DONT TREAD ON ME

4 miles in the morning 

3 miles around a park in Kingman. This punk stole my hat but he gave it back. We did some nosegriders and ollies and it was great.

Greatful for: Coach for letting us come to desert twilight

Song: Come On Over // Royal Blood (Rock)

2 miles 

dying light

DESERT TWILIGHT

i forgot to bring my warmups.. well actually all i brought was my green singlet and spikes haha but thats all you need to race so I did.

I love the course. I went 5:02 for the first mile and then my lungs started to clog with gunk. I was spittin and coughing and went trough 2 miles at 10:32 so I know where to improve for region. Finished really strong and passed a few guys. We won a huge trophey and named it "dave". made friends with Desert Vista and barefoot cooled down

ihop

chill

Greatful for: the TEAM. but it felt weird without Tanner.

Song: Run // AWOLNATION

7 miles with the Desert Vista folks. Really cool guys. I tripped and hurt my hand but its no big deal. This is the only sport you can beat a team and then practice with them the next day.

Grateful that: A rock didn't rip through my face when I tripped.

Song: Dazed and Confused // Led Zepplin

3 miles with the team. 

SkillsUSA all day. And night. Me and Scott did the Fartleks at midnight. 

Greatful: brecken is on the state officer team 

Song: I Am The Walrus // The Beatles

8 miles after all the ULTI stuff. 

Greatful: my presentation went well after only 4 hours of sleep :')

Song: Lullaby // The Cure

3 in the morning

4x800 at BHNP. 2:26, 2:28, 2:30, 2:33. 4x300 fineshes. Felt pretty good

3 miles

7 on Navajo Drive. Come to Jesus talk with coach. Then when we got back we met Daryl Beardall. Utter LEGEND.

3 miles 

ladder workout 200, 400, 800, 800, 400, 200. Our last regular season workout. I cried on the cooldown.

B-Dubs for the Michigan 60 second 400 winners. Such good food.

Went to a tunnel with some pine view people, and joe, scott, sage people, and brecken people. were all people. brecken won region in soccer so that was great. she was in a good mood which was also great.

worked for my dad in the morning and ran to the bridge from my house. easy money.

3 at 9 am because no school. Talked with sage. Talked to coach. trying to narrow down my options for the next few years. Watched TWD.

4 miles to the spectrum. Listening to some garbage music from 2008 thanks to Connor haha. 4x200m on the track.

We had our last Regular Season TEAM night... I am gonna miss this place.

Greatful for: TEAM moms that have made all the food for the last 4 years. It has served us all well.

Had some worries coming into this race. But I just focused on what I could control.

We warmed up, prayed etc.

The whole first mile I was right with the top guys. The big lap I started to fall back a bit but I just had to go guts out and just work through everything. On the last lap there is the road with little pebbles where our TEAM sets up. When I ran through them they were 2 or 3 kids deep and all just screaming their lungs out. It was an amazing experience. Usually when I race I block out all the outside noise whatever (except I look for bright green hats) but I just took in the excitement and litterally ran with it. I ran up the course and turned and all I could think about was all the memories of the last 4 years. I finished 13 seconds ahead of Matt Thatcher. Awesome race. 

Greatful For: my family and my thunder family 

got to sleep in

5 miles on the ridge for the first time in months. I ran down the super steep way with Spencer and Max Giles. my quads got pumbled. 

2.5 warmup

6x200m hill reapeats

4x200m finishes but my quad was bursting at the seams for the last bit and so I jogged the last 2.

3 miles to the farm with sage

jammed with sage. I have this newfound love for the bass guitar

7 miles out on the strip. kinda rainy

3 miles at little valley with scott sage and tanner. we saw a snake.

jammed with sage

5 miles with 5x30sec in Warner Valley. there were just a few of us but it was a fun and beautiful rainy morning.

3 on my own 

2 mile warm up playing halfball. 

1 mile on the track at 5k pace (I went sub 5 but it's ok)

1 mile cool down. 

The hay is in the barn

Greatful For: this TEAM

Song: Can You Forgive Her? // Pet Shop Boys. I serenaded Sarah all 4th period. Pretty much my best work. 

3 miles in Liberty park. My 4th time running there. I remember my first time we all got out and he said "boys if you need to pee find a tree. Girls if you need to pee go find a tree." Haha. My second time was rainy and all the leaves had turned. I mainly focused on kaitlyn Simpson. Haha. The third time was last year, I was so nervous for state the next day but I remember the park was so calm. This year we played stupid games the whole run. The riddle-type games. 

Greatful: for our coaches. And bucca di Beppo's

Song: Heroin // the Velvet Underground

We walked the course and figured out the new spot

Made a Manwich and a few sandwiches. Girls ran really strong despite some unforseen problems.

Race:

The gun went off. I was right with the top group. We worked up the asphalt and around the flower beds. I was behind Jaiden maybe 15 seconds. Stansburys guys caught me and we were working with each other throught the downhill and uphill. Towards the pond I got passed by 4-5 guys but just worked on staying with it. Around the pond and up the hill is where my power lies and I passed a few folks. When we hit the 1200 I just really let it loose. This is my last highschool race in utah ever. I felt really strong in the finish and ended up 22. My goal was 21 but I didnt have a lot to go off of so I am really pleased with my improvment from last year. I couldve raced better overall and that was largely the consenses from the whole TEAM. We WON STATE even on a bit of an off day. Reaping the Harvest from Sewing the Seeds all season long. All the work ive put in since July is coming together. 

Frosty Run for 3 miles. We saw cody clayton.

Ran up to the water tower for a special meeting.

talked about a lot of good stuff and just really got pumped for NXSW.

3 chilly miles with coach and sage

3 miles out to the strip and 2 mile @ NXSW pace

I got 10:40 my goal pace but I couldve gone faster if my KG jersey didnt rip my left nipple off. This was my first time chaffing in over a year + gibby beat me.

1 more mile back to the school plus some actuall core woot woot.

ACT

chill wiht scott and joe

hot tub then run late @ night

3

6 on raibow road with a new guy from Virginia

8x100 striders

Mean core from Captain Crunch a.k.a The Black Arrow a.k.a Spencer

Greatful for: New 101's in the mail. My first ones have 350 miles

3 miles to the bridge

Me and Cy put on a "Sarah"-nade for the most beautiful girl in the room

warm up the to the Animal Farm. 4X200ish, then 3x1mile

5:33

5:40

5:10

Core and Stretch

Greatful For: Chord Progressions

Song: Cecilia // Simon & Garfunkel

3 miles. my feet aren't gettin as cold as I expected but its not january yet...

5 miles behind the school

core and stretch

hot tub with brecken

Greatful For: Brecken

Song: If you Wanna // The Vaccines

Slept in but ran at 7:30 in a light drizzle

12x400m at little valley.

Started out with 4x200m and then did 8x400m at 1:10-1:12 pace, and then 4x400m at sub 1:10 pace. I was with the other top 7 for the whole time. It was windy, chilly and rainy but thats what we need to prepare for. 

Core & Stretch and a long hot shower to get the mud off. one of the hardest days of the season for me but in the words of Elite Minds "don't try to avoid pain; embrace it." Let it teach you.

Great way to Christen the new shoes.

Greatful For; bad weather

Song: Shots // Imagine Dragons; Coach reminded us of our Underdog role at NXSW. They think we don't have a shot. They will be surprised.

3 miles with coach and sage and lily

HALLOWEEN RUN

I went as a Chief and wore my headress. Scott was donald trump. sage was Leroy a cocaine dealer from Waco Texas in the early 70's. Joe was a cowboy. Coach was the Ghost of Josh Mcphie. Gibby was a dementor/death thing. Tanner and Josh were lame (they didnt dress up). The whole girls team was McFarland and Coach White (Powell) with his cute little bike. Bryson was Richard Simmons. 

We ran past this guy getting arrested so how bout that for the holiday of fear

Our stretches were spooky: bats (instead of butterflies), the annexation of translyvania, twist & scream, do the monster rack (we did the rack) etc.

Greatful for: my opportunity to serve a mission in the desert hills high school mission for school today haha ( i was a missionary with my dads name tag and everything haha)

Song: Shine on you crazy diamond // Pink Floyd

Great workout. 5 miles out easy. 3 at 6;30 pace and 2 at NXSW pace. Felt good.

Watched pacwest championships. Running in college looks like fun. I ate a whole pancake in one bite.