One Mile at a Time

Today the workout was when you go hard 1 minute and then easy for 2 minutes. I forgot what it is called I just know it sounds like fart (really it's fard something). We had to go for 30 minutes. My knees didn't hurt too bad today, but near the end they get that compressed feeling. Afterwards we did abs. Unfortunately the great Tanner Nelson was unable to make it to practice. He's probably faking some injury. Just kidding but I wish you were there Tanner. I won't be able to go to practice tomorrow or Saturday because I have Youth Conference. On Saturday for Youth Conference we are running the Dirty Dash so I'll just count that as my workout.

Well, on Friday I didn't go running because I was at Youth Conference which was awesome. Yesterday we ran the Dirty Dash. Jared, Johnny, Casey and I were running together but then Casey and Johnny decided to go faster. The Dirty Dash is a 5k or 10k. Our group was running the 5k but because Jared and I were so far ahead Casey's dad told us just to do the 10k as well as Johnny and Casey. The guy who runs the Dirty Dash (get it? Haha) is in our ward and told us it actually is about 5.4 miles note 6.whatever. We still beat people in our youth group that ran the 5k. The Dirty Dash was way fun but it stunk so so bad. They don't even time the race so it's super unofficial. I took 5th from our ward in the 10k and I took 4th in our ward for the 5k.

Today was the Reaper. The Reaper is probably my favorite run but I ended up not running it because after the 2 mile warm up my knees started to hurt. AGAIN. I think that part of the problem is that I'm missing days of running. Usually my knees don't hurt as bad if I have ran some the day before. This will be a problem because on Tuesday and Thursday is when my soccer practice will be. I guess I will have to make up the runs at night if I want my knees to feel any better.

4.8 miles today. I ran with Jared, Nate and Tracer. It was a crazy run. We started off wanting to run the Dry Canyon trail. We were going up 200 South but then we cut down some side roads thinking there was an easier way to get to the trail. We ended up right by the canal so we followed it and then went up another hill to get to fire road. We barely ran on fire road. We cut down from fire road to the canal and just went back to the school like that. My knees started to hurt around 4.1 miles.

Today at noon is the start of the 24 hour relay. We run 1 mile at a time carrying a baton for 24 hours. I think that you run a mile every three hours. Everyone runs the first and last mile too. It should be a lot of fun.

The 24 hour relay ended today. I ran the first mile and last mile as well as 4 legs. I thought I would get at least 6 legs but we were running way behind schedule. The 24 hours were really fun. Tanner, Matt and I built a fort on top of the high jump pads. It was pretty awesome. I only timed two of my miles and they were 6:30 and 6:26. They were pretty slow. I can't remember my first shift time but the second was about 11:00 pm. The third was about 2:30 am. The last one was 6:30 am.

We ran 3 miles today. After the three miles we did 10 100's so that was a little over half of a mile. My knees didn't really bother me today which I was happy about. It's strange because my knees only hurt when I am running for cross country. When I play soccer they don't hurt at all. 

We did an Indian run today. It seems like my knees start hurting at around 4 miles so after 2 miles out I turned back which was a good decision. Yesterday for Young Mens we did a lot of hiking with full packs in preperation for high adventure.

Did a ton of biking with Clain and Jared so I'm counting it as three miles.

We ran from Sundance to Stewart Falls today. We ran up the road from Sundance until we got to Aspen Grove then we did some trail running to the falls and then back down other trails that ended at Sundance. It was a good run. Average pace was pretty slow but that was going to be the case with all the hills. My knees didn't hurt until the last hill that was pretty steep but other then the last part they were great.

Today I hiked Timp. It was pretty fun until we had to cross long, steep sections of snow and ice. The total to the summit and back is 15 miles but I only went to the saddle. I started feeling sick and it was pretty sketchy on the way to the summit so I just waited at the saddle until the rest of the quorom came. Going down my hands froze off. It was miserable but the scenery made up for it. It was really awesome!

I was finally able to run the Reaper.