The King of Controversy

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.