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Today is Presidents day so it's nice to get a day off of school. The air was so warm outside and the inversion was gone too, so that was great. Before I ran I went to Crystal Hotsprings with some of my pals. The water felt really good on my legs. When I got home it started getting dark and I hadn't done my run yet, so I threw on my running stuff and got out the door. Not even .1 into my watch completely froze and wasn't working so I shut it off and reloaded my GPS. My watch said it was at 15 percent battery life. That wasn't enough life to last my run. Plus I really needed a watch to complete my workout which was 7 miles at alternating pace from moderate to hard. My watch continued to be screwy with the mileage and stuff so I said screw it. I was just gonna run my whole run hard. I felt so good while runnning the whole time. I don't know if it was the warm air or what, but I was flying. If I did have my watchto show pace, I would've said I was going about a 5:45 pace. It was pitch black outside and I was still running, so I decided I better end my workout. The route that I did if I remember correctly was about 6 miles. Not quite 7 but I will make up for that later. Im pshyched to see that the air is going to be warm like this for a while.

Today was just like yesterday, warm and beautiful outside. I was really excited to start my workout. After running in the cold and on a treadmill for a couple months you get really excited to get weather like this. Our workout today was a 5 mile progression run where every mile is 15 seconds faster than the last. First we warmed up for a mile to Canyon Elementary and back, then we started. We headed towards the Hyrum stake center. The slower miles were no problem at all and felt really really good. Just as if I were warming up. It started getting hot so I took my shirt off which felt good. When we started getting into the 5's I was still feeling great, and by the time we had our last hard mile which was at 5:15 pace, I hit that no problem. My mile splits were, 6:18, 6:10 (idk why we were slow on that one) 5:48, 5:31, (for the 5:15 mile pace mile I had to stop and tie my shoe which took a good 20 seconds because I kept on fumbling my laces and I forgot to stop my watch but my last split was 5:33. I would've hit 5:15. This was a pretty easy workout today. I have been feeling awesome the past couple days. I am gonna be one happy person if I continue to feel like this. I haven't felt this good since the beginnning of cross country, so that's a good sign.

It was a bit colder than it has been in the past couple days, but I still wore shirts and a short sleeve shirt. Since simplot is tomorrow, we did an easy 4 mile pre race to the stake center and back. I was a little sore in my knees but that's alright. Over all I feel good. My goal for tomorrow is sub 9:45. If I can run that I think I will have a chance to make it into the finals on Saturday.

Simplot was today, and I was so gratetful that I got to run today. Once again, I fell in love with the track as I have many past tracks that I've raced at this indoor season. When I got there I took a few laps with Ethan to get a feel for the track. I was feeling pretty good. When it got time to warmup, I did about a mile with Ethan and a stride out before I went back inside. They called 2nd call for the 3200 right as I got back inside, so I was freakin out that I was gonna get scratched, so I hustled my butt over there and thankfully got there in time. I was pretty nervous but feeling good. I was 13th in my heat so I had to start on the front outside waterfall. I got out to a good start, but a little fast. My first mile was in 4:44, which was a sign that I went out too fast. I kept on getting past in the last mile, and it was really frustrating because I still felt like I was running hard. I ended up finishing in 9:48.64 which is a new p.r. but I was still upset because I knew that wasn't enough to make the finals. Turns out to make the finals this year was a 9:39 or lower. That sucks because last year to make it you had to run a 9:55. I learned a lot from this race. I'm not gonna type all the lessons that I learned because it's late. I'm glad I can use what I learned from indoor and apply it into running for this up coming outdoor season. Peace.

Still kinda bummed about not making the finals, so I wanted to do something fun for my run. The weather was beautiful, so I drove out to North Logan and ran with Ethan and Connor Compton. We took it really easy because it was a recovery day for me and a recovery/pre-race day for Ethan. I'm glad to see Connor get up off his butt and actually run for once. We had to stop a couple times along the run to laugh. I haven't laughed that hard on a run in forever. Great day to run.

I went snowboarding to Cherry Peak today so I didn't start my run until it started to get dark outside, but that's okay because it wasn't too cold outside. I didn't really have a workout, I just wanted to go out and run. I could tell that I was pretty tired but I still kept a pretty good pace. My average mile pace was 6:15 which felt pretty good. I'm excited for the weather to start getting warmer and outdoor track to start.