called to serve: Florida Tallahassee

JUNE!!!

Did some basketball running this morning, besides that nothing. Family Reunion this weekend.

My cousin and I ran about a mile on the trail to the narrows in Zion today. We were looking for one of our cousins who descided to leave everybody and start back on their own. We found her and got some running in also. 

Wasatch practise today. We did the same thing we did last week but today was a lot faster. We had 7 out of 12 for our team today and all of the girls.

1- 6:39  2- 6:59  3- 7:35  4- 8:36  5- 7:31      (7:26/mi average)   (43:06 total)

Off to the lake today, last day of the fam reunion.

I ran to the school and back with my sister. I ran with her and kept it easy. She ran by herself once this week when I was at practise so that is really good.

19:38 total   8:38/mi average

Webb Hill today. On my watch I got 5.57 miles but if you add up the hill (1 mile out 1 mile hill) it adds up to 6 miles but the hill is not exactly 1 mile so you can't add it up perfectly. We ran the entire hill once then did the last half twice. I didn't stop at all, last time I had to stop once. I felt ok, probably could/should have gone harder. I tried to get splitts for all the different sections of the run by hitting lap on my watch so here they are.

1 mile out: 7:04      

1 hill (.93 on my watch): 9:52 (coach decker had me at 9:36)

1/2 hill: 4:14

1/2 hill: 4:17

1 mile back: 7:10

I ran in the afternoon when it was not as hot as usual. I went really slow but I wanted to get some distance in. Tomorrow I am having surgery for some braces stuff to work on my mouth and I will be out for the weekend. I think I will be able to run Monday.

I ran down past Ally's old house (saw Ally) and on the trail by the river for a while. Then I went up and got a drink at the rock climbing park and headed down the road. I went up the industrial road and past the school back down to my house. I wanted to get 6 miles, then I wanted to cut it short during the run but I pushed throught that and kept going. It ended up being longer than I planned. I was slow and my knees and hips (not flexor) hurt a little probably from the hill yesterday but it was a pretty long run.

59:25 total   8:47/mi average

Surgery for braces stuff. Screws and stuff in my mouth to pull some of my upper teeth up so my bite will close and jaw will move.

Still recoverying from surgery. My face is really swollen :-)

XC PRACTICE!!!!!!!

We started cross country practice today and I am excited. We went through the desert and out by the freeway and back to the school. It was a good run and I ran pretty fast. There was a lot of people, new people and others that I knew already. We will see who stays and comes as we go along. This is going to be a fun year.

I felt pretty good running and I ran pretty fast. I could see the front and that made me go faster, trying to catch Baker and Ruth and Steve O. My mouth didn't hurt from the surgery but it is not back to normal yet. I am going to try and do some extra running to get ready for the 10k this weekend. Hooray Running!!

1- 7:25  2- 7:51  3- 6:32   4- 7:07   .70 5:10

7:16/mi average   34:07 total

Wasatch practice. We did repeats today. Two 1 mile repeats and four 800 repeats on the way back. We ran from the church to the trail by the river and ran on the trail for our repeats. My watch ran out of batteries but coach D had times and it worked out good. 

1rst mile- 5:59  2nd mile- 6:15 1rst 800- 3:15  2nd 800- 3:30  3rd 800- 3:12  4rth 800- 3:02 

The first two mile repeats I worked hard to stay with Decker and did pretty good. The end of  my last mile felt fast. I might have gone out to fast on the miles because I was really tired for the 800s or I just needed to work harder. On the first two 800s I got a little sick but mostly just negative and slowed down. On the 3rd one I pushed through that and did better and the last one was good. This was a good work out.

XC practice. We did an easy 3 miler today, I tried to take it pretty easy because of the 10k summer games tomorrow. Ran with Decker and we kept up with coach and Ruth for a while untel them and J. Ells. and Tayson T. pulled away from us. I was really tired but I am excited for tomorrow.

1- 6:48 2- 7:22 3- 8:21  7:31/mile average 22:37 total

Summer Games today, it was really fun. The course was very awesome. Down hill a lot and the temp. was cool, beautiful run.

I think I started out to fast, I couldn't keep the pace I started and then I got slower. I got really tired in the middle and I didn't fight through it.

This is my second 10k, my first was Butch Cassidy. I got a PR by 4 minutes. I am happy with my time and pace because I was trying to get around 46 minutes like my last 10k with 7:30 average mile. I did a lot better this time with 6:45 average (6:45 on my results card. 6:54 on my watch. I don't how that worked out but I am going with 6:45. do the math sometime.) and 42:01 race time. I am happy with this but I feel like I could have done a little better. Got a cool shirt.

1- 5:47  2- 6:22  3- 7:01  4- 7:26  5- 7:25  6- 7:26   42:01 total   6:45 average

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Wasatch practise today. The big WBR is this weekend, it's going to be fun. We did the usual loop today. I was really tired from the race and the weekend up north, driving in the car and getting home late. I was in the front of the group singing with Baker and Decker untel the hill and then dropped back and everyone passed me and Decker up. We descided to take it easier today so we did.

46:14 total    8:01/mile average

XC practise today. My sister came for the first time today and she did better than I thought, I am glad she is doing XC. We did the tortise fence run, out in the desert. I started out pretty fast but slowed down to much. Need to work on that.

1- 7:17  2- 8:41  3- 7:32  4- 7:36

32:36 total  7:47/mi ave

Last Wasatch Relay practice today. We did this repeat kind of work out where we ran race pace for 1 minute and recovery joged for another minute, 16 times. We ran from the church (.70) to the trail to do the run.

I worked hard to stay with Ruth as much as I could. I didn't want to kill myself at the beginning and not beable to finish doing good. Ruth is an amazing runner and smart so I thought if I could stay with her I would keep a good pace and everything would be cool. I did pretty good, after I think aboug 10 or so I started not doing so good at the recovery jog but ok. I think about 14 and 15 I ran more with Decker and the last one I just tried to go fast.

I did the interval training on my watch and it worked awesome. Here is what I have for splits.

1- 5:49/mi .17mi

2- 5:31/mi .18mi

3- 5:36/mi .18mi

4- 5:48/mi .17mi

5- 6:06/mi .16mi

6- 5:51/mi .17mi

7- 5:57/mi .17mi 

8- 6:03/mi .17mi

9- 5:37/mi .18mi

10- 5:45/mi .17mi

11- 5:41/mi .18mi

12- 5:55/mi .17mi

13- 6:00/mi .17mi

14- 5:48/mi .17mi

15- 6:14/mi .16mi

16- 5:10/mi .19mi

 5:48/mi average  2.76miles

XC practice. Meet at the school and ran to coach's house. We did a 3 mile run by the turf farm. I took it easy because of the Wasatch Back Relay this weekend, I was realy tired. The WBR is going to be awesome! I am leg 6, on the Pine View team. Solid running party, lets go.

8:12/mi average  24:38 total 

Wasatch Back Leg 6 (first leg) 6.9miles

My first run was down Avon pass. It was a long run and a big down hill. I got going pretty fast, felt good, and passed one person (I could see only one other person far ahead of me). My team's truck couldn't get to me as much as we wanted because of another truck in the way so I only got water twice, but that was ok. Once I got to the bottom I had about 2 miles of flat road. That part was really hard and I had a hard time going fast. It felt like forever. Finally I turned the courner and the team spotter person told me I was close. Then I could see the end and ran to the exchange. I tried to slap the bracelet on RJ's arm but it didn't work and I ended up infront of him so I just handed it to him. This was a great run, lots of fun and a great view!!

51:05 total time  7:30/mi average  (6.82 miles on my watch)

Leg 18 (second run) 5.6miles

1:30am

This run was in the middle of the night. I felt a little tired but excited for my night time run. We had to carry a flash light and wear a reflector vest (the vest was a little big) to help us not get killed. I got really tired and slowed down. I tried some GU for the first time and I think it helped, I couldn't tell a lot. It was very hard to eat while running but it tasted good. I almost missed my team but I saw them and got a little water, I think Goold ran with me to give me the water with no shoes on, what a nice guy. This run was a lot harder than I thought but I did really good. It was a steady up hill with a big hill at the end but I did better at the end, I even passed like 5 people. I could see the lights at the exchange place and I ran hard and got there. The problem was the next runner wasn't there yet. So I stood there waiting for about a minute untel RJ got there and started running. After that our car got some sleep.

48:13 total  8:32/mi average   

Leg 30 (Third run) 3.6

9:48am

It was getting kind of hot but it was my last run. I was tired but I did better than I thought I could and I ran great. People were handing out ice and spraying water as I ran by them which was nice. I passed a couple more people and had a good last run.

26:27 total  7:24/mile average

After that our car was done we went and got some lunch. It was hard to walk because my legs were so sore and tired. After lunch we went to the finish line to finsh as a team. We waited for a long time but finally Willy came along followed by the other half of the team and we jumped in with them to run to the finish. It was great running with the team, faster than I expected, and then we all crossed the finish line to end our Wasatch Back relay. When we were done some of the team went home and some stayed. I stayed and we went to the awards thing that night. There was not a lot of people there. We were hoping to get an award and we did. We won the high school division (Pine View Panthers, team 280!!) and everyone on the team got a relay cool baton/medal thing. We stayed in the Deckers family cabin that night and came home the next day. I am glad we could have such a great time, it was a blast.

Took today off, resting from the Wasatch Back Relay. I wasn't too sore but really tired. Sunday I slept a lot.

Ran to coaches house (half mile away) and talked for a minute. Then we ran back to the school and  played ultimate frisbee. I am glad that I am tall, that makes me a little better at frisbee but I still can't throw the thing. Big Z is the best.

PM Surprise B-day party! :-)

I should have ran like 4 miles.........but I didn't.

Did the sandberg pond loop for xc practice. I was really tired, not sleeping enough I think.

31:57 total  7:52/mi

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY

Ran to coachs house and then did the turf farm loop. I kept up with Baker (he was taking it easy) and talked to him for a while. I am still tired.

22:11 total  7:17/mi    7:13 6:47 7:38

I am going to EFY next week (I am sad we are leaving today, driving on my b-day) and scout camp the week after that. Coach talked to us today about how we loose fitness or whatever from your run in like 2 days, so I am expecting to loose a lot next week! I will run at scout camp though, it is not a big camp and I am done with scouting so I will have time.

Time to party