Adam's Running

We didn't have our workout until after school even though we had track class, so we ended up making the poor judgement call of playing basketball for two hours right before. It was really fun because we invented a game where you all get in the middle of the court and throw the ball high in the air, then everybody tries to get it and the first person to score on any basket wins. After all that we had 10x400, but for those who ran the two mile on Saturday she cut it down one. My times were 69, 65, 67,67, 67, 68, 67, 67, 67. By the end my legs were complete jello, and I was very glad I didn't have another.

We ran on the Bonneville Shoreline trail down to the spot where it dips down and back up, then turned around. We had the wind at our backs the entire way back which was nice.

Today was a dual meet and Tawny wanted us running for a workout. It was super windy and cold so I made the noobish move of wearing a long sleeve t shirt under my jersey, which Clayson made sure to give me plenty of crap about from his commentators spot up in the booth.I false started but they let me still race. The mile felt good, I led the entire thing which sucked on the homestretch where it was almost blowing me backwards. I ended up winning with an amazing time of 4:48! It was fun and everybody was congratulating me, so I just took it in stride and didn't explain how slow it was. Afterwards I ran a 400 and a leg of the 4x400.

We ran on the trail that goes by AF and ran back and ice bathed in the river.

This Ragnar turned out to be kind of bust because of weather, but it was still fun. I was our first leg which was nice because the weather wasn't bad yet. We were one of two teams in the final start group and I took off from the other guy in the first ten meters.. I decided to just kind of tempo this leg and I ended up running 19:23, which I didn't think was that fast but it turned out to be the fastest green loop by almost a minute. Afterwards I ate dinner and chilled for about 4 hours before I ran again on the red loop which was 8.2 miles. This loop I just did at slightly harder effort than distance run pace and I ran 1:02:11. Trail running in the dark while passing tons of people and feeling good is the best, and this leg was just super fun. I also ended up with the third fastest time on that leg up to that point which was cool. After that I went to bed.

When I woke up for my third leg I woke up to pouring rain. I went out and sat by the fire until Marc came in and passed offto me. The trail was so wrecked and the mud was so slippery I could barely run without falling over, so I just got through it without trying too hard. After my leg it turned to snow and about two and a hlaf hours later they shut it down. Me, Cole, and Walton were probably the only people who were able to finish all three legs. It was a bummer because we only had five legs left, and we were easily on pace to win.