Hard Work Beats Talent

Easy Money.

Shins are still hurting, but just went an easy 3.

Hill work out. Not my best workout.

Easy.

We did our first 2 mile time trial at BHNP. 2 mile warm-up, 1 mile cool-down.  

Travel Day.

Forgot my running shoes so I biked 30 minutes. This week was one of my lowest milage weeks ever. Sickness, and shin splints are the culprits.

Traveled back to stg.

I don't know the accurate mileage for today. RACE: Warmed up, and then strides. The race started, the pace was quite comfortable, ran as a pack for the first mile and a half, I believe. I wanted to push it but I learned from last years jogfest. Spencer,Sage, Josh, Bryson, Tanner and I were running as a pack. Boston and Scott weren't far behind. Sage, Spence and I started to push. Sage was an animal today. He took off with about 800 to go. He was making a gap between us. We hit the trackand the rest is history . Great stuff from everyone, on both sides. Girls took second!! We still have a way to go but if we continue to work hard everything should fall into place.

5x30 second pickups afterwards.

AM: Ran with the Thatchers this morning. The good ol' little rivalry. Nice to have the Thatchers back.

PM: We did mile repeats at BHNP.  I only did 2 (6:04, 5:49) because i got a massage. Felt really good.  

Good run, it was cloudy so that was nice.

Ran with the Thatchers in the morning. 3 in the afternoon.

"Relay." What relay?

10 miler this morning. 3.5 warmup, 2.5 progression run, last 2 miles hard, and a 2 mile cooldown.

3 in the morning. 7.5 in the afternoon.

3 in the morning. We had the relays with PV we did pretty good. A great race from the start. 

3 in the morning. 5 in the afternoon.

3 in the morning. 4x1 mile repeats (6:01, 5:32, 5:35, 5:30)

3 in the morning, 4 in the afternoon.

SUU Invite! Felt really strong, decided that I wanted to push it and see how things felt. The first mile was good, second was okay, third mile it was tough so i just smiled at spectators. Great stuff from everyone.

Easy.

3 in the morning. Second time trial, did okay. Hit a brick wall the last 800.

3 in the morning. 7 in the afternoon including warmup and strides.

3 in the morning. In the afternoon we had 8x800 over haybales. Our range was 2:35-2:40ish. My first 1 was 2:37 felt fairly comfortable. For the next 4 I hit, (2:29, 2:31, 2:28, 2:30). Pace was faster then what I was supposed to hit. But I felt really good. For the 5th one I hit 3:05 because I had a sideache and I started like 10 seconds behind the other guys. Lol. For the last 2 I hit (2:31, 2:29). Great stuff from everyone.

3 in the morning, 4 on the state course.

Warmup, strides, race, cooldown. I was the first leg, I was feeling good pretty much the whole race, but after the first gauntlet I cleared the haybales but my hamstring just shifted in the process. After the first mile I still felt good but it was just my hamstring was really tight. I cleared the haybales gingerly and slowly because I didnt want to hurt my hamstring anymore. I was confident that I could've ran 20 to 25 seconds faster. Tanner, Spence, and I didnt really have our best day, and I think if we did I am pretty sure we would've did better than 4th place. Obviously all of us were upset, but we will come back stronger next week at BYU. 

3.5 Warmup, tempo (4.5 miles) 1 mile cooldown.