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I haven't posted on here since the end of summer so I am gonna try to start doing this more often. Hayden was a G and switched into the 10k so we both didn't have to compete over 1 turkey. I would have, but I have been sick and it probably wouldn't be the best thing to do running in the cold for that long, plus that is about the 4th or 5th time I've been able to run in about 7 weeks. (I've had mono) The race was fun and cold but I got off to a decent start. Eric stuck with me for about a mile. The course was pretty tough because of the really long gradual inclines. I have lost a lot of my strength running hills since I haven't ran in so long. So those were pretty tough, but my favorite part of the finishing gradual downhill that was at the end. I had a pretty big lead from 2nd place and I just cruised down the hill. Came across the finishline in 18:45 which is nowhere good for me, but considering the tough course, me being sick, and not running in about 7 weeks I was fine with my time. I won a turkey in the 5k, and Hayden won a turkey in the 10k so my plan worked! Hope this next week I can do some real good for training for footlocker. I really need to keep my immune system up because it's been down recently. I need to start taking in more vitamin C.

Today was the first time in 64 days that I have gotten a some what decent workout for running after school. The workout was 6 miles alternating paces every mile. Easy on the odd, hard on the even. I haven't ran that hard in a while. We were going like a 5:20 pace during the hard miles, and that would have not been hard at all when I was healthy, but it hurt so bad. After the second hard mile, we were at mile 4, and I just stopped and laid down at the side of the road. I was very dizzy and tired. I hope I can get back into shape soon with footlocker coming up. I jogged back to the school which was about another mile away, but I didn't do the last hard mile on the track. I just laid down on the football feild and waited for hayden to finish. Rough workout. Went to the Logan rec center later on and play some pick up games. Proabably shouldn't have, but I played really cautious. 

Hilly providence course with Cameron Anderson from Logan, Hayden and Branson.. Pretty out of shape right now. Those hillls are killer. 

5 mile loop in Nibley. Easy pace. It was raining, and I got drenched.

Nobody had shoveled their sidewalks yet, so I had to run on the side of the road where all the slush had built up from cars driving on the road. I was pretty much in straight slush for about 5 miles of my run, which sucked. Just made everything cold and miserable. It was snowing aswell. Just ran at an easy pace. Through in a couple quarter mile fartleks for fun. 

My goodness today just sucked. Our workout was 10 sets of 3 minutes at tempo pace, and then 1 minute at easy pace. I know that I'm getting my wind back, but I still have been really struggling to even remotely touch where I was before I got mono. Tried to keep about a 5:30 average pace during the tempo portions, and I did decent on it. It was just way hard considering it was only a 5:30 average pace.