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First Indoor meet of the season! Wasn't sure how I was going to do because I hadn't been back training very long and not much speed. Warmed up a mile and a half outside then me, Stewart, Nathan, and Collin ran the 4x800 meter relay.  I ran the third leg and started out very fast. Then I started to feel the effects and backed off a bit. Ran my last lap hard and finished in a 2:12, a new PR. I rested for a couple of hours and then warmed up once again with the guys, and Thomas and Riley were now there) this time for the mile. I was feeling tired from the 800 at the start but then settled into the pace. I was in about 6th or so, for the majority of the race. Thomas was pretty close to me. We came around the 800 in 2:29 and picked it up the last half. I had a solid kick and finished in 4:53, pretty good for the first one of the season. Ran a two mile cool down with Thomas, Maddy, Garek and some others on East. 

Ran a mile warm up and then went inside for a lifting workout. Then ran 9 to finish at 10. I was recovering from Utah State so it wasn't too fast. 

6x800 meter repeats on the track. I got 2:36, 2:36, 2:36, 2:32, 2:35, 2:30. They were supposed to be faster but it was really cold. Then we finished up the rest of our mileage, definitely at recovery pace for me. 

Pick ups on the road today. We had 5,4,3,2,1 minute intervals with three minutes active rest in between each one. My legs were tired from earlier in the week so I was at the back of the pack. When we were on, it was pretty fast, but it was really slow during the rest and on the way back to the high school. All together 7:19 pace. 

Recovery run from the last two days of speed. Mile warm up then a mile of speed changes. Then 6 mile distance. Average pace 7:11

Did a circuit workout on the track with the team and then finished up mileage. Felt pretty good. Average pace 6:55

Ran by myself today. It was totally clear and sunny so I felt good. I ran up killers hill and even though it's tough, it feels good to get in some hills. Started out with 6:40's and then hit some downhill and had a 6:33. I started feeling it in my legs toward the end, overall pace 6:42. I'm super excited to see what I can do a week from now at byu!

Didn't feel that great today. My knees were hurting and I had a side ache for a little while, I stopped a lot. I ran on the Murdock canal trail and went out too far. Coming back about a half mile from the high school I saw my boy @justusfitz and he drove me the rest of the way. Average pace 7:01 mile

Ran a mile and a half warm up. Then did a .12 mile tempo run at world record mile pace. (Racing a 200) Then went and benched with @sirmatthewtodd. He's so buff its a workout just racking his weights. I think i'm getting stronger, stay tuned, i'll post the results from our next max out monday (Previous best 105) Then we went and finished our miles at 7:29 pace. And shout out to my boy Adam Jensen from Lone Peak because he put me in his favorite blogs. And also shout out to my girl Lucy Biles from Herriman because i'm going to beat her 800 pr this saturday :) 

Mile warm up then speed workout. 400, 600, 200 at goal indoor mile pace. I said this was 4:40. Thirty seconds rest in between 4 and 6 and one minute between 6 and 2. Do that twice with a half mile jog between sets as recovery. My first set was good. 69 400. The first lap of my 600 was slow in 75, I didn't get a total time on the 600's. The 200 was fine, I didn't get a time for it either. The second set was awesome though. I got 67 on the 400. My first lap in the 600 was 70, and we kept that pace for the rest of the way. Then we raced the 200. The main part of this workout was to hit the 600 right on, to help on the middle laps of the mile. We were slow the first set, but on the second when we were even more tired we hit it rigt on! I felt really good for the workout, I wore my spikes for the second set. After we had about 6 more miles and once I started this my knee and my hamstring were hurting so I went really slow. 

Shout out to my boy Garek from East, he put me in his favorite blogs and he is going to kill it at byu this weekend 

Did a nice 10 mile run today with Team Pre. We ran to the Timpanogos temple and back, average pace around 6:50. I felt really good today, normally the pace falls off towards the end of the longer runs but today on the way back I had 6:38, 6:43, 6:49, 6:42 even after the speed workout yesterday. I'm running the mile and 800 at the byu indoor meet this saturday so that will be fun. OH and I went to spike night at #runnerscorner and got some sweet new balance spikes, the MLD5000D's so excited! 

Shout out to my boy Bo Farrer from Timpanogos because it was his birthday yesterday. 

We got about 6 in then did pre meet. So some strides and starts and 2x400's at mile pace. I got 69 and 67 so a little faster than I'll be going tomorrow but whatevs. Then we finished up 10. I wore my spikes a little, they felt good. My legs felt ok too. Shout out to the Lehi boys basketball team 🏀 they beat herriman tonight! Maybe next time herriman ;)

Today I ran the mile and the 800 at the byu indoor invitational. I didn't get a chance to warm up for the mile because I got there late, so I did the best I could to stay loose and just told myself to go out and do the best I could. I lead the first lap, and that was a really weird feeling because till sophomore year a big struggle for me was getting a good start. But after the first lap the faster guys took the reins and I fell all the way back to like 7th lol. I settled down into a good pace and the race went by surprisingly fast. The last 200 I had a good kick and passed three guys. I came across in 4:44 which is funny because that is the exact time I signed up with. Before I ran I thought I should have put in a slower time, but I ended up getting it and I'm way happy because its only 4 seconds off a pr and indoor just started. 

After a few hours of recovery I did the 800. My legs felt like jello so I was not sure how this was gonna go. I was seeded last and I was tired so I just stuck at the back of the pack the majority of the race and kicked hard at the end. I got 2:10, which is awesome because I haven't been training long, I had already run the mile, and I ran 10 miles the day before so I feel very excited for the rest of the season. 

Shout out to my boys Adam Jensen, Thomas Heaps, and Garek Beiklyahy (or something like that). Adam was in my heat of the mile and 800 and he beat me by a pretty good margin in both! Thomas was in an alright position in thelast lap of the mile but had a nice kick to pass a few people and end with a 4:47, but nobody could get even close to the kick of GAREK B!!!!!!! After already running a 4:28 he was running the 800, and he was in 9th place with one lap to go. He turned it to cruise control and passed 5 guys finishing in 4th place in the final heat! finishing in a 2:02! A FREAKING 2:02! Oh and we have just recieved breaking news.........Garek has in fact won the 2 mile in a time of 9:52, what can this kid not do! Garek you are my idol. Oh and shout out to Kaysha Love who won the 60 meter dash just for me, and to Lucy Biles who I beat her 800 pr today, ya thats right Lucy. 

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!

Recovery distance run today. We were supposed to be at 7 minute mile pace but I was feeling good and averaged 6:50's. We went to the gazebo and looped back by freedom and the junior high. Then me, @sirmatthewtodd, @dbrickasean, and @strrt went and got swole #swolemates

Shout out to the little junior high kid for yelling "put a shirt on you fatty's" (even tho I'm pretty sure I weight less than him) I hope you know that bullying is wrong, Matt went home and cried thanks to you #growup

Tomorrow we have a mile time trial, I am hoping for a PR, so sub 4:40. If someone goes out at a good pace then I can get it

Shout out to Sami Austin for bumping up the high mileage this week, she's up to 2 miles a day! #callherGarek

Shout out to Matt Todd, my homie. Coach Jamie was talking about some of the good performances from the meet and wasn't gonna talk about my 9:51, then he stepped up and reminded her, then he clapped for me really loud. Thanks Matt :)

Shout out to Sarah for putting me in her favorite blogs 

Sorry for all the shout outs, I'm just really blessed #tooblessedtobestressed

Ran 4 miles and then had a mile time trial. I stayed relaxed the first three laps. Picked up the pace a little with 600 left, then a little more with 300 left. With 200 left I started sprinting as hard as I could and gained some ground on the other guys. I finished with a 4:40 so that ties my pr. I was on pace all my laps except the second. We ran way too slow and I didn't realize it. That was the difference between me getting a pr by a good margin and just tying it. I am really satisfied with it because I am already at my pr from last year and its only indoor. And its only been three days since my two mile at the oval, so hopefully that means good things in the future. Finished up 10 after that. 

Mile warm up then 2x1000 3x800 4x400 on the track. It was at 2 mile pace with 90 second rest in between everything. My splits were 3:06, 3:07, 2:30, 2:28, 2:27, 70, 69, 68, 73. I felt crappy at the start, like everybody else, but then I felt better as we went on and I lead most of the workout. Since we have four hard speed days in a row we did low mileage today and will do high mileage on Saturday. After I did some hard core core with my homie Strrt.

Warmed up a mile, then ran a mile to the cemetery where we did a speed workout. It is a gradual hill and we did a 200 then a 400 and then a 200 with a little bit of active rest in between. This was one set and we did 4 sets. It was at goal indoor mile pace. Although the 400 was not a complete 400, it was a little short and then the second 200 route was not even close to a 200, it was probably 150. So my average times were 34, 63, and 23. But remember only the first 200 was right. But we ran them all fast and it was a good workout. After we finished our mileage at 7:15 pace. Tomorrow we have another speed workout. It's the one we did the last day of awesome week last year. It should be fun. 

Another speed workout today. 4x400's at mile pace with 2 minutes rest in between. I hit 68, 67, 66, 66. Then 6x200's at 800 pace with 1 minute rest. I hit about 31 every time. Then 4x100 all out with 30 seconds rest. This week has been very hard. Almost a pr in the mile on Tuesday and then 3 days of speed in a row after that. I didn't have that much of a problem with this workout when we did it last year, but today I just felt so tired. This week has taken a toll on my body. (Jamie did say she modified it, so maybe she cut some rest or something, and it was a lot faster for sure cuz our goal paces are way different) Hahah after the last 100 my lungs felt like they were gonna collapse. But if I wanna run some crazy fast times in May I gotta be putting in some hard workouts, not all right now but you get what I mean. We finished up with 5 miles and the last 2 miles I had recovered and I felt pretty good. Then I went and benched with Strrt and did some core.

Then Stewart found a basketball and we wanted to play, but it was flat. Then I remembered Brady kept a ball in his locker and I knew the combo. So I grabbed the ball and Me, Stewart, and Michael played 21 for a good half hour. I'm gonna call this cardio and stuff cuz I was really working hard. They don't call me Connor BALLER for no reason, I was hitting jumpers like no tomorrow. I should change my Twitter name to LBJ.

10 miles tomorrow in the morning then I'm off to sweethearts! I have some shot blocks I'll take cuz imma get hecka turnt. I'm way excited for the distance challenge in a week, it's gonna be so fun! I don't think we are gonna run the 4x800 at simplot :( I'll still run but just not the 4x8. Speaking of the 4x8 if you haven't heard yet, my boys from Davis ran a U.S. #1 4x800 time of 7:49.59!!!!!! They ran at the new balance indoor meet in Idaho tonight. Holy cow is that fast or what! (And I thought our 8:21 was fast) shout out to them for always being good guys, they aren't cocky they just go out and work super hard.

Matt's been killing lately, hope he continues to kill it and kisses his date @TarynRoyall tomorrow night! I see you Matt ;)

Oh and thanks to all of you that look at my blog, I wouldn't have all those views without you! #connerimcomingforyou #chasing500monthlyviews

Today felt awesome, I am loving this weather, it makes it feel so much better. I ran out by eaglecrest elementary and then back on the bike trail. My average pace was 6:46. I saw Jamie when I was going over the overpass, so she knows I got in a run today. 

Huge shout out to CONNER MANTZ!!!! He killed it today at the USATF junior somethings and took down THEE CERAKE GEBERKIDANE. He will now go to China for the World Junior Championships. Shout out to John Dressel because he got third and also qualified for World Juniors. These guys are so fast. 

Katie Rainsberger and Lauren Gregory (who is only a sophomore) qualified on the girls side taking 5th and 6th

"Recovery" distance run at 6:50 average pace. Jamie prolly wanted us a little slower but whatevs. We went on the bike path trail rail road path thingy, none of us really know what it's called. We ran just passed the chasm and then back. It felt really good. Probably some kind of speed tomorrow. Thank you to Kneaders for sponsoring our run today. "There are no shortcuts on the extra mile" Go into Kneaders and get the 5 dollar all you can eat French toast it's awesome. After our run we went into the fitness center to do #MaxoutMonday and we were almost done. I had maxed out at 105, tying my PR. Matt was attempting 165 I think, something around there. He tried it once before and didn't make it. This time he was half way up or so, SUPER close to making it all the way up. His left arm was not as high as his other arm and we didn't have clamps on the end so the weights fell off the side. Ted freaking Taylor, the idiot Spanish teacher (please excuse my vulgor terms) who thinks he's hawt stuff and that he can boss us around when he has no authority, came over and proceeded to tell us that we were "jerking off" whatever that means, that we had no idea how to lift, that we were a danger to ourselves, and that Matt, Zach, me and Thomas could have all been seriously injured, when in fact Thomas and I were standing far enough away to be out of harms way. We were spotting each other and Zach was about to grab the bar. So he over reacted hard core. After all the bs, he kicked us out and said we can't lift in there anymore without a coach. I already thought he was a cocky piece of crap but now my hatred has increased. So yea idk how much lifting I'll be doing now, we'll see.

This week is gonna be sick, I'm planning on doing the 1600, 800, and 3200 at the Distance Challenge this Friday. If I am super tired after one of the first two i'll back out, but if I can survive all three than why not #YOLO!!!!!

Today the juniors signed up for senior year classes, so I had to be home early. So while the team did plyometrics, me and brady went and got 7 in. Brady is a senior he just had to back for wrestling. We ran by Sami's house and our average pace was 6:38. I still have 2 miles to go, so I'll do that later.

I did 2 miles around my house with my dog (Duke, he's a Greater Mountain Swiss) and it was pretty sick, it felt like 7:30 pace maybe.

Shout out to Thomas' dad Papa Heaps for having a fast running blog! I never knew he had one, so it was pretty fun to look at. Check it out in my favorite blogs. Oh ya and he hasn't really posted in like 3 years... whatevs

I added all the Sky View kids to my fav blogs cuz why not. And also Nick Hill from Pine View and Sage Ducote from Desert Hills because I have a shirt with the top 15 guys at state for xc 1A-5A on the back, and Nick and Sage's names are on it (11th and 7th place) so they deserve to be in my fav blogs. (and yes Garek your name is on there too #beast #4thplaceatstate #ballerstatus)    

Shout out to Matt who has the second sickest blog of all time. I obviously win, then Matt comes in, his blog is pretty good, it gets me turnt up, and then Garek comes in at third, he str8 kills it (except for when I beat him in monthly views.... oh! haha jk garek i still love you homie, you could beat me in a race anyday) anyway he kills it so hard call him Joseph Stalin..... #historylesson

Mile warm up and then pick ups on the road. 1 min on, 1 min off 12 times. We did the fast part at about 4:55 and the off at a slow recovery pace. Each pick up, someone would do a quick stride during the fast part, and we would practice closing the gap. We ran on the Jordan River trail and finished our last pick up at 4 miles out, then turned back and finished 9 total. The way back I was at 6:57 avg. 

Shout out to the ice bath I just took cuz it was frickin cold! Gotta get ready for my 1600 and 800 races this friday!  

Got in 6 miles and then did 3 strides and two 400's for pre meet. I got 70, 67. Then finished up my miles. My legs were feeling tired but my legs haven't felt good before meets before and i've done good so i'll be optimistic.

Shout out to Zach Erickson from Lone Peak who just got a fast running blog. Hit him up  

Today was awesome. Got in about 10 minute warm up and then stretched and did some strides. I was in the second fastest heat of the 1600 with Sean and Thomas. There were a lot of guys in our heat so I just wanted to stay in the pack and settle into the pace and move my way up through out. Since there were so many people, guys would swing into lane 4 to try and pass so I would just scoot into lane 2 or 1, so I ran better than my 2 mile a couple weeks ago in that perspective. The pace felt good, in most my races I try to stay consistent in the middle laps, which I did really well tonight, and then kick hard. We picked it up with about 500 to go and I was in about 7th. Then with 300 to go I started really pushing to try and catch Thom and Sean and pretty much just kick it, and I actually had a good amount left in the tank. So I had a strong last lap and ended up 4th in my heat with a 9 second pr of 4:31! I ended up getting 17th overall and which is good. I felt super great about it because I almost completely skipped the 4:30's.  Sean and Thomas both pr'd with a 4:33 and 34.

I cooled down and  warmed up for then 800 haha at the same time. I did some strides and stretched before the 800 and I called that good. I hopped in the second fastest heat, which was 2:04, which was the time I ended up getting so that was cool. I was satisfied with my mile, so I just told myself to stay with the pack and then kick hard. I pretty much did that. Good first lap, then we started going with 300 left. With the straight away left I had Frazier Williamson -Davis a few meters ahead and then Chris Hughes -Woods Cross a few meters ahead of him. I tried to catch Frazier, and I did. So then I said catch Chris. I ran out of track and Chris got me by .04. When I had like 50 meters left I looked up at the timer and saw 1:57, and I thought to myself, dang, am I really going this fast? Well I finished with a 2:04, a 2 second pr from a relay, but if you only count open 800's its a 6 second pr! I got 17th place overall, the same place as the mile. It was good that I went in a fast heat so the other guys made it a lot easier for me to get a good time. I am running the 3200 at simplot with Thom and it should be super fun. Making it to Finals is my goal! I am remarkably good shape right now so every meet I get more and more excited for outdoor, great things to come

Shout out to Sean for killing the 2 mile! He ran a pr of 4:33 in the mile and then only an hour later he ran a 9:48-9:49 in the 2 mile! Call him Cam Levins dude! #doubledouble 

Today felt great. When me and @sirmatthewtodd started my legs were kinda tired, as they should be, but they warmed up after the first few miles. I warmed up 1.5 then we went out 4.75. We ran past freedom and ran straight down the road till we turned back. When we turned around we realized that we were going a 7 minute pace and that we both felt really good. On the way back we dropped it to a 6:50 and we actually never stopped after our warm up. I finished with 11 miles at 6:55 mile average.

After the run, me and matt drove straight to Strrt's church to play church ball with him because it was only Me, Matt, Strrt, and Brady. We lost by 4 points but I thought that was really good for only having 4 players and the other team had 7. We ran alot during the game so I could say I got 12 today

I will be running the 3200 with Thomas at Simplot on thursday, I'm way excited!

Shout out to Conner Mantz cuz he commented on my post from yesterday and said good job (go check it out) if he wants he could be an honorary member of team pre

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. 

9 miles with 10, one minute pick ups, with one minute rest. My pick ups started at 5 minute pace and then slowed down towards the end. Thomas did 10 today, I decided to go 9 just to ease into the high mileage a little, if I feel good at the end of the week I could do anther mile on of the days. 

Realized I didn't do shout out so I'm gonna add some. Shout out to Sarah! for getting a new pr at simplot. 

Shout out to Garrett Barton a sophomore from Ogden that beat me at Simplot. He follows me on insta now and he told me good job after the race even tho he destroyed me so thanks dude. 

Matt just looked up the world record for the oldest person to complete a marathon, and it said in August of 2014 Fauja Singh at 100 years old completed a marathon in Toronto. His time 8 hours 11 minutes and 6 seconds #rolemodelmonday I'm not sure if I will be able to beat that.....

I felt really good today. My legs didn't hurt and they felt fresh. I went just under a 7 minute mile average for the 10 miles. That is crazy because every run last week, with exception to the two simplot races, my leg hurt every run and I had to go like a 8:30 avg.

We ran to collins house, and then to the round about by the tennis courts and then turned back. Before we started we did 3x10 bench press. I did 65lbs, 75, and 85 for the three sets. 

I just went and saw McFarland!!!! and it was the greatest movie I have ever seen! No joke, go see it, it's awesome! 

Today was kinda suckish. We had a speedworkout that was 3X 200, 400, 200 The 200's were at 800 pace the 400 at mile pace. The wind was awful so I was slow on most of the repeats. On the way to get the rest of our miles we stopped at the rope swing in the creek. I went around the rope swing and on the second go-round, I got turned around and stuff and landed in the creek and got both my feet soaked. It was so dumb. And I still had 5 miles left, so for that last 5 miles my feet were soaked, my it band hurt, and the wind was blowing str8 at us. Worst run of my life. I'm glad its over now.

Shout out to Mckenzie Butterfield for asking me to morp #dingdongs

After our warm up, we went inside and did a short lifting workout with squats and pull ups and then finished our mileage. We ran by thanksgiving point and 2100 north, turned at north point elementary and ran down the road till we got enough to turn back. I felt good the entire time. I finished with a 6:58, 6:51, 6:46. I want outdoor to come faster because I just ran the 2 mile the last part of indoor, and if there was another indoor meet I could cut my mile below 4:30.  

Shout out to Sara because rn she has the same miles as Jake K #doingwork 

Shout out to the Warbeast cuz he said he wanted to beat me 

I found that Kale Sharp had a blog and it was cool so check him out in my favorite blogs, I have a lot of favorite blogs so sorry about, theres just a bunch of kids with cool blogs. 

Shout out to me because right now, I have the same amount of miles I had all of last week at 38.5. My IT band feels good so I gotta get those back up

Got a few miles in and then did 1.25 on the turf. Jamie filmed us running and then we will watch them and see how we can improve our form. Then we ran towards willowcreek and got the rest of our miles. 6:42 avg for the day. Shout out to the dream mile and a half cuz we're doing it on tuesday next week, i'm so hyped #respectallfearnone. I think the dress is blue and black. I'm trying to get Jamie to get a fast running blog, that'd be cool. 

Shout out to Thomas Heaps' grandmother. Thomas posted a pic of us together at simplot and she though I was his sister jackie.... smh 

Just your average distance run. I ran up airport and passed freedom till the turn around point. 6:58 average. Felt fine. Looking forward to the next little while.  

Shout out to Matt Carlson cuz he honked at me and scared the crap out of me. Then he laughed at me. 

Shout out to another Matt, this time Sir Matthew Todd. He got accepted to BYU and I am super happy for him. I am way jealous, he will do awesome things there. Hopefully I can join him there in a few years! 

Monthly Report: February was awesome, I cut time off all my pr's. Now in March we will start outdoor meets. That means the road to State! Hopefully we can get a bunch of guys there! #traininsaneorremianthesame

Distance run today, we ran by the gazebo in highland. I love running in the rain so that was cool. Average pace 6:58. We are running the Dream mile and a half tomorrow. It's a mile and a half time trial, and it has a decent uphill, downhill, then a long gradual uphill, and finishes off with a monster uphill that makes you want to die. It's gonna be dope. 

Shout out to Matt because me and him had the funnest warm up ever today. I dont know what happened we just kept making jokes and it was funny. 

Shout out to all the guys because we shared motivational quotes before we left for our run, and I threw down my all time favorite. (if you want to see it, go look at my instagram biography) We got super hyped and started dunking on each other, it was sick. Then the friking sprinters made fun of us and I wanted to kill em. But then @bwt.2015 gave me a shout out on twitter and it was sick. 

Shout out to the ACT because we are taking it tomorrow and I should be studying for it..... #faithfulblogger #theblogismypassion 

#manecrushmonday 

PM: Well the ACT went well, I bombed the reading section tho. So today we ran the dream mile and half in the snow and it was interesting. I am in shape to pr, but it would have been very hard to with the bad conditions, so going over the overpass I didn't even care that we were going slow. I drafted till the cemetery. Matt ran awesome and was leading the entire first mile. I give him props because he wasn't a baby like me and went closer to the right pace. Me and Ryan made a move and pulled up beside Matt once the gradual hill started. We stayed in that position till the start off Airport. I pulled ahead so I could get on the inside. Towards the top I knew Matt and Ryan were still there so I surged to gain some ground and then when it started to flatten out I gave it my all. At the end my legs had so much lactic acid (or however you spell it) in them it was disturbing, and my lungs/throat were on fire. My finishing time was 8:47. My PR is 8:28 i think maybe 8:24, this last cross country season. I knew I wouldn't be close but I dont really care cuz I probably ran the fastest up the hill I ever had. I had an orthodontist appointment so I ran str8 back to the high school. Got 5.6 miles

Later PM: Ran 2.4 with Duke to get to 8 for the day

HUGE SHOUT OUT TO COACH JAMIE!!!!! cuz she got a blog! She hasn't posted anything yet but go check her out @CoachJamie 

hahah I put in some of the stuff for her, cuz she's way busy and I wanted her to get one, so I put in 5k finish as her goal just to be funny, and she kept it there haha. Thats funny because her 5k pr is 16:08! H*cka Fast! 

Easy distance run today. We ran by chicken nugget and sir matthews house, to this dirt area. We tried to run on it, but it has snowed recently so it was muddy as heck so we all got our shoes dirty. We stopped a lot before we turned around so on the way back I averaged 6:34 and it felt good. Rest of this week is speed yay.

Like matt and chicken nug I also signed up for the AF canyon half marathon this summer. They're both going down

5x500's. First 400 at goal 800 pace, then all out last 100. 4 minute rest. My splits for the 400's 64, 63, 66, 65, 64. This is not my goal 800 pace, if I hit my 800 goal pace then it should be faster, because this workout is 2500 meters long. So it was good. Legs were jelloish and I felt queezy so it wasn't easy. We finished up miles after at a 6:49 avg 

Got to 3.5 and then did whistle hills. It is 15 seconds all out up a gradual hill in the cemetary. Jog back, then do it again for 20 and 25 seconds. This is 1 set, we did three. Normally we have a little rest in between sets but because its awesome week we didn't have any rest. Well before the last one we shared some inspirational quotes so that gave us some recovery. Then I finished up my miles, my knee was hurting so i'll roll it out some more. I went hard #gobigorgohome 

Tonight is MORP so thats cool, ol @thomasheaps is in my group 

Shout out to Sean who hasn't updated his blog in 11 days 

Shout out to the ice bath im taking 

Today was the final day of awesome week, our third speed workout in a row. My legs were (and still are) sore from the other workouts. Today it was 20x 400's. They were in sets of 5. The first five at 5k pace with 45 seconds rest, then 2 mile pace with 1 minute rest, then current mile pace 90 seconds rest, then goal mile pace with 2 minutes rest. We wore spikes on the last 5. My average for the sets were something like 80, 74, 70, 64. By the end it was hard, but my last one was a 60 so that was cool. We ran half backwards to switch it up a lil bit. Our first meet is on Tuesday. I'm doing the 800 and maybe a 4x4 because of my killer sprinting speed   

Just wanted to do some feel good shout outs today

Shout out to Conner Mantz for giving up 2 years of training to go on a mission , and to Preston Warbeast Warby for saying some wise words on the sabbath. (and congrats to him for having visibal monthly viewers now, keep killing it) 

Thanks to Controversial Cam for putting me in his fav blogs, I should have put him in my fav blogs earlier but I got it done. His friends are savages haha for calling him out on the blog haha lol

Shout out to one of the kids that called Cam out. His name is Paul. Last year I got 10:00 at the Pine View invite in the two mile and Paul was bye me the entire time. Back then I just thought of him as the kid from Pine View with really long hair but I found his instagram (@paulgaona) so thats cool, I actually know who he is now. I also found Warbeast's insta (@the_warbeast) Nick Hill (@nike___hill) and Controversial Cams @cameron9brown so give em a follow. 

We are going to the pine view invite once again so all of my pine view boyz better hang with all us Lehi guys! 

Also shout out to Sarah! for committing to SUU! She'll be teammates with Maddie Kauffman who also committed this week so congrats to her! You guys are gonna kill it! 

Got a nice warm up in, then did strides and 200's for pre meet. Tomorrow we have a dual with Lone Peak. I'm doing the 800 and then if I feel fine the 4x400 with Matt, Brady, and maybe Sean. Then me and Thom got the rest of our miles at a very slow pace because my legs are sore from Saturday 

Shout out to me cuz I finally watched the Dark Night, it was crazy. I'm halfway thru the dark night rises

*EVERYONE LOOK AT MY BLOG AND NOT WARBEASTS*

(you are going down warbeast) #shewillbemine 

Today we had our first meet, a dual against LP. A few of us ran a few miles around the town a little before the meet started. Once it was time to warm up we did 2 miles. I wasn't feeling the greatest. I got a good start, mostly because I pushed Thomas and Galen out of the way, I apologize. Me and Sean went thru the 400 at 61, we cruised till about 100 left. Sean got 2:05, I got 2:06. Then Brady, Thomas, and Matt did well and ran an 07 08 and 09.

To cool down and get some miles, Team Pre hoped in the 2mile. At the start I was going really slow, slower than everybody else and I was struggling. But I felt better and finished at tempo run pace, overall time 11:51 I think. So after that I got my spikes on and Brady, Matt, Me, and Sean did a 4x400. Lehi had a bunch of other teams competing as well, with like strrt and thom. I did not feel very good, but I got the baton just a few meters back of a Lone Peak guy and just tried to stay on his tail. I ran a 57 unofficial split, and thats cool cuz I beat Matt and Sean (suck it) Brady did well on the lead off and also ran a 57. Cooled down half mile. 

Before we did the 800, me Matt Brady and Maddy did the shotput... ya thats right. Matt and Brady killed it and got 28 and 27 feet, then there was me and Maddy. I got 19'8 and Maddy got 19 even. It was a very nice pr for me. At PG last year I got 14-15 feet. And I beat Maddy so at least I beat someone, I got last out of the guys. Next year, cuz I only come out for shotput once a season, I'll go for over 20. 

I just took an ice bath so thats cool. Shout out to Galen, Justin, and Jamison cuz I saw them and talked to em a lil. Davis should be sick next week, in case you were wondering im not running the 4x400 again   

Shout out to Warbeast for passing me in monthly views #cantstopwontstop #AA

Easy distance run today, my legs were tired so my average pace was 7:21. We ran by the spinny park and the fish park in AF. Tomorrow we got speed.  

Warm up then very good speed workout. 3 sets of 400,800,400. 4's at mile pace 8's at 2 mile pace. I can't remember all of my times but my averages were 68-69 and 2:30ish. The wind made it slightly more difficult but we're most likely gonna have wind at region so whateva. Then we finished our miles by vets park. The training room was open when we finished for the first time in months so me, Thomas, Maddy, and Emily took an ice bath.

HMU on garmin connect @connor_baller

Shout out to Jack Bluth from Milton High in GA cuz we're going back to the xc camp at byu where we met last year

Happy birthday to my two favorite runner babes! candizzle greenwood and AA

Shout out to Warbeast who gave me a shout out sorta. Right now Warbeast, Controversial Cam, Me, and Jake K are all in a line on the mileage board #twinners #37.5-37

Beautiful run today, it was sunny and the temperature was totes perf. Little over ten distance run at 6:55 avg pace. It was Thom and Matt that went with me today and we got some good hills in. We ran up airport and the dip, then came down by eaglecrest. 

Congrats to Aubrey Argyle for getting an all-american 4th place finish at New Balance Nats in the 5k. 16:50! Good luck to their guys 4xMile who run tomorrow 

10 mile distance run at distance pace. I ran while my dad biked beside me cuz he's old and slow. 1.5 warmup then I ran by pioneer crossing and did a 4.25 out and back and felt good. On the way out average pace was a 6:09, on the  way back the legs were getting a little tired because of the fast pace at the start but the pace was still quick and finished with a 6:13 average pace for the eight and a half miles, not including the warm up.   

Plans for next week. Get a little speed in on monday, pre meet on tuesday, and then go kill the mile and 4x800 at Davis! Good job to Davis' 4xmile team for getting second at New Balance Nationals with a 17:12 (or something close to that) and then a few hours later they ran the 4x8 and won first place! 1st in the nation! I cant remember their exact time but it was sub 7:50 again. We'll have to go beat their time at the invite in a few days ;)

Shout out to Thomas because his run today was at 8 minute pace, and I'm putting this in on his computer. We just had some cool orange juice stuff and hung with his sis Jackie, now were home alone doing hoodrat stuff while they go run errands.  

Mile and a half warm up, then a mile of speed changes. Feeling great for Wednesday. Then finished up distance at a reasonable pace. Took a good ole ice bath after. 

Shout out to Collin and Bridge cuz they both got blogs and they are just waiting for them to be approved #lehitakeover  

I took Jamie out of my favorite blogs, i know savage, but she hasn't put in any runs yet. Maybe this will get her to do it.

After Conner Mantz leaves on his mission, I'm gonna put my name as Connor Mantz so people click on my blog thinking its his, so then i'll get some more monthly views. 

Got some warm up around lehi. We got a stick at the creek and got in some nice hand offs with Brady practicing for the 4x8. We stopped at Wines Park and did 2 400's for pre meet. Then finished up miles. Hopefully all the girls running today do good. I am running the mile and 4x8 tomorrow and I'm hyped #lesgo

First outdoor meet of the year today! So that was cool. 2 mile warm up with Garek and the gang. Sadly he wasn't there to run the mile with me and sean #cryingemoji He prolly was afraid i'd beat him...... I got out good. My place didn't change much the entire race. Until the third or fourth lap I was in 5th place, drafting off of Camren Todd from Davis. So first lap was 65. Good. Second and third laps 70's. Not good. I could tell the leaders picking it up on the second lap and instead of surging past Camren and going with them I was a wimp and I stayed behind him. Josh Ward and Adam Haynes ended up getting 4:27's and I would have been close to that if I went with them. I didn't want to be going into the wind. But excuses excuses, wont let that happen again. Last lap was 63. Good. Finished fourth overall, so that was cool. I pr'd by about a second and a half, I was expecting more. Cooled down 3 miles. 

Warm up of .75 or something for the 4x800. Originally Dylan was going to run it but he hurt his knee in the hurdles so Chris Kauffman ran our lead leg. He got a 2:08 and gave the baton to Brady in first so great job to him. Brady got the baton to me in first and ran a 2:06. I was all alone by that point so it was very hard to pace. Im good at pacing for other races but 800 is hard for me, especially when I had no idea if I went out to hard or if the guy was gaining on me. Pushed hard and got 2:05. Sean ran well got 2:05 and we won! Overall time was a little slow, 8:25. We'll have to see if we run it at Pine View.

Overall the meet was good, got some decent times. Now I can focus on good hard training for a week and a half and then were down to St. Geezy for the 2mile! I'm ready to throw down a killer time! (and beat warbeast) speaking of that, me and matt slayed AA today. Matt could hardly contain his excitement in her presence. I thought he was gonna pee his pants.    

Distance run to recover from the meet today. It was a very refreshing run because we didn't have to push the pace, and we ran to Thoms uncles house and I had never been there. I like doing routes ive never run before. It doesn't happen very often after 3 cross country seasons and 2 track seasons. Average pace 7 minutes. Tomorrow we have a tempo run so looking forward to that. 

Shout out to all the upsets in March Madness. Good job to those guys who don't just give up cuz they're a higher seed. 

Shout out to Coach Jamie for giving me a shout out, go check it out! @coachjamie 

Shout out to all the people in @controversialcam's blog that were bashing on kentucky. Controversial Topic of the day: Why don't people give credit when credit is due and stop being h8ers 

1.25 warm up. Ran out 1 mile. Then 6 miles of tempo. We switched off from 5:27-5:42 and 6:10-6:30 each mile. We ran 3 more out and back, so then 1 after coming back at whatever pace. My times were 5:30, 6:29, 5:31, 6:22, 5:30, 6:15. It was a tuff workout but I felt good while I was doing it. I feel like I hit some solid times so I'm ready for what lies ahead. Shout out to Sean because we pulled away from the group on the last 2 and were pushing each other and killing it. Shout out to Matt because he had a very good workout. Something about Matt, he always kills the tempo runs, he's good at those kind of runs. He also is opening his mission call tonight so thats sick, check his blog out the next few days to see where he goes. 

Shout out to Jamie for letting be a butthole and wait till the last day of the term to get my grade up, and she's a great coach.   

Great run today. I ran 12 miles and after I was done it felt like i ran 8. It was at 6:39 average pace. At first I thought I was going too fast and trying to slow down. But i felt good and like conner mantz said screw it. But i didn't die off and kept the pace consistent. Other than the warm up every mile was 6:48 or faster. Weather was awesome, got hecka tan. Today pretty much was the gr8est run of my life.   

Shout out to Brady Taylor cuz its his birthday. He just got on the ol blog so when he puts in his first post hhu @bwt.2015

10 mile distance run today. We went on the trail towards traverse. Legs felt decent, average pace was 6:50. 

Warm up 3 miles and then a little before the duel meet started we had a little speed workout for the guys racing at Pine View. Matt's and I, because our main race is the 2 mile, was 6x400 @ 2mile pace for saturday with 90 seconds recovery. I went faster than 2 mile pace. My times were 70,71,71,70,70,69. On saturday I'm hoping for 8x400's at 72 second average pace with 0 seconds rest because that would qualify me for state. 9:36.95 baby, time to beat! I was looking at who is in it and theres a few guys from timp who are fast, and some of my boys from Woods Cross so we could get a nice pack going and get all of us some killer times. The 400's today felt pretty good. Not a walk in the park but I don't think I was exerting myself too much. After we finished up 10 and then me and matt took an ice bath together. Totes presh. jake k. (that means jk) Shout out to the people that did awesome at the meet today. Sierra throwing 23 feet in the jav and Nathan getting 11:17 in the 2mile.    

Distance run today at 6:55 pace, we ran to the timpanogos temple and back by the spinny park. The legs were a little tired. Ice bath after. Cant wait for saturday! 

Shout out to my boy Jake Jutkins cuz he's d8ing a total babe and its his birthday  

Shout out to coach barnes from herriman cuz I checked out his ol blog 

While some of the other dudes were doing pre meet, matt and I went and did 6x30 second pick ups with one minute off inbetween. At first they were around 5:15 then we got down to 4:30 on the last one. Then I ran some on the track and finished around the town. We leave for St Geezy tomorrow. I am going to qualify for state in the 2 mile on saturday and then a little after run the 800 in the medley. Good luck to everyone running tomorrow

So on the way to the Pine View invite we stopped twice and each time we stopped I got a little jog around the parking lot in to try and make my legs the least sore possible from the bus ride. Once we arrived at the lovely Pine View high school I did pre meet for my two mile with @bwt.2015 and @sirmatthewtodd. I warmed up a lil, then 2*400's at 71,70 then finished up some distance with lucy, but then I saw garek and sarah and chris and did some miles with them. And then I saw my bud Chris Hughes and my new friend Kyle Rummens, both from Woods Cross and had to run some miles with them. After my achilles hurt for the first time ever, I dont know why, so I iced it. Then I chilled for a few hours. This included watching races and gazing at Taylor from Timp because she is a total babe. I dont even know what to say to let you know how much of a babe she is. Then I found out she's a freshman. I still cant believe it. After all the events I did some more miles around the track and did a few strides with hurdles just incase anyone falls and I need to jump over them. When we got to the hotel I took an ice bath and elevated my legs while watching some espn on the stuff happening in the ncaa tournament, crazy stuff. 

First day shout outs: Garek ran a 4:19 and never ceases to amaze me.

HOLT! I hope he sees this @holt. I yelled down from our perch and told some pv kids to tell my boy Pdawg Warby Connor says hi, and holt just yells over to me from the track "Are you connor baller!?"  and I was like "Ya are you Holt!?" it was awesome, I'm frickin famous :) So ya I eventually found warbeast and hell raiser and paul and wait a minute, it just occured to me that I didn't meet controversial cam...wait the frick is wrong with me. And I also met the Desert Hells kids like Jaiden, Josh Thatcher who couldn't pronounce my name, Kale and Sage Dew-coat-aye (who I later learned was a friging savage #nochill) So it pretty much was a blog reunion, or blog meet in person gathering type thing.

Sean and Thomas and Ryan all did well in the mile.

Maddie ran the mile and placed 4th overall 

Josh Collins got a meet record in the mile, 4:16 decent  

Heading over to the high school I felt pretty good. Warmed up 2 miles. My goal for the race was to state qualify. I didn't really care about just getting a pr. State qualifying is 9:36.95. So I needed to hit 72's. But the race went out super slow. I got out good and was right up in the front, come around and its a 72. Ugh. I was supposed to have a few seconds cushion after the first lap. Then our second lap is a 76. Ugh. After a few laps of this Josh Collins finally took the lead and upped the pace. After the first mile I was 4:54 which is six seconds too slow. After that I kind of gave up a little bit which I shouldn't have done cuz I ended up getting within almost a second and a half of state and thats not a lot, so I think I could have gotten it if I had kept telling myself I could still get it. Back to the race. So we pushed the middle laps cuz the slow start. I didn't see exactly what the clock said right as I hit the line with one lap to go, I just saw it at 8:24 when I still had some left. I kicked hard the last lap and caught a woods cross kid with 300 left and with 100 left I pulled up beside Koy from Timp and we were both going as hard as we could. I turned on the jets and beat him. My time was 9:38.64. 1.69 seconds off of state. So my last lap was a 64. If I keep that last lap but push one of the middle laps 1.69 seconds faster I would have got it. But its over and I'll just go qualify at Utah County. My achilles hurt after on my run so I iced it. Few hours later I got ready to run the medley, but we went out of the exchange zone on the first hand off. 

Second day of Pine View shout outs: Audun won the 300 hurdles so thats hot.

Brady got a wasatch girls number. To bad he told her he was a senior and now she wont text back. 

Kaysha love won everything this weekend, including our arm wrestle sadly. Now she is trying to slay Brady so we'll see how that goes. 

Chris Kauffman cuz he got a 2:01 in the 800 and had a killer kick to win his heat. 

Paul Gaona killed it in the 4x4. They dropped the baton but then he kicked trash and made it up and looked like he was hauling  

Shout out to the pine view girl that likes my hair 

9 mile distance run today. We ran up killers so that was "killer" ha. Then we ran back on the bike path. We had a nice pace going it felt like, not sure exactly what it was because I forgot to charge my watch. This thursday we find out who made arcadia. I'd be shocked if i didn't make the 2 mile and im confident we make the 4x800. So for spring break me and brady are going down together and hanging and then running that weekend. Its gonna be hecka  

Spread the word. Tell everyone to look at my blog cuz rn im at 196 monthly views and I'd be turnt if i got over 200. Thank you loyal blog followers 

Warm up and then 6x400's at mile pace with 2:30 seconds rest in between. My splits were 65, 64, 65, 68, 66, 65. Jogged an 800 then 4x200's at 800 pace. My splits were 31,31,29,28. The workout wasn't easy cuz we did the 400's fast but I felt really good. After the last 200 my achilles started to hurt, bothered me during the cool down. Iced it after and then went to our team dinner which was sick. Coach Glen got us hecka turnt. He was spitting fire!

ARCADIA! We all made it into Arcadia in every event we were going for! So i'm running the 4x800. It will go Brady, Me, Dylan, and Sean. It's gonna be so sick. Then i'm also running the 2 mile and the mile! I'm super excited because Arcadia is so fast, along with the elevation and nice weather im going to throw down some dope times. For the mile I am in the seeded race, or the second fastest. In last years race, the middle of the seeded race got 4:20 so that would be a good goal. In the 2 mile im not sure what heat im in, but every race is extremely fast so I'm going for a 9:25. 

 We had a dual meet today at AF. So what a few of us did is ride the bus there and then finish back at Lehi. Warmed up with a few minutes of ultimate frisbee. We ran up the road to Lone Peak so that we could say we ran to 3 different high schools in one day. We ran thru Highland Glen park, turned at one of the lights and back by the fish and spinney parks. Felt pretty good, tomorrow i'll do pre meet for the mile and 800 on friday. 

Me and brady warmed up 2.5 then did our pre meet for the mile tomorrow. I am also running the 800. 3 strides and 2*400s. I got 67 and 66. Then we finished up our miles with Thom. We ran by Lehi block and back on main street. We went very slow and it felt good. Hopefully its not that windy tomorrow, doesn't matter tho im breaking 4:30 and then with whatever I have left put into the 800, 2:03 i'll say.  

Ran 2 miles at the High School before heading over to timpanogos. So I wasn't really thinking and didn't get very much warm up for the mile. I ran like .2 from our tent to the starting line and then got 3 strides on the line. I got out good. After the first lap, a 65, I was in third. I tried to push the second lap more because it's always slow, but I still got passed by 5 guys. I guess I just need to go a little bit faster. That lap was a 68. Third lap i just cruised didn't do that much, 71. Right before the last lap I surged a little bit to get ahead of a little pack. With 300 left we started picking it up and I passed lil warner. Then in the last str8 away I caught up to Jamison Wilkes and had a 100 meter time trial. I barely got him. I give him creds cause he didn't go down without a fight and really made me work for it. My legs were really tired, I threw the form out the window and was pushing it as hard as I could. Last lap was a 63 and I finished with a 4:27.68 a 3 second PR and 3 seconds away from state qualifying. Got 3rd place and a medal. I am super happy with this race because the third lap was very slow, so if I just work on that lap and drop it a lil, maybe finish with a 62 then i can qualify for state! Especially if I get a few miles warm up. After that I ran a cool down/warm up with Thom for the 800. I wasn't feeling the greatest, and I got a lot better time in the mile than I thought I would so I really didn't care about it. First lap 63, last lap 68. Haha I was just cruising in, made sure I passed at least 1 person tho :) Overall a very good day!

Shout out to Reeves and Garison cuz we continued our 400 tradition after Pine View. We strip down and sprint a 400 mostly naked after long bus rides after cool trips. Normally I can pull out a 65 or so, but started of very conservative and saved for the kick were I just out leaned Garison, finished with a 71 lol. 

Shout out to Dylan who ran two, i repeat two sub 51 400's today. In the 400 finals and the 4x400.

Josh Collins ran the 4x100 today and did amazing, i love that guy #hairgoal #speedgoals #everythinggoals

Congrats to Tanner Mellior for getting his mission call to Taiwon. I totally called it, a few minutes before he opened it Taiwon just popped in my head and turns out thats where he's going, Jamie and Sierra are both witnesses, ask em

Shout out to Mckay Johns for being a sophomore and running a 4:14 

Cant wait for ARCADIA!!! 

Writing this blog from my cousins house in Mareno Valley, California! Met Thomas at the high school this morning and I got 8.5 in, 6 of it at distance pace so about 6:30. I elevated my legs and got a really good cool down in after my race yesterday so the legs felt really good. Then I got packed and we drove on down here. We made pretty good time cuz my dad drives really fast. I'll go for a bike ride tomorrow because my legs were really sore when I got out. I think we are getting everything worked out for the 4x8 this friday. Then I got the 32 and 16. I'm going for 2:00, 9:29, and 4:24. Hopefully I'm not dead by the time the mile comes around. 

We stopped at the Costco in St George, right by Pine View and I saw Paul Gaona from the blog! It was so sick!

Shout out to Diwas from East! He got a new PR in the mile at the Alpha Invite and I talked to him a little bit. He's from Nepal and he's my role model 

Shout out to Warbeast cuz were at the same mileage this week. Should i go do a .01 jog so I can be ahead of him? I'd prolly get jumped 

 

Beautiful run this morning. The weather was perfect. 9 miles at 6:31 average pace while my dad biked. At the start my legs were a little stiff from the car ride but after a few miles they were fine and the run felt awesome. A little faster maybe than I should have but I dont run till friday. I just got talking about Paul Ryan and Austin Tamagno and the pace kept dropping. Were going to Knotts Berry Farm today, pumped.

Thank you loyal blog followers. My life long dream of getting 200 monthly views has been reached. 

Shout out to me for commenting on everybodys blog like everyday haha what would the blog do without me? I don't know. 

I had a small speed workout today so me and my dad drove to the neighboring city Riverside, and went to the track at riverside community college. It was a pretty nice track. It reminded me of Mt. Sac cuz it had huge bleachers and palm trees around it. Warmed up 1.25 then did 5x300's @ goal mile pace (4:24) with 3 minutes rest in between each one. I hit 51.7 /49.5 /49.2 /48.5 /47.7 inbetween each one I jogged a 200 then waited the rest of the time. Then 3x100's all out with 1 minute rest inbetween. I got 13.66/ 13.34/ 13.30/ I did these on the back straight away of the track because the college athletes were doing stuff on the other side of the track. Well on the back straight there wasn't a solid line by where you start the 200 so I went from a solid line to the number 1 where you start the 200. After I was done I figured out where I should have gone from, so mine were actually like 90 meters. If that makes any sense. It wasn't a super hard workout but it loosened up my legs and felt good. After I finished up miles at 6:35 ap. I just have a little speed on thursday for pre meet, other than that I get to rest the rest of the week. 

Drove into Redlands and ran passed the Redlands Temple, it's as lot smaller than any temple in Utah. Average pace was 6:54 and it was a good run. After I was wondering how many miles I had on my watch so I looked at it and I had 666.0 miles. Weird. 

Drove over to Riverside Community College. Ran a mile warm up then did pre meet. In the 400's I got 69 and 71 then did a few strides. I felt really good and I'm ready to kill it the next two days. Drove back to the house and finished miles at 6:52 average pace. We're in the seeded race for the 4x800. We run at 4:57 pacific time, if you want to watch us, which you should, you can at arcadiainvitational.com Then I run in the Rated 1 race of the 2mile at 8:42. You should watch that too. It's gonna be sick, Thomas is in my heat, along with Stockton and Camren from Davis, and Kyle Rummens from Woods Cross. Then on Saturday at 5:56 I run in the seeded 1 mile race. This is funny because I have an 800 and 2mile before it, so I might be tired. And I'm seeded last. Woohoo. Haha so my goal might just be not get last. But it's gonna be fun cuz it's Arcadia and I'm getting a sick Nike backpack. K I gotta get some sleep, peace out blog

AM: 2.25 miles around the neighborhood to loosen up. 

We arrived at Arcadia and got our bibs and stuff (they're sick) and hung out. Then we warmed up 2 miles and got ready. Thomas ran our lead off leg and got a 2:03, he gave it to Brady. I dont know what he ran but he did swell then he gave it to me and I dropped the baton. It was crazy, on the exchanges they put you in a line and you pretty much free for all-ed it so people were getting into people's way, people were running into each other. I'm not sure what happened, it was my fault tho. I got bumped when I got the baton and I dropped it. So I picked it up as fast as I could. For the first lap and a half I just ran behind some guys and paced off of them. At the 200 there was a string of 4 or 5 teams and I went to the outside and passed them all. I ran a 2:04 with the dropped baton, so a pr. Sean ran good and leaned a guy out at the end. We got 8:21, tying our old pr. But our old pr was on an oversized track, we had Dylan, and we didn't drop the baton. So i guess it was a good race. 

We picked up our backpacks and stuff and then me and thom went to warm up for the Rated 1 of the 2mile. We did a mile warm up and then went and sat in the tent for a while. We went out to the track and they told us to hurry up cuz the race was gonna start immediately. But then they realized that they still had another girls race. That was good cuz then I had more time to get some strides and stuff. We started and I was feeling good. The race went good because I wasn't thinking about anything. I was just keeping up with the guys infront of me and if they moved up, working on closing the gap and stuff. So it went by kinda fast. First mile was 4:43-4:44. I ran the middle laps better than I ever have, my pace didn't fall off very much it felt like. Kick was really good, I passed at least 3 guys and almost caught Camren from Davis. That was the same at simplot. After I saw my official time on the scoreboard, I screamed I was so pumped. 11 second PR's dont come very often. Well except if yur the guy who won the race cuz he got a 25 second pr, ran a 9:11. Chump. I finished with a 9:27.17, Camren got 9:26.74, and Stokton Smith who got a 9:24.89, he was in second for most of the race and like 50 meters ahead of me, with my kick and him kind of dying at the end, I came within two and a half seconds off him.

1.5 mile cool down with Bill and Sarah after. 

Shout out to Destiny Collins cuz she ran a 4:53 split in the 4xmile. Then she noticed who I was when I saw her, well she remembered that she follows me on twitter. Then when I was getting ready for the 2mile I asked her if she would date me and she said yes.

Shout out to Austin Tamagno cuz I saw him and told him that he kills it. He's running the ol 2 mile tonight, lets see if he can get sub 8:50!

Shout out to the meet of Arcadia cuz I got sick gear from it and its the fastest meet in the nation, so its pretty dope just watching it. 

Running in the Seeded Mile tomorrow!!!!AAAAHHHH! Watch it online at arcadiainvitational.com! I run at 5:56

AM: 3 miles to loosen up. Feeling good!

PM: Warm up 1.5. I didn't even notice this until we were about to go, that we were running a true mile and not just a 1600, I thought was cool. First lap, or 407 meters whatever, was 67ish. There was this one kid who was way behind the entire time. If you take him out, I was in last most of the race. I was just cruising at the back of the pack. Middle laps were good. With 100 meters to go my legs started to feel like lead so I just looked up to the sky, grunted, and gave it everything I had. I ended up out leaning Taylor Dillan from WX. That made he happy cuz he ran a 4:22 at pine view, so not his greatest race but I'll take a win whenever I can. My last lap was a 62.something. I finished 9th out the 11 runners in the race, 4:25 for the full mile. Sarah! took 2 second off her mile time for the 1600 and i think i've heard that before so I'll do that. 4:23 for a 1600 which qualifies me for state. Good overall weekend racing with the fastest people in the nation. So grateful for the opportunity. Driving back to Utah tomorrow then I'll be back on the streets of Lehi. I miss lehi, i'm gonna miss the cali weather tho. 

Shout out to Sean for running a 9:32 3200! Thomas running a 4:32 in the Rising Stars Mile! Paul Ryan for getting a wicked fast time in the 3200, 9:02! Really everybody, there were a ton of Nation Leading times and marks, and Arcadia records set this weekend. 

I'm back in Lehi! My legs are super tight from the hard races these last few days and then sitting in a car for a whole day doesn't really help. On the Arcadia results they have my laps for the mile 

 1:08.199 (1:08.199)        2:14.502 (1:06.303)        3:21.482 (1:06.981)
         4:08.781 (47.299)          4:24.116 (15.336)           4:25.599 (1.484)

So my 1600 meter time was 4:24.11 which is funny cuz thats .01 faster than state qualifying. Its at sea level so, but whatever.

8.5 mile distance run during 4th period with sir matthew and strrt because we had the 3v3 basketball tournament after school. Average pace was 6:34. We ran by willowcreek and maverick, then turned on center street and back on main street. In our first basketball game we destroyed the other team, winning 22-6. I scored 4 points and had some nice assists. Quinn, the only actual basketball player on our team did awesome. In the second game we played a whole team of actual basketball players and lost 22-12. Brady had a good game with most of our points. We have two games tomorrow starting at 4:10 so if any of you guys wanna come watch. 

1.5 mile warmup then ran to Airport hill and did 6x1 minute up the hill at almost all out. We didn't really have a pace. There was some spray paint on the hill, and I got right by it almost everytime. The first two times I went farther, then my legs started getting really tired cuz its a steep hill and stuff. But I still got almost to the same spot. Then we ran by sami's house. We stopped and sami's house and got a snack to say the least. Well the wind was hecka blowing today. Coach said it could get up to 70mph over the next little while. Well after all the food, and the wind picking up sami drove me and matt back to the high school. I ran half a mile on the treadmill at school and counted a little for the basketball we played today. If i'm feeling good tomorrow i'll make some of it up

Good distance run to loosen my legs. The weather was sick. As long as I have adequate clothing running in the snow is my favorite. We ran into AF, by the highschool and evergreen park. Average pace was a 6:54. Towards the end my calf was getting tight, hopefully it feels better by friday. 

Shout out to matt for getting a follow back from lgeezy, lets see what happens with me

Maddy signed to SUU today! She has gone thru some tough stuff these last few years but never stopped working hard. She kills it 

Ran an out and back by willowcreek, got back to the high school at 7.75 and my calf/achilles was really tight. I could have finished up miles but it would have been really slow and not worth it. Running just the 2 mile on Saturday.

4 miles and then 2*400's at 75,71. Then finished up 8. I'm gonna be under miles this week cuz i took off a few so I can feel better for the 2 mile tomorrow, and I'm not sure how many miles i'll get tomorrow cuz after my race i gotta go get ready for the day date then i'm off to prom with ol maddy kauffman! Going for state qualifying tomorrow

Warmed up 2 miles, I was feeling good. Got out well, was never boxed in. First lap 67. I didn't really worry too much about the laps cuz I was confident i'd qualify. I started to get tired laps 5,6,7 and I had a couple 75's. No good. So I saw that galen was behind me, and so I told him to help a brotha out and pass me, then I went with him. I knew it would be close so I just tried to close fast. Started going at 500 left. And by the end got side by side with Joe from timp who only one lap earlier had been 60-70 meters ahead. Kicks are great. Didn't end up beating him but I didn't care. I just wanted to qualify. I got a 9:35.something so I did qualify. Now I dont have to worry about it which is awesome. 1 mile cooldown. After that I sped on home and got ready for our day date. We got to Draper and rapelled down a water fall, yes it was as sick as it sounds. Then I had the dance, legs were tired from the meet, but still had enough to get h*cka turnt with the boys from team pre. Sadly I only got 47 miles for the week, ten miles under what I was supposed to do. But my leg hurt and stuff but I qualified so it dont matter. Now we gotta go get the mile! 

16 mile bike ride with papa arnell. Prom was sick 

Happy national #420blazeit day! but remember, glaze it, dont blaze it! We had a nice 10 mile distance run to Mt. Ridge jr high and back. The weather was amazing. Average pace was 6:44. I felt good. This whole week is high so hopefully I continue feeling good and qualify for state in the mile this saturday at orem. 

Shout out to Matt cuz he may or may not have smooched his prom date #itaughthimeverythingheknows

Congrats to everyone who ran the Boston Marathon today! I was correct in my prediction that the winners would be from either kenya or ethiopia. Meb and Ritz did awesome tho. Shout out to Fritz who ran it (turns out I have more monthly views than him, so only a few of you check it out)

The workout today was sick! I think its in my top 5 hardest workouts. 4 miles before and then 3 sets of 4x400's. It was 3 minutes rest inbetween each 400. In between sets we had 4 minutes rest and a recovery lap. To get some mileage in we did a lap during the 3 minutes every other one. The first set was at current mile pace. I got 68,65,67,65. Pretty good.

Second set was at goal mile pace for saturday. (4:24) I got 64,65,64,62. In the middle of this set is when you had to start digging deeper to hit the times. 

Last set was at faster than the previous set or hitting the same time. I got 63,64,63,61. At the end of the last one my legs were so tired i could hardly lift them it felt like. It was one of the most tired my legs have ever been in my life. If i can hit 12 400's at these times no reason I shouldn't be able to run 4 66's in a row. 

I am so ready for the byu invite and region and state. I'm in pretty good shape and with end of the season tapering and stuff im ready to throw down some dope times. Call me lukas verzbicas  

Got a new mile pr on my watch, 4:13 call me a slower version of conner mantz cuz he's way faster than a 4:13 and he comments on my blog 

Drover over to PG high where the dual meet was and did 6 miles on the murdock canal trail. We got back and practiced hand off's, then just hung around till the 4x100. So strrt got out pretty good, I cant say anything bad cuz I was going just as fast, or slow for that matter lol. Him and matt said they had a good hand off. When matt was running towards me I couldn't stop laughing. So I kinda just winged it but I think we had a good hand off. I hauled booty around the curve and gave the baton to brady who blazed the last 110 meters. Our overall time was 51.9. A decent showing. I got a 12.3 or something cuz I only ran like 90 meters cuz I gave brady the baton right after the exchange started. It was a fun time. We beat the pg girls team, unlike the tri meet last year where me and garison and reeves team lost to the lp girls. Then I finished up the rest of my mileage.  

Distance run. We ran to suncrest and then coming back I split off of the group and ran back by the twins house. Average pace for the day was 7:06. I am running the mile and 800 this weekend at the tiger trials.

Got in 5 miles and then did 3 strides and 2*400's at 69 and 66. Then cooled down. I'm feeling dece for tomorrow. I love running in the rain so if it does rain that'll be fun. My goal is to qualify for state in the mile and run a pr in the 800 

Shout out to tiger trials cuz I spent my whole freaking day there. Or it felt like it. Warmed up for the mile, I was feeling ok. The high mileage this week kinda zapped my legs. (Even tho 60 miles isn't that much) So after the first lap I gave up. I was mentally weak today. I didn't care if someone passed me and I didn't push the last 100 like I normally do. I didn't even care, which is bad because I should care. I should have been like ok maybe its not the best race but still push it. I'll do that next time. Finished 13th or 14th after being seeded 3rd. It was sick, I was seeded right next to Conner Mantz. He is such a chill dude. I frickin love that guy. He shook my hand before we started and I almost fainted. The af guys laughed at me but they are just jealous I dont think they're that cool. Then after my 800 he came up to me and called me baller. I told him feel free to comment on my blog, he can do it anytime lol. 

Warmed up for the 800. I was in the second fastest heat. First lap was 60, most of the guys went out too fast cuz I started cruising past guys once we started the second lap. I almost caught a lone peak guy at the end who lead the entire race. He ran like a 57 first lap. If the race was 10 meters longer I would have caught him. Finished with a 2:04.28 So a pr by just a little bit. I wanted it to be better but whatever. I think I'll run it one more time this year. Just to show you how bad my mile was, in both the 800 and mile I got 14th place and I am way better at the mile. So ya, the mile I should have got at least 7th. 

Shout out to Nashby (Nick Ashby, sprinter from orem) cuz he slayed the 200 and 400, then the orem 4x1 ran in the 41's! they are insane!

Shout out to my boys running at the Davis Invite. They had some sick performances in the mile. Garek ran a 4:15! Guess what, I knew garek like a year and half ago so we are pretty much best friends. Garek when yur famous always remember me. Then Zach Erickson ran a 4:20 and only qualified for state. 

Good luck to Strrt and Matt on their d8 tonight. We'll see if they smooch. I think only matt will.

Shout out to Controversial Cam for getting his mission call to Helsinki Finland!! One of my buds Jake Bailey from AF is serving there rn so look out for him. 

Texted jamie and she said I could run another two miles, so I ran in the rain real quick while my dad biked. Got to 13 for the day

Shout out to Chase Heiner from provo for breaking the state record at the davis invite. He got 21.35! and he still got 2nd! The winner was carlos salcido from Rock Springs Wyoming with a time of 21.34....crazy stuff. 

I'm not sure what to run at byu, I'm running the mile for sure, but not sure if I should run the 2 mile the day before, the 800 a few hours before, or just run the mile. any suggestions

Good 9 mile distance run out by american fork and the gazibo. Stayed conservative on the way back cuz I need some recovery. 6:54 average pace. Shout out to everyone that wished me a happy birthday or will wish me a happy birthday in the next 5 and a half hours 

Track workout today. It was 2x 200 800 400 200 200. The 2's and 4's at mile, 800 at 2 mile. 200's were good. We were way fast on most of them because ryan was being a dumb and sprinting them. I was perfect on the 800's which is the most important part. Didn't run the last 200 on the last set cuz I got a weird extrememly painful side ache. Finished up 9 and then hung with mikie and the boys at the tri meet. It was sick. We went to macey's and drank some chocolate milk. After the meet me and brady and matt went to the spring, then went over to Brady's for pancakes. I cant believe in a few months all my senior buds are gonna be gone. I'm gonna have no friends  

Distance run today. We ran to the cemetary in AF. Then once we got back 4*150 meters build ups. Shout out to Beautiful Brad Barton. He ran for lehi and graduated the year before I got there. My freshman cross country season he ran with us and was an assistant coach before he left on his mission. Well he's been back for a few months and is now gonna train with us for a little while. 

Shout out to Coach Jamie for finally joining the fast running blog family and posting something. She also gave me a shout out and it almost made me cry. 

Shout out to Math Addict Mitch. He's one of the many Pine View kids with a sick blog, go check it out 

Everybody had something to do so I ran all by myself today. 8 miles at around 7 minute pace with 3 down hill strides. After we went to the spring and it was sick as usual.

Shout out to me cuz I got a letter from Emory University in Atlanta  

Watched the 2 mile at byu and then we went for our run. We did a few miles and then stopped at provo high school and did pre meet. I did my 400's in 67 and 66. Then finished up a few miles. I drove home with collin and the traffic was aweful so it took us an hour and a half to get home. We went to the spring and did a mile and a half shake out. Then we ice bathed in the creek cuz the spring was turned off. Something that raised hell was that we found three dead fish in the bottom of it. Hopefully I wasn't stepping on them. 

Running the 1600 tomorrow and I'm super pumped. I'm in the fastest heat of the sections. Qualifying for state is the goal. A good quote I have in mind. "Will it hurt. Yes. Will it be worth it. Absolutely." 

Ran 2 miles warm up way too early. Me thom and sean sat around for almost an hour after we warmed up waiting for our heats to roll around. Wasn't sure how I was feeling. Some of my best races are that way. When I'm not sure, I just go out and race. Right before I raced I had a front row seat watching sean win his heat with a 4:24.80! Insane! I don't know how he does it, he always gets insane pr's at byu. He missed state by just a little bit so that stinks but I know he will qualify at region. Thom got 4:29 and broke into the 20's so that was sick as well. 

Got out well the first part. First lap was a 65. Maybe a lil slow but still just under pace. Second lap was a 67 so I was at 2:12 which is good. I'm getting better at sticking with the others and running better middle laps. The third lap jamie told us to do 5 little strides to keep the legs going and keep on pace. I did every time there was a gap. I remember Nic Demler was a few meters ahead and I surged a lil and closed it. I remember thinking that I needed about a 65 last lap to get state, so that means about 3:19. I was kinda wiped out from the surges but with 300 to go I guess I found a second wind and closed hard. With 100 to go I told myself you've ran on pace for 1500 meters, yur sure as heck not gonna lose it right now. Got second in my heat behind Travis Feeny. Got 4:23.25. Bill says I coulda won the heat but I can worry about that some other day, I was focused on qualifying and I did that so I'm happy. 

After the race my legs were sooooo tired. I wanted to die but I fast walked to my fam and celebrated with them for a lil and then went and gave jamie a bear hug cuz I was turnt af. In such a studded field it was awesome to come out in second place. I was so happy on the cool down I just wanted to sprint it. After I finished up miles I just sat around and watched the amazing performances. Such as my boys from the blog Garek and Conner wrecking the mile. Oh my gosh they are bomb. It was such a fun race to watch. Orems 4x100 got a state record 41.46. Dylan got a 1:55. Sara Musselman (my gf) got a 30 second pr in the 2mile yesterday and then slayed the mile today. 

Shout out to Jamie for being the most bomb coach ever and helping me reach my goals. I also wouldn't be as good with out my baller teammates that push me everyday, I love you guys #lehitrack #teampre

Ok, so now the plan is run the 800 at region and see how fast I can get that and then run the 32 and 16 at state. Goals are 9:20 and 4:22! SO PUMPED ITS GONNA BE SICK!!

2.25 mile warm up and then 6x800 at goal two mile pace for state (2:20) with 2:30 rest in between.  All the other guys had just distance but they switched off pacing me. My times were 2:22

2:21 

2:24 Thom did a not so swell job of pacing this one, partially my fault for not speeding up

2:20 

2:20 

2:16 to make up for lost time. Cooled down a little farther than planned. 

This workout was tough but I believe I handled it well. I got a new 5k record on my watch 14:07 so that's pretty sick. We'll see how long into my college career it takes to run that all the way thru. They dont run 5ks tho so idk. Region is gonna be fun cuz I'm just running the 800 to see what I can get that down to, hopefully a 2 flat, then I'm ready to kill it at state. Shout out to my monthly views, probs cuz the shout out conner gave me    

9 mile distance run by the Murdock canal trail, all by myself cuz erybody else had pre meet. Good luck to everybody racing at region tomorrow and Thursday. Leave everything on the track, no regrets.

Shout out to the waitress at Denny's for hooking us up with hecka pancakes last Friday, those things work magic #state #4secondpr

Ran 3 miles on the track and then did pre meet. I had 2 200's and did them both in 31. I race the 800 tomorrow, lehi has 5 guys in the fastest heat so it'll be sick. My goal is 2 flat. If I'm up towards the front I'll go for 4th place and state. After I finished till 8.

Some of the team pre guys ran in the 2 mile today and some of the highlights were D'brickasean qualifying for state with a 9:44 and second place finish! Now lehi has 3 guys in the 2 mile so props to us and coach jamie. Chicken nugget got a 12 second pr with a 10:48 and still had a monster kick

So in the 800 today at region I got 7th place overall and 2:04.00 I shoulda freaking pushed it harder so I could say my pr is 2:03.99 but whatevs it was a small pr. First lap was slow but I pushed the last lap a lot harder than I normally do so that was good. It was tough tho, the 800 is a really fast race and it have to keep up with the guys that have a lot faster sprint than me. It's a lot different than the two mile. Overall it was a decent speed workout and stuff. Finished up some miles, not as much as I had for the day but the weather was miserable so I just called it a day.

Ready to go kill state and run the fastest I ever have. It wont be like the 800.

Played basketball with brady for a lil while during lunch. We had an epic game of 21. Warmed up a mile and then a distance run to the gazebo. Average pace 7:06. It was a good shake out run from yesterday. Sick speed workout tomorrow. The spring of living waters is still off. smh. 

Turns out a got a medal from Arcadia for getting 5th in my heat of the two mile. Jamie got it in the mail and I freaked out when she gave it to me. 

2 mile warm up and then a speed workout. 5x400's at goal mile pace (65-66) then walk/jog 100 meters (we just went and all out 100 meters. I did it with Thom while sean and ryan did the 6x800 workout i did earlier in the week. It was slightly difficult jumping right into that fast pace so first one was 67. Then the next one I was leading it and thom wouldn't get off my back even tho I knew we were going way too fast, ended up being a 63. I kinda pulled a cristian soratos. The rest were 65, 65, 63. A mix of feeling a little tired and the pace being as fast as it has been all year made the workout tough. The sprint opened up the stride and felt really good.  

Shout out to Matthew Maton for running 3:59.38 in the mile at the oregon twilight meet or something. It is the 3rd fastest prep time ever and only the sixth time ever someone has broken 4 in high school! I bet that grant fisher will also break 4 and it will be the first year ever that multiple guys do it. Maybe even austin tamagno, john dressel, and my boy conner mantz do it too! What if 5 guys did it, dang that would be insane.  

Shout out to Paul Ryan cuz he's got range for days. Go check out his blog. 

6 DAYS TILL STATE!!!

Shout out to Sarah cuz it was her birthday yesterday!

Shout out to my mom cuz its mothers day and her birthday. She is the bomb 

So kinda like zach my legs felt a little sluggish today. I did a pretty good workout on saturday and then doing nothing but sitting on sunday made them sore. Easy 8 and then ice bath after. I have some 200's tomorrow and then easy the rest of the week. I'm not super hyped for state yet, but that may be good cuz im not stressing about it. I know im in good shape and I can go run awesome. But trust me i'll be pumped before I run.   

Me, Sean, Ryan, and Thomas drove over to AF high school where jv region was taking place. We ran 4 miles before the workout. We went to this baseball park and climbed a hill and ended up on a path behind Lone Peak high, kinda where the DomiNate 5k was. It was sick. Then we did 3 sets of 4x200's at mile pace with 90 seconds rest inbetween. With a lap of recovery and 3 minutes rest in between sets. We went faster than mile pace, most of them from 31-32. I felt fine, the legs felt nice and powerful so good things are to come.

Shout out to all the kids who killed it at JV region today such as Collin for winning the 1600 and sir Matthew for almost clearing 5 feet in the high jump while wearing cargo shorts lol.  

Shout out to Conner Mantz for signing to BYU! He is gonna kill it! Now he just needs to tell Eyestone to recruit me and then there will be 3 super fast guys all with the same name. 

5 miles easy at 7:08 pace. Then I tried on sean's spikes and they felt good so i'll wear those in the mile and collins in the 2mile cuz idk where mine are. Low miles felt nice. 

2.5 miles then a little on the grass barefoot cuz our track is getting resurfaced. Then 1 mile cool down. TOMORROW IS STATE!! The mile is tomorrow. I've been waiting for this day for a long time, gonna go kill it! 

State 5A 1600 meters. It was mediocre. I ran my slowest time since indoor. It was really cold and I just was flat and didn't have energy in my legs. I was ranked 11th and finished 19th. But I'm looking forward to the 3200 tomorrow and gonna run better in that. 

Shout out to Brent Matheson and Payton Riggs for killing high jump. Shout out to Buttscratch cuz we got to skype him today. 

Day 2 of state. I got a little warm up in. My legs felt better and the race was better than yesterday. I was 5 seconds off my pr at altitude so not the best race. I just wasn't in it mentally. Something has just been off since BYU. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to get to state in the mile and 2 mile and so after I got it, I just didn't have the same want or drive. After I ran 4.5 with Garek, Bill, and Sarah and it was quite a nice time. Then I just hung and watched races the rest of the day. Shout out to Brinn, Ryan, Ginger, Amber, Dylan, and boys 4x4 for some awesome performances. From other teams Nashby, Cheiner, Emily Ellis, Haden Penrod, Peyton, Bo, really the whole 4A boys 800 was sick. Conner Mantz had the dopest kick I've ever seen! It was so sick to watch. Conner if you read this just know I was flipping out and crying and cheering and going nuts because you're so cool. 

Shout out to all my friends from the blog because we all killed it this year! #fastrunningblogordie! 

Ok time for a end of season review! Junior Track season: I didn't finish it off the way I wanted but it was still an incredible season to say the least. In the 2 mile I cut off 33 seconds if you count my Arcadia time. And in the mile I cut off 17 seconds (and I cut off 16 the year before) so I was able to improve a lot, and without the best coach in the business Coach Jamie, my supportive parents, my team mates that push me everyday, and the man upstairs, I would not have been able to so thank you so much! I got my goals of state which is the best feeling ever. I am so excited for cross country again and senior year and all the great things to come. 

I lifted with Matt and Brady for a while and got my arms wrecked. I'm planning on getting hecka swole these next few weeks. Then I went and played basketball for a while with some more people. In the middle did core with brady. Just a little cuz im out of shape. After we went to Bradys house and had a protein shake. 

Shout out to Joshua Hammond from Woods Cross, he sick so go check out his blog. And shout out to all the Pine View kids for not hanging out with us at state. 

Legs today so I did 3 sets of squats at 85 pounds, 10 reps each. I know its not a lot but everyone starts somewhere. Then some calf raises and lunges. Then went and played ball with the boys for a little #ballislife #thereisareasontheycallmeconnorballer Then we went to Matt's house and had protein pancakes. 

Lifted arms today. 4 sets of lat pull downs, shrugs, over-head press, curls. Stuff like that. Then a little ball with Strrt. Happy to announce that I was voted to be XC captain this year so that'll be sick.

Shout out to Lipscomb University 

No lifting today. Had a captains meeting and then went and balled with Brady and Nick for a little while. Shout out to Galen Rupp cuz he was running on the BYU track today.

Benched today and did some core. Then played bball with some of my peeps. 

Shout out to the Twins, Michael and Austin cuz im trying to get them on the ol blog 

Nothing today just going hot tubing tonight

Shout out to anyone who has ever fought for our country. Thank you!

Had our team banquet today and it was super sick. I was awarded the Outstanding Distance Runner so thank you to jamie. I'm so sad that the seniors are not gonna be with me for upcoming xc. Biggest shout out i've ever given to Brady, Stewart, Sean and Matt for being my best buds this last year. You guys the real MVP's 

Few sets of Bench and Military Press, with some abs. We are getting new uniforms again, cuz ol Coach Rowe would get uniforms and say we're keeping them for a long time and then they'd look dumb or something, and we get ones for Footlocker/ XC camp, so I have 9 different jerseys. But this time we are getting a name brand, so they fit well, and look cool. So we are gonna run extra fast this season. 

Lifted with Thom this morning. Shout out to Andrew Rummens from Woods Cross who got a blog. 

Shout out to Carlos Villareal for winning the boys mile at the Pre Classic in 4:05 with the sickest kick i've ever seen. He follows me on instagram just so you know. 

Got a sick ab workout in. Gotta get ready for swim suit season #8packhearicome 

Matt and Briggs' farewells were today. They both killed it. Matt gave some sick shout outs. First XC practice tomorrow! 

Half mile warm up and then stretches. I want another week of recovery so I just ran the warm up and then biked for 45 minutes. Legs felt worked, my butt hurt alot.

I am pumped for this season cuz this year i'm working harder than I ever have and I'm doing the little things. We are gonna be the best we have ever been. We are gonna do everything we can to win state. All out Senior year. This year im going to be first team all-state and I wanna be top 5, so thats what im gonna get. I also want to be top 7, regardless of classification, and our team is gonna qualify for NXN.

Half mile and then biked with some 1 minute pick ups.

Went trail running with Justus, Michael, Austin, and Collin. We went up AF canyon and ran on the timpanooke trail I think. It was sick. The views were amazing. Only 3 cuz it's my first day back and it was a lot of pounding on the legs. But a very fun and sick day of running. Happy National Running Day! 

Warmed up half a mile and played the number game, i dont know the actual name, that Davis high school plays. I got 3rd on the first round, I think thats the farthest i've ever made it. Then 4x1 minute intervals on the grass @ mile pace. I didn't know what pace we were going, it was inbetween a sprint and fast jog. Then I finished up miles. My legs felt good, just sore from the downhill yesterday. A bug flew in my eye and it was the worst.  

Just an easy distance run with the guys. We ran on the frontage road to the roundabout up the hill by killers and back by the cemetary. I felt fine, 7:21 pace. We have the dream mile and a half on monday so we'll see how that goes.

6 miles at 7:06 pace to the highland sign and back. Good luck to all my buds running at great southwest today! 

So today we ran the dream mile and a half. This was like my 6th time doing it, something like that. It is flat for like 400 meters and then we go over the overpass, a small ish hill, and the middle of the overpass is .5. Then we have a gradual downhill. Once you hit this 4 way stop, it starts to incline. It levels out a lil by the junior high, this is about 1.2-3 and then you hit airport hill and its very large. You climb airport and then have 100 meters to the finish. My pr is 8:24. I got 8:43 which i think is good for only having a few days of running under my belt so far this season. I started out pretty good going up the overpass, going down the other side moved into second. Felt strong, I just couldn't kick it into the next gear to get around sub 8:30's. Gapped Austin who was behind me by the jr high, cuz the hill is my strong suit. Over all good performance. Had a snack at thom's house and then headed back. 

Shout out to Sir Matthew Todd. He is going into the MTC on wednesday and Im gonna miss him. We have had some sick adventures this past year I've became really good friends with him. He came today for the first time this summer, cuz he was on vacation at Yosemite. He hadn't had a real run in over a month and ran the dream mile and a half today and got right around 9 minutes so great job to him! Matt you kill it and I am gonna miss you and yur fire blog/twitter/insta. 

Shout out to Preston the babe slayer Warbeast cuz its his birthday today. Ol Pdawg i've only met you like once, but you are a chill dude and have killer blog. 

Didn't have my watch so I think me and garison went six and a half. Garison is actually motivated this year and if he stays that way will be a nice addition to varsity. He did very well his sophomore year, then did nothing junior year. Hopefully all goes well. After we went to Kneaders for the final hoo-rah while matt is still in the country and then we went and balled hard. It was a stellar performance from yours truly. I chanelled my inner lebron who will go off for 42 pts tonight and the cavs will win 94-89. You heard it here first. 

Shout out to Athens  

Easy distance run towards the gazebo at 7:16 pace and some lifting after. Afternoon time  I went on a bike ride with Strrt, Austin, and Michael. 

Matt went into the MTC today #cryingemoji but he's doing good things so its ok. Shout out to the birthday girls Whitney Measles and Annie Slater 

A couple miles and then a 3 mile tempo run. Our range is 5:31-5:45. My splits were 5:37, 5:44, 5:41. I like speed workouts better than tempo runs but this one was good. Hit the splits fine, the middle one would have been about the same as the last one but we took a U turn in that one.

Shout out to Me because a few days ago I guessed what the score of the NBA finals game was gonna be, and I was 2 off of everything. I said it was going to be 94-89 and lebron would have 42, and the actual score was 96-91 and lebron had 40. Crazy stuff. 

Shout out to these guys for sick performances at the NCAA track and field championships; Jason Witt from BYU placing 3rd in the 10k, only losing to Ed Chesereck and Eric Jenkins of Oregon. Nate Jewkes of SUU placing 14th and Spencer Gardner of BYU placing 16th in the 10k as well. I cant remember his name but some guy from BYU, along with Mike Hardy from Weber qualified for the finals in the 3k steeplechase. Shea Martinez from BYU failed to qualify for finals in the 800 but the field was stacked and she made a very gutsy move with 400 to go to take the lead because the first 400 was slow, and gave everything she had. 

1 mile warm up and then a few games of sharks and minnows (yes I did have to look up how to spell minnows) which I got like .25 and some hard surges. Then we ran towards eaglecrest for our distance run. Average pace 7:15, a nice recovery run with a little bit of hills. Got some new Supernova Glide Boosts and they are feeling awesome. 

Gonna watch the finals tonight in the ncaa mens track and field championships tonight and the woman tomorrow so i'll have some rad shout outs for you. 

Good luck to my homies Austin Tamagno, Carlos Villareal, Destiny Collins, Lucy Biles, and the one and only CONNER MANTZ running in the Adidas Dream Mile tomorrow!  

Ran with Collin today. We ran in the heat of the day and it was collins first day back from efy, he had been running but he didn't feel good so it was at 7:31 average pace. We ran up the hill by Devon Moore's house and the church below chicken nugget and matt's house. I felt really good. When we got back to the high school I had some more mileage to do so I did it barefoot around the baseball and soccer fields. Then we went and jumped in the creek. 

Shout out to all the people in the dream mile! Also shout out to Ed Cheserek for his double in the 5 and 10k, he now at the end of his sophomore year already has 8 national championships. Also shout out to Andre De Grassi for his double in the 100 and 200, taking down studded fields in both of them. He put up some amazing times, even for being wind aided. 

Good luck to Jenna Prandini from Oregon #hearteyeemoji  She will run in the finals in the 100, 200, 4x100 and the 4x400 if they need her. She is the main scorer from oregon and hopes to lead them to the team title 

In track on distance run days we had recovery paced runs and distance pace runs, which are just to make sure we are going a good pace and get the legs going but still not too hard. It was a "distance pace" run, our range was 6:45-7:00 and it will get faster as the season goes on. We had a few miles that were slower than 7 but the avg pace with the warm up was 6:58 and thats all that matters. 

Today we did whistle hills, 3 sets of 15, 20, and 25 second sprints up a gradual incline. After each one we slowly jog/walk down to the line, have a few seconds and then go again. This workout is all mental and you get out of it what you put in. I pushed it hard and my hamstrings were exhausted. I had a few dry heaves but unlike kobe I didn't throw up. Shout out to him for pushing it and for wearing his galaxy shorts today, so we matched. After we stopped at Jamie's house and got water and finished miles. Ice bath in the creek after. Tomorrow will be a very slow recovery run.    

I had a meeting for sports marketing so I ran later by myself. Easy distance run at 7:17 pace cuz my legs were stiff from yesterday. I ran up the long gradual hill by buttscratches house, i guess i'll call it buttscratch hill. It was hot so I took a lot of brakes and stretched out.  

Tempo run today with about the same range as last time 5:30-5:45. We ran to willow park and jamie biked next to us to cheer us on and help us stay together. I started my watch once we were up to speed so my first mile was a little faster than others. I got 5:37, same as last weeks. Second mile, Thomas who was incharge of pacing was dying off so we went 5:50. After 2 miles we didnt have to stay together anymore if we were feeling better, so me, collin, and michael split off and finished in 5:26. A little out of the range but jamie was ok with it because the average was good and it was only few seconds under. I felt good and the overall time was faster than last weeks. Next week we will do 3.5 miles. Ran back at a nice easy pace.

Shout out to Collins mom for making us breakfast.

Shout out to Holt for killing the mileage board lately. 

Happy Birthday shout out to Kylie Labrum!

Warbeast is lost, I haven't seen him on the blog in a long time. Reward to whoever can bring him back to the straight and narrow.  

Didn't run on Friday or Saturday because i was having some pain in my forefoot. Iced it a lot over the weekend and today it felt much better so I ran. We did the dream mile and a half. To be safe I started out conservative and sped up as I went along. Ended up 5th and getting 9:14. Much slower than last time but I want to be healed all the way. My foot felt fine so im happy. Finished to 6.25 after. 

Switched out my glides for a pair of asics. Recovery run at 7:34 pace. We ran to the gazebo and turned left. Went back by the fish park and thru the jungle and finished a little over 8. 

Easy run to north lake park. It's really close to the lake so we trailblazed our way and eventually got to a nice beach like area. I had never been to the lake, so it was cool. Then we ran back and I was more tired than expected. Average pace 7:16

Had our weekly tempo run. This time 3.5 miles. 1.5 mile before and then we started. Michael was the leader this time. I forgot to lap my watch so I only got the second and third miles. Michaels first mile was 5:46. In the second mile I had to stop and tie my shoe so I was 20 seconds or so behind the pack, this took a bunch out of me mentally and I tried to make up some ground so that took even more out of me, so I died. My second and third miles were 6:00 and 6:06. Next time I'll tie my shoes tighter and hopefully it will go better. 

Jamie hopped off her bike and joined us along with jackie for our 5 remaining miles. Thank goodness cuz then we had an excuse to go 8 minute miles.  

Easy 7 miles so im fresh for the af canyon half tomorrow, 7:27 avg pace. We got 5 guys running it so we'll see how good of a team score we can get.  

Got to wake up before 4 and ride up on the buses to Tibble Fork. Half mile warm up and some strides to get ready. We had 5 guys running it. Me, Chicken Nuggett, Sean, Asa, and Josh. I was wondering what pace I was gonna go. I ended up just sticking with Sean and Nug for the first part. We were in the canyon for like 8 miles and everything was going great. My splits were

6:05

6:05

6:04

5:50

5:53

5:58

6:02

6:05

Then when it leveled out sean left me and nug and we were getting tired. Behind lone peak nug stopped to go to the bathroom, i got some gatorade and kept going. We hit highland glen park and I was soo tired. A little while after I got the drink I stopped for a moment and stretched. Climbed the only hill on the course and it wiped whatever I had left. Nug passed me with 3 miles to go, something like that and I held on for dear life from there. Other splits went like this 

6:22

6:28

6:32

6:35 

and 6:59 haha. Didn't stop my watch while I got a drink. But at least it wasn't over 7.

It was a very fun experience! Sean killed it, he got 7th place overall with a 1:16:55, then nug got 1:19:43 and 11th, and I got 1:21:59 a 6:16 avg pace and 17th overall place. Most miles I've ever done haha so I my training wasn't for half marathons but it was a challenging and fun day. Half mile cool down and some strides. 

Shout out to the guy who won cuz he ran it in 1:04:24.......thats a 4:55 avg! 

Recovery 9 miles at 7:21 avg pace. The other guys did whistle hills. 

AM: 7 miles at 7:18 avg pace. Ran up airport and by freedom. I woke up late so I was by myself. Gonna run a few more tonight with thom and jackie.

PM: Sick night run with thee jackie and thomas heaps. Ran jackie pace for the first two miles, 7:49 and 7:40 and then me and thom left her and went 6:53 and 6:38. Felt super nice, had a breeze going. Good times. Just had the bombest protein shake of my lyfe. Keep it real blog. 

Got in 3.25 miles and then 2x mile repeats in the pit. Our range was 5:10-5:24 and i got 5:14 and 5:11. It was hard and long because we dont do mile repeats that often, and i'm used to 400's and stuff, but a very good workout and I was feeling good. Then I finished up to 10 really slowly.

Been getting a ton of calls today, i wonder why

Birthday shout out to my homie Strrt. He kills it and is apart of the awesome senior class that i look up to so much. Shout out to Stewart for working extremely hard all his years at lehi, he had to put up so much with his diabetus at times but he still worked his but off and he's going on a mish so thats sick.   

Recovery 8.5 miles at 7:35 avg pace. Out and back up airport, thru the grove in the dip and towards smiths. Shout out to the Spring of Living Waters cuz it is the greatest thing on this earth.    

Today we had 10 pickups, for 90 seconds, at 2mile pace, with 90 seconds active rest in between. We ran towards thanksgiving point and I was doing good till 8. The pace on my watch was bouncing around a little bit but I think my avg was 4:50. Then once we hit the 8th one my legs felt really heavy and i couldn't speed up. So for that one I went 5:30. Then on the 9th one I was like 6 minutes. So I took a break and went with chicken nugget who was a little farther back. Cuz if im in the middle with no one, might as well stop and work with a teammate. We ran the last one 5:10 pace. Good workout cuz without spikes and on road and stuff, 9:40 pace was pretty good. Didn't finish well but not every workout is great.    

10 easy at 7:31 average pace. Felt nice and relaxing till the last couple miles when it got really hot but it was a good run. BYU camp next week along with super high mileage, im so hyped!

4 easy miles at 7:24 before I headed off the the Byu xc camp. Been here for a few hours and it's pretty sick. Tonight we will do around 2 miles, at kinda tempo pace to put us in our groups. Shout out to all the babes here I'm gonna slay. 

So for our first run of the camp we did a slightly hard 2.18 miles to decide what training group we are in. I started off relatively easy and went 5:49 for the first mile and was in like 40th pace because there's a ton of noobs who sprint and hen die. Then the second mile I ran 5:33 and had a sick negative split getting a lot closer to the leaders by the end I was just a few seconds behind garek and he leaders and got in group 1, the fastest one. I got in group 1 last year and I'm way faster now so I was expecting that. 2.18 miles at 5:43 average pace. Then a 2 mile cool down at 7:18. 

Last year we did an easy run in the morning and then a fartlek workout at about 5 and it was over 100 degrees, so this year they switched it up so it was perfect weather. Each morning we would head out for our run at 6:45 so i was cold when we got to kawanis, but by the time we were doing it, I was sweating but it wasnt hot at all. The workout was 5 min on, 5 min off, 4 min on, 4 min off, so on down to 1. We got a 4 minute warm up, so the five was really hard I was just getting my legs warmed up. I was in the back for the 5 and 4 and then in the middle for the 3 and then in the front for 2 and 1. Here's how long it was and how far I went.

5:02- .87

4:00- .73

3:07- .55

2:02- .39

1:00- .20

Good hard workout. If yur not familiar with Kawanis Park, its kinda a square and the north and south are flat, then the east side is uphill and the west side is downhill. And one lap is a mile, so we got a little bit of everything. Cool down to 7.  

Tuesdays second run was on the Provo River Trail. I only had 3 miles left for the day so an easy 3 at 7:31. One of the tunnels, that goes under one of the roads was totally flooded and went up to my ankles so we cruised thru it and it got me hecka turnt and my shoes felt like I ran thru a few water jumps. 

Tuesday night we had the dance and it was a good time with the homies.  

Headed up to the Y on the mountain but went on a different trail and it is a fricking sick trail hahaha. So my average for the run was 8:06 but trust me, I was pushing harder than a normal 8 minute mile run, there were some large uphill climbs. 5.5 miles 

The second run was at Stewart Falls. I didn't pack anything long sleeved so when they told us to bring a second layer I was just like um ok. It was cold before we started running cuz I was just sitting there getting wet but once we started you warmed right up. It was 2.25 up to the falls. It was aweful. The weeds and plants were way overgrown so your legs were hitting them every step and you got rashes all on them. I told myself there was no way I was going under the water fall cuz it was so cold but once you got up there, you were soaked so why not. It was freezing but super fun! Ran back a different way and finished at 4.5 

Then we were supposed to go to seven peaks but it got cancelled because of the weather so we had a second dance haha and I totally slayed all the babes but this girl from georgia in particular. Then it was pouring rain when we were supposed to walk back to our dorm from the idp, so we all grouped up and then sprinted a quarter mile back to our dorm in the pouring rain, in skater shoes. It was the funnest thing ever. 

Got to sleep in till 7:15. I had just a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast so i wouldn't be stuffed for the race. Had a clinic and then walked over to Kawanis. It was going to be 2 laps of the park, or 2miles. It ended up to be a little short. It was hot and very sunny so I warmed up 1.5 and tried to stay out of the sun as much as possible. Felt good before the race. I had hit my foot the night before, the one that had bothered me last week but it didnt hurt for the race so I was very happy. Shout out to Collin for once again letting me wear his spikes cuz mine got lost at region.

I got out decent up the first hill, nothing crazy. After the first lap of just going along I was in 14th and hit 5:21 at the mile mark. Pushed the slight uphill and then backed off a little on the steep uphill. Once it leveled out and the rest of the race is downhill or flat I started pushing it. One of the guys that I became good friends with over the course of the camp was Darren Harman. He's from Maryland and was in my van group. We were near each other the entire race, and switched off pushing the pace. He was ahead of me going into the last half mile. We started kicking and I was tired so I just went along with him. Hit a little downhill with only a couple hundred to go and I passed him and started really picking it up. Closed a lot of the gap on Jack Bluth (my bud from Georgia) and Camden Smith (Matt Jones' cousin) but I waited too long. I could have got them if I didn't leave so much till the end of the race. That is one thing I'm going to work on this season. I ended up 6th place, respectable for how deep the camp was this year. It was my boy Garek 9:34, Ryan 10:02, Colter from Davis 10:07, Jack and Camden both 10:14, me 10:16 and Darren 10:22.

The camp was so much fun this year, even better than last year which I didn't think was possible. Shout out to all the sick homies that made it fun Garek, Danny, Colter, Duncan, Aubrey, Allie, Darren and all the people in my van, Zach Wood, Caleb, Camden, Hershel, John, our counselor Mckay, Braydon Mclelland our van driver and ex AF Caveman, Steve the dunk specialist, Kate, Emma, and all the other babes I slayed. To make the camp even better, I was given the Evan Jager look-a-like award, and I got this sick medal haha it made me pretty happy. Thanks to all the coaches, athletes, and other staff that made it possible. 

1.5 mile cool down and then after most people had left I went on a run with Garek, Danny, Colter, Duncan, John Harper, Jared Wared, and some other dudes. It should have been easy but the other guys pushed it and it was more like a run with increasing paces and ended like a tempo haha. Our splits were 7:02, 6:27, 6:14. 5:22. The last mile was all gradual down hill so it didn't feel as hard as a normal 5:22 would so thats better.    

Ran with Michael. We ran 4 out from the highschool towards my old house cuz he only had 8 miles. Then when we got back, michael hopped on his bike and biked next to me and we 2 miles to his house. Then I ran back to the highschool to get 12. First 8 miles at 7:04 avg and then got tired and didn't have michael running with me so i took it easy at 7:39 after that. 

14 miles to end the week. 7 out on the Murdock canal trail, a little passed highland glen park. It was hard but not as hard as I thought it would be going 14. 7:59 first mile haha getting my legs loose after the race a couple days ago and stuff, then 7:21, 7:16, 7:17, 7:18, 7:32, 7:15, 7:18, 7:13, 7:12, 6:56, 7:06, 7:20, 6:54. 

There were a few miles that dropped off a lil, but most of the miles were 7:21 to 7:12, so I was very pleased with that. 7:18 avg pace for the entire run. Very good run to complete one of the best training weeks I've ever had. In a pre season ranking the Lehi boys came came in at 21st in the nation so if our guys that have had some injuries get healthy we can do awesome things this year. 

Shout out to Jacob Roberts the speed skater, who also ran a little bit of track for us this year, cuz I saw him out getting a run in. 

Shout out to me for putting in 66 miles this week and being the highest in the mileage board I ever have.

Everyone else did Dream Mile and a half while me and ryan just jogged it because we did speed stuff last week. We got 11:08. Then we finished up miles, ryan and michael turned back early because of their low miles. Me and nug ran down the big dipper and up the little dipper towards smiths and then back. Easy pace with some fun hills. 

8 mile distance run. 4 miles out on the rail trail to the chasm and back. 7:37, 6:39, 6:48, 6:48, 6:32, 6:34, 6:33, 6:25. Average pace 6:46. Little faster than I normally would have liked but because i didn't do the dream mile and a half yesterday and dont have speed till thursday or friday it was ok. 

Shout out to my mom for knowing the name of the spring of living waters

Shout out to Little Ath cuz i saw her on the ol' run
 

7:11 avg. Out and back, Eaglecrest Elementary. After we went to Thoms house and got the best tasting powerballs ever. Then we jumped in the SOLW. Good luck to the bae @destinycollins in Columbia tonight.

1 mile and then Jackie wanted to run on a softer surface cuz something was bothering her so we packed 10 guys into thoms truck, or the back of thoms truck and drove to the murdock canal for 9 more miles. 7:08 avg pace. Cadence was 166 spm. Kept it easy for the tempo tomorrow. But then we got back and we had a weight workout and the squats and stuff wrecked me so I'm already feeling sore. Hopefully all goes well.

Introduced Brad to the solw. 

Shout out to Maddy Kauffman cuz she becomes an adult today!

1.5 miles and then 3.5 mile tempo. As always our pace was 5:30-5;45. Our splits were 5:41, 5:37, 5:44, 5:20 for .5  Shout out to Collin for leading it and making it easier for the rest of us. Felt great going into the break away point at 2.5 miles. Me and Ryan split off and sped up a little bit, still felt good. Everyone did awesome. 5:38 avg for the 3.5 

After finished up 10 and then went to the Hinckleys for breakfast with the missionaries and some team bonding games of sting pong.   

12 miles on the Ridge Trail up AF canyon, we call it the real deal. Its got plenty of up and down hill so my avg pace was 8:42 #dontjudge Going out it has one tough up hill around 3.5 and then a lil before the 5 mile mark another uphill that is the hardest hill I know that comes to mind. It kicks my trash, i dont even like talking about it. Austin, Collin, and Michael had 8 miles today so they didn't have to run up it. Me and thom need another mile so we choose this trail and it just climbed the whole mile. Sweet. And the way back wasn't that much better cuz the downhill is ugh. The last climb with a half mile to go wasn't as hard as I remember. Hard but fun day cuz I was with my boys.  

3 miles and then whistle hills. Sprints up a gradual hill for 15,20, and 25 seconds. Rest is jogging down to the start line. 3 sets. First set was good, then I kinda fell off a little but it was still a good workout. Finished to 8 after.

Shout out to Sami for bumping up the mileage and for sharing her super good hot chocolate and toast with me #heartemoji

Shout out to Brynlie Cox for getting her mornin run in

Shout out to Conner Mantz cuz he leaves for his mission in Ghana this week. I've looked up to Conner ever since I started running for lehi and watching him kick trash and win a plethora of races on his way to an illustrious high school career. I got to know him a lil this track season and he's such a cool guy. He's gonna kill it on the mish and in college.

Spinny park thru the jungle to the fishy park. At the church down the road we turned right and had a mile of gradual down hill to 3.5 out for 8 total. Core after. SOLW. Then we broke into Thoms house and played tramp bball.

2.5ish miles and then 6x600s at 5k pace @ the grass oval above the cemetary. Splits were 2:01, 1:54, 1:54, 1:56, 1:57, 1:51. Decent workout. First one was obviously bad, but we got back on track after that. We need to work on hitting the splits and not worrying about the other guys and team stuff but were working and getting better and stuff. Cool down to 8. Core.

Shout out to Brad for coming out and getting in shape and throwing down some sick dunks with me yesterday.

Shout out to Adela, jackies friend from usu who went to oklahoma state for three years, cuz she knows Cerake Geberkidane and she d8ed thee Chad Noelle for like a year. Chad won the 1500 at the ncaa championships this year! And she's gettting me a sick Oklahoma State Jersey for free!

Shout out to Kylie for breaking my heart  

AM: Warm up and then ran to the grass oval. 1 mile and then some dope games of capture the flag. My team of me, collin, thom, brad, and others won 2-1. We played for like an hour so once we were done I was hecka tired so I will do a night run.

PM: 4.25 at 7:15 pace. Mile repeats tomorrow, going for all of them around 5:15

Awesome work out today. 4x mile repeats in the pit. You could call it the lehi version dirt mile. Range was 5:10-5:21 with 5 minutes recovery but we got like 6 minutes each time. Was planning on doing 3 but after the third I was still feeling good and new I could do another one on pace. Splits were 5:15, 5:14, 5:14, 5:13 #clockwork. Fun workout, wasn't having to kill myself to hit the time. Everybody was gone today so it was just me and the watch doing the pacing. Really happy with where I am right now. Cool down to 10.

Shout out to Big T (thomas phillips) he is a sick soccer player and comes and runs with us and even did 4 repeats with me today. 

Ran with Thom. We ran to smiths and then turned right and went passed pizza pie. Went a different way back, by mountain ridge jr high. and freedom. Avg pace was 7:21. Good run. Camp next tuesday-thursday. 

Forgot to set my alarm this morning but the extra sleep felt really nice cuz I was up late watching Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. It was sick. There was a breeze so it wasn't hot but then the breeze turned into a wind storm and it sucked really bad. Avg pace 7:00. 

Shout out to us because next three days are trail running and high mileage! #turnips

Shout out to Brayden Youngberg and Addison Hedges from Weber cuz I just checked out their sick blogs. Brayden even has me in his favs.   
 

First day of XC camp. We started at tibble fork, me and Thom having the highest mileage ran to Silver Lake and back. Papa Heaps also ran with us so shout out to him. But also shout out to him because he turns 43 today! The trail was cool till a lil before silver lake it got super rocky. But the lake was beautiful and we got some sick pics. Running down kinda made my joints hurt but it wasn't too bad. We got back a long time after everybody else so I ice bathed in the solw. Weird thinking this will be my last camp.

Second day of camp. We ran the trail on the outskirts of Deer Creek like last year. 12 miles at 6:52 avg. Has some hills but mostly rolling so you can get some nice speed on the downhills. There was a rather large hill at 5.3 and then with like 3 miles to go but it was all good clean fun. Had a nice time swimming around after the run.

Shout out to all the chumps who get back before me and Thom and drink the chocolate milk. Savages.

Shout out to Collin for getting some rad sunburns and having rad hair #baaaaaallllleeeerrrr

Last day of camp today #cryingemoji We did the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, also known as bacon salmon turkey #hazzahhazzah First 5 is relatively downhill and then next 5 is relatively uphill so it was a tuff day. But It definitely was not as hard as I remembered it from last year. My legs were feeling it from the other two days of camp too. I need some recovery runs now. 

After we went to this clubhouse and had lunch and then had a pool party so shout out to Dylans parents for making that happen. Then went and ice bathed and had food and played sting pong at the Hinckleys. Shout out to Asa for beating me twice in 2K12, black top style.

Happy Birthday shout out to the dm queen Alli P! It took forever but she finally turned 16 and we can go on sick d8s 

Shout out to Jamie's mom for setting us up with some sick snow cones

Met up with Thom, Austin, Michael, Collin and Riley this morning. Normal warm up loop and then a mile to the cemetary. I wanted some grass running so we took our shoes off and did two laps around the perimeter. Then finished up 8. Did my core after and am about to head over to the solw.

Computer and Protein shake cred to Thomas Matthew Alma Heaps  

Same place as monday, 7:05 avg pace. Nice run with the homies. Had some delicious french toast after. Cred to mama hinckley. Keep it real.

Once again I had alarm troubles this morning and missed the dream mile and a half with the team. So I had Austin ride next to me on his bike. 2 mile warm up with some strides. It was rainy but felt good. I haven't raced the dmh in a while and im getting in better and better shape so I was expecting to beat my old pr of 8:24. Felt good going over the overpass and pushed the downhill. First mile was 5:30. Just tried to keep a good pace going towards the jr high. Pushed hard the last part of airport. The last stretch never felt so long. Finished 8:19, got the pr. Happy with 5 seconds cuz its so frickin hard to pr. 

Stopped at the heaps' for some water and then started going and saw jackie doing some pickups so I joined her for a little while till she was done. Went on the MCT for a lil, finished to 10.75

Shout out to Sami for going to cali and missing the rain today. Now i'll have to drink my hot chocolate alone. 

Shout out to Brad cuz he's gonna get a blog soon. I'll keep you updated. 

Shout out to Austin for help pacing me today and for also getting a 5 second pr in the dmh today. 

Nice easy distance run today. Went mostly with Nug cuz the other guys thought we were going to fast for recovery pace, but our avg pace was 7:13 which I dont think is that bad for elite runners like me and nug. Turned left at the four way by bradys and then hopped on the rail trail. Turned around at four out and then did .25 around the high school. Didn't stop after the warm up, i need to do more runs like that. Then lower body workout after with some bench thrown in there for fun. Didn't ice bath today cuz the springs on but I got a bag of ice at my house so may do one later.

Once again shout out to Thom for Protein Shake and computer cred

Shout out to Brad for hitting 20 tramp bball shots from the same spot in a row. He smashed my previous record of 8. It was weird cuz before he hit 20 in a row, he only got to 5.  

Shout out again to brad for getting a blog. Just so you know a lil about him, he ran for lehi and graduated the year before I ran my freshman xc season. But before he left on his mish he stayed around and ran with us and coached a lil and stuff and we were buds. Now he has been back for 8 months and he comes and runs with our team to stay in shape and play bball with us and sick stuff. Sadly he will be leaving soon to Snow College but he got a blog so we can see what sick stuff he's doing down there. Hit him up @B-rad Barton. 

Happy Birthday shout out to Mama Heaps' father, Grandpa Whiting. We went over to his house in orem today for some sweet family bonding and a game of Phase 10 in which I started out killing it and then crashed and burned. 

Mile warm up then headed over to sego lily elementary and ran around the field a lil before our workout. 10x60 seconds @ 5k race pace with 90 seconds rest. Took the ol shoes off which was ok but not the greatest cuz they dont have the best grass. Not exactly sure what my average pace was cuz it was bouncing around a ton on my watch. There were two sharp turns that you had too slow down and then pick it back up. Guessing the avg pace was about 5:10 for the first 7 then we picked it up to 4:50 our last 3. Finished up to 10 at an easy money type pace. Then went over to Ryans for ping pong and bball. 

The people who are gonna miss our team race next week ran it today. Me and thom and some dudes went and ran the course. It includes highland glen park and the mct. Then drove back to the high school and ran a couple more miles. 

Night run with Justus, Hank, Brad, Collin, Asa, Big T, Chicken Nug. It was a sick run, went to vets and had a nice run around the bases, then back on main. 4.5 miles avg pace 7:31. 

Shout out to milesplit that ranked orem and westlake the 5th and 6th fastest schools in utah, with us 11th #hatersgonnahate #lawl