Be the team that goes hard on the last two

Morning- ran 3 easy to hidden valley. Last morning run of the regular season. Almost shed a tear

 Afternoon- our last workout before state. Did a 2 mile warmup, strides, drills, then a mile on the track at 5k pace, 1 mile cool down. Felt really really smooth. Hit 69, 76, 80, 64 for 4:49. Smoothest I've felt going that fast. Good stuff. Now time to focus up cuz I will achieve my goal at state. 

Rest in the morning.

3 miles with strides up at Liberty park 

STATE

First of all congrats to everyone today. There were some great races. 

Warmed up with the crew. Had a good time. The gun went off and I got out right where I wanted to be, right around 8th place. The lead pack was me hell raiser Josh Jaiden spence and Dallen I think and some stand bury bro and bear river and mckade steffensen. When we got to the first big hill I made sure to take it conservative cuz everyone blasts up it and that's really stupid. Held my place til the long gradual hill around the pond. Halfway up it I took the lead and held it until about 1200 meters to go when nick started moving. I tried to go with him but my legs wouldn't carry me where my mind wanted me. Finished strong the last 400. Came in 6th. This was one of our bad races this year. We collectively had bad races as a team. But the positives are also great. Our collective bad race still resulted in a 3rd straight state championship. We will now be regarded as the underdogs, just like after we didn't race well at American fork. But recall the race after American fork, which was BYU, where we had one of our best team races. If the pattern continues, Nike southwest is going to be historical this year. So I'm going to embrace this underdog position but don't count out desert hills. We're ready 

Rest in the morning

5 mile frosty run. I didn't get a frosty I just got fries. Had a good talk wit coach afterward. We're all so pumped.

Morning- cold 3 miles to the bridge with Boston and coach 

Afternoon- did a 3 mile warmup, then a quarter mile at 7 minute pace then hopped in to a 2 mile tempo at goal Nike race pace. Really good stuff from the team today. Jaiden was 9:45 then josh 9:52 then tanner 9:55 then me 10:06 (legs felt really heavy today) then spence 10:08 then Bryson 10:09. We're back. Cooled down then spencer killed us with core.

After a really awesome and eye opening night last night, I had the ACT in the morning. I feel like I killed everything but science, since for some reason my allergies struck right then and j couldn't breathe so I couldn't focus. But I can feel that 32. Anyway after that I decided to just say screw it and I ran the ridge. Just wanted to take my mind off things so I was up there skipping around and having fun by myself it was great. I probly looked like  an idiot but I had so much fun just playing on the trails. I need more runs like that.