Wage War On Slow Running

AM- 3.24 morning recovery run.

PM- Tyler and I both skipped fourth period and did our workout early because we were leaving early for the Mumford & Sons concert at Usana. We did a mile warmup, then we hit 8 400 meter hill repeats. One of Mr. Van Dijk's classes was wandering through the field and were watchin us, but we didn't care. I'm pretty happy with how fast they were, my splits for the eight were 1:21, 1:22, 1:28, 1:22, 1:27, 1:25, 1:31, 1:28. We jogged down the hill after each hill repeat as well. I finished a little farther to four miles and then we did a mile cooldown.

On a sidenote, the Mumford & Sons concert was awesome. Fun to be there with Tyler, Clain, Matt, Riley, Casey, Patch, and Mckay. I also heard Seth from LP was there so shoutout to him. They're one of the best bands out there my my opinion.

I didn't go to the morning run because I got back so late from the concert. Casey said he wasn't going to his, and if the national champion can skip one morning run, so can I.

PM- We had a 50 minute run but I only went 45:50. We ran past Lindon park out to home depot and it was a decent workout considering I didn't get enough sleep. 6:42 per mile for a 6.85 mile run. Strides after added another .5.

AM- 3 mile morning recovery run.

PM- Speed workout, 6 800's with a 200 meter kick. Mile warmup and cooldown. I forgot my watch so I didn't get any splits or pace information but they felt pretty fast and I was able to keep up with my teammates pretty well. 

Missed the morning run again because I needed more sleep. I need to work harder on my homework so I can go to bed earlier and be more commited to morning runs.

PM - 30 minute distance run because we ran the state course the next day. We ran to discovery park and as I was running down canyon road I was approaching an opening in a fence that was a driveway, and right as I crossed it a big white truck was driving out. I hadn't seen it and he hadn't seen me, and I almost got hit. It was a close call. Apparently Riley slammed into the side of his truck too. Anyway, no harm no foul. We stopped at discovery park and turned around and we ended up getting 4.42 miles at 6:47 pace. We did 3 200's after at slow, medium, and sprint pace, adding another .38.

AM- 3.04 morning recovery run, I believe to lindon park.

PM- After grabbing some Pizza with Ty and his dad we got on the bus and rode out to sugar house park to run the state course. We jogged it first, tried some strategies out to throw other runners off, threw some dingers, and then we put our spikes on and ran it. Our coach didn't want us to go full race pace, but he wanted us to hit about 6 minute miles. I didn't go all out and I was still going on less sleep than I needed, but I ran the 3.02 miles in 18:05, so 5:59 average pace per mile. It was a fun and challenging course to run. We went to chick-fil-a afterwards and then had a fun bus ride home with some good music provided by Matt and some others. Running the state course helped me get hyped, if I could get more hyped, to run super fast at region and place well. I know that I need to get more sleep this week so I'm going to make that a priority. 

Speed workout on a saturday. The sunrise was incredible this morning. We did a mile warmup, then did kick simulations. We did 9 400 meter runs that started off the track before the fence near the 300 meter mark and ended at the 200 meter mark on the track. In the first three we kicked 300 m, the second three we kicked 200 m, and in the third three we kicked 150 m. It was a good workout even though I kicked too early on one of them and when I realized it it messed me up a bit, and a few of us started early on one. It was really helpful to practice kicking because that's going to be a really important thing for region so I can place well. I think my distance for the workout was about 2.31 because I left my watch running to long and had to subtract the last section. We did a mile cooldown after and had some donuts.