Adam's Running

Workout today. Fartlek 7x5x3x2x1, with 5x4x3x2x1 recovery.

Easy five before pre-region tomorrow. We went west on the canal which we have never done before. We did pick up the pace a little when it started pouring rain because it's just so fun running in the rain.

Today was Pre-Region. It was at Westlake this time on the exact course that they used at the invitational last year. Going in I was hoping for 16:20's. We warmed up then headed over to the start. It took forever for them to get it going, along with AF starting up everyone singing the national anthem which was another couple minutes. The gun finally went off and I made sure to get out pretty good. I was in about tenth coming around the first turn. By the time we were running along the fence I was in eighth and the only people ahead of me were Austin Brower, Rory, and five guys on my team. It stayed this way until about 1200m in a couple people passed me. My first mile we came through at like 5:08- 5:09. That is much too fast. I started to lay off the gas a little but then Ryan and Dustin were yelling at me to get up next to Mike so I did and it just about killed me. My two mile split was 10:37. On the last mile I just flat out died. I figure I must have run like 5:53 on it or something horrible like that. With 800m to go Walton passed me and I just couldn't go with him. He ended up running 15 seconds faster then me. I finished at what felt like long run pace. New PR but I know thatI could run a lot faster with good pacing. I ended up seventh on our team, but we took second! AF won pretty soundly but we beat Westlake, and beat Riverton pretty soundly. I got in before Rivertons fourth man which was good.

Ran down to AF and back. 

Today our workout was 7x800m. We got over to the field and started. They started out feeling pretty good, but were kinda slow. 2:40, 2:43, 2:44, 2:45, 2:45, 2:48, 2:43. I don't know why it was so hard to run today but it was rough.

Missed practice this morning so I did my own run. I was planning on doing 9 miles getting faster each mile which was going perfectly through mile 4. splits were 7:50, 7:33, 7:10, 6:45. Then I turned left onto Canyon road and was blasted with wind so I just decided to run it in at normal pace. I had to go home early because of lightning.

6x600m hill repeats today. We warmed up for fifteen minutes and started. I decided to take the first one easier and came through at 2:15. Splits from there were 2:11, 2:09, 2:07, 2:06, and 2:00. The last one I didn't think I was going that fast but I almost broke 2:00. Today's workout felt so much better than any other workout I have done all year. Hopefully this translates well into the hills at Herriman.

Ran down to Art Dye, turned onto Alpine highway and went to Arctic circle. On the way back once we hit the last stretch we just picked it up to like 5 minute pace for the last bit for some reason.

Workout on the grass field today. 1600, 1200, 800, 800, 400, 400 at race pace. Times were 5:29, 4:08, 2:40, 2:39, 71, 71. I was feeling pretty good until about the second 800 my stomach didn't feel so good. did some barefoot cooldown afterward with Cole.

Change of plans, we are going to BYU instead of herriman! I am too pumped. Today we ran down to the stop sign at Art Dye and did 15 minutes tempo. We ran bout 2.6 miles so I figure thats about 5:40 pace. After, we ran back.

Ran to Amelias house with the girls to wish her to get better or something. After we looped it back on the golf course. Had a pasta party at Cafe Rio with Starbucks after. Too pumped for BYU tomorrow.

Today was the BYU Autumn Classic. We got there and ran the course once. It was really muddy going up the first hill and then the whole way up and down the baseball was super deep. We chilled under the pavilion and watched the races until the start of the Womens college race, and we warmed up. We were one of the five teams picked to win so they announced our name and we ran out into the field and cheered. We had the girls go pick our spot for us and  of course they chose lane 1, which was the worst spot. The gun went off and I told myself I wasn't going to go out too fast, which was a mistake. I ended up stuck in the middle of a huge pack going up the hill. I was trying to move up on people and ended up using my hands more then my feet for the first three quarters of a mile. I came to a complete stop a couple of times at the baseball field. Once down onto the track I was able to really move and probably passed 20+ people. Going along the hedge on the back of the grass once you get off the track I finally caught up to Walton. For the next mile we worked together and passed a bunch of people. Once we went through the track for the second time we caught a pack of guys from Westlake. The whole last mile we went back and forth. Once we hit the track I realized Mike was only five seconds ahead of me and I tried to catch him. Once we hit two hundred meters to go him and the Westlake kids took off. I was disappointed with my time until I heard it was quite a bit longer. We got second as a team to Davis, and we would have beaten them if Mike hadn't of been sick. Clayson won, and Little Warner was top ten.

Today the Principal came and told us that the school is tearing down our wall. It was pretty much the most devastating news I could have heard. Now we will no longer have somewhere to play wallball on before practice. It was hard to run after hearing that but we went out for about seven.

Later I ran the canyon road loop.

10x400m today. I did every single one at either 70 or 71. It felt really good and they could have been a lot faster if it wasn't so windy on the backstretch.

Ran down to AF and did the golf course on the way back.

We had a fartlek on the canal today. 7x5x3x2x1 hard, with 5x4x3x2 minute jog inbetween. We were hauling on all of them, and I stayed with the front five for all of them but the 1 minute one. Afterwwards Me, Cole Gray, and Walton ice bathed.

We were suppposed to go for a 35 min run, and we did. it's just that we only went 3 miles. We went on an athlete run throgh the river bed and the trees around there.

Today was the Wasatch invitational at Soldier Hollow. It was a pretty long drive up there so I got a pretty solid nap on the way up. We got there and started warming up once the junior senior JV boys started. We lined up and they only gave everyone spots two people wide. We got out and I just settled into the race with Walton and Cole Gray. We did pretty much all of our moving in the first mile. It was pretty rough because there was absolutely no flat it seemed. It was either up or down. We came through the first mile in 6:05, then headed up the switchbacks. On the second one I gapped Walton by a little and surged up to two kids from Salem Hills. I stayed with them all the way to the last half mile where it's all downhill, and they pulled away. I ran by myself to the finish and got seventeenth. I was disappointed I was so close to meddling but whatever. Our team got second and only lost to AF 28-42. And that was without our third runner Mike. By the time state comes I think we could be able to give them a run for their money.

We were supposed to have a speed workout today but Misty came and told us we had a distance run instead. Lately there has been some lady here making us do plyometrics. I hate it because It always messes my knees and legs up for our actual run. Me Cole and Mike went out to Fox Hollow and got some free tokens for later, then ran the loop on the trail by AF.

Today we had 7x800m repeats on the stupid field by the seminary building. It was originally six, but in typical Ryan fashion as soon as we thought we finished he threw in another that had to be the fastest yet. They felt so much better then they have in the past. Times were 2:39, 2:39, 2:36, 2:35, 2:38, 2:38, 2:33. They could have been faster but there was a nasty wind coming right at us on the longest part of the interval coming around the trees with 300m to go. Iwas anywhere from 3-6 on the team on any given interval. Marc kept getting on the inside and pushing me out on the turns so I couldn't cut corners. It was really annoying.

Today when we showed up to practice the wall was gone. They took it down today. It explains the bad weather. We ran up to the mouth of the canyon and turned south down canyon road, where we started a 10 min tempo run. We made it down onto the canal and then ran back to the school. It was so cold, rainy, and windy i thought I was going to die. 

Today was the Nebo invite. We left at 1:30 from the school but I didn't race until 5:30. It was pretty cold so we spent a lot of the time inside the high school. It was pretty fun, we had competitions to see who could slide the farthest on our backs, and we were messing with this one really cocky kid from Bingham. We watched Walton get third in the JV race then started warming up. It had been raining for the past couple days so the ground was soggy, and since we were the last race of the day the course was absolutely wrecked. The gun went off and i tried to get out fast but since I was in the back row it was very difficult. The whole first mile I was stuck and just trying to get free, but once i got out of this huge pack of kids though I was able to start moving. The whole second mile I just kind of stayed in this pack and passed a few people. Once we were coming around the track for the last lap Tanner passed me and I hung on for a while before droppng off with about 800m to go. Coming around the baseball fields I lost a bunch of time by 1) some kid pushed me and I fell over when we weree going  through the deep mud 2) my shoe came untied and nearly came off like three times. my headband also came off so I flicked it over by the scoreboard. At the very end I was sprinting to try to hold off someone who I couldn't tell who it was until I finished and it was Justin on PG. He said he got a fastrunningblog which is cool. We came in third to AF and Bingham. I was so mad because I really thought that we had Bingham we had all seven guys in twenty spots ahead of their  fifth guy. Oh well, we'll get them at state.

Long Run today. I'm the only varsity runner who didn't have a day date for homecoming so I had to run by myself. Usually I don't listen to music when I run but since it was a long run, and I was alone I thought why not. I ran up into the foothills and followed that dirt trail all the way to Grove Creek I think. It''s the canyon right next to the G on the mountain. On the way back I went really hard so I could make it back before the end of the playlist. I made it to my back door with 10 seconds left on the last Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros song.

Today the only coach that was there was the annoying plyo lady. I don't think that she likes me very much because me and Walton just race during the drills, and if that means cutting the drill short halfway to sprint to the finish to win so be it. After those we went out for a run. We ran down to the end of the trail following the river by AF then started our workout. It was seven minutes hard, two minutes rest, and another seven minutes. On the first one I felt way good and the only people ahead of me were Clayson and Little Warner. The second one sucked because it was all gradual uphill and afterward I felt like I was going to die. We ran to AF to get a drink and use the bathrooms but I was so wrecked I just lied down in the middle of the hall and took a 10 minute nap.