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Race: Region X championships (0.994 Miles) 00:04:57, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 7
Total Distance
5.00

My team arrived to region about 30 minutes before the first event(1600) was to start, so I was pretty nervous. Based on last year's times I'd need to run a low 4:46, with my best being 4:46.85. I knew I could do that, but the recent sickness I was recovering from filled me with some doubts. There was thunder and lightning, so the meet was delayed an hour. While we all took shelter at Morgan High School, and while we waited Mason, Aaron, and I ran about a mile around the school to keep our muscles warm.

After the hour passed the three of us ran about a mile and a half for a warm up and did some stretches, and got on the starting line. I wasn't feeling too well, but I told myself that I would stick with Aaron. The first 400 we came in at a 66, which was around my goal, but it felt bad. The next 400 was even worse. At the end of the first lap I was in fourth, on Aaron's tail, but aaron went too quickly as well so he started to die out. I got passed by two park city kids during the second lap and the gap between Aaron and I grew. My next 700 was basically a jog. I got passed by another park city kid and I couldn't care less. The gap between aaron and I was an entire stretch. In the last 100 Kedric caught me, so I sped up and basically sprinted my last 100, feeling full of energy. I could have easily run the same time again, which was a 4:57. I felt like I let my team down, but I told myself there'd be redemption in my 800 race tomorrow.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 4.06New Balance MD500v2 Miles: 0.99
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Race: Region X championships (0.497 Miles) 00:02:13, Place overall: 8, Place in age division: 8
Total Distance
5.00

I felt much better today. Yesterday all of the team went to Applebee's, but Mason and I wanted good food so we went to chick-fil-a and bought uncrustables afterwards. We got to our room an hour before everyone else, so we just browsed instagram and had a major freak out to find out our boy Matt Maton broke a 4 minute mile! Props to him. Anyway, to the race.

The morning of it was raining pretty intensely. In order to keep warm Mason, Aaron and I ran the mile and a half course, but mainly to keep Aaron company because the 3200 was the first event of the day. We were all top four on the team in the 3200, but coaches wanted me to qualify for state in the 800, and for Mason to win region in the 800 so we weren't running it. We did, however, cheer our hearts out for our boy! He was ranked fifth in the race. There were three park city kids who all ran mid 10's, and Andrew Allen, who won XC region this past season so his state spot was assumed(he told me he was going for fourth). The first 1600 Aaron had the lead, with Kedric on his back and Park City and Andrew close behind. Park City's 3200 plan is always to pace the first 1600 and go quickly for the second half, so when they hit that fifth lap they struck. One Park city kid, Sam, decided to take the lead. Aaron knew it'd be stupid to fight, so he let him take it. Andrew passed him soon after, and caught Sam as well. The final 600. Andrew had a large lead, and Sam had some ground on Aaron. Kedric was about 50 meters behind, with Wes trailing him. Wes wisened up and kicked it in. By the final lap he had Aaron, but Aaron was going strong. Mason and I are going mute screaming. The two fought it out, With Aaron losing by .1 second to Wes, 3 to Sam, and 5 to Andrew. But my boy made state! He was so happy. I'm proud.

Flash foward to the 800. It's pouring. In in straight spandex, so is everyone else. I was ranked 6th, but Wes dropped out to save energy for the 4x400(he'd lose anyway). False start. The rankings were Mason in first, Andrew in second, Mason Stephens(Park City) in third(technically Wes would have been third), Aaron in fourth, me in fifth, a Morgan kid in sixth, Austin in seventh. Gun goes off. I told myself prior to the race I'd need to beat Mason Stephens to get my state spot because I didn't forsee Wes pansying out, So I decided to stay on Aaron. As we hit 150m I was in like 8th. Mason Walk and Andrew were battling it out for first. Austin was in front of me, and he hadn't beaten me once this season so I realized this pace wasn't right. I sped up at a comfortable pace and caught Mason at 250. Felt good. Amazing. As we hit 350 I realized that I was feeling comfortable, something I'd never felt in the 800. I didn't like it. I sped up and caught Mason and Andrew at the 400 mark and went for the pass. I kept the lead up until a bit past the 500 mark, then time slowed down. It seemed like Andrew was going at a full sprint as he passed me. Same with both Masons, and the Morgan kid that passed me. In the last 100 a Morgan kid, Austin, and a Park City kid caught me. I was mad at myself, I did beat Aaron though for the first time ever. I'm almost sure if I hadn't gone for the pass for the lead I could have kept up a sub 2:07 and qualified for state, but oh well. Just seeing the pure shock on both Mason's faces and the confusion on Andrew's made me happy. Austin acted like he was better than me at the finish line, and maybe he was. For the day. But I have a full second faster PR that begs to differ. Cooldown around the ol' mile and a half path. Pretty irate to not go to state, but now I have a fire in me to win. I guess this loss will just make my victory next year all the sweeter. Time to put it in work, and lay it out on the #grind. 1:57 at region next year or bust.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 4.50New Balance MD500v2 Miles: 0.50
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Total Distance
6.00

Did a 1600 warm up on the track, and did what I thought would be a quick 3 mile jog before taking my mother out to a mother's day dinner on me. However, once I hit the 2 mile mark I decided that I felt great, better than I had in a long time. I kept going, and ended up doing a 5 mile run instead. Didn't have my watch, but it felt like I was in the 6:20 range. Good day.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 6.00
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5.04

Went to the park, did a mile warmup, and did a couple mile repeats at 5:40 pace, which dissuaded me as I was hoping for a quicker pace, but it's alright. after that I did 2x800 repeats at 2:40. Pretty slow, but that's why I'm training in the offseason. mile cooldown afterwards.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 5.04
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5.50

Did a mile warmup, and did a little over a 5k at 6:22 pace. I went out at a sub 6 first mile, and slowed down pretty drastically. After that I did 8x50 meter wind sprints, and a little over a mile cooldown.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 5.50
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8.60

Mile warmup, and about a 6.5 mile run. Here are my mile paces;

mile 1- 6:30

mile 2- 7:00

mile 3- 7:20

mile 4- 8:00

mile 5- 7:20

mile 6- 6:55

mile 7- 6:50

There was about a 300m stretch around 5.5 miles in where I sped up to sub-6 pace because I saw a hot girl. According to my watch I set my 10k record of 45:11(with the watch) hopefully I can break 40 by August. After that 8x50m wind sprints, and a little over a mile cooldown.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 8.60
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Total Distance
5.75

Did a mile warm up at the park, then ran the time trials course for XC in 18:25, but I was running for splits. I was trying to conserve as much as possible for later in the run, so I averaged a 6:45 pace the first mile. After that I sped it up to a 6:10 for mile 2, ending mile 3 at about 6:05. My goal for the actual time trials this season is sub-16 for the 3 mile road race, so I need to shave a minute off each split, hopefully averaging a sub 5:00 pace for my last 600. I hope to break the Uintah High School 3 mile record, which is a speedy 16:13.5 set by Keaton Graham. After my course preview I did 8x75m wind sprints, and ran a mile and a half cooldown.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 5.75
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0.00

No run today. I had to go to state for choir. I planned to wake up at 5 and go run 5 miles and do some heavy reps of light weights and some core, but getting between 2-5 hours of sleep for thw past four days due to calculus, AP English, and AP Chem finals. On another note, I'm super stoked to go to team usa XC camp in a little over a month. The week before I'll be in Georgia for a family reunion, but I plan on using the elevation change as a reason to increase mileage. Hopefully I don't get stabbed whilst running through the hood haha. But in all seriousness, I'm really hoping I'll learn a lot about dieting and strength at the camp. This year I haven't mentally in to running. Is train what I thought to be hard(this week alone is harder than any week my coaches have gave me). My sophomore year I was so into it, but I was pretty weak so I didn't get that fast. I got all PRs this year, but they could have been more drastic if I had put my heart into it. On another note, I'm seriously questioning my coaches thinking. They tell us never to do more than 30 miles a week, yet I know for a fact every one of those top ten at footlocker west did at least twice as much as that. I'm going to try to do 40 this week, 45 the next, and keep moving up until I'm around 70. I had a talk with my dad, and we discussed matthew matons breaking of 4:00 in the mile. I'm sure he does more than 30 a week. The first high schooler to ever break 4? Between 100-150 a week. Wow. If I increase 5 miles per week, I might be able to work up to that. I also am pretty excited to run a Ragnar in a month. I start the race off on the USU track. I want to average around a 6:20 pace. I have about a mile straight downhill, and those are my advantage, so I could average a low 5, and hopefully recover.

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8.85

Did a 1 mile warmup, then ran 7 mile run. Not too proud of the pace, but it was up U hill and the rest of that mountain range. All together I ran up a little over 1500 feet. However, the first half of my last mile was 5:08, with the next 400 being 4:57, and going all out with a 4:48(downhill). .85 mile cooldown afterwards.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 8.85
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9.50

Today's workout hurt. I drove to the sand dunes about 30 minutes out of town to get a new workout, what I didn't plan on, however, was how difficult it would be. It may have been soreness from yesterday's run, or from my stomachache, but it hurt pretty badly. I did a one mile warmup on the highway, then ran 4 miles around the dunes. They were very hilly and my feet kept slipping due to loose sand, and that combined with the fact that I only had a one mile radius to run around made for a slow pace, but it hurt, which is good. I'll need to be sure to do this run again, as I've heard from multiple sources running up dunes builds leg muscles drastically for running up hills, which is really what I need to make my stremgth if I want to break 15:30 at sugar house and place top ten. After the four miles I ran a mile and a half down a pretty steep hill at an easy pace, and the. Turned around and ran back up it. It was about a 400 foot hill, but I still managed to keep up a 7:45 pace for the most part. I'll need to remember this as well for hill training. After I ran back up the hill I got lost for half a mile trying to find my truck, once I found it I ran a cool down mile and went home. I think I need to keep the next couple of days easier training-wise. This is the training I need to do every day to get my goals, but I haven't worked up to this level of intensity so I'm fairly wary of injury. After camp usa, however, this needs to be the quality and intensity of my daily training(at least). Surprisingly after an ice bath I haven't been all that sore, possibly because I've worn calf sleeves for both of my past two workouts. These past two days have definitely made my top ten hardest workouts. Can't wait to see what's on that list in ten months. Another recent goal I've developed in my brain is to qualify for the Adidas 2016 dream mile. Farfetched I know, but I'm willing to but everything on the grind for the next year until I get to that level of speed.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 9.50
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Total Distance
6.25

Went to the track, but turned out there was a team dinner going on at the time, so I waited for them to leave the track, did a one mile warmup, and did a 5k run. My first mile was at a 6:10, then 6:00, then 6:02. Felt good, besides the rain downpour. After that I did a 400, 300, 200, and did one third of a mile for my cooldown until the weather got to the point where I could no longer run,

New Balance 1400's Miles: 6.25
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5.10

Did a 1 mile warm-up, then did an easy 5k at 6:40 pace. 1 mile cooldown afterwards, then I lifted for about an hour.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 5.10
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1.30

Ran a 1.1 mile warm-up at a speedy 5:47 pace. Planning on a distance run, I got about a tenth of a mile out until major calf and arch pains forced me to jog back to my truck and drive home for injury prevention.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 1.30
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7.00

Mile warm-up, and about twenty minutes of stretching because I was still having pretty big pains in my lower left calf. I went for a 4 mile run, averaging out a 6:31, 6:53, 6:18, and 6:00. My calf was hurting pretty bad the first mile and a half, but after that the pain subsided and I was able to pick up the pace. After that I did 3 300m wind sprints (about 47-49 seconds each) and I did a mile and a half cooldown and went home. After thinking about my goals for the season, I'd like to break 16 at time trials this year, with a high hopes goal of sub-15:40. Icing leg currently to recover faster.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 7.00
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0.00

No run today. Today was the last day of school, so I sent it hanging out with friends and watching seniors graduate. I feel bad about not running, nut then again all my friends(runners) were eating donuts and stuff like that while I chose to keep my palette pretty clean, so I guess I did something right today.

Also I've been reseaching my injury alot, and what I've assumed it to be through many websites and such I found it to be what I thinnk is Achilles Tendonitis. I guess I increased my mileage too quickly at too intense of a pace, which resulted in me hurting myself. Once again I'm icing right now, and I looked up a few stretches to do as well. I think I'm going to aim for 40 miles this week, but for the next week or two I think I'll drop down my mileage to 30-35 miles a week to recover. I really hope to get better soon because I want to be the best, and an injury will not assist that.

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Didn't run today because I'm afraid of injury, however I did mountain bike six miles, and it was even more dangerous. I fell off a ton, and cut up and banged up my legs pretty badly. Not a great day. Good exercise though. Major icing and stretching to maximize recovery.

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0.00

Still afraid of tearing my achilles even more, however I did play tennis today, with minimal pains. Major recovery. Hoping to run tomorrow with Aaron, Austin, and Mason.

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8.00

Drove up to McCoy flats with my boy Aaron(Mason was busy and Austin was lazy). Did a little over a one mile warm up, and ran a 10k down the trails. It was very hilly, and a pretty intense workout. Our splits were 6:39, 6:53, 6:33, 7:12, 6:46, and 7:12 with the last .25 coming in at a 6:17. As the splits show, the second 5k was much more difficult, with it being much more hilly then before. Overall probably ran up over 1000 feet(according to Nike). Aaron says we could have broken 40(we ran 42:40) if we hadn't been talking the first 3 miles and had treated it more intensely, like a race, which I believe. Aaron wants he and I to break 35 for a 10k. That'd be crazy to do. But, if I'm to acheive the goals I want to get, I'll need to do things like that.

 

I didn't have achilles pains!!! I'm so happy. It hurt a few steps at the beginning, but it subsided almost immediately. After the run I was pleasantly surprised to feel no pain there(the rest of my legs hurt like a mother, but I'm not complaining). Great day, truly blessed to recover so quickly, and to lose little speed as well! I'm still going to train hard, but now I'm more wary.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 8.00
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4.50

A.M.- Aaron and I went to the Rec center in the morning and swam about 1000 yards. I could have done more, I had to do stuff like this all the time when I was a lifeguard, but Aaron wasn't accustomed to it so I ended the workout early, with me catching him pretty quickly and it detering him. Glad to see I'm finally faster than him at a sport haha. After swimming laps we walked against the strong current of the whirlpool for about 5 minutes, which hurt but felt good. Planning on doing a little speed with Aaron this evening.

 

P.M.- Did a little over a mile warmup with Aaron, then got our workout disrupted by the other XC seniors, apparently there was a meeting today we were unaware of. We took part in the meeting, which lasted a bit over an hour, then we drove to the park and did about 1000m repeats. Our paces for the four me and Aaron did were; 5:05(5:30), 4:52(4:48), 5:05(5:10), and 4:59(5:00). We each ran alone, starting our leg when the other one finished, so I was happy to see I could pace a bit faster than him for the most part. Now I need to be able to do this without the three minutes of rest between each leg. A bit over a mile cooldown afterwards.

New Balance 1400's Miles: 4.50
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2.00

A.M.-Aaron and I did some lifting in the morning. Hurt. Going downstairs in my house I thought I'd die. Still alive though.

 

P.M.-Aaron and I were to meet up for a five miler, but he said he hurt too badly from the A.M. workout. We decided to do a ten miler tomorrow morning, so I wasn't going to run today, plus there were tornado warnings in vernal and thunderstorms. So I made myself dinner while my family went for pizza. After they got back my mom sent me to buy her a cookie from my boy JJ's, and some uncrustables for myself. However, I felt guilt inside, so I did a quick 2 mile run at 6:00 pace. Wasn't aiming for anything quick, just a little workout.

Nike Pegasus 30 Miles: 2.00
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10.00

A.M. - Woke up at 5:30 and met up with Aaron for our ten mile run. I needed to go to the bathroom about 4 miles in, but it was too late to stop, so I was dealing with a lot of cramps. Since it wasn't supposed to be a hard pace I stuck with Aaron at a pretty casual pace. He sped up at the seven mile mark and I followed. When we hit the last mile I got awful cramps and had to slow down pretty majorly for about a minute. After they subsided Aaron had about a 50 meter lead on me, so I shaved about a minute off the pace and caught up to him. The new pace felt like something I could have been doing for a long time. When I reached Aaron, I realized this was supposed to be an LSD(Long Slow Distance) day, so I adjusted to his pace. Cooldown afterwards and stretches. Going to do some intense core tonight.

Nike Pegasus 30 Miles: 10.00
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Total Distance
6.50

6 mile run in the evening. Pretty bad stomach cramps until I found a bathroom three miles in. Shoutout to Uncrustables for wrecking me on an easy day. Did about 5 300 meter repeats on the golf course at about 4:40 pace afterwards.

Nike Pegasus 30 Miles: 6.50
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11.50

A.M. - Pop's and I drove out to Colorado to get some rocks for our garden, afterwards I did 6.5 miles in the mountains. Difficult hills combined with a blistering heat works to make a good hard run.

 

P.M. - Did an easy 5 mile run at the high school, coming in at around a 6:50 average pace. The word of the day today is success, because Colorado School of Mines wants the D... and by that I mean distance. They want me to join their XC and track teams, but they are a Division II school so yeah. With my mediocre 4:46 I ran this season, I'd be in the middle/top of their distance team. My 2:10 would put me up there as well. Got my third letter from University of Oregon today, and they want the G... PA. GPA. When they ask me to join their track team then we'll talk

New Balance 1400's Miles: 11.50
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5.00

Played some post-church soccer with the fam(after I got a sick haircut, flow). We played about half an hour on a half of a field, with them 4 v 1-ing me, so a lot of sprinting. I'll undermine it and call it 1.5 miles. Afterwards I decided to get a glimpse of hell and do 3.5 miles in the blistering heat

New Balance 1400's Miles: 5.00
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126.39
New Balance 1400's Miles: 106.45New Balance MD500v2 Miles: 1.49Nike Pegasus 30 Miles: 18.50
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