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It was a good time.  At the first on the warm up my knees were hurting a bit but after we warmed up enough they felt fine.  We headed to the grass field after 2 mile warm up then set up an 800 meter course then headed off on the first one.  Felt ok on the first and ran 2:28.  Next 3 I felt excellent and ran 2:25ish I think then 2:23 then 2:24.  Then the next one I got a small side stitch and ran 2:27.  Then Ryan said that since I haven't done speed in over a week that I was gonna do one more then be done.  I asked if I should go fast but he said consistent so I hit 2:22.  It felt really nice.  Then the rest of them did the last one while I ran a lap just slowly.  Then we cooled down 2.5ish miles.   

Shout out to Jamison and Galen who ran 2:15 and 2:16 on their last one.

Went on a distance run.  We did the alpine loop.  My nose started bleeding which was obnoxious.  We headed down on alpine highway which for about 1/2 a mile we were going around 5:25 pace which was fun.  I felt great doing that.  But then after we slowed down then my shin hurt a little bit but I'm gonna ice it.  I also reffed but didn't put in any mileage for it.  But I reffed one game and then got ready for a second and it was cancelled because of lightning delay so I earned $50 in an hour of work which was awesome.

Tough workout today.  We did 5x600 meter hills.  I hit 1:57, 1:55, 1:57, 1:56, 1:52.  My stomach hurt so it was really tough. Then after that we went and did 3x400.  I hit 67, then 65, then 62.  It was really tough.  It was active recover after each thing plus warm up and cool down so we got lots of mileage.  Then I had to go ref some soccer games which got me about an extra mile.  But I'm not counting it on the blog.  Gonna do some hard strength training cuz I have slacked off a little bit on it.

Did a modest run today.  I ran around the lake a decent amount of time so I got good mileage.  Plus I got a lot of fast mileage cuz I chased spencer for a bit and seth chased me for a long time.  It was good.  Then we went on a cool down but I had to turn back a bit early cuz I had to ref soccer. I reffed U15 so I had to run a decent amount cuz they were really agressive. But I didn't count it.  Gonna do more core today.

Pre race norm. Today I had to do a 6 hour block of spanish only which was tough.  I went to my friend's who was also doing it and we played super smash bros. and shouted at each other in spanish which was fun. Then we went and played some soccer which got me more mileage.  Then we had the pasta party and we played football and the juniors were the supreme team.  We beat the other dudes which was a lot of fun. 

Got to the race and cheered on the JV.  Then watched Josh my brother race in the 7th man varsity race.  Then warmed up feeling a bit bad but not terrible.  Warmed up while Craik was running who had a 200 meter lead on second place.  Then we started off about a minute before Justin finished his leg, in first.  We got out, one guy pushing the pace way to hard so I just chilled back.  We got to the first hill and I was in 5th, passed 2 people going up the hill, then on the next hill which was right next to it I took the lead. Then just let myself go down the hill.  Then just went around the course.  At a mile and a half in I got a bad side ache but I had a good lead on the other guys that it was fine and I was able to keep a decent lead.  Then on the last hill my side ache finally went away and was able to cruise up the hill and down it to the finish.  Not the time I wanted but I was happy, first race back I won in my division. So I was happy about that.  Then I did a 17 minute cool down, then decided to go with Jamison and galen on their cool down.  Got a total of 6 miles cool down and it felt really good. I'm excited for bob firman.