Be the Hunter, Not the Hunted

Premeet today, 2x400 at goal mile pace for tomorrow. 67 and 65. It felt really good and I'm stoked. On the cooldown I stepped on the side of a pothole that I didn't see and pretty much my ankle should be completely broken right now. Like I scraped the side/top of my foot on the road. That's how far it rolled. But absolutely no pain #blessed. Super excited for tomorrow!

Mile at UVU this morning, and I'd say it was pretty great. I was originally going to be in a heat with Austin but I got bumped up a heat so I was with Thomas, Ryan, Justin, Jiree and Jiraa, and a bunch of other guys. It was way fun. Nobody would take the lead when we went out, so the first 800 was super slow, 2:20. I hung out in the back the first lap because I knew if I took the lead I would take it out too fast because this 800 training has jacked up my mile pacing. I got into a good position for the second 800, passing mostly everyone, and picked up the pace quite a bit. The second 800 was 2:12, and I feel like I could've gone way faster, but hey, it was a 12 second PR so I'll take it lol. I finished 4th in the heat behind Ryan (who won), a Davis guy, and Thomas, so 3 lehi guys in the top 4, it was lit. I was seeded 19th, so that was awesome. I'm way excited for the 4xmile at arcadia. Shoutout to everyone who raced today, everyone pretty much killed it.

6 miles along the beach in Cali today, 6:50 ap, started with 7:23, ended with 6:23. I felt pretty good, just way excited for Arcadia!

Speed on another trail by the ocean today, I couldn't get to a track so I just went by the lap distances on my watch. Workout was 3x(400m, 200m) at goal pace for this weekend at Arcadia. 2 min rest within the set, 3 min between sets. All active. Haha pacing on a paved trail is rough when you're used to a track, so my splits were kinda all over the place. They were 69,31,61,30,64,31. There was this kinda creepy guy following me on a bike so I turned around and went his direction and he didn't follow so that was good. The trail went through some foresty area and it was dang beautiful. I'm loving it here.

6 miles at 6:59 ap through San Francisco and along the ocean. San Fran has a lot of freaking hills and I probably went a little fast lol but there's lots of oxygen here so it was a good time. Beautiful place.

6 miles in Modesto this morning. I had to wake up at 6:00 to get it done, aka way to flipping early to be alive on a vacation. Started out way easy with an 8:09 mile then did premeet for the mile along the road. 2x400m at goal race pace, and I nailed the paces, 65 and 65. My form felt choppy for the rest of the run, I think I'm just missing running with the guys. That usually helps. Way excited to see everyone tomorrow, it's been way too long

4xmile at Arcadia today. Ryan and I warmed up 2 miles, and Thom and Connor warmed up like 10 minutes after us. We went to the tent, got checked in, and put our spikes on. I was pretty darn nervous at this point but was doing my best to calm down because I'm not the best when I'm nervous... Anyway, Ryan started us off in a good position, then I got the baton and it was time to go. I kept it conservative, letting some guys pass me because I could tell they were going out way too fast. First lap was a 66, and it felt soooo good. Second lap was also a 66, and then things got crazy. I started the third lap and picked it up quite a bit, passing some guys. Idk what the splits were on the last two laps. The last lap I kicked it in and finished with a very strong kick. If I had to guess I'd say my split was around 4:22, but I'll update that when I can see official results. Either way it's a major PR so I'm way happy. I finished and I felt like I had more in the tank, so we'll see if I can push it a little more next time. Still figuring this whole racing thing out... Then I handed off to Thomas, and he moved us up a couple spots too, and then Connor got the baton, and we were in 7th. Top 5 get medals. Connor killed it and got us into 5th, so that was sick. Shoutout to Ryan, Thomas, and Connor because I loved running the 4xmile with them. Shoutout to Michael and Austin for killing the 2 mile. Lastly shoutout to Guppy because she's pretty awesome and she's racing tomorrow.

Update: My official split was 4:23, so a 9 second PR, so I'm way happy!

6 miles on the dreadmill at 7:30ish pace. I ran on the treadmill because my watch was pretty much dead so it wasn't going to last through a run outside. Not much else to say except that treadmills are incredibly boring, it reminds me of the bike room lol.

Huge shoutout to Connor, Zack, Ryan, and Thomas for killing it in the 3200 today, going 9:07, 9:09, 9:14, and 9:27 respectively. They freaking threw down in those races and I wish I could've been there to see it.

Shoutout to Guppy for going 5:12 in the full mile, so that's a solid PR for her, it was way fun to watch!

7 easy today, 6:58 ap. I didn't feel very good at all until about 4 miles in, I was just pretty tight and the legs were way heavy. Rolled out with Ryan and did curls, pull ups, push-ups, and tricep extensions #getswole. Also I got freaking sunburned today, which is kinda weird because it's not like this is the first time I've taken off my shirt... Oh well. Also shoutout to Nathan Grindle because I finally put him in my fav blogs after footlocker lol

6x1min up airport today, and it was an interesting one. Ryan and I went hard the first 4 and I agree with him, maybe a little too hard lol because I died a little bit the last two, but not too bad. Ryan pulled away a little bit the 5th one and Connor passed me the last one, but I still got pretty close to the same distance. I was hurting pretty bad afterwards though and I threw up for the billionth time. I'm so sick of throwing up after speed/races. It sucks. Idk I guess it means I pushed myself.

Ryan and I drove up to corner canyon to do a trail run because we're both pretty sick of running in Lehi... It was waaayyyy nice to do a trail run and we didn't push it too hard so that was good. It was beautiful up there and the weather was perfect. It was raining for a little bit but that was way refreshing. Shoutout to Ryan for the sick run and good talks. Also shoutout to that mountain biker we saw because he told us good job. Lol also shoutout to chicken nugget for running the 2-mile all on his own at the dual meet and winning in 11:00.

Premeet for the mile tomorrow, 69 and 64. My legs have been heavy this whole week, hopefully they feel better tomorrow. I'm seeded 4th overall which is crazy because I've never been even close to that at a meet like this before... Idk I guess we'll see how it goes. Hoping for state.

Mile at the Utah county invite today. Didn't get out very good, hung out the first 2 laps, made a big move in the third lap, moving from last to around 5th, it was crazy windy, kicked, ended 6th. For my cooldown I did one mile with Dallin and Jake, one mile with Gan and Jake, one mile with Guppy, and 3 miles on my own, totaling 8 for the day. Shoutout to Guppy, Gan, Dallin, and Watson because I hit up Cafe Rio with them after the meet, and shoutout to everyone who raced!

4x400m, I could've gone faster, but it was hard to remember that it was just one lap. Oh well, we'll get state next time, we were 4 seconds off this time and everyone felt like they could've done better. After the race I did 6.75 miles with some of the guys, Guppy, and Tyler plus some more pg guys on some trails. Twas a good time.

7 miles on a sick trail in Draper that Ryan knew about. It was Ryan, Dallin, Guppy and I. It was a way good time, and shoutout to Guppy because she's going to start running with us more, running with the gf is always appreciated. Also, we checked the SOLW, and it's not on yet... I need it to turn on so I can actually look forward to ice baths again. Oh and shoutout to Dallin for pointing out that we could make it a loop!

Warm up mile barefoot on the turf, then we got started with the workout. It was 3 sets of 4x400m with 2:30 rest in the first set, 2:45 in the second, and 3:00 in the third. 4 min between sets. All active, lol I got a lot of miles in that way... The first set was 1-2 seconds slower than current mile pace, second set was mile pace, and last set was faster, whatever you had left I guess. Splits were 68,68,68,67,66,65,65,65,62,61,61,62. I started out just right, then the second set was a little fast, but it felt good so I went for it. The last set I totally took a huge risk. I surged on the back stretch of the first one, and realized I was commited, so I just went for it. Same thing for the next 3. Ryan and I battled a little bit on the second to last one, but he let me go for it. It showed in the last one lol. Him and Connor passed me, and I ended up with a 62. Not what I wanted on the last lap but I'm happy with the rest of the workout.

6 super easy today 8:18 ap. Legs were not feeling good. Gotta recover.

Swimming with Austin. Legs are still tired and I'm freaking done with school.

Premeet for the mile, 65 and 67. I'm also doing the 2-mile tomorrow. My legs felt like crap again, crossing my fingers for tomorrow because I want to qualify for state in both, at least the mile. We'll see what happens.

This week I've gotten not much sleep at all because ap calc and ap chem, enough said. My first race of the day was the open 1600 with Ryan. We went out freaking slow and the first 800 was 2:18. The next couple laps I picked it up and passed pretty much everyone. The second 800 was 2:11, so that was crazy. The last lap I surged to the lead and held it until the last 50m when I was battling with another guy, and he got me by like .5 seconds. I crossed the finish line and my vision started going dark, I almost blacked out. I head was also hurting really really bad. Pretty sure I'm low on sodium, also we're going to get my heart checked because my resting heart rate has been unusually high for the past couple months. Weather wasn't ideal, and I'm running out of time to qualify for state. Just gotta do it. The 2-mile was a solid tempo I guess lol. 10:07.

9 miles @7:45 pace, it felt way good to recover. Fun time with the boys, and I've been eating extra salt today, lol it's not the most tasty stuff, but we'll see how it helps in the workout tomorrow.

Speed workout for the 800 today. W/o was 3x(300m,200m,100m) all at 800 pace. 90 sec rest within the set and 5 min active between sets. Splits were 42.9,29.6,13.9,42.5,28.3,13.5,42.2,27.9,13.5. My legs felt relatively fresh for the first time in weeks and I didn't feel like puking after this one. I think eating more salt yesterday definitely helped... I'll keep doing that. I was pretty happy with the splits I hit, seeing as they average out to like a 1:53 pace for the 800 lol. Prolly a little fast but whatevs it was very doable. Good stuff from everyone today.

10x1min pickups at 5k pace to shake out the legs a little bit/get some extra speed in. Paces were 5:19,5:17,5:17,5:01,5:03,5:17,4:48,5:06,4:55,4:56. My legs didn't feel as bad as I thought they would, and the pickups weren't as hard as I thought they'd be so that was good. It was just Connor and I for most of it, Michael had to turn back early and everyone else was somewhere else I guess.

I got an EKG done for my heart during 3rd period today, and apparently I'm so low on sodium that my heart isn't beating correctly, so that's bad, I'll get on top of sodium and then maybe my heart will be normal and I can throw down some sick times lol.

Also happy birthday shoutout to my boy Connor Baller!

Legs were crazy heavy, shins hurt a little. Zack came along, shoutout to him. 7:16 ap. I'm way excited for prom!

Premeet for the 800, so 2x200m at goal pace. 30 and 27. My legs still feel like crap so I iced and hopefully they'll feel better tomorrow... I biked after the 6 to get to high mileage. Goal for tomorrow in the 800: qualify for state.

800m at tiger trials today. I warmed up a mile with Jake, Dallin, and Parker, then checked in. I was in the first heat, seeded 7th out of 15, so that was a good position. First lap was slower than it should've been, right around 59-60. The second lap I tried to haul and the last 100 I tightened up pretty bad, but it was a PR, and I finished 7th, so even though I missed state by .4 seconds (smh) it was a pretty good race. 6.5 mile cooldown with Ryan afterwards.

Shoutout to Guppy because I love her and prom was basically the best night ever.