Adam's Running

Ran up on Bonneville Shoreline today. I wasn't feeling good so I hopped down onto the canal and went to the bathroom, then picked up the pace and ran sub 6:00 pace for the four miles back to the school from there. As I was passing Deerfield a third grader told me to go lift some weights, and I couldn't come up with a witty response so I just picked up the pace and tried not to let it crush my self esteem too much. When I got back we did strength training, then afterwards we did a little extra and ice bathed.

4x600m hill repeats. Ryan wanted us to do them a little bit slower, and he cut our recovery substantially. Times were 2:02, 2:03, 2:02, and 1:57. Felt controlled and fun. For mutual tonight we are playing indoor soccer and I'm pretty excited.

Today at the beginning of track class Schoon asked us if we wanted to run with the soccer team who was running five miles, and we said sure. We did two laps of this big course around the school and pond, and finished in about 31 minutes. Afterwards we ran to Art Dye and back, then did 6x100m strides on the football field. For strength training today we did four sets instead of three and it was pretty brutal, but luckily we had chocolate milk after so it was all good. Apparently we got a grant that will supply us with chocolate milk after every practice!

3x5 minutes at a little but slower than 5k pace. We did it down in Af, and it was a pretty good time. It felt controlled the whole time and we were going pretty fast on the last one especially. On the warmup Josh tripped on some barbed wire and tore a huge hole in his new shoes that he's only worn once.

Good modest run today. Afterwards we had strength training and ice bathed. I'm taking the ACT tomorrow so I will have to do a long run by myself. :(

Took the Act this morning, then had a church ball game (we won), so I didn't end up running til later in the afternoon. I decided to do Hogs, and it was pretty fun but I was really tired.

Had to film a movie afte school today, so I went running a little later with Will who was in my movie group. We drove up to his house and went on the mountain run, then all the way to the very top of Lambert, and then back to Will's house. A good run overall. Cole Gray came back from his mission!

Was sick yesterday so I wasn't able to run, and because I missed a workout I had to do it by myself today. I went for an extra long warmup to make sure I was feeling good before I started. The workout was 6, 4, 4, 2 minutes hard, with 4, 2, 1 minutes of recovery. I wasn't sure what the recovery was supposed to actually be, so I just made those numbers up. I didn't run too fast due to not being fully recovered from being sick, but it was a good time overall. 

Felt sicker today than I did yesterday, and the workout sucked because of it. It should have been really easy only being 3x3 minutes with 3 minutes inbetween, but I really struggled. Oh well, hopefully I feel well enough tomorrow that I dont embarass myself too bad in the mile.

Utah Distance Challenge today. The past two years I've gone up by myself so it was nice to have teammates there this time. I went into this race with low expectations due to being sick and whatnot this week, so when they asked for people who have run under 4:30 to go into the fast heat I decided to decline and run in the second heat instead. The race started and I got out into the lead. I figured after the first turn people would come up with me, but nobody did. I ended up leading the entire first three laps, which sucked. On the last lap Talon Hull came past me amd I tried to hang on to him, but I was not able too. In the final staraightaway a bunch of people passed me which was a bummer, but I still ran a 4:33 which was faster than I thought I would run. Zack and Lil' Warner both ran big PR's running 4:32, and Jamison ran 4:36 which was cool. Everybody on the team PR'ed but me and Steven, but at least I paced some people to good times. Afterwards we cooled down, then did another cool down with Westlake which was fun. Overall when I look at it I think that when I'm not sick and I don't lead the whole thing, I think I am definitely in shape to run under 4:30 right now.

Did Hogs backwards for the first time today. Overall a good time.

Good time on extended mountain run. We did our last mile in 5:20 which was fun.

6x600 meter hills over by Cedar Ridge. I am still feeling kind of sick, and had a headache so my times weren't all that impressive. They were 2:07, 2:06, 2:05, 2:04, 2:04, 2:03. Afterwards we had strength training and we did some sprint things which actually left me pretty exhausted. Shoutout to Craik for beating me on an interval.

First run after being sick for the last two days. Everybody else was doing 1k's on the track so I just did the warmup and cooldown with them. Cole Gray came to help time the workout today so I just talked to him while everyone else was running. I hate being sick.

Just testing out my fitness after I've been sick. Ran really slow but it was fun. We went up to Bonneville then went up to the beginning of mountain run before heading back.

We had a hill workout today. We were supposed to do 6x600 hills, but I went out to hard at the beginning for how Ive been feeling lately and I ended up only doing four. My times were 2:04, 2:02, 2:06, 2:12. Terrible times but whatever. Later I realized I left my car at mutual so I did some estra miles on my way to go get it.

Ran up the canyon for 30 minutes then turned around. I felt super tired and weak while we were running so Justin and jamison both got way ahead of me and I ran with Trevor and Spencer for most of it. I was really struggling with strength training so Courtney told me to go home and sleep which was really nice.

Had a longer workout today. 45 minutes at sub 6 on the canal. I was actually feeling really good today which was awesome because I haven't at all the past two days. I was staying right on pace the whole time even with some pretty good hills over in the dip thingy in Lehi until about 5 miles in I had to go to the bathroom. Afterwards though I did the next couple of miles at right around the same pace by myself ( I didn't have a watch but it felt about what we were doing before.). Overall a good time.

We haven't gone on an adventure run in a while so we did one today. We went up to these majestic rock outcroppings on the side of the mountain. I thought they were really cool, but Craik only gave them a B grade. He is the expert though so I trust his judgement. There was also a reservoir thing surrounded by barbed wire that would be really fun (but very illegal) to swim in when it is warmer. Afterwards we did strength training with Courtney. The sprinters came in and did it with us and they were dying. Also shoutout to Zack for being #1 at ladders.

We did Hogs backwards today. Going up was kind of rough but for the most part I did pretty good. Coming down Lil' Warner and I started picking up the pace and for the last couple of miles we were going 5:10ish pace which was cool. Felt really good today overall, which hopefully translates to Monday for our progression run.