Rise from the Ashes

Ran to Bingham high and back today with Stockton and Schiff. Kept it nice and easy about 7:50 pace. Stock isnt coming tomorrow, so he wanted to crank the end... anyway, 1 mile later he and high hit about a 5:15-20ish mile back on 27th to the high school. Messed around a lot, and had a good, fun, clear, cool run.

Today we did 16x200's. Hit just about all of them in 33, and cranking the last one good. Felt very energized today, but the hip flexor was very soar! Of course from running hard around the track for the first time in a long time... anyhow, i feel as though my Vo2 max is getting much higher/stronger. The next thing I need to work on is calming down and settling into the pace, something I've always prided myself on but have struggled with as of late.

An easy 3.5 in WJ today on the canal, then barefoot strides. Felt great but took it really easy so I can pound it in the race tomorrow... either the human race or cottonwood heights, which is supposedly a classic.

Today I headed out to Draper for the Human Race. I was late getting there and didn't get much of a warm-up in, not to mention sitting @ the starting line for ten minutes. Count down then the race was off. I ran the first 800 or so with Summers and Erik Petersen, then left them to go hang on the leaders. I came through the first mile in 5:29, feeling fairly relaxed, but STILL not warmed up. From .5 on me and a kid from Judge ran the rest of the race together, sitting about 50 back from Garrett, and thats how we finished. I wish I had gotten out a little quicker, cause the lead Garrett had only got smaller after the first mile, so I guess I should learn from that. Anyway, a very fun, packed race, and I feel very strong right now, but I need to strength my upper over the next week to kill it at footlocker.

my splits were;

5:29

5:21

5:18

5:00 for the .1

16:32

a cold and fun 4.5 with my dad up in the playground. We went around the traills exploring, and got up into some pretty wild and unknown territory, back near South Mountain in the Oquirrhs. Its always nice runnin with my dad, the perfect pace and fun conversation.

Cranked on the LA Freeway today with Coach, Dillon, Bryce and Sam. We worked it pretty fast, especially the last 3 miles or so, like always. This run always seems to just smack you in face, especially as you come back onto flat ground in front of the temple. Barnes said we beat our fastest time by 2 minutes! Afterwards we went and got all you can eat french toast, unfortunately, my arches are cramping as I sit at the computer because of it.