The King of Controversy

AM - 7 miles

Another long 7 miler but with fewer hills than last week.

PM - 3 miles

Arctic Circle run with weights. It was super hot today.

It was the dirt mile again today. I only stopped once thanks to Weston's motivation but ran slower than usual. Need to work on keeping a steady pace even with hills like that one on the way to the dirt mile.

AM - 3 miles with striders. Very easy grass run.

Race - 2 mile warm up. I felt like I was going to throw up during it but when the race rolled around I felt better. For my first race I felt like I did pretty good. Coach told me to always be passing people and I tried as hard as I could too. I passed a lot of people but for the first mile and half I couldn't shake off this one Hurricane kid. He finally slowed down and I took advantage and passed him for good. I started my sprint to the finish right as I hit the track but died out before the finish. I need to work on keeping a better pace and need to start my sprint closer to the finish. 1 mile cool down.

AM - 7 miles with hill workout. I did 5-1:00 and 7-0:30. Michael was giving us tips and pushing us the whole time and helped me get better each time we did it. I was a little sore from the race yesterday and with the hill workout today I could barely run on the way back. We stopped and got some water and that really helped me finish off my run.

PM - 3 miles at 6 pm instead of 3 pm because of the running center thing afterwards. It was a hot day but it cooled down a lot by the time we started running. We didn't do any weights after (I think because we couldn't get into the weight room) but we did as much of the plyos as we could outside before going and eating pizza and watching the Running Center's presentation. I really liked the presentation the guy gave because this is my first year running and it was really helpful and answered a lot of questions about racing.

We went running at the Dixie Center trail head and I ran 3 miles. It was easy at first until the guys I were running with decided to run in the sand next to the river. It was hard to run because our feet sank into the sand and slowed us down. We finally got out of the sand and ran our last mile and half or so on pavement. I ran pretty slow after that because I was tired from the sand. Coach Roberts's crew started to catch up to me at the end and told Jake and Preston to try to pass and beat me. I finally realized their plan as I heard their pace quicken and their steps getting closer and closer. I didn't want to get passed so I upped my pace as well and held them off the last little bit of the run. A nice easy three mile run before the weekend.

Almost didn't do my Saturday run because I didn't get up early enough to do a cool morning run and I didn't want to run in the heat. Finally decided to run with my brother at about 8:15. Coach told us we needed to incorporate a hill into the run but I didn't know which hill to do. My mom told me about a run she had done that was about 5 miles and had a hill. The run was from our house out to Red Cliffs Drive past Arctic Circle and up the hill by Sunrise Tire and all the way across the hill to Foremaster Drive and down Foremaster Drive past Maverik and up Mall Drive and back to our house. I felt good the whole way besides running those two hills (but then again who doesn't get tired from running hills). I really liked this run especially since it so quiet and peaceful on that hill because there are so few people who drive up there. I hope to run up that hill again this season and be able to enjoy the peace and quiet up there. It was also my first run with my new shoes and they felt a little weird at first but glad to have a pair of shoes that fit properly.