Pain is weakness leaving the body

Good run with the team leaving for North Carolina tomorrow

In Denver nice to run somewhere different. I went by clayson Shumway's old high school, which was cool.

On a treadmill at a hotel in st. Louis.

Went with a friend of mine from my team in Virginia.( I'm in Virginia). He was faster than me in 7th, and I blew him away which made me super happy. Averaged a 7:23.

On the beach barefoot at topsail island north Carolina. Was hard but running at sea level is awesome.

Easy miles that turned into a race at the end. With 2 of my cousins, they both play soccer, but they don't do xc or track. I am trying to get 1 of them to do it and i think he will he could get super fast. barefoot in the shallows(0-2 inches) on the beach. Averaged a 7:14. 

I have always wanted to do this, but i regret it. Fiber-1 eating contest and then a half mile for everyone you eat. Had to run the whole thing. No bathroom breaks. On the road this time. Sea level is awesome, but the humidity is terrible. When i finished it was 89%. Averaged a 8:39. Seems really slow, but for having to go to the bathroom for 7 of those miles, i'm satisfied with it. 

Easy stay in shape miles. On the beach, but with my shoes on. Had 1 of my soccer cousins come. He said that he will do xc next year! which is good, except he is a year younger, and with some good training, he might get faster than me, which isn't good. 

Easy on the roads before the reunion-annual 10k. I want to win by over a minute. 

First mile was on the beach, which took it out of me, and everyone else. Me and my cousin by the .5 mark were at least a couple hundred yards ahead of everyone else. First mile was 6:40. too slow. surged for a quarter mile and got 50 or so yards on my cousin, and it kept growing. Felt good until mile 4, and then I sped up to make sure i won by alot. my splits were all over the place. Fastest 5:34(mile 5) and slowest 6:40(first, and on beach, in sand. Had donuts and orange juice afterwards, which was good. This isn't a official race, but i have only 2 real races posted on the blog, and that needs to go up. Mile warmup and cooldown also. 2nd place was my cousin and he got 40:12. Way good for only a week of running! looked at the mileage board today, and i am 0.05 miles ahead of galen, which made me feel good. I will do at least 12 tomorrow to keep ahead of him, even though i know he's way faster than me. I am only at 242 this summer so far, and if i want to get to 600 by grass relays my mileage needs to go up considerably. Will go for a 4-6 tonight nice and easy. 

5.7 easy on the beach with shoes on

early in morning because coming home today. Got home at 2:32 in the morning.

Today was a "recovery run" monday wednesday and fridays are supposed to be a little wasier, and tuesday,thurs, and saturday harder. We were told to go run for 65 minutes. Some easy run. Went on the black trail and then lehi dip, went through a bunch of big dirt piles, which wasn't the brightest thing i've done. Jacob biabee, craik, and i stayed with the fast guys until almost smiths. We got lost after a while and went through some nieghborhoods iv'e never knew existed, went through some backyards, jumped a couple of fences, but he finally found our way back to alpine highway, I decided to go towards mountain ridge for a bir, but caik and jacob took the shortcut back to legacy. I came home in 68.5 minutes. Our head coach came to practice for the first time today, and from the start i decided i didn't like him. He came to tell us that on thursday and friday at the high school there will be a clinic with olympic coaches there to talk about speed training and other stuff about running! I am gonna miss that though, so i am super bummmed. I leave tomorrow for lake powell for a week. At the end of the run, howie was lost again. We never found him this time. I'm getting way excited for xc camp, and i wish i could be with PG who i am pretty sure leaves today for theirs.

I went running all last week, but i didn't do any hills, and I payed the price for it. 5x660m hill sprints on dustin's hill. Myfirst was the slowest by far. 3:28. For the rest under 3:10. there weren't very many guys there today. Only 5 did the amount that they were supposed to do. lil warner did 7, and had a negatice split on all of them! His fastest was 2:24.Ran back to legacy and did a few miles barefoot afterwards with jacob(jensen) and steve morrin. I finished right in front of steve just to say that i beat a BYU runner in a run.

With my uncle at lake powell. He does ironman's, so he's not very fast, but really good at endurance. there are actually trails at lake powell!

with my uncle again. Gonna get some good mileage.

A bit shorter than my uncle wanted to go, but it was super hot. We jumped in the lake twice 2 cool off. 107 degrees when we came back!. Averaged a 7:10.

Awesome run. Went through a slot canyon, and had to swim through part of it.

Last run at lake powell, the runs have been awesome. With my uncle again, went on a trail he called shade loop. Ran across a wild horse 5 miles in, and we chased it for a 2 miles. I left my uncle after the sixth, and waited for him once the horse started to try.

At home, was nice to run when it's not 100+ degrees out. I did the mountain run backwards from my house, and a little detour at the end. Averaged a 7:41.

Finally back with the team. Did the mountain run today. Not very many people there today. It was: marc, steve, steven, jacob jensen, zack, jamison, seth and me. Jamison's back was hurting a lot, and he told me that he broke it last summer, so hopefully it's nothing too serious. Ran with steven the last 3ish miles. Went by the girls team the lst mile, and we picked it up a lot then. Our last mile was a 5:58. Averaged a 7:45 for the whole run.

the workout was: a 55 minute run with 2 five minute pickups at 5k race pace. The were barely any guys there today. Just me, zack, jacob(jensen), justin, and craik. I wanted to beat justin. But he killed it today, and stayed within 25 yards of zack the whole time. THe bell tower today played america the beutiful instead of 8 gongs, which was cool. For the 2 five minute pickups, if i went a whole mile for those, I would have been at 5:25-30 on the first, and 5:30-35 on the second. LAtely I've had a really hard time having fun when running, which isn't good. I've been dreading practice, and I used to look forward to it. I think the best thing would go to PG's Practice for a week, but i think i would get in trouble for it. Everyday i have missed my old team, but today was 10x worse. Hopefully XC camp next week changes my mind on not having fun while running. I might go with my sister tonight, because easy miles while talking to someone can be fun. I changed my schedule for the 7th time today, and hopefully the last. I am a lot happier with the classes I have now compared to what I have. They have totally changed the way skyward looks, and i think it's cooler.

4 miles right before dinner. My sister couldn't join me, so i went by myself. Raced a golf cart for a little bit, but besides that super boring. I want to go to practice at PG super badly. Averaged a 7:17.

I did some research on how to make runs less boring and some of the stuff was pretty cool here's a couple of them

think about the girl you like, studies have shown you speed up then!. Smile for as long as possible, try not going into shadows, balancing on curb when running.

Much better run than yesterday. I forgot my watch, but i would estimate about 63 minutes. It was just me and jacob for most of it. We lost steven .5 miles into it, which was weird, because he's usually up with the "A" group for half of the run or so. With about a mile left, me and jacob started to race each other, but then a old lady stopped us and asked us to help her. Somehow when she was pulling into her driveway she ran over a landscaping rock( it was a smaller one, but still a good sized one). SHe asked us if we knew how to get it out. I told her to just go back and forth, little by little and you could get out. She asked me to do it! I was a little scared of scraping up her car, bec ause it was a newer car. But, i got it out without a single scrape. Continued our race afterwards and i won by about 10 seconds.

My first saturday practice with LP. I have either slept in or been out of town. Did Hog's Hollow. I stink at uphill and it showed. THe faster guys probably spend 10 minutes waiting for me throughout the run. took a pit stop at sliding rock, got cooled off and ran back to legacy. The guys that were at practice yesterday were the exact same today. Got home and at 4 bowls of corn flakes.

I don't know why i did this, but i wanted to finish in the top 25 for mileage this week. 4 of these miles were barefoot.

My right knee started to hurt a lot after those 6 miles, which i did around noon. Around 2 it was really painful to go downstairs. My brother happened to have a physical today, and our doctor is my uncle, so i tagged along to see if he could figure it out. THe thing i have is a repetitice thing, which i had in track right before i moved to virginia. It's runner's knee, which is pretty common. It's caused from the kneecap moving around the way it's not supposed to, and a sudden intensity or uptake in running. I went up about 7 miles from last week, but my runs were a lot faster than last week. People with runner's knee are usually out  6-12 weeks. I wanted to cry when he said that. Good-bye XC camp, the first 3-5 races and other fun things. I shouldn't have done those 6 miles. I will probably take next week off, and then go some really easy runs the week after that. I am going to be doing a lot of biking and swimming.

20 miles on the bike, a nice long ab workout, and 200 pushups.

Exact same as yesterday, except i dtretched today, and also iced my knee.

Swam 1.5 miles, pushups, abs, icing, stetching and stabilitly exercozes.

No swimming or biking today. Other stuff as usual.