Addison Hedges Running

I started my summer training today. Some of the guys from Weber and I made a goal of running 500 miles this summer to get ready for xc. 

3.5 mile run this morning, before visiting the cemeteries. Then an aditional 3.5 in the evening on some trails around Pineview Reservoir to get up to 7. They weren't horribly fast, but the goal right now is to just ease into the training after my short break, and get my mileage back up.

Fairly easy 3.5 this morning at about 7 in the pouring rain. 

Did an additional 4 miles tonight: 2 mile warm up/shakeout run, then a 2 mile tempo at last years 3 mile PR pace. (5:41min/mile) but I was feelin good and took it at a 5:37 pace, or 11:15 total. 

4 mile morning run at a 6:18 pace. Then a couple more this evening at a fairly slow pace in purring rain and hail. 

Ran a few miles to and from the park to play some soccer/ football. Then 4 more this evening. Pretty painful couple of runs today, but I guess that's just how it goes some times.

Pretty tough workout today, all on trails. 

I started with a 1.5 mile warm up/ shakeout, then did:

2x1600m at a 5:35 pace,

2x800m at 2:30 pace,

2x400m at 1:14 pace. I had a 1 to 1 break between all of them.

I did an aditional two miles late after work.

Hard 4.5 this morning up middle fork with my dad. Slower pace but lots of hill practice so that's a plus. I did an additional 3 miles with Brayden, and passed Henry on the way. 

Moderate 5 ish run this morning with the xc team. Then some soccer with Talon, bj, and some of the girls. Then a 2.5 miler late tonight. Last mile was barely sub-5 (4:59) haha

Pretty rough day today.... I dont know why, but it was just hard.

2 mile warm up, then a 2.5 mile tempo run at last years 3 mile PR pace. I was feeling awful, and cut it short at 2. I finnished with a short cool down. Hopefully tomorrow is better. I think it was just an off day.

Felt great today, despite the awful run yesterday. I was going to go for a slower 4-5 in the evening but decided to go 7 miles at about 3:00 P.M. It was a tough run up to the top of the old trappers loop road but I hit a pretty solid average pace. (6:26)

It actually felt really good to just run hard and sweat a bit. 

Team practice today. We did a 6.1 mile run on the North Arm Trail. I went on another 2.5 miler to make up for missed miles on Tuesday.

Weird day today...

I was planning on doing 8-10 400's, but I didn't start until later, and I only go 6 in and a 2 mile warm up before I had to go to work. I got home from work late and didn't have time to finish, but my long run tomorrow will make up for it.

Today I decided to do a stepping stone workout. I ran 2 miles to the park then did 5 min hard, 5 min easy all the way down to 1 minute. I ended up doing 5 miles throughout the stepping stone. Then I took a shorter 1.5 mile route home. 

Fast 7 miler with the xc team. We ran on the Ogden parkway, and around the lake/ pond. It feels good to run some more fast miles. 

So I was lazy today and didn't run in the morning or day. Then I was gonna go for a 7 miler in the evening but I got distracted by the nba finals and only had time for 4, so now I'm down a few miles...

I went for 2 miles early on in the day. Then I ran a mile to a meeting about Ragnar next weekend. After the meeting I decided to do a hill workout. I ran a couple more miles to a pretty steep hill. After about a miles worth of repeats I ran a few miles home. 

5.86 miles with the team today up on the Bonnevile shoreline trial. Then an aditional 2.25ish miles later tonight.

6x400m repeats at sub 4:45 pace with a short warm-up and cooldown before I had to go to work. I finnished up my 8 miles after work.

Busy day today. I only had time for a quick 2 miles. I might just have to make some of it up tomorrow...

Team practice today at Weber State. I ran with Kyler today, and we did about 5.5

Did a hot 3.5 at about 11:30. Then I ran another 4.5 with Henry and did a few strides. 

2.75 ish miles to and from the church gym around noon. Right after my run the thermometer said 93 degrees (in the sun) so it was a hot one. I did 4.25 ish later tonight, then a few strides after. One of the best runs I have had all summer. Probably because it wasn't too far haha. 

Just a regular 4 today.

First day of Ragnar. It was one of the best experiences of my entire life. I just ran on a local team in my neighborhood with people of all ages.   I ran my first leg 7.5 miles up the back of Avon pass at a 7:30 pace. Then my second leg was supposed to be 9.5 miles but there wasn't a sign and some other runners and I got lost so I ended up running 11.5 miles at a 6:30 pace. Brayden Youngberg filled in for a kid who dropped out after his first leg. 

Second half of Ragnar today. I did my last three mile leg then just went and partied. As a team we broke 30 hours which is a new record for the team

I ran a 10k with the xc team today on the north arm trail. My joints were a little sore from Ragnar, which doesnt usually happen, so Brayden and I took it slow then really kicked it on the last 2 miles.

Super hot 4 miles this morning at about a 6:15 pace. Then later tonight i wasn't really feeling great but after about a mile and a half I felt better and decided to speed it up a little. I closed off the 3 miles in about 17:45

I left for Lava Hot Springs today, and only ran an easy 5 miles up a canyon.

Just another easy 5.

Pretty quick 2 miles today. 

So I decided to run the founders day 5k last night at about 11:30 haha. I wasn't feeling like going for a or, but about halfway through I decided to go for it and ended up getting a big pr. I just ghost ran it, but I would have won my age division by almost 4 minutes. 

4 miles later with Brayden, before the fireworks. 

Just the usual 7 today. I ran most of it on the trails. 

4 miles this morning and then 3 later tonight. 

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. 

Just a pretty easy 5 miles today. 

Practice with the team on the Ogden parkway trail this morning. I ended up going 7 miles and I did it at almost exactly a 6:00 pace. I think that was the fastest 7 miles I have ever run. (Maybe it was the pouring rain, or my training is actually paying off haha)

Then I did another really easy 3 miles later today to keep my legs from getting stiff. 

I ran an easy 3 this morning before I left with the team to Bear Lake. Once we got there we did a long run. It was super hot and I was already tired but I was able to do 9 miles at 6:30 pace so it wasn't too bad but not as fast as I should have done a 9 miler. 

Super easy day today. I decided to just take it easy because I've had 23 hard miles the past 2 days. 

So I just did 4 fairly easy miles today. 

We had another practice with the whole team today. It was an easy day because most of us were pretty sore. We did an 800m warm up, then 3x800. I ran mine in 2:30, 2:26, and 2:21 so not very close to where I should have been but whatever. We finished with a 3 mile cool down. 

Later today I went back up to bear lake, because I'm staying there with Brayden for 3 days. We did another 3 miles tonight in Paris Idaho. 

Brayden and I went on a 3.25 mile run around Paris this morning. Then tonight we went for an adventurous (and very easy) 4 miler. We stumbled upon a pen of 8 full sized pigs and spent a few minutes attempting to touch one, when we found some goats running loose through the farm. After chasing the goats we decided that we better leave before the farmer gets us arrested for trespassing and disturbing livestock. About a mile later, both Brayden and I strongly felt the urg to use the restroom but we were in the middle of nowhere so we kept going. Then all of a sudden 2 conveniently located port-a-potties appeared. After a breif stop we continued on our run. We ended up revisiting the pigs several more times. 

Moderately hard 4.55 miles tonight. I'm kind of ready to be done with my summer miles and just get going with the season, but I have a feeling that during the season I'm going to really miss my summer exploration runs and my sporadic 7 milers at 9:00 P.M. Hahaha. 

The team had practice today at Paul's house. We ran up to the canal road then onto another trail that continued up the mountain. It was a ratty hard run Andy quads were pretty sore after. I ran with Jake and we trailed Talon. About a 7:00 average pace on the way up. It ended up being about 5 miles. 

Later tonight I ran 3 fairly easy miles. 

4 moderately hard miles up "suicide mountain". Then I was going to do a few more miles later but there was tons of lightning so I couldn't go. 

4 miles this morning, and 4 in the afternoon. 

6 mile run with the team today. Talon, Paul, brayden and I went out at a pretty comfortable pace. We started out on some trails above Weber State, then ran to the mouth of Taylor's canyon. From there we decided to run up waterfall canyon then back to WSU. We took a short break at the waterfall, then took it back fast. 

Just 4 pretty easy miles this morning. 

Talon, Jake, Brayden, Gavin and I have been planning to run to Ben Lomond peak and we finally did it today. Got out on an early start at about 6:15 a.m. It was about 8 miles up to the peak, and we passed the ultra marathoners running the Skyline 50k, and spotted a herd of mountain goats below us. It was a pretty tough run, but super fun. I also did another .25 miles to get to 16

Now it's time for "heat week" and 3:00 p.m. practices!

Heat week started today, so practices are at 2. We only did 5.5 miles, but that was plenty because it was pretty hot. Jake and I trailed Talon, as usual, and we finnished at a 6:25 pace. Hopefully we get used to the heat quick, and can get back to our faster miles. 

I went for a 2.5 mile run later today with my dog. 

We ran down Weber High drive to highway 89 today. We started out running the first 1.5 miles at an easy pace (6:13) Then we did the next 2 miles at close to race pace. Jake and I ran the tempo at about a 5:15 pace. After the tempo we did the last 1.5 miles at a really easy pace. Abs after. 

Today we had a circuit workout at shady lane. We warmed up over to the park, then did some strides. For the circuit we would run a 400 around the park, then do a set of core exercises. Jake and I pushed it together and made it around 17 times in the 30 minutes. It ended up being about 4.25 miles. Out pace was about 5:00 for the 400's. Cool down back to Weber. Plus another .5 because Brayden and I ran over from his house. 

We ran out to the elk farms today on the canal road. I ran with Jake on the way out (6:24 avg) but pulled ahead on the way back and tried to stay close to Talon (6:10 avg.)

Track workout in the heat today. 800m warm up, then 3x1,200m and an 800m. My first 12 was 4:04, second 12 was 4:00, third was 3:52, and the 800m was 2:25. We finnished it off with another 800m for a cool down. 

I ran up big mountain on the pioneer trail with Brayden today. My dad wanted to hike it to see if he could take his BYU students up there, so I decided that it would be a good long run for us. It was a pretty cool run and we scared some dude with his dogs and he ended up falling. 

Today we had a workout on the track. We did an 800m warm up then 12x 400m repeats. I did all of mine between 67 and 71 so not too bad. We finished with another 800m cool down. 

Today we just ran the course for our meet tomorrow with Sky View. We just took it really easy and got a feel for the course. I ran it in 18 minutes. Later tonight I went on a 9 mile bike ride. 

Today was the dual meet. I wasn't too nervousness but I wanted to do well because this race determined varsity position. We warmed up to Lomond view elementary (1.5 miles) We started the race and I got right into the top pack. Jake was with me until the half way mark then I dropped him and tried to stay with Conner Compton. I got on his tail and we trailed Talon and Ethan Field. Conner beat me by 2 seconds but I placed 4th overall and got my spot as Weber's number 2 varsity. After the race Brayden and I went for a 2 mile cool down with Conner and Ethan. 

Long run today. I ran it with Jake, and we hit a pretty solid pace. (I think it was about 6:00 but I'm not sure)

We took it really easy today to prepare for the American Fork Grass Relays. I ran with Jake, Talon, and Brayden. 

Grass relays today. I ran the first leg of the varsity and Talon anchored. I warmed up for about a mile and practiced on the hay bales. Then I raced. My split was 10:44 and my first mile was only 4 seconds off my mile pr (4:44) which is probably because kids like Garek Bielaczyc was in my race. After the race we did a 2 mile cool down. 

We ran down to to shady lane park and did some mile repeats. Brayden and I did 3 then left for sports massages. My first 3 were 5:20's. Later tonight i went back to a park and did 2 more repeats and an 800. The miles were 5:15 and 5:10. The 800 was a 2:15

Today was just an easy run out on the canal road to get ready for the meet. Jake and I didn't go super easy because we are just pacing some of the slower varsity runners, so we're not going for any pr's or anything.

Today was the dual meet against Northridge. Jake had looked at some times and found that they had 2 guys who would be a little bit slower than us, but since we had to pace this race we thought we were just going to have to watch those guys run away from us without being able to do anything about it. As it turns out, they weren't on our level of speed, hahaha so we beat them even though we had to hold back and pace our other runners. 

I ended up taking 2nd to Talon, as usual. Once we hit the two mile mark Chili said we could just go all out, so thats where I passed Jake and started going hard. It was actually a pretty fun and easy race.

Fast run today. We did 7.5 and we were supposed to go pretty hard. I ran with Jake for a while, then moved ahead. Then as usual, right when I hit 6 miles I have to crap. I thought about stopping, but I was hitting a solid pace so i just kept going... bad idea. I finnished with an intense sprint into the nearest bathroom at Weber, but my pace was 5:54 so i was happy.

So today was one of coach Hansen's crazy circuits. Im not even going to try to explain it because most of the time I had no idea what I was doing, but Brayden, Paul, and I ended up doing 8 sets of stairs (all the way around the bleachers was 1 set) and a ton of burpies and squats. It was ok, though because my rear end could use some good toning.

Just 4 miles tonight, and a ton of uphill mountain biking.

Fairly easy day today with the gang. We just took it nice and easy and didn't really worry about pace.

Today was the day we've all been dreading. 16x 400 meters. Last year I felt like death during this workout, so I wasn't really looking forward it this year. 

We started out with an easy warm up, then got started. Jake and I were supposed to be hitting 71-72's, but Chili told us we should try to do the whole thing under 70's, which has only been done by a few kids at Weber ever. Jake and I ran together at the bigining then I pushed a little faster for the rest. We both ended up doing the whole thing under 70's so that was great. My spits were 67, 66, 66, 66, 67, 68, 66, 68, 66, 67, 66, 67, 67, 69, 66, 64. Then we finished with a short cool down.

Long run today. We did 10 miles down past Orion Jr. High, then up to mountain road, along to the canal, then back on the canal to Weber. It was just Jake and I, and we both felt awful. I managed to run it at a 6:10 pace, and Jake was just a few minutes behind.

4 miles today at an easy pace getting ready for Herriman tomorrow. I can already tell that it's going to be rough, due to our 2 hard workouts this week.

This race was awful. They had made a course adjustment from last year, and the new path went through the dustiest stuff i've ever seen, and made the course slower. Not to mention how hot it was. 

As soon as my race started, I new it was going to hurt, a lot. My legs were already sore and tired. I ended up taking 13th, but I got the shirt, and i've wanted that shirt since last year so that kind of helped. I was 1:35 off the winning time.

Today was an easy day to get ready for city county. We just went out and back on the canal road.

Still tapering for city county tomorrow. 

So it was pouring rain today, and we weren't allowed to hold the city county race. This was actually probably a blessing because I havn't really been feeling very good this whole week.

Instead of the actual meet we just did our own meet, sort of. The slowest person went first and the fastest went last, so theoretically we should all finnish at the exact same time, but that never happens. I ended up running a 16:03, so no PR, but thats ok. It was still fun.

Today was the torch run. We ran the torch from Northridge to Weber for the homecomming football game. We each were assigned to a group, and each group had certain legs to run. Brayden and I found a massive cactus, and after I dug it out with a conveniently placed crowbar we took it on the bus. Then for no apparent reason, McKenna threw it out the window, this led to some extreme rage from me and Brayden, because we had sacrificed our hands for that cactus. 

Henry, Jake, Talon, Brayden, and I all decided to run extra legs just for fun, so we all ran close to a half marathon. We found lots more random artifacts including a tail pipe that fell off a car. Most of these items myseriously disapeared before we got to Weber...

Easy day to prep for Wahsatch tomorrow.

Wahsatch Rendezvous was today. I ran in the #2 varsity runner race and took 2nd to Adam Jensen, who was Lone Peak's fastest runner, but happened to be in the 2nd race. My time of 16:15 put me in 8th place over all. 56 seconds off the winner (Talon Hull). This course is pretty comparable to the State course.

Hard hill workout today up 500 West. We did 10 repeats up the almost .25 mile hill. Most of my splits were 1:30's. We had the heart rate monitors out and we based our recovery time off of our heart beat. Talon and I didn't get a lot of recovery because by the time we had jogged to the bottom, our hear rate had recovered so we had to go again.

Semi long run today. I averaged 6:25 pace, because there's a meet tomorrow.

Today we raced Roy. We knew we would win so it was just kind of for fun/ practice. Chili had us do a longer warm up, then told us that we needed to make the last mile of the race our fastest mile. I felt good and ran relaxed. I ended up breaking 16 but it was 2.95 so converted it wasn't quite in the 15's, so bummer that I didn't really PR, but I will eventually.

4 miles at moderate pace for recovery today.

4x 1 mile repeats, and 2x 800's. We ran down to Shady lane park and ran on our mile repeat course. I was having a really bad day today, and barely hit my times for the miles. (5:20) Everyone was giving out after 4 so Chili said we could break the 5th mile into 2 800's. This was much easier and I beat my times on both of them. After the workout we ran back to Weber.

5.5 kind of easy miles today to start our taper for city county on Wednesday.

Nothing special today. Just more tapering for the race.

We finally had City-County today. I was nervous, and just really wanted to finally get a PR. Ogden was our biggest competition and we had our work cut out to beat them. We ended up taking 2nd as a team, just missing the win by 7 points. Talon was only 2 seconds behind Alek Parsons, and I took 6th. I got a new PR. (3 mile converted: 15:51) I beat the Winter twins and was the fastest Sophomore in the race.

Moderate 5 miles down in the "labyrinth". I ran with Kyler and we just had a good time.

8x 800m repeats at Shady lane park today. I was supposed to be hitting 2:34's. We got started and it was really hurting so I took a 2:1 break instead of 1:1 in between the 4th and 5th repeat. I ended up being faster than my time despite the pain. My splits ended up being: 2:24, 2:27, 2:30, 2:30, 2:32, 2:33, 2:30, and 2:28.

We started with a warm up to Lomend view elementary, then met on the track. This is our last hard day before region so I just wanted a solid workout. We were doing ladders: 400m, 800m, 1200m, 800m, 2x400m. I was feeling good and hit some good paces. 1:06, 2:24, 3:44, 2:26, 1:05, and 1:01. We finished up with a short cool down. 

We started our taper for region today. It was just a moderately easy 6 miles. My pace was a 6:32 average. 

Easy run out to the elk farm on the canal road with 6 one minute pick ups. Average pace: 7:20

Meet prep today. Super short run out to Bates Elementary and back at 7 minute pace.

Region championships today!!! I had a really great race and got a huge PR. I ended up placing 4th overall. The entire team did really well. Both the boys teams ended up taking 1st, and for the varsity team, it was the first region win in 26 years!!!

Today we did a track workout. We started with a 1 mile warm up, then did 16x 400m again. I wasn't feeling very fast but i just tried to keep them under 70 and it somehow worked out. My splits were 66, 66, 67, 68, 68, 68, 67, 67, 68, 66, 66, 67, 66, 67, 65, and 64. We finished it off with a mile cool down.

Another run on the canal with some pick ups. average pace: 6:40

We ran down to 1050 and then started a 2 mile "chase". Nobody was feeling very well, and all of our times were slow. I died on the climb up to mountain road and finished in 11 minutes.

We have school off for the rest of this week, so a few of us just met up and went as a little group. McKenna, Gavin, Brayden and I went on a quick run down to highway 89 with 4 one minute pick ups. Jake biked along side us because he injured his knee/leg. Didn't get an average pace on it.

Short warm up/ cool down. Then our little group of McKenna, Brayden, Jake, Paul, and I started 4x800m repeats. We were fighting some pretty strong wind but we still did ok. The splits were 2:27, 2:30, 2:26, and 2:25.

Easy 4 miles today at a 6:30 pace.

State is on Wednesday so we just did a short workout on the track today. We stated with the usual mile warm up and cool down. The workout was 6x 400m. My splits were 66, 67, 67, 67, 66, and 66.

Easy run to Bates and back to taper for State tomorrow. We found a nerf football and just messed around the whole time.

State championships were today. I was pretty nervous all day, i think that didn't help my race. I ended up placing 29th in 5A, missing my goal of top 21. Talon had a great race and took 2nd in 5A. As a team we missed our goal of 3rd but ended up getting 5th. I'm kind of bummed about my race but it will be good experience for next year. 

On to Foot Locker.

Easy run today to get back into it. We ran up 500 West to the top, then on some trail along the base of Ben Lomond, and back to weber. Average pace was pretty messed up due to all the fences we hopped...

Fairly easy 5 miler today. Averaged 6:10

Hill repeats today at Lomond view park. We ran over there as a warm up then did 12x 200ish meter repeats up the hills. I was pretty stiff but did all of mine under 50.

Longer run today. Still stiff but averaged a 5: 57 pace.

We started our 24 hour fundraiser today.

Ran a total of 9 miles for the fundraiser. They were all fairly fast paced. It was also colder than I ever want to experience ever again.

We did a track workout today. It was 4x 1600m repeats on the track. My times were 5:14, 5:14, 5:16, and 5:10. Finished up with a 1 mile cool down.

Easy day today filled with lots of shirt-tag.

More hills today. We did 800 meter warm up/ cool down. The workout was 10x 400m repeats up 500 West. Felt good and got all my splits under 1:30

8 miler today. We ran down passed Orion Jr. High, then up to Fruitland drive and back to Weber. We counted it as a moderate run; 6:12 average.

Another easy day with lots of pick ups.

Today I decided to go for a short run up Middle Fork on the 4.5 mile loop. It's incredibly steep and rocky but I ended up smashing my previous best time and got an average pace of 7:09. After the run I did some more hill repeats to make sure that my quads were completely destroyed. 

Did 8x800m on the track today. It was super cold and windy so it really kind of hurt but I averaged about 2:31s. Oh and we had a short warm up and cool down. 

We did a fairly easy little Indian run today with Talon, Brayden, McKenna, Henry, and Keaton. It was nice to go somewhat easy and it was a fun run. 

Today was a 5 to 1 minute stepping stone (5min hard, 5 easy, 4 hard etc.) at Lomond view park. I was feeling pretty good and lapped everyone at least once, but that big hill was killer. I'm pretty sure I ran up it more today than I did last week when we did repeats up it. 

Went on a long run up 500 and over to the pass on the power line road at the base of Ben Lonond. Talon was hurting so he rode the bike again, so I was leading again. It was a tough run considering the first 3 miles are very steep but it hurt so good and I held a really good pace. 

Easy 5 miler with some of the guys. Jake, Brayden and I met up with Talon at Lee's, then bj thought he was all cool cause he fed a duck, so i of course had to show him how it's done and I caught one with my bare hands ;) (And in case you were wondering, yes it was able to fly)

Today was a taper day because of the time trial tomorrow. We took it fairly easy (6:39 average) down to 1050 and back.

Mile warm up/ cool down. We ran the trial on the course up 500 west then along the canal. I ran it in 16:47, so pretty disapointing for a 3 mile but I think that was due to my sinus infection.

Today was a pretty easy 4 miler to be ready to race tomorrow.

I decided to run a charity turkey trot in the valley today. Turns out it was really laid back and they didn't even have an official time going so i don't really know my time. It was still lots of fun. 2nd place was a kid from Davis...yuck. I beat him by several minutes, so i guess you could say Davis was sufficiently slayed.

I ran with Jake, Talon, Brayden, and McKenna down to Lees market. We just messed around and had lots of fun. (6:30 ave.)

I decided to just do my own run alone today. I ran down to the park and through town. I finished the last mile sub-5 just for fun.

Today was a track workout. We only did half of a full interval workout, 8x400m. I felt alright and my splits were 68, 68, 69, 67,67, 68,67,64. We also did the usual mile warm up and cool down.

We ran down to highway 89 with 4x 1 minute pick ups. I ran with Jake and we went pretty quick.

really easy day today. We only ran to North Ogden jr. High and back.

Today we jogged the Footlocker West course and messed around. As usual, Talon threw down some sweet side flips and Gavin set the course record in 11:56, out kicking bj in the most epic 200 meter finish you have probably never seen. True story. Later we went exploring on a run under some bridges looking for the lemon tree i found last year but we never found it. On the bright side, we spotted THE biggest squirrel this side of the Mississippi. We thought it was a large cat at first. We also found a medicine ball and half of a skate board that we shredded with for awhile. Then we did a little running on the beach.

Today was the big day. I was pretty nervous about running the seeded race. I warmed up with Talon, then went to the line to do strides. Found the winter twins and started next to them. I got wasted on the start. I knew it would go out fast, but i wasn't expecting it to be as fast as it was. I got a little boxed in the first mile and came through slower than i was expecting. (5:12 i think) I was way back but i tried to push on the hills and I made up some ground. I finished 55th which wasn't bad but i hoped to do better. I feel like after my bad race at state, i was just mentally burned out and it carried through the footlocker training. I'll take a little break, then work hard for indoor.

Fairly easy 5 miles today in the snow. I ran down through winters grove to the last bridge and then home.

Im sitting in class when i get a text from bj saying "lets go to Skyview and do a nog jog". So i sit there for a moment then say "what the fetch is a nog jog and when is it." Brayden then tells me that its in 3 hours and all we gotta do is chug some nog and run laps. So i regrettfully agree to go. We drive up there right after school and meet the skyview/ mtn. crest guys on the track. The goal is to drink a glass of nog then run a lap, and repeat until it all comes out one or both of the ends... I ended up drinking 16 glasses of egg nog to beat the previous record set by Connor Mantz. Thats right, i just beat the legendary CONNOR MANTZ!! but skyview's coach also beat me..

4 miles down to the cemetery and back home.

4 miles back down winters grove.

Ran down to the Cemetery again and back through my neighborhood.

5 miles through town on my new shoes. It felt great.

Drove to bj's house to collect the money for "The HobbyJogger Project", out indoor track racing club, and went for a run with him, Jake, and Dan. Then delivered the money to Denver Perry.