Adam's Running

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.