Addison Hedges Running

Pretty much the same runs as yesterday, but a little faster. 

I did an easy 2.5 miles earlier today. Then I decided to do a little pacing workout. I warmed up than ran the first mile of Saturday's race course at pace for a sub-17 minute 5k (5:28) I took a 2 minute break then ran the second mile of the course. Same thing for the third mile. Then I ran home for a cool down.

I just went out on a super easy 7 mile run, because I have a race tomorrow. I normally wouldn't run 7 miles the day before a race but I need the summer miles. 

I ran out of Huntsville town, and towards the monastery.

Fun race today. I just had time for a quick warm up before the race started, because I kind of over slept...

I ended up finnishing in 6th place with a 17:11. I wanted to finnish in the top 3 but 6th was fine because the only people who beat me were a BYU xc runner, two college runners from Oklahoma, Travis Feeney and a 20 something year old from my neighborhood.

Just an easy 3 today

Practice with the xc team today. We ran on the trails above Weber State. I ran with jake on the way out, but then we both got lost and ran some extra before we found each other. I ended up running 5 miles. 

Later today I ran 2 miles with 8x200m strides after. 

Easy 4 this morning. Then a little harder 4 miler tonight.

So I was kinda dumb and decided that I would combine a tempo workout and a hill workout in the same day... Not a good plan. 

I started with a 1.5 mile warm up. Then did a 2.5 mile tempo run over to some hills. (5:45 pace) Then I did a mile of repeats up a pretty steep hill at pace for a 5:10 mile. Then I cooled down for 2.5 miles, and finnished with 800m of strides. 

Pretty tough workout. 

We had a team practice today at North Arm trail. I ran a slow and VERY muddy 5 miles with Brayden and Jake. Then later tonight I ran another 3 miles. 

Track workout today. I decided to do a 1.5 mile warm up, then 1x1200m, 3x800m, 3x400m, and 4x200m with a 1:1 rest.

1200m- 3:27     800m- 2:20, 2:33 ( felt awful on that one), 2:17.    400m- 1:02, 1:07, 1:06.   

200m- 29, 29,29, 28.    I felt great the entire workout except for that one 800. My splits were faster than my mile pr pace of 4:40 by quite a bit so I was happy.  

Cool down then 1.5 miles later. 

6 mile uphill trail run this morning at an ok pace. Then a few hours after I got home my neck started to hurt a lot so we went to the doctors and they took some x-rays, and apparently I had a big muscle spasm in my neck. They gave me some pretty strong meds, and said that I can't run for 3-4 days because that would make it flare up, but I ran another easy 2 miles tonight because I felt rebellious. Hopefully it gets better soon.

There was a team practice today at North Fork. We just ran 3 miles up to the waterfall but it was pretty steep. I ended up doing about 4 or 5 because Henry got lost and Sam and I were trying to find him. He was halfway to Canada before someone found him. 

I ran another 4 tonight just to get more miles in. The muscle relaxant medication that I have to take for the muscle spasm makes my legs all weird and I can't really get them to move at a fast pace, but I was able to run it at a 6:10 pace so not too bad.

2 miles this morning. Then I decided to do a 4 mile tempo run with a mile warm up and cool down. The tempo run was at about a 5:45 pace. 

I kind of just did a spontaneous 7 miler at 9:45 pm after I got home from work. I took it slow on the trail cause it was dark, but I did a 7:00 pace

We had practice as a team this morning, at Weber. I ran with Jake, Henry, and Holden. We took it fairly easy and just went  adventuring through people's yards and running away from an angry Asian lady. 

I decided to do a little quicker 3 miles tonight. (5:57 pace)

I was planning on doing some repeats today but a little ways into the workout my legs were just really tired so I decided to take it easy and do an easy 3 miles. Then I did a fast 2 miler with some sprints later in the day. 

6:35 pace 6.5 miles, then some 200's. 

We had team practice today up the Ben Lomond trail. Jake led out and was cruising up it. I trailed him on the way up then I took us back down. It ended up being about 5.2 miles. Later tonight I did another 4 miles. 

3.5 this morning and a little faster 3.5 tonight. I also biked about 12 miles on some mtn biking trails. 

So I kind of forgot about running today... I slept in, then ended up going to work. When I got home from work it was 10:00 and I remembered that I ha debt ran all day, so I did a quick 4 then went to bed. 

Team practice on the Weber State trails this morning. We were gonna do stairs but we couldn't get into the stadium. I ran with Brayden and part of the way with Gavin. Brayden and I ended up going about 4.5 miles. Later tonight I ran 2.5 because it was late and I wanted to get to bed. 

4 quick miles this morning, then I was gonna do 3 more after work but I had to stay way late.

Brayden came up to the valley for a long run today. We decided to run over to the monastery and chill with the monks, but they were in morning mass. We thought it was gonna be 10 miles but it turned out to be about 11. It was a long run but we hit a pretty good pace. 

4 miles with the team today. We started out in a pack until Jake and I pulled ahead. I finished a few seconds ahead of him. Overal it was a pretty good run. 

9 miles total today. I did 4.75 this morning, then 4.25 tonight. Neither of them were super fast, so that's not great, but it'll be ok. I'm really going to miss my 10:00 P.M. night runs when school starts...

3 quick miles this morning. (5:55 pace) then tonight I did another 4 miles at 6:40 pace. 

I had practice with the team on the rainbow gardens trails. Kyler and I led out and ended up doing 4.5 miles. Later today I did another 3.5 to get up to 8 miles. 

7 miles all together. I ran on the trails over to "suicide mountain" aka the old trappers loop  road. I got a new personal record for that 3.5 mile course. (6:35 pace)Then I did an easy 3.5 down the mountain and home.