Adam's Running

Ran up the canyon to the Timp cave parking lot, then turned around. At the mouth of the canyon we found one river that branched off a different way, and followed it all the way down to the road that runs right in front of Lone Peak. We decided to ice in our newly discovered river, and it felt wonderful.

Missed practice today, so I did the workout later by myself. The workout was 6x600 meter hills at the hill over by Cedar Ridge. They were hard all by myself, but I was still able to hit decently quick times on them. Times were 2:02, 2:04, 2:03, 2:04, 2:03, 1:59.

We ran down to AF and back, then played one game of tag. Kade came today said he is going to start racing with us which is awesome. He is one of the best Triathletes in the country for his age, and has a 5k PR of 17:30 after a hard swim and bike. 

I woke up feeling sick, so I knew this workout would suck. We did 6x800 on the field over by the seminary building, but the band stole part of it again so we had to do the two lap course which is the worst. My times were slow because I was sick and the course was long, but they still should have been faster. Times were all between 2:35-2:40 except for the first one which was something wretched like 2:45. I hate being sick.

Easy before tomorrow. Still feeling sick.

Today was the Viking invite. We usually go to Soldier Hollow this weekend, but they ran it super early this year which is a bummer. Revelli said this course was super hilly, but it was actually pretty flat overall with only a few small hills. I didn't expect too much from myself going in considering I've been sick these last few days, but I was feeling decent while warming up besides having to go blow my nose a few times. It wasn't a very big field so when the gun went off I didn't worry too much about getting out really hard, and just sat back and moved up slowly over the first 800 or so with the AF guys until we got to the front pack. After about 1200 Zack, Christian, Casey, and Mckay were all pulling away so I just tucked in with a group of about five guys. I wasn't feeling great so I was content to just sit with these guys and let them pull me along. Once we hit the track they all took off and I didn't feel good enough to really kick so I just ran it in and took tenth. If I was feeling like I did at BYU I think I could have gotten fifth, but overall I am very happy with how I did all considering. The team did very well also. We had our top four in the top twenty, and Jamison was just off medaling in 21st. Him and Seth both ran big PR's, and were closing in on Zack at the end. They didn't say team scores but we definitely got second behind AF.