Adam's Running

6 easy around the school.

8x400 with times ranging from 66-71.

easy before school because we are leaving for footlocker at noon.

Didn't run because we were at disneyland.

Ran the course and saw my cousin.

We had to get up a lot earlier than we would have liked to go to the race because some of the girls were in the buckle frosh/soph races, so we just slept on the bus for a while once we got there. I watched everybody's races while I warmed up. Marc & Jon got 4th and 5th in the senior races, and Lil' Warner got seventh in the junior race. When me and Jamison finally got on the line and took our sweats off it was so cold. It was raining pretty hard and there was a wind coming at us that chilled you to the bone. At least I have gotten plenty of practice at running in mud this year between Nike, BYU, and Nebo. The gun went off and I got a terrible start. I got caught behind a pole at the very beginning, and was in about 100th after a quarter mile. I had to weave my way through kids for the next half mile loop and when we came through the mile I was about 30th in 5:00. On the switchbacks I made a move and passed about 10 kids including Joe and Hagen from AF, before ascending the steep hill down to the airstrip. I hit the airstrip and just tried to gain some ground on the front pack while picking off kids who had fallen off. Once I got up poop out hill I caught Josh from Desert Hills and just made sure not to lose him, and we both passed a bunch of of kids on our way around the back of the course to Reservoir hill. Me, him and another kid raced up reservoir three wide and right before we hit the top I put a little surge in to try to drop them on the downhill. Coming down the hill Hagen came up next to me, said hi, then fell back. I was in seventh coming up to the track but Josh and another kid passed me with 200 to go and my legs were just to tired to try to go with them. I ended up ninth in 16:55, which made me our third guy to end the season which was pretty cool. In the chute they made the top ten wait on a bench for a while before giving us instructions about awards. About an hour later they had us go up on a stage and get our picture taken and stuff. Overall I was very happy with the race, and it was a good way to end the season. Next up, ROOT BEER MILE!!!!!!! 

Week one of my two week break is over, and I am itching to run. It' s nice to not run, but I am really excited for track and thinking about it makes me want to run. Our XC team made a basketball team and we have been playing everyday since Footlocker, and I think we could be pretty good.

Today we ran the mile in P.E. I decided to just kind if tempo it and I ran 5:05. We had a B-Ball game today and lost 22-80.

Well my break is over and I woke up excited and ready to run. I went out and it felt harder than usual, but that is only to be expected after two weeks off. I ran up to the trail on the side of the mountain that runs by the three story park for most of my run. There was a lot of snow but it made it kind of fun. I got to my turnaround point at the last house and looked up and saw the greatest sledding hill ever. I ran up to it to check it out and it was sick. It was probably 200 meters long and super steep. I am probly going to hit it up later with my friend Will. AFter that I ran home. 

Today's run was terrible. It was pretty windy and it just froze a layer of ice over everything. I took the trail on the golf course and I ended up having to run in the two foot deep piles of snow on the sides the whole way. Once I finally got onto the trail up on the mountainside I was finally able to actually run because it was all just packed down snow. On top of it all I got a blister underneath my foot.

6 miles, had to cut the run due to the sun going down and lack of visibility, which would not be good with ice  patches everywhere.

Today I did a mountain run. I ran up to where it starts and the trail was all packed down so it was finally ready to run on again. It was one of my favorite runs I've ever done. I don't usually run with my iPod, but I was really not feeling like running so I figured that music would make it go by quicker. With music you really don't feel half the pain while running so I was just flying up and down this single track trail that runs along the mountainside. It felt good and I think I might do the same run tomorrow.

Did the same run I did yesterday. At one point I ran through a bunch of deer and I got so close I could have touched one.

Easy 5 mile run on the canal. I ran at 6 and it was already pitch black, which was annoying when I couldn't see ice patches. averaged about 6:45 pace throughout.

Easy 5