One Mile at a Time

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.