Rise from the Ashes

A very hilly 6.5 in the foothills behind my house.

Ran in H-town from my house, busted out the last three miles pretty hard. The last mile was in the mud going up a dirt road, what a way to finish a beautiful run.

Woke up late and got a great run in. Went out and back near the Copper Mine and Butterfield Canyon today. After I got back I busted out 3x200m hill repeats.

Ran down in the WJ today with a friend of mine that for some odd reason wanted to "pound some miles." haha, 2 1/2 miles @ 9:30 pace. After we finished we went and hit up Dunford Donuts w/ chocolate milk, nothing like powerfood!

Did an evening run tonight. I felt like running barefoot around the park near my house. After two laps i decided this wasnt cutting it so I busted out and ran around the hood on the park strips. I know, I know, thats too much for never running barefoot, but it felt really good and I paid close attention to how the feet were feeling.

Waited around all day today to run Butterfield Canyon with Jeff Walker. It was about 7 pm when we started and the perfect temps for a run. The way up was absolutely beautiful, with no rain. We made it 3.5 miles up, and Jeff was hurting so we turned it around. For those of you who dont know Butterfield Canyon is incredibly steep and is a tough run, so going coming down was a breeze. It literally started to pour as soon as we finished. After the run we went and hit up Arctic Circle, I got a banana cream pie and then we went back to his house for some delicious spagetti. Later this summer we want to camp up there and do the whole she-bang, 7 miles to the top of the world!

Met with some of the Bros from the team today down @ Centennial Park by the High School. We took a route the we have never done before down "Lovers Lane" Really fun run with Me, Alex, Dillon, Jaymin and Parker. The run started slow but we negative splitted every mile. Fun to get back with some of the guys today! Afterwards we went and made blueberry pancakes @ Jaymins house.

First day of XC today! most of the nucleus is gone, so it was me, Dillon and Jaymin. Jaymin led our indian line on the last mile. Man, its finally here!! Yes! Rise from the Ashes!

Tough lifting afterwards.

took a whole bunch of guys out to Bingham on the local canals. Just about everyone was there except Alex and the Kenny "the Jet" Smith. A super fun run and just chilled @ an easy pace.

core afterwards

The team came out to Herriman today up by Juniper Point if anyone knows where that is. Garlick and Christiansen had us do 8 BIG hill repeats. Dillon stuck with me and Zak, Jaymin, Will, Alex Schiffman and company were all right there.  Unfortunately, we still dont have Shane, the Jet and Alex Dutton back yet. The guys are much much tougher than we were last year, were going to be strong!

Just taking it easy for ragnar tomorrow

My first leg was Leg #6 @ 9pm. The first mile and a half is uphill, then a screaming descent down Avon Pass. Put together some quick mile times coming down. It was totally beautiful because of the sunset. Talked with Jonathan Nelson afterwards, as he had started just a couple minutes after I did, (I held him off by the way, so I was super pleased by that). :) haha, an incredible way to start it off...

My second leg was @ 3:30 in the morning, and boy was it lonely. I had Randy riding the bike alonside, so that helped a ton. We even listened Crazy Frog on his Ipod speakers which he had attached to his bike. This was a painful climb up to East Lake Reservoir. Pushed the whole way to put together a 7 minute average, it was brutal, but worth it...

The final leg was in a downpour @ about 11 a.m.. My goal was to run in the 18 for the 3.1 mile course. It was super fun, running through these huge puddles on the sides of the roads. I was incredibly soar so my splits got faster as I warmed up. 18:47 for the course which was actually 3.25...

Well Ragnar was a total riot and as tough as it gets. Personally I think I had one of the toughest legs in the whole race, with the exception of the Ragnar Leg. My team was #38 and we were Jaguars. It was mostly made up of the West Jordan guys, unfortunately, Jeff didnt do it. We also had Josh Shrewsbury and Tanner Smedley from Kearns High School. Erik Petersen was there as well from Bingham. Our team ran very well, even with 3 freshman! Our final time was 23:36 and we started @ 5 p.m. on Friday. You'll be seeing us again next Year, and congratulations to the thousands of runners that completed the 188-mile course! hooray for the Wasatch Back!

an easy 7 plus the warmup out into Bluffdale, and all on the Canals. My hips are sore from Ragnar, so im going to do core with some hip excercises.

an easy 5.5 on the canals of RHS. We saw 2 Bingham runners today...

Ugh, I woke up rediculously late after seeing transformers last night. Ive yet to run today, but am planning on getting out. For the next 2 days I will be pounding some awesome runs down near monticello, as I work for a biologist's survey program.

ran 5 in Milford, a tiny town out in the West Desert of Utah. The rest of the day I spent hiking up to some Mine shafts in the San Fransisco Mountains, so Im pretty beat. It was spinkling on the run and I busted out 2 tempo miles because of the lack of time.

A fun, wet 7 on the Dirt roads outside of Milford. I checked out Milford High's track on the way, it pretty nice for just a tiny 1A school! The hips ache a little but when I got back, busted out some major core, lunges, back, everything.

Took the day off today, Me and my ward where down @ Yuba lake water skiing, and my back is sore! looking forward to seeing the boys on Mondee, Alex will be back, hooray!

only did half the run today, we were doing the 4 canals. which is a bummer because that is my favorite run that we have... any who, the hip started bugging me pretty bad so i backed off and cut it short. Injury now is better than terrible injury later.

an easy 4 then brutal core and lifting