Train insane or remain the same

First run in two months. 5 minutes on the treadmill. 

Treadmill 

Good old treadmill 

Little jog on the tread 

On the turf with Jamison and Coach Talley 

Turf run before heading over to watch the high school basketball games with my Dad and Uncles. 

Turf run with the PV boyz 

turf

Around the turf at Snow Canyon. Shout out to the Pine View homies for killing it at their meet. 

Turf. Beautiful day. 

treadmill

treadmill

Around the turf. Beautiful day

Around the turf, nice and rainy 

Around the turf

Nice run out towards pipe with Russell the Muscle. My new Altra's felt nice

Treadmill run after grinding on Math all day. I got a 90% on my test!

Lower 

Pipe

Middle 

Neptune park w my dad

Pipe. I got to run with Austin on the way back and that was fun. We dropped the pace a little so my face was red when I finished. 

Pipe with my main man Taylor Dillon. 

Pipe before helping out at the track meet. 

Lower with Krey and Austin. Good times 

Pipe

Beautiful morning run with Krey, Colter, and Danny. 

Nice run on Pipe before watching one of the conference races. 

Hospital loops

Nice run on Pipe. While at physical therapy I let Talon stretch my foot way too hard and it aggravated it. 
 

Short run on Pipe before heading out on our road trip!!! So excited its gonna be sweet!

Big Sur: We decided to climb Mount Manuel because it was the only trail that was longer than 2 miles. It was a really steep climb and so it was a rough time but the sweet views made for a great time. 

Santa Cruz: Super cool run! We didn't really have an idea of where we were going to run and just ran on the road to start. It got really tight so we hopped off and found a path close by. That dirt pathed turned into white sand for a little while which was cool. It was open spaced with some trees. It felt like the beach and forest had a baby and we were running in it. Up until then the first couple miles were relatively flat but then we started to do some steep up and down. It turned into more dense forest with super tall trees. I ran with Conner for most of the run. 

Lake Tahoe: It is beautiful here! The lake has the most blue water I've ever seen. We jumped in yesterday and it was freezing but really fun. For our run we did an out and back on this path that goes along the main road. Chill morning  

Mammoth Lakes: Parked at the track and ran out on the dirt road by the hot springs. It was perfect weather and just a super chill run. Foot felt great. 

Got some sweet pics on the track after 

5 miles from the Heaps’ to the AF gazebo and back but ran up Airport on the way back. It was the hardest it’s ever been to get up it haha cuz I’m out of shape and I was running way too fast. Stupid of me. 

Post run protein shake and chat with Papa Heaps 

Treadmill after Christian and Summers wedding, big congratulations to them!

Pipe towards Rainbow a lil bit 

Chill run with Parker. Went to AF Junior and added on a lil before flipping. Shout out to him cuz when we got back he let me ride his new bike around the parking lot, it was a lot of fun. 

Didnt have my watch so I ran to AF junior again cuz I knew the distance. Shout out to my brother Jared cuz he’s getting married today!! 

First time running with the boys this summer. Wednesday’s are chill so we took it nice and easy on the way out. We ran to the outlook on Pipe and then split and had a group go back. The others sped up while I kept it chill. Even tho getting up early takes effort, it was nice. 

Day 1 of the men's trip up to Causey. 5 on the trails. It was a nice run, got some hills, and had lots of fun paddleboarding after.

Ran on this nice dirt road a short drive from Causey. It was like Jeremy Ranch and the road in Mammoth. Rolling hills but net downhill on the way out. Foot and everything felt great. 

Great run with Thom and Parker. Always a good time while running with old teammates. We ran up to the ol' Jail Trail and back by Smiths. Recovered with some high quality french toast.  

Institute, PT, Chiro, and then a short run on Pipe. 

Reverse Upper with the gang. 

Night run around Lehi like the good old high school days. Started at the Legacy center, then over by the twins old house and towards Trafalga then flipped. Running with Jamie tomorrow morning. 

Jamie had 16 today (training for Des News marathon) so she did 7 and then we ran 9 together. We met up at Westlake and then ran on the Jordan River trail. Nice chill run and a good time chatting about college and stuff 

Ran with my man Ryan today. We started at the “World Class High School” of Lone Peak and ran towards the Canyon. When we got to the mouth we turned right and headed uphill. We went out for a lil bit on the dirt path that eventually connects with BST. While coming back we went a different way and got a little turned around but eventually made our way back. 

Afterwards we went and visited the legend Zack Ericksen! Hopefully we can go running and ball together soon. 

Beus to Pipe. Ran out too far cuz Zach and I were distracted by our discussion of NBA free agency. 

Today was my day off so I biked and then went and played soccer which is a lot of running so not completely a day off, my body hurts even more than if I had done a long run lol 

Had the honor of running with the one and only Garek B today. We did an 8 mile loop on Wasatch. Weather was amazing and we had a great time. For breakfast we went to Corner Bakery :) 

Happy 4th of July!!! 

Chill run on Pipe

AM: Upper. I was reminded of how much I don't like it. Strides. 7.6 with lifting after. I threw up towards the end lol   

PM: Warm up and gate analysis 

Great run with Thomas and Papa Heaps. I wanted to get some hills in so we ran up the dip, the other side of killers, the hill up to Sami’s house, and then airport. Even saw Ryan and ran with him for a bit! 

Ran with Thom on Potato Hill in Corner Canyon. It’s beautiful area with tons of nice trails. We came back and thought that Clark’s trail would get us back to our car. It didn’t really, well it would have if we hadn’t ran out of mileage. It was some great climbing tho, definitely want to come back and do it again. 

Ran with Thomas, Zack, Maddie, and Jacob on Murdock. First time on there in a long time, it was great as always. Maddie went hard from the gun and had the rest of us working hard lol it was a great time with friends as well as a strong effort. 

First time running with the guys in a fat minute. We met at Rainbow Gardens and ran on the Parkway. Out 4 and then flipped with Colter. Had a good time talking with him. 

Reverse Upper

Reverse Upper 

Early morning run starting from Willowcreek before going horseback riding. 

Murdock Canal. 2 with the twins, 2 more with Riley and Parker, 6.5 more by myself. Always a good time seeing the guys. 

North Lehi with Thomas. 

Started at Lehi HS and did South Lehi with Thom, ran by my old stomping grounds. Good times 

Night run on the soccer field. Started at 9 and the temp wasn't too bad. Got a nice view of some fireworks. Strides. 

Met at 21st street pond, a nice place to do tempos and power runs. Warmed up over to Fort Buenaventura and started the Power run from there. I've only done strides up to this point so I went not as far and not as fast as the other guys but something is still more than nothing. 4.14 at 5:49 avg. Felt nice and smooth, it's a good starting point. Next week on Tuesday we'll be doing 2x2 miles at Beus and going a little faster. Two mile cooldown with Colter.  

Reverse Upper 

Long run on Murdock Canal. Legs were a little tired after the tempo-reverse upper combo. I was graced by my dads presence on the bike for the first six miles, before a tire went flat and I had to go pick him up in the car.  

Rolled my ankle. 

Warm up with the guys and then grass loops. Ankle felt normal. I wanted to do a workout tomorrow but coach said to finish the week out with distance runs. 

Reverse Upper and a few hill strides

Parkway + BST add-on. Nice run on the Parkway, was able to get into a rhythm and then wanted to get a little bit of uphill so I headed up the BST which was really nice. 

Met by the toll road but instead of running on the parkway we ran into the small town and then up the mountain onto a really nice dirt path. We got past one fence but then on the second one which was a little harder to get through we turned around. You could add on going the other way though. Definitely gonna come back and run there again. Excited for a tempo tomorrow :)

Tempo at 21st street pond. Did 3 miles 5:31, 5:28, 5:33, ninety seconds rest, 5:29. Felt a little tired due to lack of sleep, need to do better on that. 

I was tired. Chill run with Zach on Pipe. 

Short workout today. 8x60 seconds uphill on the golf course with 90 seconds rest. It was a good time, getting stronger little by little. 

Ran with good old Travis Feeny who recently returned from his mish in Tallahassee. He's in surprisingly good shape tho. We met at Rainbow and ran up the BST (where I ran on Saturday) but instead of going out on the flat road we kept climbing on another trail. It was nice, had a good view, and he said it kept going all the way to Ben Lomond.   

Great run at Powder Mountain. It was beautiful and high elevation is always fun!

Rainbow Gardens on the BST. 

Power run which means 21st street pond. The first part was 4.25 at 5:35-40 pace. I ran it with Zach and we were in the range. I was feeling good. Even at the end, I wasn't feeling very fatigued. We got about a 90-second break and then finish to 6. Since I was feeling good I ran more with Dylan and Carson and was able to drop the pace. Good workout, just gotta keep working and getting a little better every day.    

6x3:15 at 5:12 pace on Murdock Canal. Shout out to Mike, he rode by on the bike as I was starting my first one. It was a little hard for me to keep the pace consistent for the whole 3:15 since I'm more used to running tempo pace. Couldn't quite get the pace down to 5:12 avg for all of them but I'm still happy with it.  

Ran the first 25 with Pine View and caught up with the goat Coach Holt. Then added on some more on my own. St George is warm. 

Paved trail in North Vegas

Upper, down to the bathrooms, back up the steep hill which I am now going to start calling Poop out hill, down Enve. Strides. Guessing on the distance cuz I didn't have my watch. 

Workout down on the grass/turf. The Riley Cook fartlek special. 4 sets of 3on, 1off, 1on, 3off. Averages for the three minutes was 5:05 and one minute was 4:46. 

Didn't have time to run in the morning so I went with the guys who were doubling. It was so freaking hot! We ran up the road and took a left onto a dirt trail. It was a solid climb on the way out. 

Warm-up up the road. 3 mile tempo down, 90 sec rest, 1 mile tempo up. Coming down the range was 5:15-20 and we were inside on all of them. The mile back up went by surprisingly quick and it was hard but I think I could have gone harder while still not going anaerobic.

Last day of camp :( it goes by so fast! We drove about 15 minutes to a trail that we didn't do last year. I really enjoyed it. It sure did climb! But Coach P who hadn't run the trail in forever forgot to remind us to go a certain way and so we kept on climbing when it would have flattened out. Right before I flipped there started to be lots of trees and the trail widened and it reminded me of horseback riding nature. Fun run. Strides.  

First time ever on the Jeremy Ranch Trail. After the run I can say that I really liked it and I can see why so many people run there. Hit 6:10's going out (downhills) and 6:40's (uphills) on the way back. Great Saturday long run. 

AM: Hospital Loops 

PM: Reverse Upper and strides 

Mile repeats at Beus. I did 5 @ 5:04 avg. 2:30 rest. Felt nice and smooth. Great workout. The other guys looked good. Excited for the season. 

St Joes and back 

Beus. I think the workout was (3x400,1x800) x3 or 4. I can’t remember, I’m putting this in 5 days later. Something with 4’s and 8’s. It was good. Lifting after was cool expect I prolly went a little too hard #couldn’tsitdownthenextday 

End of Pipe and back. 2nd annual Weber State xc meet was a great time!

Didn't have my gps watch so just went off time. Deer Creek reservoir. It was awesome as always. I got way farther out than I ever have before. Almost to the other side. Great week. Season starts next week!!

Potato Hill. Always a great place to run. 

Beus. 2x400, 6xK, 2x400. Didn't have the watch so I gotta guess a little on mileage. K's were 3:05-3:07 

Pipe and up Poop-out hill. The technical name for that section is Waterfall Canyon. 

AM: Nice run with around the Hospital with one of my favorite people of all time, Carson Horspoo

PM: It was hot! Chill run on Pipe. Strides.  

Race-tempo at CSI. It went ok. Just getting the rust off. Looking forward to BYU next week. 

Long run on South Weber Canal Trail. I really like it on there. Felt great.  

AM: Waterfall Canyon - Upper - Enve loop.  

PM: Reverse Upper followed by some barefoot running on the turf and strides. The barefoot running felt great until after I realized I did too much and maybe the turf was too hot and my left foot had a nasty blister.   

Cut down at Beus. Went 2k,mile,1200,800,800,800,400,400. Paces got faster each time you dropped the distance and it wasn't an easy workout but pretty much everybody did very well. It started pouring right as we finished so everybody got a lil soaked   

Reverse Upper. Went to my first Wednesday night message. My hamstrings, especially the right, were super tight. 

AM: Pipe 

PM: Tune up on the grass 

AM: Pipe 

PM: Warm up jog before messages and feeling out my spikes 

BYU Autumn Classic. Even tho this was a down week in mileage as we are preparing for a strong training block these next three weeks leading up to Notre Dame, my legs had felt heavy all week. Friday, Saturday, and Monday took a toll on them. And then I went out too hard the first mile and paid the price for it. Shortly after the first mile I knew it was gonna be long day. I ended up averaging about the same mile pace that I wanted going into it, but I wasn’t able to stay with the other Weber guys and faded most of the race. Now my focus turns to these next couple weeks and getting some good workouts. 

AM: Met up with my boy Ben Chadburn and did a hospital loop with him. Left him and added on some more around the south Ogden neighborhoods.

PM: Not sure how far. Forgot my watch. Upper, dropped down by the bathrooms, pipe. Not a great day. 

2 sets 600,400,600,400,600,200 on the grass field. The goal for 6's was 1:51, 4's and 2 - 6:40 pace. 2 minutes rest in between sets. Started off great and then in the second set it got harder and harder for me to hit pace on the 4's and I wasn't recovering for the 6. The last 6 of the second set was slow. 2 min break. Then everybody had either 1,2, or 3 more but instead of jogging a 400 we got 90 seconds rest. Coach told me I had one more but after I hit the pace I told him I could do a second one because we were getting standing rest and my body was recovering. Ran one more and threw in a little kick 1:47.       

Lower - Pipe. 

PM: Power run at 21st street pond. Love that place. 1 lap is a little over a mile so we do 4 miles and then a little extra to get back to the starting line where the water is. 90 sec rest. Then finish to 7 miles for me, 8 for the top group. The goal for the first 4.3 was 5:25 and we were a couple seconds faster than that. I felt soooo good. And it felt like everybody else in group B did too cuz we seemed really smooth. It felt like my heart rate wasn’t even elevated and the only thing that I was working was my legs. Took the quick break. Second set pace was see what you can do. I stayed at the same average which was good. Not only was it a good workout that helped build fitness and confidence and help down the road, but it was fun. And you gotta have fun. 

AM: 3.8 on Pipe. Some of it with Ben and some with Jacob. 

Reverse Upper, barefoot turf, hill strides. 

North Ogden Canal Trail. The technical single track was as bad as people said it was, but then everything else was great.

AM: Was in the middle of a hospital loop when my boy Cox came along so I ran with him and it was a great time. 

PM: Ran to Beus and some guys went on this short path that I never knew was there. It went out into neighborhoods and started climbing. It went up close to Coach P's house and we went through the two little gates, hopped on a trail and pretty soon were running past Enve. Apparently, that's how the girls run to upper. I really liked all the climbing. I dropped down by the bathrooms and added on Pipe. Had a funny run-in with Liza and Lily. Strides 

10xK at Beus. Longest workout I've done. 3:05 avg. Last few were mentally difficult. I was in the back cuz the other guys were running faster but Coach was fine with 3:05 so I tried to stay positive and just focus on hitting the time. Really happy with it. This workout will be a great benefit in a couple weeks.   

End of the World. Right before we cross the golf course we went on Gibs. I don't think I've ever run down right there. Only up it like twice and it's pretty steep. Popped out at Mt Ogden. Ran north on the roads for a bit until you get to the end of the world and then drop down and climb back up by the end of pipe. It was like a sixty-five minute run but for some reason, it felt like we were running for two hours.  

Riley Cook fartlek spécial on the grass. 3 sets of 4 min at 5:05avg, 1 min slow jog, 1 min at 4:36avg, 4 min at long-run pace.    

AM: Hospital loops and South Ogden neighborhoods

PM: Pipe 

ISU Invite. We had talked about how the course has rolling hills but we majorly underestimated them. There were two hills that were freaking steep. Like one step below the mutha cussa type steep. Glad I went out conservative, but I still didn't even move up that much. I know don't have lots of training under my belt and have to be realistic but I feel like I'm in shape to be racing faster and runnng faster in workouts and something, I think a lack of mental toughness is holding me back. I'm sick of running like a scrub and need to figure it out. 

Long cooldown on the Roosevelt trail. We climbed a pretty tough, long mountain, and had we wanted to keep going up another giant one, we could have went up Chinese Peak. Maybe someday. We took the single track down and it had so many gradual switch-backs going down the mountain. I was very impressed. I wish Enve was like that.   

Shout out to Joe for recommending Jeri's Jumbo's Cafe, we ate there after the race and it was 10/10! 

Upper, dropped down Waterfall, up Reverse Upper, and down Enve. 

3x400,5x800,2x400,2x200 at Beus. 400's at 71ish. 800's at 2:23ish except the last one at 2:14. Beautiful day.  

4x1600, 4x400 at 21st street. Goal was 4:52’s til faster on the last one. We went 4:47 (thought we were slow because marks on the ground were off) 4:53, 4:47, 4:43. Great workout. Coach wasn’t there. I wish I could have been able to run a little more conservative and been allowed to do 5 but whatevs. Very happy with it. 400’s in 68 ish. 

Pipe 

South Weber Canal before making crepes :)

Reverse Upper

10x400 at Beus 

Pipe

Pre-meet

AM: Shakeout run 

PM: USU Invite. Best race this season by far. I put myself in a much better position to compete with others compared to the other races. Well I put myself in good position at BYU it was just too good of position and I died... But felt great. Going down the bottom half of the figure 8 the second time an Isaacs army guy passed me but I went with him and after a little while realized that I could even go faster, passed him, and found a second wind. Proud of the mental toughness that I had to go with him. Had a very strong last uphill. From running the course so many times I knew that you could get closer to redlining earlier in the race due to the downhill finish. Gained quite a bit of ground on the uphill. I caught and passed Conner when he had a sizeable gap on me at the start of the lap. Kept on pushing, passing more people. After the little grass u-turn loop section thing I came up on Zach and told him to come with me and started really moving. Finished strong and was suprised to see the clock show 21:48 a 32 second improvement from last year! I finally was able to really push myself mentally which allowed me to push myself physically and have a great race. Landon and Jared were both there so that was pretty sweet to have them be able to watch. We went to Even Steven's after the race. Always a 10/10!  

Started at Rainbow Gardens and ran to where we park at South Weber. Really liked how it was just one way, no flipping. My legs were tired but I gave it my best effort to stay with the traveling guys for as long as possible. I stayed with them for two of the 6:0X miles and then hit consistent 6:20-30's. It was dang cold at Rainbow because of the canyon wind but got fine as we moved down the parkway. Until the sun came up and how the temperature drops around that time. Holy shiz. I was running with Zach and all of a sudden everything froze. Not fun haha but good memories. Stopped at the bathroom. Came out and Coach and Frazier had joined up with us. Last mile it felt like someone had attached bricks to my legs haha.   

Ran after my Grandpa's funeral. It was a very touching experience. He was a great man. Ran on Pipe with strides after. 

400,1600,3x800,3x400,1600. 

Kind of a weird workout bouncing the pace from 66 to 74 to 70 before settling in. It was fun tho. Felt strong. The mile at the end was really fun. I liked the short fast and then finish with a longer interval dynamic.