Be the team that goes hard on the last two

6 miles to blue lake before heading home. Last xc camp of my high school career :'(

6 with strides. We're making the big switch this week, I'm so ready.

3 easy through the 6

3 easy to hidden valley 

warmup, 6x500m hill repeats, 4x400m progression finishes, cooldown. i hit 1:41, then coach said dial it back to about 80%, then i hit 1:43, 1:45, 1:47, 1:44, 1:39 for an average of 1:43. good stuff for our first workout in the heat. halfway up the hill on the last one, spencer looked over at me and said "for frodo" and took off, i would have stuck with him if i wasn't laughing so hard lol. ice bathed with boston and all the beautiful sophomore girls, so pretty much just boston.

3 easy to the bridge

7.5 total. We were shakin lots of bacon, cookin an egg in our shoes 

3 easy to hidden valley

Warmup, first 2 mile time trial at bhnp, barefoot cool down. Well I felt like ultimate garbage, idk what's wrong cuz I felt the same way yesterday and this morning. But I was faster than last year, and I'd say that's pretty good considering how bad I felt today

I just looked at this same time trial from last year, and almost our whole 1-7 was faster than kales winning time from last year, and I was 2 seconds faster this year despite feeling like the south side of a mule. Good stuff from the crew todizzle 

Also today was my last first bad workout cuz I'm a senior. There's gonna be a lot of "lasts" this season :'(

3 miles to the spectrum. Idk mane, I'm still having cramps and feeling like crap. It's black magic.

7.5 total to the lonely mountain. Fun stuff man

Warmup, drills, monster fartlek: 1:1 2:2 3:3 4:4 5:5 4:4 3:3 2:2 1:1, with a tiny cooldown. This was a great workout from everyone, coach had different people lead each rep, Matt led the first 1, joe and boston led the 2, spencer led the 3, I led the 4, scott led the 5, Bryson led the 4, ginge led the 3, Gibby led the 2, and Caden led the 1. Everybody pushed harder when they had to lead, it was great. In the eternal words of Julian Casablancas: please don't slow me down if I'm going too fast

3 easy to hidden valley 

5 in the PM with striders. "Heaven is a place on earth with you"-Lana Del Rey

3 easy to the bridge 

CEDAR ALL COMERS

Warmed up, ate some weird thing josh gave me, ate like an ounce of gu and got to the line. The gun went off and  I got out pretty well. I settled well too, right behind the entire canyon view team. It was them up front then me josh Jaiden and spencer in a group. The pace felt good and I ended up taking the lead after the first lap. When no one went with me I slowed it down and let Jaiden lead, then with about .75 to go I regained the lead and held it until about 20 meters to go on the track, and Jaiden out kicked me. Really good stuff, but if I wanna beat him I gotta create more of a gap, he's fire on the track lol. "Won't somebody get me off of this reef"-Bradley Nowell, Sublime 

We also did 5x30 sec hard with equal recovery afterwards. Felt like a baller. Connor baller, to be exact.

Also I think it's cool to point out that spencer was first on the team last year with 15:41, and we had Jaiden, me, spencer (again) and tanner under that this year. Rock the boat mane

3 easy to the spectrum 

Warmup, drills, strides, 4x1 mile at BHNP with goal pace at 5:45-5:50, cool down. Hit 5:56, 5:45, 5:45, 5:36. Felt good, even after the race yesterday. Calves are tight, but that's nothing a little Lana Del Rey can't fix.

3 easy to hidden valley. Today's the first day of school. My man, my man

Did 7 around the ridge loop to rainbow road. "I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend"- Jumper by 3rd eye blind. I'm not tryna copy my boy sherrifwoody, but lately I've wanted to post song lyrics that pertain to my run. And we jump across this ledge on rainbow road, so that's what it made me think of 

3 easy to hidden valley 

2 easy in the afternoon. Was going to race PV but got cancelled cuz of lightning so we're just doing a workout tomorrow. "Have you ever seen the rain"-Creedence Clearwater Revival

Originally was gonna do 10 easy but we did a workout today cuz of the lightnizzle yesterday. 3 mile warmup, 5 mile tempo with last 2 hard finish, 2 mile cool down. Didn't wear a watch but we pushed it. "Save all your food stamps, were burning down the trailer park"- Loser by Beck 

morning- 3 easy to hidden valley

afternoon- 6 easy to rainbow road with strides after. nice n toasty today mmmm

DESERT RELAYS

Morning- 3 easy

Yay fast running blog is back. Anyway today was the desert relays against pine view. The relay teams went in order of your place on the team, so my relay team was jaiden then me then spencer (first team). Jaiden had the first leg and he handed it to me in second place, me and tanner duked it out and with a half mile to go I made a move and handed the baton to spencer in first place, and he finished it off in first place. I had the fastest second leg of the day so I got to write my name on the coveted bowling pin. Good stuff from our entire team today 

Also I'm totally guessing on mileage lol

Morning- 3 easy to the spectrum 

Afternoon- 5 miles. Nice recoverizzle . Also I went on a "date" with Kyla this morning cuz we both don't have class the first 2 periods so that was fun.

3 easy to hidden valley 

Warmup, drills, 4x1 dirt mile repeats with goal time at 5:39, cool down. It was 107 today holy crap but it was good, me josh jaiden and spence packed it and went 5:47, 5:35, 5:35, 5:32 for an avg of 5:37. Super good stuff in the heat. Gonna steak tonight lol take that Scott 

3 easy to the bridge 

4 easy with strides

SUU INVITE

Warmed up, took my new prerace energy food (fruit snacks) and got to the line with the crew. The gun went off and I got out really well, right into 2nd place behind Jaiden. Me spencer and jaiden worked together for a while, then Jaiden decided to take off. Me and spencer kinda decided not to go with him, and he created a big lead that we closed a little bit, maybe we should have went with him but whatever. Throughout the whole race it was just me and spencer working together, I would surge and we would keep exchanging leads. At the top of the part where we all start our sprints, spencer looked over at me and said "men of the west, move out" and we started kicking. It was about 300m worth of nick, and about 100m in mckade from CV came up on us and we managed to outkick him. I tried to get spence, but he got me by .5 of a second. We almost had a perfect score if it wasn't for josh lol, we scored 17 points, super good stuff with a dhills 123 sweep. Good stuff from everyone today. Time for Netflix and chill lol

3 to hidden valley 

8.5 total out in the boneyard, felt good. Yeeeahhh 

Morning- 3 easy to the bridge 

Afternoon- we had our second time trial today. we did at BHNP, so a hard course of course lol. warmup, 2 mile race, then 4xfinishes, cooldown, core. we started and jaiden and spence led it at first, we hit the mile around 5:30, then it came to just me and jaiden with josh back a little bit. when we got to the steep hill the second time, i dropped jaiden, then with about 600m to go josh came up on my side and we ran side by side til about 100m to go where i outkicked him for first on the team with 11:01. pretty good stuff, then we finished hard (with the help of josh mcphie) and did core. yeeeeeaaahh

morning- 3 easy to the spectrum

afternoon- 6.5 easy with striders. josh pantsed spencer and spencer mauled josh lol

Morning- 3 easy

Afternoon- warmup, drills, 8x800m repeats at BHNP over hay bales to practice for AF, cool down. Our goal range was 2:30 to 2:40, I hit 2:41 and then 2:33-34 on the next 5, then 2:32 and 2:31. Felt comfortably hard. Bryson biffed it but then he caught back up it was sick lol

Morning- 3 easy to the bridge

Afternoon- 3 miles at the state course. They changed the course which I'm not happy about.

AF GRASS RELAYS

Warmed up about 3 miles jogging around cheering everyone on cuz I was our 4th leg. Jaiden ran well, tanner felt like crap or else we would have done better but it's all good, he's a stud, and you can't control how you feel in a race. Josh closed a lot of gap, gave the baton to me. Lone peak had about a 15 second lead on me when I got the baton, it took the whole first mile to catch up to Jamison. I caught them at mile 1, then we worked together until about 500 to go where he made a move that I tried to match, but couldn't quite stick in there. Handed spence the baton in 4th and he held it. All things considered it was pretty good, especially cuz a flat 2 miles isn't our forte, our forte is hilly 3 miles with the TEAM all together. Super pumped to show everyone who we really are at BYU. Cooled down barefoot and drank some good stuff. My time was 10:28, which was 1 second away from getting a plaque  G dang it lol. Good stuff from everyone

Morning- 3 easy to hidden valley 

Afternoon- 3.5 warmup, 30 minute tempo with first 15 at 6:15 pace, then drop it every 5 minutes, with last 2 minutes all out, cool down. Wow it was hot today. My phone said 103. I hit 6:24, 6:08, 5:49, 5:42, then right around 5:20 pace for the hard finish. We started with a huge pack, then at about 23 mins it was just me Scott Jaiden josh and spence, then Scott finished his 25 mins and it was me spence and josh, and we each finished right around 5 miles. Really hard workout. Time to recover! Good stuff from the crew today, super pumped for BYU. We're all ready.