The King of Controversy

AM - 2.25 miles. Foot felt okay but I started to feel some pain so I didn't go quite three. I did a few ploys but it really bothered my foot so I stopped.

PM - 7 miles. 4x1000 at 93% (goal - 3:56). I don't know what is wrong with my foot. The padding was helping it at first and it was able to got rid of the pain in my left foot. My right foot, however, was sort of getting better with the padding but the past few days it has only sort of helped my foot. It felt good enough to do the workout but is still not feeling great. Anyways, my workout went pretty well today. My times were 3:53, 3:49, 3:40, 3:35. Started out a little fast but didn't want to get slower so kept getting faster. On the last one Coach wanted us to kill it so we all went pretty fast. I got out right with Jake on the last one but as we got up the hill, I was dying. I really had to refocus and once I did, I threw in a good push to the end and fell to my knees. I pushed that hard, I guess. Cool down was super tiring. 

AM - 1 mile. Foot didn't feel good this morning so I only went one.

PM - 5.77 miles. 4 miles with striders but it ended up being a little more than that. My foot felt way good this afternoon so I didn't have to cut mileage. It was a nice slow, really slow, run to Sandbergs. It felt really good to go slow for once and I really needed this recovery day.

AM - 2 miles. Foot was feeling pretty good and I did two today.

PM - 6 miles. Warmed up 1.5 miles, got my spikes on and my sticker, did some strides and got to the line.

Race - I made sure I got out quick with Andrew so I wouldn't have to play catch up the whole race. I stuck with him that first lap but as I pushed up the hill, I took the lead. The second lap, I just went crazy and pushed pretty freakin hard to catch Colton. I caught him pretty fast and I took the lead on him about a quarter through the lap. I held that lead on Andrew and Colton until just before the hill. By this time, I was dead and as Andrew passed me, I started to give up. Andrew gained a good size lead on me and Colton also put a nice gap on me by the finish. Still need to work on keeping the beginning under control so I can run a little better at the end. Super happy, nonetheless, with my time and place and everything. 15 second PR for me. Our Top 4 JV guys had a 7 to 8 second spread and 17 to 18 second including that fifth guy so that was pretty legit.

AM - 2 miles. Foot was okay but still only 2 miles.

PM - 6 miles. 5 miles and 4x200. The Varsity guys were gone for Bob Firman so Trevor took us on one of the most legit runs ever. It is called Neon Spider. It is a run out into Middleton and then we drop down into this big tunnel that runs under the freeway into the ravine behind Arctic Circle. It is pitch black except if you can see the end of the tunnel and there is water running through it and stuff. It is probably the scariest run ever, just ask everyone who was in the tunnel with me. I was screaming and crying like a baby. Super fun run, I soaked my shoes but luckily there were no neon spiders this time.

AM - 1 mile. Foot not feeling great so I only ran 1. Sad turnout this morning even with Varsity gone.

PM - 5 miles. 3/3 workout today with 4x30 sec. sprints after. Trevor had all us top guys group up today and he led us out. I had the farthest distance of everybody so I obviously was up there just behind Trevor. Krenshaw luckily ran up with me on the first two and that really helped. On the third one, I was all alone, Trevor got quite a ways in front of me and the boys were no where near me. I really had to focus and use everything I had to get the distance on this one. I barely got it and so knowing, I probably couldn't hit my distance, I stopped. So I was able to get three repeats. I watched a few of the guys who kept going, led by Jake T, get 5 repeats and then we got into our sprints. The first one was pretty slow for but when I realized that we had a long recovery after so on the next two I went all out and led all the boys on them. On the last one Preston came with me but in the end he beat me. Super good workout. 

AM - 3 miles with 1 mile hard finish. I was going to go run with Preston and a few others this morning but I overslept. I feel really bad because I was one of the ones who planned it. I was also supposed to do seven miles but I decided to keep it a little lower because of my foot even though it was feeling quite nice today. Anyways, my hard finish ended up being uphill so it was pretty tough and I really had to refocus quite a bit so that I didn't give up. It was like that point in the race that you are super tired and start slowing down but you get refocused and give another hard push. I ended up hitting that mile in 6:31 which is pretty decent for me up a hill so super happy about that. It's been a good week but my foot still not quite better so I'm going to work on that a little better and hopefully, it will just go away.