Adam's Running

Uneventful run on Bonneville to start the new year. I think I may have permanently damaged some of my fingertips on yesterday's run, cuz I still can't feel some of them haha. Mile split shared my picture on Instagram so that was cool.

Fun run on Alpine loop with a quick stop at the cave by Justin's house. Grabbed Justin's GoPro on the way down for some pictures. Got going pretty fast on Alpine highway like usual.

Ran down to AF and back before strength training. I didn't go tho as I had somewhere better to be.

Later was hanging out with my friend Ali and I convinced her to come running with me! She doesn't do track or xc so I was quite surprised at how well she did. We went a little more than five miles. I love running at night in the winter, everything was so peaceful and the weather was perfect. Good times.

So apparently we are running in the mornings now, but I slept in today. After school I did mountain run from my house. The snow was really wet and soft so I was sliding all over the place, but it was still an excellent time. I ran really slow on the trail, so when I was on the road I made sure to keep the pace a little faster than normal. Coachella lineup came out and it is soooo good this year. Sufjan, Edward Sharpe, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House etc. I am seriously thinking about buying a ticket and driving down there this April.

Lazy day with strength training after, and like a bajillion pullups.

Drove down to SUU with Jamison for a visit. We ran with the team and were only going to do 8, but the route ended up being more. We ran down a road for a couple miles before hopping on a trail that went up and down through some hills. Once we hit the trail everybody picked it up, but it felt good and was actually really fun. Spent the rest of the night hanging out with some guys on the team. We went bowling and spent a lot of the time at the track house shooting each other with nerf guns. We also watched the movie "Kung Fury". Nobody really liked it but me and George haha. Twas an excellent time. We stayed the night at Ib's house in the basement.

Went on a tour of campus in the morning with Nick Hill and Piercen Maez. Afterwards Jamison and I made the long drive home. I was falling asleep at the wheel so we stopped and I drank a Red Bull and was fine after that. When I got home I went for a run up on Bonneville by myself. The last couple miles I was feeling really good and picked it up significantly.

Good run on Bonneville. We were going really fast considering snowy and muddy conditions. When we got back we raced a 400 speed walking on the track. I got third in like 1:45 ish so not bad. 6x100 strides after.

Met at 5:45 am for our run this morning. We just kind of ran around on the roads of Alpine for 8 miles. I really dont like these morning runs, and nobody really shows up, although it is nice to be able to go home after school.

Did a modest run at practice. The pond is frozen which adds a new dynamic, although im not very good at running on the ice so I try to avoid it for the most part. After did a workout where we drew cards from a deck and hearts were pushups, spades were situps, clubs were squats, and diamonds were burpies. my team was done fastest so that was cool.

Later at like 1:30 am I snuck out and ran with my friend Ali. We only went a couple miles, and it was an absolutely fantastic time. 

Good run on Alpine loop. Everybody else was going 7, but I wanted 8 so we split at the gas station. After we split I started cruising down Alpine highway, I dont know what pace I was going, but it was fast. Craik brought his boxing gloves so when we got back we had some fights. Craik and I had a pretty gnarly fight where we both got a bunch of solid hits on each other. Josh got destroyed by Chris haha. Good times.

Missed practice so I ran by myself. Ran on Bonneville then down on the canal to the school and did 6x100 strides. I found out today I'm one of four finalists for best artist in my class. Regan is definitely better than me, but I like my chances cuz I've got a lot of people saying they voted for me. Pumped for BYU tomorrow.

BYU indoor today! It was a lot of fun. We got there and I warmed up for the mile, I was hoping to be in the fast heat but I ended up being in the second to fastest :(. It was still a great race though, the gun went off and I got great position in second behind Shane Henderson in second. Eventually he dropped off, but as he did Zack came by and I filed in behind him. The two of us led laps 3 and 4 then as we hit 300 to go Patrick Parker came by us and just took off. From there I just hung on to Zack and made sure nobody else passed me. I ended up in 4:33 which I was very pleased with. That's like a 4:31 1600, and I haven't had a single hard effort since nationals a month ago. I was looking at old results and my time would have been top 6 almost any other year, but I got 12th haha. Afterwards I went and grabbed some food from Panda, then took a nap for a couple hours. When it was time for the 800 I warmed up with Seth, then went and sat in the bullpen for a while. I was in horrible position on the line, so when the race started I let everyone go ahead and went to the back. I just chilled there for the first 400 and came through in like 64 high haha. Once we hit one lap to go I threw in a surge and passed everyone in the field but one guy and tried to reel him in but he had to much of a head start. Time was 2:07.1 so my last 400 was like a 62. It felt surprisingly easy, and when I finished I felt fine which is weird for an 800. I think if I get in a fast race where I get dragged to a fast 400 I could run in the 2:01-2:03 range right now. Afterwards Lil' Warner and I went on like a 4.5 mile cool down up this massive steep hill then back down to campus on some trails. I think I'm in shape to PR at these next couple indoor races.

Missed practice and slept in til noon haha. When I woke up I went out to do the run, which was supposed to be 8 faster paced miles, but I was feeling achey and stiff so I decided to do a couple slow miles then do a few faster tempoish miles. I just did them on the canal, and once I got going I felt pretty good. I did four faster miles at 5:58, 5:46, 5:31, 5:18 (last half was downhill). Felt decently easy and smooth. Afterwards I went to Beto's and got a breakfast burrito, which was absolutely heavenly.

We did the discovery park loop today. 'Twas a good time, like 6:50 average pace. Student council made like 3,000 sticky notes with cute little messages on them and stuck them all over the school, so I took a bunch and gave them to people on our run, or put them on cars and whatnot.

Did Alpine loop, it was a good time. picked it up on Alpine highway to sub 6 pace, felt easy and smooth. When we got back did 6x100 strides on the track. Our last one we did a tactical race and I won. I can always win the tactical ones, but if we race the whole 100 meters all out I can barely get podium.

Couple games of indoor tag, then up to the canyon and back. We had strength training after, it was pretty fun.

Was supposed to go to Costa Vida with my sisters, so I just told them to drive down there a little later and I would run there and meet them. I took Bonneville all the way to Grove Creek, then turned down and ran a straight couple miles of downhill to Costa Vida. Preference is tomorrow and we are going snowshoeing before, so that is exciting!

10 miles in the morning, tough but fun. Later went snowshoeing for our day date so I'll count some mileage to get to 50 haha. It was a lot of fun.

Solid run up the canyon today. I was feeling very good today, which was nice since Jamison, Zack, and I were hauling from the mouth to Timp Cave. It was foggy and pretty nice temperature, making it an absolutely beautiful run. We don't run up AF canyon as much as we should.

Fun run in Alpine today. Missed practice this morning, but we had a pretty good little group of people running after school which was nice. Kept it pretty easy, probly like 7:20 ish pace for most of it. Life is good right now, really good.

Fun run today, we did something different than we usually do so that was exciting. First we ran to AF and did a lap on their track, then we ran over to AF jr and did a lap on their track, then Mountain Ridge, then finished at Lone Peak. Strength training after. Good times overall.

Alpine loop easy for pre race, with some strides.

4x800 at the oval today. We got there early and watched the mile which was crazy fast, then chilled until it was time to warm up. Jamison was our first leg and he gave it to me in the lead so that was nice because I didn't have to fight for position. I got it and took off at a good pace. I think I ran like 2:04-2:05ish which I was happy with since I was in the lead by myself the whole time. I think with competition I could run around 2:00 right now. Anyways I handed off to Justin who maintained our lead, then he gave it to Zack. This was where things got crazy. Zack kept the lead the whole first lap, but Talon Hull was closing in hard and by the time they hit 100 to go they were pretty much side by side. With like 50 left Talon passed Zack and I thought we had lost, but then miraculously in the last 10 meters Zack surged and barely nipped Talon at the line. Crazy stuff. Our time was 8:17 so like 2:04 average, which is pretty good with zero speed workouts since before nationals in December. It's too bad they don't run the 4x800 really during outdoors, cuz I think we could run sub 8:00 come May. Overall a fun time, and shoutout to the Weber guys for a great race.

Two mile today. Gun went off and I filled in right with the front pack. we were hitting 72's and 73's and came through the mile in like 4:50. Stayed right there in the top group until about 600 to go the front 5 guys took off and I just couldn't match that kind of speed right now. Tried hanging on to Travis Feeney the last lap, but he surged away with 200 to go, then Brody Smith from Wyoming passed me with like 50 to go. Final time was 9:38.05. I ended up beating Jamison by 1/100th of a second, and I stayed ahead of Colton Rimman who has beaten me at this race the past two years by like a second, so that was good. Overall a fun race, and 9:38 is right where I need to be right now. Justin ran 9:49 in th second heat, then we went and cooled down with Joe and Will from Timpanogos.