12, which is okay, but it was uphill on the way back, so i'm satisfied. Was 1 of 2 guys that didn't get caught in tag. Super pumped for grass relays, especially after the 2 mile tempo i did today. Finally finished with register my athlete. Josh Christiansen has been all over my back trying to get me to ask a particular girl from the team to homecoming. She's 1 of 2 cute girls on the team, but i think it's just weird. I will probably ask her just to get him off my back.

20 minute warmup, 400,800,1200,800,400, 20 minute cooldown. The stupid band had t be practicing, so we used a 400 meter lap. Times were slow at first, the picked it up. 82, 3:05, 4:48,2:48,76. The lap was actually 410 meters, so that made me feel a little better about my times. The last 400 felt awesome, reminded me of the best part of my race, my kick. Hated doing laps, reminded me of how much i am going to hate running 2 and 3 miles at AF. I am probably not gonna have a ping pong party. Met a girl in my seminary class that is way cool, and she's cute too. Haven't found out yet if she's been asked to homecoming, i will ask if she hasn't. Haven't ran over 6 miles in a day in over 4 weeks. Feels good to get back on track. My calves have been sore for the past week, for no particular reason. I think it might be going from 4 to 25 miles in a week. tomorrow is supposed to be a recovery run, and i hope we treat it like 1. I don't want to be sore on saturday.

About a minute into the run i had to use the bathroom, so I stopped at the seminary building. Seth, stephen and shaun were nice enough to wait for me, but it was their excuse to get a soccer ball and go to art dye and play. Once we got onto the art dye trail, seth and I flew. It was .8 miles, and our mile split would have been around 5:15. Felt amazing! Soccer was boring, as usual. We made an ab workout called Kim-jon-un. I would have rather gone up the canyon with the rest of the guys, but it was okay. Hopefully my knees won't be sore tomorrow. I don't think Mr. Revelli likes me, because he asked about ab workouts, and I tolally BSed it and siad we did a 20 minute ab workout yesterday. He believed my for a little bit, but the girls told on me. Today has been a pretty crappy day at school, but on the bright side, i haven't worn my knee brace all week, and my knee hasn't hurt a bit!

No run today. Was at the doctors during practice. I have poison ivy, and when i get it it is usually super bad. I have in a bunch on my face. I twas pretty embarressing when i was talking to some cute girls during linch. I got it from tag on monfay. I guess this is my punishment for playing tag when i should have been running. Rolled out my calves, which are still a little sore.

Slept amazingly last night, which was good. I'm not dure how far our run was, but i think it's a good guesstimate. Couldn't breathe very well for some reason. I ce bath afterwards. Pasta party at night. Excited for tomorrow. My last legit race was orem tiger trails, and i didn't do very well. Want to get under 11:45

As soon as I woke up, i could tell today wasn't the day. There were only 3 guys from Lone peak in my race, and they were both super slow. My first mile was around 6:30, which was way too slow. I sureged on the track, and passed about 10 people. After that i zoned out. I was thinking about stuff i shouldn't be focusing on, like who was going to give talks in church tomorrow, etc. I was super slow at the hay bales, both times at the gauntlet i got passed by at least 5 people. When i was heading around the baseball field the first time I felt like dropping out. My stomach felt terrible, which was weird because the last thing i at was some watermelon at the pasta party. My knee felt fine. I have some poison ivy around my eyes, and i had to slow down for a bit to get it out.  I had my watch on, and it said 2.04! That takes off about 15-20 seconds i think. That comeforts me a little, but still a bad race. That takes off At the end, i could tell i still had some gas left in the tank.  I would give myself a C- for this race. Price's time last year was 12:32, so i am definetly gonna get teased by the PG team. I passed a few people at the very end, the only bright spot about today. My spikes were way too small, and 26.2 was there. I got a a pair of flats instead of spikes, but i'm fine with that. Our varsity team did pretty well. We came in 4th of of 30ish. First was AF, Desert Hills, Lehi, LP. Seth had a really good race, he was in the 10's. and he was really close to beating zack. Lil' warner wasn't very happy with his time, which was 10:36. He got 10:15 last year, so i would be pretty mad too. Hopefully by region we'll be able to top Lehi. I'm pretty sure that we will make it to state. We came in 3rd out of 4 teams from region 4. I know that were faster than were faster than westlake, riverton, i think herriman, and 90% sure were faster than PG. Juston did really well, and came in 10th overall in frosh/soph. He dosen't show up very much, but if he becomes dedicated, he'll get up there. I'm pretty sire the guys fighting for the 6-7 spots will be: juston,craik,josh C., stephen, and spencer king if he gets back from having a bad IT band. After that it's me, jacob jensen, and josh ericksen. After that it's a big drop. It was great running weather today, and i was super mad about time, but mostly my place. This just fules me even more for upcoming races. I think with Pleasant grove racing against me, that i can push myself a lot harder tha i did today.I am still learning how to push myself to my limit. I am gonna get a new jersey!