Adam's Running

Good run through Lambert and around Alpine. Jaxon killed it today and kept up with us almost the whole way. I'm running the Freedom Run 10k on Friday and I am pumped to race again.

Later did 3 easy miles.

Good run up to the end of Lambert before heading over to Mike's before he left for the MTC. 

Easy miles with some strides.

Freedom Run 10k today. I got there and warmed up for a bit before heading to the starting line. I saw a few guys who had beaten me in track once or twice so I knew it would be honest. The gun went off and a group of four guys took off, while I just settled into the chase pack of about five or six of us. Now that I look back I probably went out too fast, but I didn't really have an option because if I lost contact with that pack I probably wouldn't make it back up. We were all together and moving quickly down the main road where they have the parade and no one really broke away from thhe pack until with four miles to go Zack Jacklin took off. By that time It was down to me, two older guys, and Spencer Palmer from PG. with one mile to go as soon as we turned to go up the hill they all took off and I just wasn't feeling good enough to go with them. I had been feeling crappy all race and just didn't have it in the legs to run fat that last mile. I was kinda bummed out because Spencer had never beaten me before, but I guess its good to get bad races out before they actually matter. My time was awful, but I did get a cool little trophy for placing in my age division. Next up on the racing schedule is Deseret News.

Later I was bored so I spent 10 minutes scoring the race XC style by age division. I found it interesting that the 16-19 and 25-24 age divisions were so much better than the 20-24 yr olds. Here are the results I put together:

Solid 9 miles up and down AF canyon. It felt nice to run slow, 7:20 pace.

Did some more later to get up to about 55.

Mountain run with Timberline trail afterwards. Me and Lil' Warner were cruising on the Timberline trail and dropped everyone by quite a bit. 6:52 pace overall.

Easy seven miles. Marc's knee was hurting so I just stayed back with him and ran a nice easy pace. 7:08 pace overall. Tomorrow we have hill repeats which will be fun.

First real workout of the season today. 6x660 meter hills up Dustin's hill. Lil' Warner was gone today so i did much of the workout solo, but Marc and Steve were there helping out with timing  and would run with me for the last 200 or so. Times were 2:28, 2:28, 2:32, 2:36, 2:36, 2:36. It was kind of wierd not having anyone with me in a workout, but it felt really good to run hard and fast.

There wasn't very many people at practice today, so I ended up running with Steve for most of it. We ran through Lambert then finished with some barefoot miles on the grass. Steve is just running with us until he feels like he is in good enough shape to go start running with the BYU team.

This morning I went on a run up the canyon right by Utah State. We are staying here for youth conference and I wanted to make sure I didn't slack off at all on my training. I was feeling a little tight because we played basketball for like two hours the night before at the rec center. Our team made up of a bunch of guys from our ward who don't even really play basketball almost beat cyprus high schools varsity team, which I thought was funny. I got to the mouth of the canyon and found a trail that went up onto the side of the cliff face and followed it through the canyon for about 2 miles, before hopping back down to the bottom of the canyon and following a different trail along the river. went up for 31:30 and down in 28 minutes.

Later we did a hike and I ran most of it.

Got back from youth conference and did the mountain run from my house.

I haven't been able to run in a week because I got really sick so I thought today would be awful, but it wasn't that bad. I was able to do 6.5 miles at 7 minute pace so I don't think I lost too much fitness. Tomorrow will be the real indicator though, because we have hill repeats. Walton was supposed to come to practice today but he never showed up. I was talking to him yesterday and ever since he graduated he's been living out of his car on the pacific coast, and traveling around working at organic farms and hippie communes and stuff. He seemed genuinely happy and it made me think of what I want to do with my life,  and I have no idea.

Today we had hill repeats on Dustin's hill. I started and was feeling like crap so I just ran with Jamison on most of them. I was only able to do 4, and they were pretty slow. Times were 2:38, 2:39, 2:40, 2:42. I can tell I lost a good amount of fitness last week, and I don't think I have fully recovered because I could barely breathe and I just felt weak today.

Later I mountain biked up Hog's Hollow, then went down corner canyon on the Rush trail. It was probably the aweesomest trail I've ever been on, but at the bottom I wrecked pretty hard. My bike was in no shape to go back up the canyon so I had to call my dad and have him pick me up clear over in Draper. Some solid biking though.

Missed practice this morning because my knee was hurting from my crash yesterday, but it was feeling fine later in the day so I was able to get a solid run in. Went on the Bonneville Shoreline trail to the dip thing and turned around. Felt good, but was very hot. 

Spent most of the day boating, then we went up the canyon so I didn't have time to run until 10:30. Easy canyon road loop by myself, lots of fireworks which was cool.

Solid run today. Marc, Zack, and I ran to AF canyon and went up for a couple miles before turning around. This was just one of those runs that give you confidence going forward into the season. 

Hogs Hollow today. Lil' Warner wasn't there so I decided to not go all out like we usually do, and instead just keep a good pace throughout. It was a fun run and we stopped at sliding rock on the way down which was nice and refreshing.

Good run today, we went on an exploration run up to the switchbacks on the side of the mountain. I have always wondered what was up there so I was excited. Getting up there was pretty hard because we just went straight up through Lambert which was pretty steep. About halfway up we found a little hole in the ground that when you drop into turns into a pretty good sized cave. We couldn't even find the back because it was too dark. There wasn't anything at the top of the switchbacks besides a dropoff so we just headed back down, then took high bench to the north end of Lambert and took Grove back to the park. Overall a solid run and in about a one and a half mile stretch we gained over 1000 feet of elevation.

6x660m hill repeats on Dustin's hill. This was probably my most consistent workout ever, with my splits being 2:32, 2:32, 2:32, 2:33, 2:32, 2:32. I was kind of mad I fell off by one second on the fourth one to make it so I didn't hit all 32's, but it's all good. I ran with Lil' Warner on all of them except for the last one where he took off the last 200 meters and I just ran it in at the same pace. Hard workout, but it showed me that I have fully recovered from being sick which is good.

Recovery run today that we probably did faster than we should have. We went up to the start of Hogs Hollow, but turned early and took some trails that popped out over on suncrest. Lots of up and down that made for some really cool trails. After we got onto Westfield Lil' Warner and I really picked it up and were running about 5:40's for those last couple miles. That probably was stupid because it's a recovery day, but when the weather is nice and you're feeling good sometimes you just gotta run fast.

Later did a strength workout: 161 pushups, 51 pullups, and core.

Today we had 2x5 minute thresholds in the middle of an hour run. We did about a twenty minute warmup, then started the first one down Alpine Boulevard. The first one was flat and slightly downhill so Lil' Warner and I hit 4:58 for the mile split. The second one was all uphill so we were only running 5:30 pace but it was a lot harder than the first one. Afterwards we ran through Lambert and down Moyle to get to sixty minutes.