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We met at 7 am today to run because we had our strength workout after at 8ish.  We did extended mountain run today.  It was fun.  My thighs are still super sore from the strength workout we did on Friday so it was hard going down hill.  The up hills were fun though.  I ran for 49 minutes.  It was an enjoyable run.  Strength was really easy today because we are having a Duel meet against Lehi tomorrow.

I had a race today so I went to that.  I warmed up with Jamison because we were going to do the 400 and 2 mile.  We did the 400 but I realized I wouldn't have time to do the 2 mile because I was accompanying Russell at his solo ensemble thing.  I did the 400 and ran unofficially 56.77 and then left and did the thing with russell.  After the thing with Russell we went out to eat at Melty Way.  It is a delicious restaurant.  After I got home and went over to the track.  I ran a little bit before the track as a warm up like thing.  Then I decided to run a 5:00 mile pace for as long as I could.  I did it for 1.5 miles but I can definately do better if I don't eat a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich before running.  And I was also still sore from thursdays strength training.  I cooled down at a faster pace but not fast enough for fast miles.  It was a good run overall.

We did a strength training before our run the we went and did a modest run.  I decided that I am never going to try to escape through the bushes.  It is so much easier just juking and running.  And a lot less painful.  I got a few cuts on my body.  And I got caught by Jamison.  I'll probably run some more later tonight.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a hard workout since our race on Saturday is a really chill race. 

Today we did an 800 600 400 800 600 400 workout.  It was pretty fun.  I thought I was going to die because my legs were really tired on our warmup.  But the first 800 brought them to life.  I did all of the intervals fastest today.  I ran a 2:21, 1:43, 1:06, 2:22, 1:46, 1:07.  There was a nasty wind on the back stretch so that made it really hard.  I was pretty happy with the workout though.  I felt like my legs are finally being able to start moving again.  They haven't felt very good since our Time Trials and the strength we did after it killed me.  I am finally recovering from that and can barely feel that strength training now. 

Shout out to Spencer Smith for letting the kid who is "tapering" beat him in the workout. :)

Some of our team played tag while some of them went on the mountain run.  I stayed and played tag.  We invited the girls to come play with us and they did.  It was really fun.  We also had 2 sprinters who came with us because most of the sprinters went to the meet or didn't practice today.  It was really fun.  We did the golf course afterwords.  We also did strides.  Tomorrow I'm racing the 4x1 mile and the Distance Medley.  I'm doing either the 800 or 1200 in the Medley because Jamison is doing the 400 and Lil Warner is doing the mile and Galen and I don't really care which we do so we will decide tomorrow at the meet.  We are going for the course record on the 4x1 mile and hopefully on the DMR.  It will be a really fun race.

Today we had the cougar relays.  It was really fun.  I raced in the 4xmile and DMR.  I ran the 1200 in the DMR and I had put about 100 meter lead on the 2nd place person.  It was not very fast.  I ran a 3:22.  We won the DMR.  In the 4xmile it wasn't a relay but everyone had 4 people per team run it and just added their times together.  We broke the course record even without 2 of our top four racing in it.  We didn't win first though.  It was really dissapointing but oh well.  I ran a 4:32 and placed 3rd.  Galen ran a 4:36 and placed 4th.  Justin ran a 4:49 and Josh ran a 5:04.  I'll probably go run 4-5 more miles later.

Shout out to Galen for being cool and wearing the same spikes as me.

Went on a 5 mile run on Bonneville tonight with my brother.  While we were running up there we saw Spencer Smith driving somewhere.  We weren't going super fast at the beginning (7:35 pace) but we picked it up some over the next 4 miles so we finished at 35 mins. so an average of 7 flat pace.  It was very hard because my legs could feel the race in them still.  But it was good to go get some miles on tired legs.