Adam's Running

I had road today, so I only stayed for a game of tag and fifteen minutes of running.

6x800 on the seminary field today. It was raining so the field was soggy and gross, but temperature wise it was perfect. Even though the conditions weren't that great I hit pretty quick times for the course. Ryan split the last 800 into two fours, and I accidentally cut about 20 meters off on the first one. Times were 2:27, 2:33 2:32, 2:32, 2:32, 74, 68. AF ran by and Timo stopped and talked with Ryan while we were doing our last few intervals.

Did 3 later by myself.

We ran a big loop from the school up by Claysons house and down on the golf course today. It felt pretty easy running at about 6:30 pace. The river was running so we ice bathed under the bridge on the golf course.

Fartlek workout on the canal today. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 with equal rest in between. They felt really good, and Lil' Warner and I did them pretty fast. Zack would d keep up until the last minute usually before dropping off which was good. We went to the river afterwards, but it was dry. :(

Easy miles with two stride laps.

Today was the BYU Invite. We left at about 7:15 and had a long time before we raced, so Jamison and I went and set up camp in the baseball field stands. We played risk and watched the races until the Varsity girls, then went and warmed up. The college race was fun to watch, and Connor Mcmillan killed it and got fifth. I wasn't feeling too great during the warmup and strides, but luckily when the gun went off I felt fine. I got out decently, but still was pretty far behind the leaders and had to spend the whole first 1200 or so moving around and past people. This forced me to settle down and going out a little slower helped me. The whole next mile I just slowly moved up, passing people and moving into the top ten. We hit the last  lap and I was still feeling really good, so I waited until we got out of the baseball field then moved past a group of three or four guys to move into sixth. I was able to hold those guys off and started closing the gap to fourth and fifth, but ran out of real estate. I have never felt that strong at the end of a race, and it felt awesome. I got to stand on the podium, and they gave me a shirt which was pretty cool. We got sixth as a team, but with Lil' Warner we would have gotten fourth or maybe third (It would have been a 90-100 point swing!). Overall a super fun race.