Adam's Running

Easy before BYU tomorrow.

I went into the meet today feeling good, and my only goal was to get under 4:30. You didn't have to check in or anything until they called your heat into the beullpen specifically, which was nice because it gave me a lot more time to warm up. They called us in and gave us our numbers, then had us stand out on the track while the sixth heat was going. When they were done with that we were able to do some strides while the seventh was finishing. I was in the first alley, which I was very happy about. The gun went off and everybody went out very hard. I had a decent start and was running in about fifth at the 200. I stayed there through the 400 where we came through at 64 I believe. That was way too fast but I think it ended playing into my favor because after that a few of the guys in the front started falling off because of the hot early pace. I am not sure what my 800 split was because I was in the process of moving past some guys when we past it and wasn't able to look up. On that third lap I was able to move into third behind Nathan Asay and Tate Muhlestein, and we came thorugh at 3:23-3:24. I saw this and knew I could close fast enough to get under 4:30 and tried to kick as hard as I could and got it by less than half a second.I got passed at the line, but I didn't really care because I had gotten my goal. Afterward I did a bunch of cooldown and watched everyone elses races. Mike beat me by .1 seconds in the next heat, and Clayson got a school record in the mile! I got a ride home with Clayson and went and got THai food when I got home which was awesome.

Easy distance run up to the canyon and down canyon road.

Easy before region.

I don't even want to talk about this race. I felt like crap, and got out kicked in the last 50 meters taking away my spot at state.

Another horrible race. After the first 400 it was obvious I wasn't qualifying so I kind of just gave up and ran it in without embarassing myself too bad. I am really bummed about not going to state, but I guess it's my own dang fault.

Easy run down to AF and back.

super easy at like 11:00 at night.

Easy run around Cedar Hills. I am getting pumped for JV Region tomorrow, I'm planning on doing every event from the 100-3200 and maybe some jumps and throws.

Today was JV region. I was planning on doing every event but Molen shut us down, which was very stupid. So I ended up doing the 100, long jump, medley, and 4x4. In the 100 i ran 13 seconds and beat half my heat. I had no idea what I was doing and I think I could run half a second faster if I could have a do-over. In the long jump I jumped 13 feet and got dead last, but Timo gave me an extra jump for some reason which was awesome. I was the 800 leg of the medley for our team and this was probably my best race of the day. Cole and Jackson ran the two hundreds and somehow gave the baton to Jamison in the lead. Jamison got passed by a kid from Riverton who ran like a 52, and I got the baataon about 40  meters behind. I caught him in the first 150 and felt good so I starrted pushing. i thought I heard somebody behind me so I ran hard and came through the 400 in 60 seconds. With three hundred left I looked back and saw that nobody was within a hundred meters of me so I dialed back a bunch when I hit the wind on the homestretch. I came through and ran 2:09 winning by 25 seconds. I think that if it would have been competitive, and not windy I could've run a 2:04. After that we waited a bit and ran the 4x400 which we also won. Overall a fun meet, and I can call myself a double region champ.

Easy miles to AF and back.

easy before state (Even though I am not running).

Didn't run, but biked to BYU and back with Cole to watch state. I will call it 5 miles.

Just biked to State today.

Today was the rooot beer mile. I came into it confident being the third returner, and I knew that I was capable of sub 8. The gun went off and I started drinking. The root beer was slightly warm so I was able to do the first can in easily sub 25 seconds. Walton got out to an amazing start doing his first can in 13 seconds or so and got out in first by seven seconds, followed by Marc, followed by me. It stayed in that order until on the third lap Marc passed Walton on the drink amd didn't look back from there, winning by 20 seconds. It's all kind of a blur now between the puking and the pain of running and all that, but I ended up third in 8:05. I was happy with the place but I know I could have gone sub 8 if I had pushed harder on the last 400 and drink. I beat Clayson and Lil Waarner by a good minute and a half.

My week off is now over and it is time to get back on the horse. I decided to do the mountain run from my house. It was brutal. I had slept in, so I ended up running at 1:00 when it was really hot and I just felt so out of shape trying to run up all those hills. I was wrecked when i came back, but it felt good to get back to running.

Today it was only Jamison and I running after school. It was in the mid 90's outside and I could definitely feel it. We went up on Bonneville shoreline then cut down onto the canal where it goes under canyon road. At the end of the run we went and sat in the creek where it was shady and cool.

down to AF and back with Jamison, then golf course for extra.

six easy miles at about 11:00 at night. Some friends and I drove down to the Mona rope swing today and it was awesome. I tried doing a backflip off of it but ate it hard.

Did 7 miles on the treadmill at our hotel in LA. Every half mile I would put it up 5 notches and at the end the last mile was probably in the 5:15-5:20 range. I felt good and I had just watched Galen Rupp break the American record in the 10k so I just felt like running fast, and I would envision myself in the race.