The King of Controversy

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Average Morning Run. 

PM - 7 miles. 4x1000 at 85% (goal - 3:25) with 3 min recovery and 2x300 with full recovery. Times: 3:22, 3:21, 3:21, 3:23, 0:45, 0:42. Paul had to go fix his glasses so me and Skylar did these alone. These were pretty easy and I felt good not much else to say. 

PM - 8 miles. 60 min easy. Trail Run Tuesday - City Creek. Beast trail today. Really fun and a lot easier than I thought it would be. Legs felt pretty good today. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Great run. Last night we found out the heartbreaking news that Nick has a stress fracture and will be out for all of track season. I'm really sad that I won't be able to race with him at the high school level anymore. 

PM - 7 miles. 50 min with 15 tempo. Tempo went about the same as last week. Started off well but couldn't finish it. Just gotta keep working at it. 

PM - 9 miles. 60 min and striders. Great run today out into the Fields. We kept a really good pace and it although I was pretty tired after, it was a pretty easy run. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Good run. It wasn't that cold today and my legs are feeling pretty good. 

PM - 6 miles. Old Man Hills (4x400, 2x200). Nothing really great today. I just couldn't get my legs moving up those hills like I should have. 

PM - 8.5 miles. 67 min with 10 min LT tempo. I ran by myself today because we never really got any run organized today. It really sucks running this by myself and I just ran so bad the first 10 min that I decided not to do the last 5 min. My head just hasn't been with it lately. Just got to get it screwed back on correctly. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. I felt really good this morning. The weather in the morning lately has been pretty nice. A bit chilly at first but you warm up nicely by the end. 

PM - 7.75 miles. 4x1000 at 87% (goal - 3:20) with 3 min recovery and 2x300 with full recovery. Times - 3:20, 3:18, 3:18, 3:18, :41, :43.  Decent workout today. I felt pretty good and the times still aren't crazy fast so it was a pretty chill workout. Need to work on my turnover the last half of those 300s though. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Just felt really tired this morning. I got to bed at a decent time last night so maybe it was from the workout and weights yesterday. 

PM - 6 miles. 50 min easy. Trail Run Tuesday - Chuckawalla. Still felt absolutely exhausted. Fun run but really tough for me. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Still felt exhausted again this morning but now I know why, I'm sick and it sucks. I'm not like super sick but enough to make me feel crappy on these runs. 

PM - 7 miles. 15 min of AT tempo (goal pace - 5:42). I didn't feel super great today but I made sure I stuck with the crew for as long as I could today. I stuck with them for 15 min and then decided to cut my tempo there because I wasn't feeling good. Pace was a little slow but I'm not too concerned about that. Just trying to keep improving every week. Definitely a better workout than last week but I felt absolutely terrible afterwards. Being sick really sucks.

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Still a bit sick this morning but much better.

PM - 5.5 miles. 10x200 at 800 race pace (goal - 32.5) with 1-2 min recovery. My sickness especially felt cruddy this afternoon on this workout. My throat hurt which made it pretty tough but otherwise the pace on these were pretty chill and I hit my times pretty much every time.

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. I'm sicker today.

PM - 3 miles. It was supposed to be a medium distance run but my throat was on fire after only a couple of minutes and I just couldn't go any farther. I stopped at the park in Middleton to get a drink which helped with my throat and I ran back after that.

AM - 5 miles. Mr. PVHS 5k. Still felt super sick this morning so I decided I wasn't going to actually push it. I kept it at a pace that wouldn't make my throat hurt too much so I was really just jogging not racing. 

AM - 10 miles. 80 min easy. Trail Run: Warner Valley. Day off from school so we met up and drove out to Warner Valley. Super fun run. I'm still sick but a lot better. I've moved away from the sore throat phase and now I'm down to a little cough and lots of snot so I was able to go the full distance today.

AM - 2 miles. Felt about the same today. Still a bit sick and so I decided to just flip early. 

PM - 6 miles. 4x1000 at 87% (goal - 3:20) with 3 min recovery and 2x300 all out. Lingering sickness and my throat hurt a bit on these today but they turned out good. Skylar wasn't running so I was pretty much all alone on these since Paul is a good 10 seconds faster than me on these. I hit 3:18, 3:15, 3:18, 3:17. 300s were garabage today. 44 and 47. Just wasn't feeling it on either.

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. I still have some lingering sickness. Good run though.

PM - 7 miles. 47 min easy and 4x200. First ever run with the team to Dambergs. Really fun run but I just felt so drained of energy. Time Trial tomorrow. I'm excited to see what I can actually do not just what the Kosmin predicts.

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Still some stupid lingering sickness. It doesn't bother me too much when I run though so I should be fine for the Time Trial.

PM - 5 miles. Time Trial. Garbage is the only word to describe this race. Not much else you can say about how I raced.

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Had to run by myself earlier this morning so I could make it to the Mr. PVHS assembly practice. Didn't feel extremely great.

PM - 7 miles. 45 min easy with striders. Pretty fun run all over the place in Sandbergs. Mr. PVHS went great today. I screwed up a bit on my talent but got my Fresh Prince act back together and it helped me finish 3rd in the competition. 

Dogtown Half - What a fun race! Got to the start line about 30 min before the race and did a quick warm up and we started soon after. I got out a little slow I guess. I came in with the same strategy I used last year to chill at the beginning and close hard. I probably got out a little slower than I probably should have and most of my teammates got way ahead right here. I started picking it up around mile 3 and tried to see if I could catch anyone. I was running with the top women for a while here before I picked it up again around mile 6 and caught Mitch. Mitch didn't stay with me for very long as I tried to go catch Jake and this other guy who was wearing blue. I think Jake was picking it up a lot here too so i didn't close the gap on him but I started catching the blue guy. At Majestic hill, I was just barely behind him and Coach yelled at me to go get him. I finally caught the blue guy just past mile 12 and I passed him. He came back though and we ran with each other very briefly before I gave one last push with about 800 meters to go and he didn't come with me and that's how I finished the race. Decent race. I don't feel like I ever pushed as hard as I could or ever really got into race mode. It was a very fun race though. I just really like half marathons for some reason. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. It actually snowed today in St. George. Really crazy to think that last week it was starting to feel like Spring and then it snowed this week. Really cool but it sucked to run in  

PM - 5 miles. We just ran laps on the track today. Not exactly sure why but probably because of the Decathalon crap we were doing. I didn't feel very good today. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. Pretty chilly again this morning but at least it wasn't snowing and freezing my face off.

PM - 6 miles. Another recovery day today. More Decathalon stuff. All I know is I suck at hurdles and Javelin but good old Hell Raiser could probably be one of the best in the Region at any of the events he tried. 

AM - 4 miles. 30 min easy. I felt really tired this morning. Not really sure why. I'm getting 8 hours a sleep a night but I've just felt so drained lately. Probably just has to do with my sickness from last week. I guess it could also possibly be Iron issues. Just don't know. All I know is I just haven't been able to keep up with the crew as easily lately and my races have been garbage in my trousers. 

PM - 7 miles. 60 min easy. Another recovery day. Thank you Coach, I really need this right now. Everyone else seems to have recovered fine from the half but I still feel like I just finished the half an hour ago. I just ran on and off in between Decathalon events today. 200 meter, I ran a dope 25.6 but other than that nothing special. I can't jump high and I can't hurdle if my life depended on it. 

AM - 2 miles. Hamstring was really tight this morning so I cut my run short.

PM - 4 miles. My hamstring felt okay at first and I was able to do some of the decathalon events but couldn't do the workout. I rolled it out tonight and iced it. 

AM - 3 miles. Me, Paul, and Preston decided to go up to the State Basketball Tournament today so we did the Kosmin this morning. My hamstring was still pretty tight but I did it anyways. My hamstring suprisingly did not bother me on this and actually it helped loosen it up but I still ran so terrible. I only got like 750 meters which is like a 2:08 800 so that really sucked. I've really struggled lately with my running. I guess I'll just have to listen to Joe Dirt's wisdom and Keep on Keepin on.

PM - 4.25 miles. 30 min easy. Me, Paul, and Preston ran at lunch today right before we left for the tournament. It was actually really fun to run at lunch. The temperature was nice and I just felt great. The State Bball Tournament was really fun today. Pine View easily beat Richfield but the crazy game was the Desert Hills vs. Dixie game. It was right after the PV game so we stayed and watched it and it went into 4 overtimes before Dixie finally won. It was such a fun game to watch.

AM - 6.5 miles. 50 min with 10 min progression tempo AT to LT (goal - 5:45 to 5:25). Me, Preston, and Paul ran up in Salt Lake. We ran into some high school up there but I can't remember what it's called. None of us were feeling too great which is weird since it has technically been a recovery week so we cut our whole run short. My hamstring felt a lot better today which was good.

The Great News is Pine View won the State Championship in Basketball today!! It was such a great game and it was awesome to have been there when they won it.