Adam's Running

We ran up to this satellite thing in barbwire in the middle of Lambert, then ran home on Rodeo.

Later did the canyon road loop. 

We did a workout on the grandaddy of em all hill today. last time I did it we didn't make it all the way to the top and took like 2 or 3 breaks. For some reason I was just feeling great and went the full 4 miles to the top with no breaks. I even beat Mike and Mahonri today. Coming down sucked though just because it is so steep and rocky. Afterward did a mile barefoot cool down.

2 after we got to the campsite after 5 hours of driving. 

Me and Ashton trail ran up to abajo peak.

Me and Ashton found out last night that there was a race in Blanding, and since we couldn't do the freedom run we thought this would be cool instead. We got there and warmed up for about half a mile before we headed to the start line. The race started and some girl from Lehi jumped out to the front but faded after about 50 meters. The first half of the race was all uphill so I was planning on just sitting behind the leaders until we turned down the other way and try to gap them on the downhill. There was one kid out front that I was following from Bear River. He said he ran a 15:41 last season but I guess something wasn't right because I was keeping up no problem. Once we turned and started the downhill I guess he had the same idea and he started picking up the pace. We both were trying to pull away but everytime I would try he would match and vice versa. Finally  we could see the final turn and going into it about 200 meters left he had me by 10 meters and was surging hard. I thought he had me until I saw something was wrong with him. right when we turned into the home straight he stopped and puked all over the road. I saw this as my oppurtunity and passed him and with 100 to go I looked behind me and he was still puking, so I just jogged it in. I was surprised with how I did considering Ive been camping for three days and eating a bunch of crap, and basically not preparing right at all. The time cold have been a lot faster, but a win is a win. Afterward I won 60 dollars to the local grocery store so I went and bought like a million boxes of wheat thins. 

Team didn't meet to run this morning so i told myself i was going to run by myself but I just kept putting it off until it was 11:00 at night.  Luckily my dad said he would bike with me so my mom would let me go. We just ran down to the cousins and turned east on the canal until we hit the part where you go under the road is where we turned around. first three miles were at a steady 7:00 pace then without meaning to the fourth mile picked up to 6:40, and the last mile was 6:11. It felt great because it had just rained and was nice and cool and wet.

Ran to Grove Creek canyon up in PG and back. It was way hot because I went at 10:30 in the afternoon and it just felt like it went on forever.

Today we couldn't really decide where we wanted to run so we ended up running through random peoples backyards for a while until we ended up behind Westfield and we played fish out of water for a little on the playground. After that we ran up the Hogs Hollow trail until the part where you can turn onto the road. Pretty fun run I guess.

Did a mountain run today. Then ran an extra loop on the Timberline trail.

Wasn't able to really run the last three days because I was on high adventure but We did do like thirty miles of hiking.

First run in almost a week but I felt pretty good surprisingly. Clayson brought his friend Andrew Walton from Colorado who is a state champion. We did a mountain run, then went on the trail behind timberline. 

This was probably one of the funnest runs I've ever done. We ran up to sliding rock and went down it a couple times because it felt so good. It wasn't too cold and it was super deep at the bottom. Afterwards we ran up to the bike jump and found a bike tire and were trying to roll it down off the jump into the lake. After a little we decided to go up a small mountain we saw. It took us about an hour but was a really cool view at the top. We went down, and at the bottom we decided to go down sliding rock again, and do flips and stuff off the side.

Today we had a workout. We had 2 5 min thresholds with 5 min inbetween. We warmed up about two miles, then started. The first one was slightly downhill so we did over a mile in the five minutes. The second one was kind of hilly, so we did just under a mile. Afterwards we cooled down back to the park through Lambert. 

Today we did a backwards mountain run after we went and woke Clayson up and made him run with us. Afterwards we all went to Mike's pool.

Later I did a 5 mile run on my own. I left at like five and it was pretty hot. The first three miles I was feeling great. They averaged out at about 6:30 pace. After about 3.5 all of the sudden I had to take a dump. I just jogged it in at like 8:00 minute pace after that.

Today we had 6x400 hill repeats. We warmed up a mile and a quarter to the hill and started. Times in order were 1:29, 1:31, 1:33, 1:33. On the fifth one coach Ryan extended it by about 250 meters so the next two were 2:45, and 2;43. I was beating Jon on most of them which is a good sign.

got up at 4:30 to run a little before we leave to Washington

Ran with Central valley today. five easy, were doing more later.

Today I ran with CVHS again. We met at Liberty Lake and ran a big loop.

Ran with CV one more time before we leave Spokane.

Today I got back from Washington. We had 6x1000m repeats. Coach had to be somewhere so we had to do them ourselves. They were supposed to be at 5k pace, but we ended up doing them faster. My slowest one was about 3:10, and my fastest one was 3:01. Afterwards we ran back to the park. There was an old breakfast burrito up in the rafters that had been there for about two and a half weeks that Little Warner said he would eat for ten bucks. It was nasty, he only got down three bites before puking his guts out. I still haven't gotten my appetite back for breakfast yet.

Later I went for a run on my own. I just kept it at an easy 6:55 pace for about 5 miles. My knee has been hurting lately and I am getting kind of worried.