Be the team that goes hard on the last two

Morning- ran 3 easy by myself cuz it's my good day today 

Afternoon- 7.5 easy to the bone yard with barefoot strides. Felt good and it was a fun run with the bizzles. Currently at benjas with grandma, good to have family time 

3 easy to hidden valley this morning 

we did the legendary Michigan this afternoon. for those of you who don't know what it is, i'll explain it. 2 mile warmup, 4x100m strides, mile on the track at 5k pace, 1 minute recovery, mile on the road at 5:35 pace, 1 minute recovery, 1200m on the track at faster than 5k pace, 1 minute recovery, mile on the road at 5:35 pace, 1 minute recovery, 800m on the track at way faster than 5k pace, 1 minute recovery, road mile at 5:35 pace, 1 minute recovery, all out 400m on the track and if after all that you break 60, coach buys you dinner. i'll put my goal times then what i did hit:

track mile: 5:00 to 5:05, hit 4:53

road mile: 5:30-35, hit 5:20

track 1200m: 3:41, hit 3:41

road mile: (same) hit 5:23

track 800m: 2:23-2:25, hit 2:19

road mile: (same) hit 5:19

all out 400m: hit 58

(these are the times coach told us)

really good stuff from everyone today. i improved just about everything from the last michigan so thats sick. this was my last michigan of my high school career. very bittersweet. pumped for nxsw

nothing in the morning to recovery from the michigan.

afternoon was 5.5 easy out to the boneyard. good fun run in the cold. shoutout to myself for gettng visible views back, maybe i'll treat this place like a g dang social networking website.

3 easy in the morning to hidden valley. we do it like every day lol

afternoon was fun. we did the card game workout to 3200m, which was sick. what it is is you draw cards and based on the number you draw, thats the length of the hill repeat you do. 1-3 is 100m, 4-8 is 200m, 9-Jack is 300m, and Jack-Ace is 400m. we ended up doing like 400 100 400 100 400 400 100 300 200 or someting like that, basically we just got a lot of 400s and 100s but it added up to 3200m. the only ones we timed were the 400's, which we averaged about 1:12's so that was sick. good workout from everyone today

3 chilly miles to hidden valley again 

drove out to barrel roll for 8 miles on the loop. beautiful trail and it was fun to see spencer shooting his arrows and seeing him so happy in his natural, manly environment. great day and night today. overall just a perfect November 6th, 2015.

met at 8 am for the workout at the track. did a 2 mile warmup, drills, 2x200m starts, 4x100m strides, then began our 8 lap pilgrimage. it was 8x400m at 68-72 pace with :30 second recovery. the recovery is what made it hard, it was so short. i averaged 69.25, so id say it was pretty stellar. 1 mile cool down. sadies, lol

Did a little math when I got home, if I put those splits together it would be a 9:14 2 mile so that's pretty neat

3 easy to hidden valley this morning. AP gov, man

did a 2.5 warmup, drills, then we had a nice easy workout. it was just 6 miles with the last 2 at progression, so not nike pace but not walking pace. we cruised in for a 10:57 according to jaidens watch. felt easy but thats how it was supposed to feel. pumped for wednesday

3 easy to the bridge this morning

5.5 easy. stressful day.

3 easy to the bridge again. frikkin cold. race today with the good ol' panthers, super pumped

Came early to help mark mark the course. Built a bridge with Boston and he put a nice flower in the middle. Went home to get my stuff and showed up a little late but got warmed up good. Mark said go and the first 400 meters felt fast but good. Came across the mile in 5:05 with a nice pack of me Jaiden hell raiser def Dallen josh and Bryson and tanner.At the mile Jaiden took off which was good to string it out, Josh went for him and I went for Josh  and Tanner went for me it was good. Ended up Jaiden 9:49 Josh 9:56 tanner 10:02 me 10:03 ( if my first mile was 5:05 then I finished in 4:58 which is a good negative split, had some left in the tank which I think was intended for this race) and Bryson 10:09, our first perfect score as a team. Super super super super awesome stuff from the team today, even though we may not have hit the times we wanted. Nike will be tons faster and I'm so excited. Good stuff from everyone, dhills and PV, today.

Also, we all ran in trainers, so if we ran in spikes we could have all been a good 5-10 seconds faster, which is super sick. 

3 easy to hidden valley with coach Powell and Bryson

7.5total miles including strides and warmup. Took a different route down rainbow road that I really liked. Banquet tonight was super bittersweet. I couldn't hold back the tears. Being a senior sucks. I'm gonna miss everything. I won most inspirational runner along with spencer so that was sick. I love all of you so much, whoevers reading this.

3 easy to hidden valley, just me and spence. Holy crap I need new shoes 

Afternoon was fun. We drove to little valley park for some grass repeats. We did 3x800m with goal pace 2:35-40 with 1:30 recovery jog, then 4x400m at 1:10-12 ish with 1:00 recovery jog, then 4x200m finishes. Hit 2:40, 2:34, 2:32, then 1:11 1:10 1:09 1:07 I think, then we didn't time the finished but Bryson timed the last one and he said he hit 29 so I was probably a high 28, which is good on grass. Fine tuning, man. Super pumped for dying light 

Ran 5 easy to the bone yard by myself. Felt good and I love solo runs. Cold but I warmed up. About to get a massage yay 

3 easy to hidden valley. I had a really good weekend.

Afternoon was fun, nice n easy. 2.5 warmup, drills, strides, 4x400m at 5k pace w 400m recovery jog, 4x200m finishes with 200m recovery jog, mile cool down.Hit 75, 71, 71, 71. Felt good. There's nothing more we can do, it's time for Nike and achieving our biggest goal.

ran 3 easy this morning to the bridge with coach, coach powell, and bryson. frikkin cold man

5.5 easy this afternoon to sunriver. Felt good and it's time to go to war.

Woke up a little later to run on my own cuz it's my good day. Starting to listen to my pump up music, which includes the killers, red hot chili peppers, outkast, beck, mgmt, white stripes, all the good stuff.

Afternoon was fun. 2.5 warmup, drills, 4x100m strides, then a nice easy 4x400m at 5k pace w two min recovery, mile cool down. So so so ready.

Easy 20 mins this morning instead of 3 miles. We leave today at 11:45 and I'm so excited for dying light.

Ran 4 easy w strides down in Kingman AZ. Ahhhh so pumped 

Went on a nice little shakeout in the morning on a trail by a canal. In the PM we went over to the course and jogged the course, with some strides after. Feeling ready.

Today was the day. Warmed up, felt good. The gun went off and our whole top 5 got out perfectly. I went through the dip and let it slingshot me forward. Hit the first mile in a blistering 4:51, still feeling good. During the second mile I was duking it out with a few timp guys, both of which I would later beat. Hit 2 miles in 10:00, then Connor baller came up on me about halfway to go, and I stuck on him for about 1200m, until he pulled away and I was left with the timps again. I hit the big tree, 800m to go, and I was pushing really hard. I was worried because by this point, Josh and spence hadn't caught up yet, so I realized that I needed to go as hard as I can, cuz maybe they weren't feeling so good. Hit the last straight away and went all out from there. Passed 2 guys right after the dip and got the timps a little after that, and one more guy right before the finish. Crossed at 15:39 with a 5:08 last mile, a big PR. When i  I , I really , probably for the first time ever, felt like I had nothing left in the tank. I had turned myself inside out. But unfortunately,  it wasn't enough to secure us a spot at NXN. Very very sad. This was my last XC race as a high schooler and it did not end how we wanted, how we planned for a whole year after the same thing happened last year. But I honestly don't feel at all as bad as I thought I would if we didn't qualify. The results were weird. The team scores were Mountain vista ( who we had beat at Woodbridge) then timp, then lone peak (who we had not lost to all year), then American fork, then Ogden(who we had not lost to all year) then us, then Davis. It just shows how anything can happen in cross country. I could dwell on all the negatives about today. But Gandalf once said "all we have to do is decide what to do with the time we've been given us" and honestly (I'm nearly in tears writing this) I've had so many great experiences with this team, from going to California to compete at national level races, to being nationally ranked, to setting prs, and being 4 time region champs, and 3 time state champs, and 4 time region champs in track and 3 at state, but most importantly just having fun with my brothers who I love so much. These guys mean the world to me, and it's been a terrific three years. Also I wouldn't have met Alli P if I hadn't started running lol. I love you all 

day 1 of our two week break. coach said no footlocker so we can kind of recover from a little disappointment, and just focus on stuff other than running. it will be really good for me i think, so we can be ready to roll for track in 2 weeks.

Since I'm not running for two weeks, I'll be playing a lot of basketball and pickleball and just doing fun stuff with my friends, so there's no point in using the blog until we start up again for track. See you all in two weeks, my sweet desert blossoms!