| Location: Salt Lake City,UT,USA Member Since: Jun 16, 2010 Gender: Male Goal Type: Highschool Champ Running Accomplishments: - I did better than I hoped my first year of XC. Really I didn't know what to expect and looking back I'm proud of myself for reaching the level I did sophomore year.
-I broke five in the mile @ the Davis Invite Sophomore year
Freshman Year: I didn't run cross country because I didn't really know about it until well into the school year:( In track the first ever mile I ran at practice was a 7:13 (HA!) and I ended the season with a 5:38 PR. I really only ran the mile that year.
Sophomore Year: I started running XC with the first summer workouts. I built up mileage all summer and progressively got better. Once the season came in I PR'ed almost every race. I ended the season with a 17:27 at regions, which means I was splitting at about 5:48 miles, only ten seconds slower than my PR in the mile freshman year. I also got the Rookie of the Year award, along with Dakota. Track season, well, was track season. A lot of lovely drama and confusion but hopefully that is all over for next year because I really want to focus on being a competitor in my Region and at State. I ended the season with a 4:58 PR.
Junior Year: I had an awesome XC season. I built mileage all though the summer and pushed myself through the season. I was doing well, until my shins just got to painful to run through, and unfortunately that was the pretty much the end of my season. I took time off before Region and ran as hard as I could finishing 10. Once State came around, I decided that I would pull out of the race to give another one of our guys a shot at running. Right after State, I began cross training, and I cross trained all throughout the winter, until I got back to running about two weeks before indoor started. I struggled a bit during indoor to manage my shins, but I followed my training, got stronger, and strengthened myself enough where my shins no longer even bothered me. I was able to go through the entire outdoor season without injury and climbed to mileage I had never achieved. I was second in the 2 mile at Region and made State, where I PR'ed again. I couldn't be happier with my outdoor season because although I didn't quite reach the times I could have hoped for, I stayed 100% injury free and I can tell that I am stronger and ready to take on a summer of hard training.
Senior Year: I trained hard and consistently this summer, climbing to 100 mile weeks, and feeling strong while doing so. I stayed at high mileage all through the season, averaging 90 miles a week, and racing hard all the while. When it came time to taper, I saw just how much all those miles paid off, and now I'm proud to say I'm a Region Champion, as well as top 10 in the state.I trained hard and consistently this summer, and it payed off. I am a different runner now than I was a year ago, staying completely away from injury, giving me confidence that my body can take all the hard training that is coming up. I trained hard and went into Footlocker excited, but I did not do nearly as well as I could have. But, my failure at Footlocker fueled me for the season, and I set some PR's during Indoor. My real step up though, was during outdoor. I improved all season, with some great highlights along the way. I ran well at Arcadia, racing three times and PR'ing by almost 40 seconds in a 3200 after having raced twice previously. I continued improving and working hard, and at the Davis Invite I finished third with a 4:14 1600. I then went on to finish 5th at State in the 1600, and 3rd in the 3200, a big improvement over my 10th place finish during Cross. Despite knowing that I could have done better this year, I am very satisfied with how my season went. I made a big jump through hard work, and I learned so much about running and about myself. Now, I am proud to say that I have signed to BYU and will be running for one of the best teams in the NCAA! Go Cougars!
Personal Records:
5k - (aided) 15:03 Running of the Leopards 2013
- 15:36 NXR 2012
800 - 1:59.63 Region Champs 2013
1600 - 4:14.64 Davis Invite 2013
3200 - 9:16.9 Utah State T/F Champs 2013
3200 - 9:07.94 Arcadia Invite 2013 (sea level)
Short-Term Running Goals: -Cross Country Region Champion!
-Break 4:40 in the mile
-Break 4:30 in the mile
-Break 4:20 in the mile
-Run an 800 under 2:10
-Run an 800 under 2:00
-Run a XC 3 mile course under 17:00
-Run a XC 3 mile course under 16:30
-Run a XC 3 mile course under 16:00
-Run a XC 3 mile course in under 15:30
-Break 17:00 in a 5K
-Break 16:30 in a 5K
-Run in the mens elite race at Footlocker
-Place high in the state in the 1600/3200
Long-Term Running Goals: -Run in college
-Stay healthy and run for life
-Have fun while running!
Personal: High school is now over, and real life starts. I will be attending and running for BYU in the fall. GO COUGARS! Favorite Blogs: |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 94.00 | Nike Zoom Matumbo Spikes Miles: 1.00 | Nike Victory Waffles Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 |
| AM: I was still a little too sick to meet up with Bill and Chris, who decided to run particularly early this morning, so I slept in and ran later in the morning. It was raining for the whole run, so I wore a waterproof jacket over everything, which made me uncomfortably hot during my run. I decided to take it super easy since my head was throbbing at the beginning of the run and just go at whatever pace felt easy and comfortable. I didn't look at my Garmin at all until I finished, and I averaged 6:40's for the run. A pleasant surprise to the pace I thought I was going, roughly a minute slower. I'm glad this 10 miler is starting to get faster, it means my XC endurance is coming back! Ah, brings me back to the warm, summer days :') http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280607708 PM: I went for an easy 6 miles before work. About the same average as this morning. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280607700
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 16.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 |
| AM: Went for an easy four after first period. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280607696 PM: Today was our first time running on our track this season! We ran to the track from the commons and did a mile warm up and speed changes, then Chris and I did another half mile cause we were so far ahead. Then we went over to the asphalt hill and did ten of those. Once we all finished that, we went up to 1900 E and across that to 2100 S. We turned into the road at the East end of the park, and went the opposite way around to the West exit, then went down to 1300 E and then back to the school for 11. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280607692
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 15.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 16.00 | 16.00 |
| AM: There was no school today because of all the juniors taking the ACT, and Natalie happened to be in SL today, so I met up with her for a run. We met at SHP and did the Cemetery Run with one lap in the cemetery, then a road lap back at SHP for almost exactly 8 to the cars. After we had some Noodles :) http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280890861 PM: We met at Liberty in the afternoon for workout, just as Ben was finishing his! We did a sidewalk lap warm up, then two sidewalk laps of 30 sec on/30 sec off, then we did two perimeter laps and added some to get to 8 for the afternoon. Easy-ish workout. Time trial tomorrow! http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280975342
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 16.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| AM: Went for an easy three mile shakeout on my own http://connect.garmin.com/activity/281311947 PM: Today was our time trial! The events of the day were the 100, 400, and 1600. We were all required to do two each, so I obviously did the 1600 and the 400. After we got our team warm up, stretches, and drills done the milers started to warm up. Chris and I did two miles warm up, and a mile speed changes.After some waiting for the 100's to be over, we put on our spikes and went over to the line for the 1600. My original plan for this was to go out in around a 65, then keep the middle two lap consistent and under 70, and then just finish with whatever I had left for what I figured to be around 4:35ish. But there was a nasty head wind today, and it became apparent to me that a 4:35 would be tough. So instead I just went for 4:40 or below. Also, I didn't start my watch when I thought I had, so I have no exact splits. I believe I took it out in 66, then hit a 2:15 800 (69), and I was surprisingly on pace for a good mile. I thought that I was holding my pace down well, but my 1200 was 3:30 (75, oops), and my overall time was 4:41 (71). I was feeling tired by the last lap, and the brutal wind right on the finishing straight wasn't helping. The third lap annoys me. It felt like I was holding my pace down well, but I slowed down a ton. Plus, I didn't kick as fast as I would have liked. Oh well. It's a good time for just running by myself, anyway. After that I did a little over 1.5 miles in my spikes before I did the 400. It felt slow, mainly because of the wind. I have no idea what my time was though. Then after we wrapped everything up, Bill and I went for a six mile run to get in the miles. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/281311935
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| Nike Zoom Matumbo Spikes Miles: 1.00 | Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 14.50 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 13.00 | 13.00 |
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AM: Went on an easy three on my own this morning. It's starting to warm up :) http://connect.garmin.com/activity/281637829 PM: Today has had it's ups and downs, but overall a good day. We did our usual City Creek run, and back along South Temple. Sarah stayed with Garek and I all the way to City Creek, where we stopped to wait for Bill, John, and Dakota to catch up. Then Sarah and Bill went up the canyon to get in some more miles, and the guys and I went back the usual route for 10. Sarah is staying with me longer every day! She kept up with me all the way to the fountain, which has a LOT of uphill on the way there. Somebody is following in the footsteps of a certain BYU runner.... ;) http://connect.garmin.com/activity/281637824 OH yeah, I was in the paper today :) http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/tribpreps/55947790-190/gutierrez-east-track-students.html.csp
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 13.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 14.00 | 14.00 |
| AM: Went four on my own. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/282910424
PM: Today we met at the track for practice. After everyone split, distance did 8X K-Hill, and then we went for a run. We ran to Fairmont, where we did ten strides in the field, then staircased down to Liberty, and went around the park back up the school. That was 8.5 plus the 1.5 from warm up and hills for 10. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/282910370
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 14.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 10.50 | 10.50 |
| AM: Today we met at the Oval for speed. We did four laps and stretched while everyone was arriving. Then we did another four laps warm up and then four laps of speed changes, afterwhich I did two laps recovery. Then we changed shoes and did another lap before starting the workout. Speed today was 6 X 800 at 2:20-2:22 with a lap recovery for Chris and I. When I heard my times, I thought I had this workout in the bad easily, but that wasn't the case. I took the first one out too slow(74), so I had to really pick it up the second lap(69) and still ran slow (2:23.9). The next one I made sure to run pretty even splits, and hit 2:21. After this one I was hurting a lot more than I expected to be. 2:20 didn't sound that fast, but running speed at the end of a 100 mile week has it's downfalls. After this one, I prepared for this workout to really suck, and just bit the bullet. The next four were 2:21, 2:19, 2:18, 2:18. Surprisingly, the third hurt the worst, and I decided to stop focusing on hitting splits after that because they were throwing me off, and I just started pushing the whole rep. Not only did they get a little faster, but they also started to hurt less. The second half felt a lot better than the first half. At least I learned something from this workout... After I did six laps cool down for 10.5 miles for the day. 100 miles this week! :)
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 5.50 | Nike Victory Waffles Miles: 5.00 |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 0.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
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| Nike Pegasus 29 II Miles: 94.00 | Nike Zoom Matumbo Spikes Miles: 1.00 | Nike Victory Waffles Miles: 5.00 |
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