Adam's Running

Solid run down to the AF trail and back on the mountain ridge road. Lil' Warner was talking A LOT today.

400, 800, 1200, 800, 400, 400 today over on the field by the seminary building. The band was using the field so we had to change it from the 800 meter course to a 400 meter loop. This workout felt a lot harder than it should of, and the times were slower than I would have preferred even with the loop being about 10 meters long. Times were 72, 2:32, 4:00ish (I came in right behind a group of girls, so Ryan missed my time.), 2:35, 75, 70. Lil' Warner wasn't feeling good today so I ended up doing the second half or so by myself, which is always a lot harder. I take a little comfort knowing that I can take off about 2 seconds off each lap because it was long, but still not very satisfied with how this one turned out.

Ran up the canyon for a few miles then turned around. Craik ran really well today and didin't drop off the entire way up. I forgot socks (I wear sandals to school everyday, so this has happened a couple times) and I started feeling a kind of blister coming on, so I stopped about 10 minutes short. Afterwards we ice bathed under the bridge on the golf course.

Distance run with 3x3:00 minutes hard in the middle. Lil' Warner wasn't there so I was by myself on them, but I was feeling good and ran about 4:45-5:00 pace on them. We passed a couple PG guys on bikes, who I think were Spencer Palmer and Tanner but I am not sure. Seth was looking really good today, and is going to be our fifth guy at grass relays.

Easy miles with some strides before grass relays tomorrow.  

Today was Grass Relays!!! This is one of my favorite races, and is always a ton of fun. I got to the race and just chilled for a few hours before the varsity relay. I was running first, which was perfect because I knew I would run faster if I had a bunch of people around me. The gun went off and I got out fast enough to be in the very front when we got off the track. Christian Allen got out into first shortly after, and I ran with him and Coleman from Jordan for the first 800 or so. Once we got to the bottom of the U-turn Zac Jacklin came flying by which I figured would happen at some point. Him and Christian took off and I ended up running by myself with a bunch of guys behind me for the entire middle mile. My mile split was 5:03, which felt fast but not problematically fast. With 800 to go some guy from Salem Hills passed me and I didn't go with him when I really should have. I finished out the last 800 at a decent pace and ended up in fourth place at the handoff. I feel like I had quite a bit left in the tank and didn't really kick that hard, so I am very pleased with my place in this race. I ended up sixth overall which was kind of cool cuz I got a little plaque thing. Our team did awesome and got fourth place overall, and Seth absolutely killed it in his leg. We beat Westlake who were supposedly going to be better than us this season which is awesome. I had my doubts about how good we would be this year, but this race gave me a big confidence boost with Zack and Seth running so well.