Adam's Running

Had to run flyers before practice, so I'll call it a mile. At practice we did extended mountain run. There was a kid from Eugene that was visiting that ran with us, and he kept up for most of it. He was definitely struggling though because there was a lot of elevation change haha.

Dope trail triple header up Big Cottonwood with my cousin today. We did three trails: Lake Blanche, Lake Mary, and Donut Falls. Lake Blanche was the longest and definitely the hardest being like 8 miles. The run up was pretty brutal, but we made it up in good time and saw three huge moose! about 2700 feet of elevation gain in the first 4 miles. After we got to the bottom we headed straight to Brighton ski resort and ran up to Lake Mary. it was only about 2.5 round trip, but it was super steep so it was still pretty tiring. The lake was dope and there was awesome cliffs for cliff jumping. The tallest one we found was about 40 feet high, and I got some cool GoPro footage jumping off of it. Lastly we ran up to Donut Falls. It was only a mile so we treated it as a cooldown. The waterfall was cool cuz it goes straight through the rock and comes out into a cool little cave at the bottom. The water was fridgid though, so I didn't jump in because the sun was going down.

Had to run by myself so I did five mile loop with some extra, and some strides. Felt ok.

Did 7 at practice at like 6:40 pace. Did a loop on the golf course and up by the canyon, then came down aviary. Afterwards I did three miles of running flyers which sucked. I've had a cough for the last week and it is really annoying.

Easiest run this summer so far. 6.5 at 7:15 pace with some strides.

Did the freedom run today in Provo. I got to the race and realized I had forgotten my bib and chip, so I didn't get an official time or trophy. The race started and I got out well. I just tucked in with the front pack and Jamison for the first mile. The front few guys started pulling away from Jamison and I when we hit the parade route, and when we hit about 2.5 Jamison dropped off hard and I was by myself for a while. I didn't have a watch to get my splits but they were way too fast the first 5k and I slowed down big time. Going in to mile four I was struggling, but then another high school kid passed me and I decided to just try and hang on to him. He had about twenty feet on me at one point, but I passed him with about 800 to go and tried to kick from about 600 out. I thought I had him until he passed me with 100 to go and I just didn't have it in my legs to speed up. I ended up running 34:08, so kind of close to my PR. I have had a cough all week though and I didn't have very much confidence that I would do well today so I was pleased to still run ok. Lil Warner started two minutes late and clocked himself at 32:50 ish haha. My goal now is to break 33:00 at Des News. Afterwards cooled down with The team and Zac Jacklin.