Running

Ran up to weber for cross country practice, then we ran to the lightpost at the bottom of the divide.  I ran with Henry and watched Talon, Paul, Kyler and Addi all leave us in the dust.  It was a great run.. JK it felt like race pace the whole time and we averaged an epic 6:57 pace. (that was 5 miles total)  Then I cooled down to Haeli's for breakfast and ran home but I don't think I counted any of that as actual mileage..  We played a rather exciting game of ultimate frisbee where Talon's team went underfeated for several rounds, and then I did a fatlek with Henry Hall.  I'm not entirely sure what a fartlek actually is but we called it one of those.  We chose random crap and raced to it and it was sick.  I think I beat him at least twice.  So there was 4 miles of that and then a mile cooldown from the canal road back to the park and home. Great times.

I ran 5 miles at barely under 7 minute pace and I'm not sure where.  That is all the information my records provide.  My right hip started hurting like satan himself was massaging me as I ran.  Later I attempted a run with McKenna, but her pure blazing speed plus the satanic massage convinced me to turn around at about a mile.. I averaged 7:30's on that run.  Lathered on the icy hot and hoped for the best.

Ran 4 miles at 6:22 pace this morning.  And then that was it because it really really hurt.. It was probably about race effort combined with my hip and that was not a very good idea.

6.5 miles [6:47 pace] with the team for practice at North Arm I think..  I took a wrong turn that added about a total of a half mile, and I remember I was incredibly frustrated because I almost beat Henry and Addi back and I was gonna be the first one for the first freaking time ever, and then I was kidnapped by a forest trail.  I hate the wild.  3.5 miles [7:19 pace] later and between my suicidal guts and ever persistent hip cripplage, I was nearly killed.

Well today I figured that I should just not run because my everything hurt and also I'm lazy.  So instead I decided to swim for a solid 20 minutes.  This was not your average lap swimming, thats far too easy.  Instead I brought half of my pantry out and set it next to the pool and practiced eating and standing in the deep end for when I will need to use this skill later in life.  I also did 20 pushups afterward so I wouldn't feel like a complete failure today.

I did a long run today, except it sorta didn't end up being a ligitimate long run.. Just because that's not the way destiny works.  I ran over to 1050, down and then up that other road and then onto the canal road.  This might make sense if you've ran it before.. Anyways so I did that and then while I was debating on taking a dump in somebody's backyard, I happened upon a miracle park that had an incredibly clean bathroom.  So I ended up in there for a solid 20 minutes and then finished the 3 miles home after I had fully recovered.  It ended up being 8.5 miles total at 6:51 pace.

Ran 7 miles with the team at Ogden Parkway.  Started out super fast with Paul and Addi and Kyler, and then Kyler tied his shoe and I burned out at like mile 4.. So then they all took off and I just died.  But I still averaged 6:23 pace for the 7!! I was pretty freaking proud of that.  I would greatly appreciate it if Talon did not comment on this..  But I recorded the mile splits because I was so proud of my start. 1) 5:59 2)5:58 3)6:10 4)6:19 5)6:34 6)6:35 7)6:53

This was my birthday!! And I decided I would treat myself to a track workout because those are my favorite.  (Not a bit of sarcasm. For reals.) So I ran to the track and did 8 x 400m repeats at just whatever pace I was feeling.. Which was most definitely not 5K pace.  They ended up being 70, 73, 73, 71, 72, 72, 70, 62.  I wanted to slow down after the second one cuz I was awful tired, except then the football team showed up to be fat on the track and I had to run around them every lap because they were too fat to move.  But Boehme was there and he confessed to me at that moment that he was leaving XC to join the fat kids.  That is what gave me the power to continue on at this not very fast but faster than usual pace.  So, thank you Boehme.  But do cross country anyways please because we need you badly.

Ran to 89 and back in the morning, because I really wanted to be faster than that very first summer run when I did it at 6:14 pace.  ( I still have not done it to this day (July 22) )  So I ran my little heart out and only averaged 6:18 pace at like race effort.  And the workers that were hogging the road looked shamefully upon me because they knew before I did that I had already shamed myself and my family.  Anyways I did 4 miles later that night with BJ at 7:15 pace.

We did a trail run this morning with the team starting at makeout point.  It was 6 miles and I averaged a fantastic 8:00 pace.  Later that night I did 4 miles easy with BJ.  My book of information doesn't say a pace it just says easy... Which means I convinced BJ to let me run so slowly that the pace wasn't worth writing down. (and 8:00 pace apparently is worth writing down..)

On this beautiful day, I took my poor friend KJazz and put him through hell.  Well I attempted to but then he decided to fake his way free..  We ran 1.5 miles to Lomond View park and warmed up a bit there, and then I did hill repeats up the west side hill.  It was the same workout that Chili had us do for footlocker.. Or cross country i forget when we did it.  I did 12 with a walk down recovery.  My splits were 43, 44, 45, 44, 43, 41, 43, 43, 42, 43, 37.  Also, Kayden decided after the first one that his stomach wanted to kill him so he just happily layed on the grass and dry heaved for the duration of the workout.  So I suppose he wasn't actually faking because he told me his breakfast was a heavy dose of ibuprofen for his knees... And nothing else.  So then afterwards I ran home with the speed of an african sea bear and retrieved my rescue vehicle so that I could go save young KJazz.  He lived I'm happy to report.

Young Yoshi had a track meet today and I paced/raced him in his mile.  He ended up running a 6:33 which is freaking sick because he's like 10.. Or something. And also he beat me.  Later that night I ran 11 miles with Henry and Sam and BJ, but there were several stops for trivial things such as meeting Sam or reading about the Bread and Butter disease..  But then me and Henry left and fought off the darkness for like 4 miles alone on the canal road in the wee hours of the night.  Also some dogs tried to rape us through the fence.  We averaged 7:32 pace.

I think I was just lazy or something this day.. Or had stomach junk going on from eating bad stuff. Which is anything according to my stomach.  But!!! I did get a much needed nap I'll have you know.

I ran to the Elk farm today and averaged 7:16 pace for the 7 miles.   Later that night I did another 4 miles at 7:03 pace.

I went to the dermitologist and the fagit lady thought it would be funny to chop me open in one of the few places that would prevent me from running so she gave me some drugs and then did that.  So thats why I have no mileage for the rest of this week..

Well today I listened to the motivating words of eminem for several hours while laying on my floor pondering the meaning of life.  And then i did 17 sets of 20 pushups with 2 minutes rest because Henry told me to.  And then I did some pullups and wall sits because I felt pain deprived.

2 minutes of wall sitting (thats all I could take sadly) and then 2 sets of calves.

The exact same thing as yesterday.

6.3 miles with the team at north arm. Averaged 6:54 pace.  I stayed with Henry for the first half of the run and then my body remembered I hadn't ran for a week and decided to die.  Later that night I had the bright idea to run barefoot.  It's not actually a bad idea except that I ran on a road with BJ and I think I ran through some broken glass and stuff.. Either way I ended up with some massive blisters and my feet hurt for the rest of the week.  It was 3.2 miles and I averaged 7:19 pace.

7.3 miles with BJ straight up 900 to pole patch and then onto a trail where we threw rocks at imaginary rattlesnakes.  Also we daydreamed about having female friends and sitting on a hill we found. That was cool.  We averaged 8:22 pace for that and I blame the hill and my legs.  That night I ran to and from the church for mutual, and it was about 1.5 miles each way.. but on the way there I ran a 5:29 down the road and then coming home I ran like a 6:15 coming back up.

Ran with BJ down to Orion and explored some neighborhoods and parks and such. It was 8 miles and we averaged 7:39 pace.

Ran with the team on the top of the divide today.. I ran to the top and it was 4.5 miles round trip.  Averaged 8:21 pace on that.  At night I ran another 4.5 miles over past Talon's house to remember him because its been an awful long time.   I averaged 6:38 pace.

I just ran 4.5 miles easy with BJ tonight and I assume that was because of the race the next day.

So I ran the Pleasant View 5k and tailed Monson (my junior high track coach) the whole time.. And that's pretty much how the whole race went.  There were two guys that ran 14 miles and finished their run up at the starting line of the race, where they warmed up with some strides and then ran like 14:45 and 15:30 or something like that.. Turns out they are both training for the Olympic trials in the half marathon so I was not ashamed to lose to them.  Then Ben Vanbeekum beat me so that was cool and Monson had me by 7 seconds..  So I was really happy with it!  My PR from last year was a 16:48 for a 3 mile, and I just beat that in a full 5K.  Even if the course was a full mile downhill its still awesome.  After the race I did a short cool down and then ran to get the parked car about a mile way.  That night I ran up to Weber to watch the fireworks so I'm counting that as another mile.

Ran the Bonneville Shoreline trail with the team (5 miles @ 8:30 pace).  I ran with Boehme and Paul and BJ and we ran to some canyon where Paul morphed into a freaking mountain goat and ran to the top of the mountain at light speed.  Me and Boehme were forced to walk.  Bj was an animal and convinced me to run for a solid 50 seconds before we got the priviledge of turning back.  Boehme thought running was absurd and stood still until we ran down the hill back to him.  He said he showed up to practice because the fat kids broke his nose and he needed surgery so he was forced to be cool for a day.  So that's what happened.  That night me and Henry and BJ ran 5 more miles at 6:57 pace (Henry was actually on a bike to ensure that his heart didn't explode).  When I got home I ran another mile barefoot on the road because my feet felt too good and my dog also ran away so I had to be a hero and save her life.

Today was like the greatest day ever because I found my homeskillet Levi and forced him to run with us.  I was actually running up to meet BJ and Levi sprinted up the street just to beat me to the top and then he realized it was a bad idea because he was really tired and then I convinced him to run with us.  But he did because he's a freaking sexy beast! (as is BJ but thats the norm) So the three of us ran into the sunset at 7 am and averaged 7:34 pace for 6 miles.  That night I did 6 more miles and averaged like 6:30's ish..