The King of Controversy

AM - 7 miles. It was our first morning practice at the High School. We ran down 2450 to the river trail. I felt pretty good on my run this morning and was able to run most of the first half of my run but I had a little stomach ache into my second half. I stopped a couple of times and the stomach ache eventually disappeared. I stopped once after that because of the 2450 hill but was able to run the rest of the way. 

PM - 3 miles. It was a way hot afternoon today. I stayed up with the big group of boys today but as we were coming back I wanted to quit. It was the first time that I had stayed with them the whole time and I was dying. Okay I wasn't dying but this was almost as painful. As we were crossing 2450 on our way back I had two super painful side aches and after we crossed I stopped. Finch was right there with me and gave me a great pep talk and pushed me to keep running. Thanks to him I kept running and finished off my run strong. We finished it off with weights and plyos.

 Today we ran 1000's with the Harts warm and cool. My first 1000 took me 3:50 and my next three were slower. On my last one I tried harder especially at the end and my time was 3:41. I don't know if I'm allowed to say every run was the hardest but this one definitely was very hard. My legs didn't hurt as much as they usually do but I was breathing harder than normal. I really need to work on finishing off those 1000's because about halfway through I already wanted to quit and I couldn't hardly sprint the last little bit of it. I still loved the run because it was new unlike most of our runs this summer. I didn't feel like running today when I got up but after running the warm up and the Harts run I felt way better and I'm super excited for our first official after school run.

AM - 3 miles Me and my brother ran the Arctic Circle run today because we don't have any of those fancy gps watches. We didn't start at the high school because we live almost right on the Arctic Circle. We extended the run a little bit but I don't think our extention was long enough. It was a very easy run because it was nice and cool.

PM - 5.5 miles My longest afternoon run ever and it was one of the hotter runs too. We ran 400s and 2 minutes thingys. It was a very hard run and I didn't run so well on some of the things but it definately showed me that I need to work harder.

PM - 4 miles with striders and plyometrics afterwards. I didn't feel so good today probably because of the heat. I had multiple side aches and I could barely run. I stopped a couple of times and soon they were gone but after that I had no motivation to run and took multiple breaks after that. I found a quarter along the way though so not everything was bad. I ran only 3 striders afterwards because I didn't feel like doing all eight. I walked in late for the plyos but I did all the rest of the ones I was there for. I didn't do as well as I hoped today but I hope to do better tomorrow. 

AM-I didn't go the AM run today because I slept in.

 PM-3 miles with 4x200. I felt way better today than I did yesterday and was able to run almost the whole time. I ran the 200's slower than I would have liked but at least I did all of them. 

Race: It was my second race and I felt really good. I was way sore just before the race but as I started running the pain disappeared.  My start was pretty slow and I was towards the back of the pack but I didn't panic and just worked my way up. I didn't feel tired for the first lap but just into my second lap I could tell I was out of breath. I kept running though thanks to some awesome support from the sidelines and my teammates running the race. About halfway into the second lap most of my passing had ceased and there were three guys that I had problems shaking at the end but as I reached the end of the hill just before the finish I turned on my wheels. I passed all three guys just before the back stop and broke into in all out sprint right at the end.  I was really satisfied with my finish and just with my race overall because I beat my Cedar time by almost a minute.