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This morning me and a few other varsity kids, met up in providence to do a 9 mile run. Our coach told us the directions on where to go. It was one 5 mile loop, and one 4 mile loop. The first 5 mile loop was pretty hilly. Long gradual inclines, that didn't feel to great. Every workout that I have done this week had pretty decent sized hills. At the end of the loop, we stopped at Zollinger park where we first started, and I changed my shoes to my Adidas Boost  because they have more cushion than my Kinvara's. I wasn't too thrilled to do the second loop because that has a really big hill that goes on for about 3 quarters of a mile. We ran it and it was tiring. Even though Hayden is on a bike because of his injury, he still got a pretty good workout. For the rest of the run, we just cruised on the downhill and flat. Pretty happy that I'm gonna get 70 miles this week. Now I can start toning the milage down for the season. Gotta do 4 miles tonight and I will get 70. So will Joe.

pm: Finally got 70 miles! Now I can start toning down the milage and start to focus on speed work for the season. Not much to say about the run other than it was wayy hot, and I was already exhausted because I was at the logan pool for 4 hours before that. Pretty happy that I got it though. Just gonna go out and play some ping pong and have a fire with my buddies. Peace.

So this morning my alarm went off at 5:30 and I was so dang tired, I decided that I would snooze for like 2 minutes. After what felt like 2 minutes I checked my clock and it was 6:20! I shot out of bed so quick and got dressed and drove straight to where I knew that we were doing our workout. I sped to Lincoln elementary and thank goodness, the team was still in the circle stretching and taking care of team business. I told my coach what happened, and that I would make up the miles I missed. 

The workout today was doing figure 8's on the grass with our spikes on. We run at our 5k pace for 3 minutes, and jog for 2 minutes. That's one set. We would do that 5 times. It was a pretty good workout. My average pace for my 5k speed was around high 4's and low 5's. So I felt good about it. Good to see Hayden out getting to run. Joe did really good today as well. Drove back to the school and did 2.5 miles on the track. Tonight I will do 3 or 4 miles.

Easy 5 miles this morning on Nibley Dip. We have tryouts tomorrow and I want to P.R. on my 10k, so hopefully I will be feeling good tomorrow. After I went to ball in Hyrum and the stake center, but nobody looked like they were there so I didn't go in later finding out that there were people inside playing. Probably good for me that I didn't play. Knowing my luck I would have of shattered my femur. Sooo good thing I didn't play. Gonna do an easy couple miles tonight.

So I'm gonna put this as a race report because a couple of other kids and I raced it. Just a flat 6 mile run. Did a short warm up and 2 strideouts and they I lined up. Me and Joe got off to a pretty fast start. We settled in at a good pace at about 1.5 miles. I was feeling really good and started to get a lead by mile 2. Around mile 3 I was at a comfortable 5:40 mile pace. On the way back for the last 3 miles I was telling everybody good job and I was feeling really strong. With about a mile left I tried picking up the pace even more. I really was hoping to break 34 minutes and with a half mile left, I could tell that it was going to be close, so I picked it up even more. I ran strong all the way through the line but I ended up getting 34:04. I felt great physically and didn't even feel winded! Shout out to Hayden for running as fast as he did despite his injury. He killed it today. Shout out to Don with the wack username. Pron8r. hahahaha. Got and afternoon run. Heat of the day!

pm: Did 3.5 miles in the heat. I wasn't feeling like I had a ton of energy for I still felt alright. I stopped a few times under shaded areas to get a quick breather. I averaged about a 6:45 the whole time. I hope I feel well recovered by tomorrow because Don says we have a pretty good track workout that we are gonna do. I'm excited for that. I'm gonna kill it. Gonna go to Crystal Hotsprings in a bit. Hopefully that doesn't suck away my energy.

Well kind of a shor set back. I tried to jump out of the slide at Crystal Hotsprings last night and the way I tried to do it, I hurt my knee. Probably am going to need a couple days to recover. I need to stop being so stupid. It's frustrating when things like this happen. Hopefully it doesn't last too long.

Tried running really easy today. It feels okayish after all the icing that I have been doing. Hope that I will be back on track in no time.

Today we ran 10 in providence with some pretty big hills. My knee felt good probably because of all that icing I have been doing. I was pretty mad about the top 100 returning cross country boys in Utah list that milesplit just put out. My head coach never really put in any times from last season and I would've easily made that list. Makes me look real good. I'm gonna get that sorted out because that just makes me mad.

Reverse ladders on the track today. I was pretty excited to do that because I really like track workouts. Our first 4 laps were supposed to be our 5k pace plus 10 seconds. I went way faster then that. I was going pretty fast and finished my first mile in about 4:50. Sorry I don't have exact times and splits right now, my watch is acting up. I was feeling great though. I just kept trying to push myself throught the workout. I don't really remember anything to special about the 3 laps or 2 laps, but I do remember that on our 400 meter lap that it really sucked. I was sucking air. We had 200 meters to finish it off. Supposed to go all out. I felt like a sprinter on that because I was flying. Finished to off with a mile cooldown, and then ran barefoot .6 to get 6 miles. Really good workout today. Looking forward to the Alumni Meet on wednesday.

pm: 4 miles easy and it was fetchin hot. Hopefully I get used to the heat.

Easy 6 miles today. We have the Alumni Meet tomorrow, so hopefully I won't be sore because I want to do really good at that. I drank some water before I came to practice and I had a pretty bad sideache for about 4 miles. Near the end of the run I started feeling the effects of yesterdays workout. I think I will feel fine by tomorrow though.

Today was the Alumni Meet on the dreaded MC course. Went for a 15 minute warmup with hayden and did some strideouts. My knee was clicking and it was kind of uncomfortable. I was pretty anxious for this race for this whole week. As we started, Joe and I went out pretty quick and at the first mile I was a 5:31. After the hill coming off the dirt road, my body really tried to relax, and that just slowed me down a ton. That is the one place on the course that I need to push harder. Cemetery hill felt alright as I tried to attack every hill we ran on. It was really hot and I wasn't going as fast as I wanted to. I probably could have pushed harder for the last half mile. I ended up finishing with a time of 17:18. That's a P.R. on this course, and if you don't already know, that whole course is pretty much hills. Definitley one of the hardest courses in the state. I wasn't too happy with the time I got because I know I can do better, but it was okay and I had a good time running it. Shout out to Branson for pulling a Spencer and not showing up the whole summer and then coming in the top 5! He's gonna kill it this year.

Hill repeats today on Blacksmith Fork Hill. We had to do 8 of them which is the most we have ever done. First started with a 1 mile warmup to the canyon, did some stretching and then started running the hills. It was pretty tough and my knee kept on clicking so it was pretty annoying. My body feels pretty good from yesterday so I felt like I didn't need much of a recovery. So glad that that is the last time we have to run on that hill this summer. Easy cool down back to the school. Easy 3 tonight.

pm: Ended up getting 3.75 miles in the heat. I tried to get my little brother to come and run, but he kept saying we were going to fast and he just wanted me to go by myself so I did. One week until our first season race. Bring it on!

Today was the first time that I have ever run P-Vine. Everytime the team had run it this summer, I was gone. We ran it pretty easy, but my body hurt and I was really fatigued from yesterday. It was a really nice run though. It had some long rolling hills. Got some cinammon roles and water when we got back to the stake center. Dellan and his mother made them the night before. Can't believe we half less then a week of summer left. Gonna go to Crystal hotsprings with some friends tonight and enjoy the rest of my summer. Peace.

Today we ran the Beaver Mountain Varsity Relay. Basically you have partner and you run while they bike for 10 minutes and then you switch off after the 10 minutes are over. We had an odd number of girls, so I got 2 girls in my group whcihc meant that I would only get to bike a third of the time. I ran pretty far in head of my group so when it was my turn to bike, I just kept on running. We were running to an area where a plane crashed a long time ago. The way up it was mostly long inclines. It was a bout a 6 mile trip up. By the time we got back to the bottom and I got a bit of time to bike, I ended with 10.5 miles. Great time to bond with the team. After some other kids and I went to Branson's house and swam it his pool. Then we went to coach Don's for a varsity barbeque. Then after that went to Eric Laub's for the big end of summer bash party. It was awesome! Great day of parties!

Rodeo grounds with spikes. Had to run with a partner, so I chose Hayden. Had to do 5 long loops and plank while your partner runs a loop and then you switch off. Then we had 5 short loops. The workout was pretty good. My spikes kind of hurt my feet so I might run in my Mutumbos for Highland. 

pm: 2 miles easy around Nibley

Ran the Logan river Trail todau at first dam. Went really easy with Joe and Hayden. Not much to say about the run other than it was wayy tired and it was freezing. Summer is ending. Hate this feeling. :(