Be the team that goes hard on the last two

Fun run today. Drove out to the hurricane hill trail or something and ran 10 easy. Such a pretty trail, and fun time with Boston and Bryson. Tanner, tommy, and Christian C are getting their mission calls this week. Ugh this is weird, all my friends are gonna leave me 

3 easy to hidden valley this morning. 

afternoon was good. 2.5 warmup, drills, strides, 3x1000m @ 2:58-3:03 w 2:00 recovery jog, then cutdown finishes, 350 300 250 200 100, cooldown. felt good despite stomach stuff. wanted to dip under 3 but we hit 3:03, 3:02, 3:01. good effort for sure. then finished hard. good stuff

3 easy to the bridge this morning. 

Good time today. Normal warmup then 6 easy on the rainbow road loop, through a new place we now call Sage's Armory. I need to leave a legacy so I named it. Then did strides and hardcore weights part like 16 idk. Good stuff 

my brother woke up super early for skills usa, at like 4:30 so he had the whole family up, so i didnt run to try and get more sleep.

afternoon was normal warmup then 4 easy out to the spectrum and then 4x200m finishes. race day tomorrow, super stoked!

decent race today. got back from the 2 mile warmup and the girls were like already done, so i couldn't do any strides or drills so that sucked. got to the line and the gun went off and i got out well, 100m in i started to settle in and i looked up front and saw eric lambert waaaay out there, no one went with him. i settled a little too hard, i slowed it down a ton, probably because at 200m in, i was still in front of Garek B so that was a little frightening. hit the first lap in 1:11, so 2 mile pace lol waaaaaay too slow. surged at 450m to get around ppl, got to about 5th place. hit 800m in 2:17, still pretty dang slow but i'm picking it up. at about 900m in, i surged up and passed nick and started gaining on jaiden and garek, i'm in 4th at this point. 600m to go and i start moving. nick passes me with 400m to go, same with josh. 1200 in 3:24, still slow. got to 200m left and bryson and josh went by me, i stuck behind them for a sec. got to 100m to go and i didn't wanna get beat my a sophomore so i started rollin' the wheels and caught bryson, and then caught eric with like 50m to go, and i almost got josh but he beat me by .25. finished in 4:30.3, so it's a 1 second PR and i qualified for state. weird side note, my grandpa took a pic of me well over the finish line and the clock timer said 4:29, so maybe unshoutout to holt's timing? hahahaha jk love u holt. desert hills had a good showing, jaiden ran 4:28, josh was 4:30.1, i was 4:30.3, and bryson was 4:30.7. also some of the youngins qualified for BYU so that was good. lessons to take from this one is to run my own race, don't be scared to be in front of garek and make the first lap super slow. good stuff from everyone today

another eh race today. my brother got back from skills usa at 1 am this morning, so that woke me up and i couldnt go back to sleep after that so that sucked. warmed up and the stomach was heavy, should've had a tums. next time. did some strides, gun goes off and i get out right behind garek so thats good. about 200m in, jaiden goes in front of me and i chill there behind him and garek for the first mile. first mile for me was 4:48. second mile was a lot harder, the stomach started acting up and i was feeling the fatigue from the lack of sleep. josh and bryson go around me pretty soon here, and i maintain contact with them but they ended up outkicking me. i made a decent move with 1000 to go so thats a positive. crossed in 9:45.8. 2 seconds off my PR but not bad for having ran the mile yesterday. i was one place off of a medal so that kinda sucked. second mile was 4:56 ish. not a terrible race but i know i can do better. my lungs never burned during that race, it was just my legs and fatigue, so i have the lungs, once we start doing real fast speed i'll be right there and im excited to see what i can do. dhills had another good showing, jaiden was 9:41, josh and bryson were 9:43, and i was 9:45. matthew ran 10:23 so that will prob qualify him for byu maybe. also shoutout to the pv dudes for qualifying, mitch and preston good job. good stuff from everyone today.

on a side note, a good long haired canadian friend of mine once said that there are gonna be 8 races in a season that go like this: you'll have 2 races that make you want to kill yourself, 2 races that are just all out amazing, and 4 eh races. I've had my 3 eh races already; there's nowhere to go but up, cuz i don't believe in the 2 bad race part lol.