The King of Controversy

AM - 7.25 miles. 60 min easy. Coach suprised us today with a trail run instead of 10x800 which was really nice. We ran Mustang Pass and were actually able to run the whole loop which was super fun and legit. Knee felt fine on the run but really bothered me on Plyos after.

PM - 4.75 miles. 40 min easy. Got out on my own today at about 4 and it was so hot. Knee didn't feel good so that made it even worse.

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Good run this morning. Kept it a lot slower than usual and my knee didn't hurt.

PM - 7.5 miles. 60 min. Dixie All-Comers and 2x5:00 cruises with 3 min recovery. Time: 17:15. Overall Place: 6th. Place on Team: 3rd. We decided to run this race to determine who was running Varsity at Vegas so everybody but Nick was racing. So my only goal going in was to get a Varsity spot. I got out pretty slow and worked myself up to Jake on the first lap. On the second lap I just stuck right with Jake as we caught up to Andrew and Dallin. I was pretty suprised at this point to see that we weren't that far behind the leaders. On the third lap Jake started making his signature move but unlike Region last year, I went with him and we gapped Dallin and Andrew a bit. I made a move just up the steep hill and took the lead from Jake for the first time but he battled back coming into the finish. As we came around the basketball court, Jake kicked hard but I just couldn't get myself to kick. Mostly it was because I was already in a great position to get a Varstiy spot. Jake ended up beating me by 2 seconds. Definitely my best full race of the season. 3rd on team (basically 4th if Nick was racing) so I will be running Varstiy at Vegas which should be fun. I felt like I could have done a lot better if I wasn't just racing for a Varstiy spot. I probably could have gone with Paul and maybe even challenged Nephi and Lambert.

AM - 3.75 miles. Same old morning. Knee felt fine. 

PM - 7 miles. 60 min with 5xSandy Hills. Decent workout. The first 4 were really strong and I was mostly up front but my legs just shutdown on the last one and it was total crap. Definitely an improvement on last week but much more work to be done on my hill running. Knee felt totally fine which was nice but it was deathly hot. 

AM - 3.75 miles. Morning runs have been a lot more chill lately which is great. 

 PM - 9 miles. 60 min with 30 min steady state and striders. Great run today. It was pretty hot again which sucked but the steady state went well. Logan fell off for a second but other than that we stuck together really well. Felt really tired and sore after and my knee actually hurt again. 

AM - 3.75 miles. 30 min easy. Okay run. Felt sore and tired from yesterday. 

PM - 6 miles. 40 min easy with 4x200. Pretty hot run today so it was nice to hit up Sandbergs and jump in. Kept the 200s a little slower today. Knee felt fine but definitely felt a bit tired and sore.

AM - 8 miles. 60 min. Las Vegas Invite. Pretty good race for me today. The plan coming in was to stick with Nick as long as I could. I didn't get out very well and I lost Nick right away and I had to weave around a ton of guys trying to catch back up to him. I caught him around mile 1 and we worked really well together for a little bit until I realized he wasn't quite with it today and I decided to go catch Paul. I can't really remember when I caught Paul but I didn't stick with him for long because Centennial had 3 guys in front of all of us and I had to catch some of them. I don't really remember much about the rest of the race. I mostly just shut my brain off and ran but 2 of the Centennial guys died off pretty hard in the last mile and I was able to pass them. As we came to the finish there was a kid just barely in front of me that I couldn't get myself to go and catch so there is something I need to work on: my kick. I ended up finishing 1st on the team and beating Nick for the first time ever which was super weird even if it was only by 0.2 seconds and it was an off day for him. I'm still really confused about what place I took because I got a 5th Place Medal but the results say I took 6th and I'm almost positive that there was only 1 Centennial guy in front of me instead of 2 like the results say. Great race for our whole team today too. I helped us win the Large School Varsity Guys race, our Frosh/Soph boys won their race, our JV guys were 1 point away from a perfect score, and our Varsity Girls took second. Las Vegas also does a Grand Champion award for all the races and our guys won it so that was legit and we had tons of people walk away with super legit medals. Super fun race today.