Train insane or remain the same

My legs were feeling really tight during the warm up, after stretching a lot they felt better. I ran up killers and by eaglecrest. At 5.5 my IT band started hurting so I stopped and stretched. Went a little farther and had to stop again. This went on for a while and it never stopped hurting. So the last mile I had to walk half of it. I finished at 7.75  

Ran 5 miles. My leg hurt again on the middle but felt better towards the end. I finished with 15 minutes of biking. It's weird being sorta injured.

Got in a few miles then did two 400's at hopeful 2 mile pace for tomorrow. First one was slower in a 75 because I wanted to see how I felt. Felt pretty good. Second one was 73. Then I cooled down to 4.5 

Im in the second heat of the 2 mile tomorrow. And guess who is seeded right next to me. Jac Zacklin.... (zac jacklin) this should be fun 

Me, Thomas, and Papa Heaps did a shake out run half way into our drive up. We did a mile and stretched out. When we got to Holt Arena, me and the twins did a mile around the track to get familiar with it. Then when it was time to warm up we did a mile warm up. I stretched out and my IT band felt fine. I did my strides right before we were gonna start and my spikes were slipping around everywhere. I had heard that it can be slippery but I didn't think much of it. Because of this I could accelerate very fast, so when the gun went off I was in last place.

I was in the second fastest heat. I was ranked 11th out of the 18 people in the heat, but the faster times were 18 so I had the 8th fastest time in the heat. So I started out in last right behind Zac Jacklin. I knew that he was just getting warmed up and that he would move up, so for the first few laps I stayed behind him and we moved up together (before he started racing and beat me by 50 meters) I was at 4:50 first mile, so in the few laps after that my legs were tired, but they didn't hurt so that was good. The top 14 times in prelims qualify for finals on Saturday, so I kept telling myself, get top 5 in my heat and hope that the other heats dont have fast times. Well a little after the mile I was in a few people back of that, so I picked out a Davis kid who was a few seconds ahead of me and tried to catch him. I passed him and some other guys and tried to hold on as long as I could. You never know how many people in the other heats are gonna beat you, so I pushed the last 100 really hard and passed 2 guys right before the finish. It kinda suprised me because they weren't pushing it very much, all I know is I didn't want to be the guy that missed finals by 1 second, so I made sure I passed them. I finished 5th in my heat, which was exactly my goal! Zac got 9:39 and Alek Parsons also in my heat got 9:44. I got 9:48 which is a three second pr! And I qualified for finals on Saturday, so after the race I was freaking out I was so happy. I finished with the 9th fastest time in prelims, so I made it by 5 spots. 

I will continue to ice and roll out and stuff so I feel good for finals and can hopefully set another pr. My goals for Saturday are 9:45 and dont get lapped by Elijah and Levi. 

Shout out to my best homie Thomas Matthew Alma Heaps! He got a 4:33 in his mile and he also qualified for finals on Saturday! 

Got in a good warm up and stretches. 2 miles and then two 400's at 2mile pace. I did them in 74 and 71. Then I finished 6. I felt pretty good and I'm ready to set another pr tomorrow

Today was awesome. I did a shake out run the same place as thursday. Felt good. Warmed up and stretched and still felt good. Doing strides with guys like Elijah Armstrong and Zac Jacklin just got me super pumped for the race, I love running with fast guys because I know i can run fast times #respectallfearnone 

Start was good, I wasn't going slow but was in last once again because it was the finals and the pack went out crazy fast. HUGE shout out to Chris Hughes. He is a good friend from Woods Cross and he was cheering me on every lap on the north side of the track. Every few laps he would yell "get me a guy" so i'd surge and pass somebody and it helped a lot. I moved a few spots by the mile and was at 4:47! So naturally in the next few laps I was getting tired but Bryce Ferguson from Davis was passing people so I went with him and hung right on his tail for most of the race and we moved well. I looked up at the clock on one of the laps and saw 6:30 and told myself just hold on for a little longer. 

The atmosphere was crazy. Elijah and Levi were going for the meet record so they were hauling. The croud got into it and it helped me out alot, even tho I got lapped by them..... So I ended up passing Bryce with a few laps to go. With 200 left I started pushing really hard, I took a look behind me and no one was there, so I tried to catch all the guys I could. I passed a Bountiful kid and got sort of close to Camren Todd from Davis.

Finished 9:42.99 so I'll just round down and tell people 9:42 ;) Good race because it was on a 200 track and I set a pr just two days earlier. I got 8th place. A lot of guys did the mile but for a huge race like Simplot i thought 8th place was great. Sadly I got lapped but Elijah got 9:01 so not too disappointed. After the pr's I got I'm looking into qualifying for Arcadia this April, I sure hope i can make it, it would be so fun to run at. I'd do the 3200 and maybe we can get the 4x800 team to go!

Shout out to the 3 sophomores that beat me :( slow down. 

Shout out to Thomas for getting 4:31 in the mile, a new PR! 

Biggest shout out of all to Coach Jamie for being an amazing coach and helping us Lehi guys kill it.