Train insane or remain the same

I felt great today after a day off after the two races at BYU. We went 8 miles, my average pace was 6:22. After I did 4 sets of squats and some calf raises with @d'brickasean and @sirmatthewtodd 

5x500's. Run 400 at goal indoor 800 meter pace. Then sprint the last hundred meters. My times for the 400's were 67, 65, 65, 68, 61. Then finished our mileage at recovery pace. This Friday I will be running the 4x800 relay at the Olympic ice oval, I'll be doing one more event, I haven't decided what yet.

Just your average distance run. 8 miles at 7:08 pace up to freedom and down passed the jr high. Before we ran we did some core.

Pre meet because I'm running the 4x800 tomorrow. 3 strides, then 2x200's. I got 30 both times. Then we finished up the distance at about 7:20 pace. My legs didn't feel the greatest, but I'll ice bath and see what happens. After all I did run 10 miles the day before byu, had ice cream for dinner, and got no warm up and I got 4:44 so this gives me hope.  

Did 5 miles after school to loosen up, then about 8:00 got up to the Ice Oval. I ran the 4x800 meter relay. Sean said on the list he looked at that we were ranked 4th, which is accurate. But when they gave us hip numbers they had us at 19th. Then there were too many teams to go in one heat so they split it. Well heat one, they put in the faster teams. And since we were ranked 19th we got put in heat two. I was dissapointed because we were going for the win and now we couldn't see what place we would be in. So Ogden won the first heat in 8:21. So we said win this heat, and then get as fast as possible. Collin started off and he ran great. He got a 2:07 split and got me the baton in second place, about 5 seconds off the leader. And earlier in the day collin had run a personal best 4:43 mile! I started off at an ok pace and just tried to keep making ground on the kid. It was a team from Wyoming. I did keep making ground and on my final kick I got Dylan the baton right behind the leader. My dad and jamie had me at a 2:06. I felt really good, I'm way excited about these 800 pr's, now i can have more speed for the mile. Dylan paced off the guy for about a lap and then had an amazing kick. The kid started to die off, so in just the last hundred meters it seemed like dylan made 5 seconds on him. We had dylan at about a 2:04. Sean got it and took off. He was all alone now and was just trying to beat Ogden's time. Well Sean got a 2:03 split and came across in 8:21! So we are wondering what place we got, but its late so we all leave except for sean, because his dad was helping with the results or something. When I got home I got a text from Sean saying that we got second place to Ogden by 1 thousandth of a second! Qualifying time for simplot is 8:24 so we might go run it at simplot! I cooled down about a mile after around the track. I am running the 2mile tomorrow. Hopefully I can break 10.     

Today was awesome! Even after running a pr in the 800 yesterday I had a great race and unoffically got 9:51 in the two mile. I had a side ache in the warm up and we warmed up WAY too early, I had to stand around for an hour after we warmed up. But I got out ok, in about 8th place. I was in the second fastest heat. It was perfect because I wanted to run sub 10 and that was pretty much everybody elses goal, so we were all close. It was strung out a little so I didn't ever get boxed in and the first mile I just cruised and followed the pace of the other guys, we were about 4:54. Then I started to move up the second mile and I found myself feeling really good and in 3rd when the last lap started. I picked it up cuz Frazier from Davis was close, I was at 9:20 with half a lap left so I started kick from there. Kyle Rummens from Woods Cross was a few seconds ahead of me and I wasn't sure if I could catch him, but I caught up to him with about 70 meters to go and was able to have a really strong kick and finish in second place in the heat and get a 9:51 unofficially. Jaden Torgerson the 3A xc state champ won the heat in 9:48. I made a huge mental improvement because what I have done before is start out good but then the guys would pick up the pace in the middle, and I would fall back. I finally made a promise to stay with the pack and it worked out awesome with a 9 second pr. 

Shout out to my boy @collinxc (collin morrison) because he killed the third heat of the two mile and got 10:11! A huge pr for him and @dbrickasean for getting a 2:02 in the 800!