One Mile at a Time

Not a great start to the day. I woke up late then went to the high school. I did a .2 mile warmup and saw Simko was just starting the reaper so I started a little after him and chased him down. I did PR up the Reaper 9:17 but if I had ran it with the team I could've done better. Afer practice Riley, Jared, Brian and I went to Riley's and has protein shakes then went back to the high school to check and see if our uniforms came. They had and they're so sick! We took them to the boys so that was fun. I'm super excited to race in the new singlets. I'm going to put in some mileage later at a decent pace because this morning wasn't great.

Met up with Adam to do another run. We met at the high school then went to the car dealerships/Home Depot. 7 miles at a 6:48. It was pretty fun and it was good running with someone rather than alone. Had some good conversations. I was planning on only going 5 but I'm glad I went 7 just to start the week off with a day above 10.

Today we ran to American Fork high. We kept a 6:30 average for 9 miles then did strides when we got back. It's always fun watching color guard while we do our strides. I stretched then went to the counilor's office to swap some classes then went to Kneaders with some of the team. Practice at 5 in the pm.

Buddy 400s. Jared and I came out with the win. Did not feel that good so it was tough.

1.1 mile warm up. 800 repeats today where the first and third 200 were three mile pace and the second and fourth were faster. 400 recovery inbetween and a 5 minute break after 4. Kept a pretty good pace. Annoying running on the grass today because it was so wet. Jared and I were pushing each other but then on the last two recvoery 400s Reed and I went way slow so I wasn't with Jared or Ali.

Very easy run today. Went out to Timp on the roads no the canal and then did a lap on their track. Took the same way back. 8 miles at a 7:02. Strides at the highschool. Riley's knee was hurting so he told us at Timp to tell coach he would be back late so after we finished stretching Riley still wasn't back so Brian, Jared, Matt and I went out to find him and jam to some music. We found him up by Valley View. Went back to the high school then did wall sits. Practice this PM then I'm going to Sodalicious becuase the Jared Slye is working until 9.

Mile warmup. Confusing speed workout that was essentially 500 hard 300 easy repeated 8 times. My legs felt pretty tired so I was about 15 seconds off the pace I wanted to be hitting. Mile cooldown and then ice bathed.

Today we had a nice easy run because we have our time trial tomorrow. I'm a little nervous about it but hopefully it goes well. I'm hoping to be fourth man. I ran with Jared, Reed and Matt today. We went to Lindon Park then up the trail and on some street in Lindon. We got back to the track and did our 3 200s. Went to Reed's after to eat waffles.

Today was our time trial. Went to coach's and then he talked to us a little about races and race day. We stretched then warmed up to Manila Pond then ran part of the course. The course was a big loop followed by a little loop then you did it again and had a little straight away at the end. Most of the guy wore spikes but at the last second I decided not to because there was a good amount of cement. I was pretty nervous and wasn't feeling ready to race. We drained our legs and did strides. We started off kind of fsat. Jared and I led for about 1.5 miles then Riley caught us and past. Jared went with him. My first mile was 5:06 so a little too fast and I felt it later because my second mile was 5:26 but that's my two mile PR so that was kind of cool. I finished third so much better than I expected. I'm excited to race because I know I can go much faster for multiple reasons, one of them being we had to run through a section where the sprinklers were on three times. Cooled down then had french toast and swam. Happy with how the trial turned out.

Worked with Zack at night got some serious mileage running from wasps that we were trying to zap. Gan came so that was great as well as Casey with Bonnie and Patch with his brother.