Snow Canyon Warriors Track

I woke up this morning and did a full body weight workout.

Later after work af an okay day with Ruth making me draw pictures and clean up her shoes (Thanks Ruth, ha just kidding your awesome). I went for a run at about 8 with my dad next to me on his bike. I was feeling a little stiff but ran an okay 7:13 mile pace. It was a good recovery run and did 2 miles of speed work striders after. Just getting mentally and physically ready for the big meet this weekend now. (Stratus: 73.83)

"The only tactics I admire are do-or-die"
--Herb Elliott

I woke up this morning and feeling good, but really tired. I went to the track and it was 400's i ran 7 of them at all around 1:06-1:07 pace. Steve jumped in with me on the 8th and it was so weird. On the back stretch i got really light headed and started to suck wind. Then i got so dizzy that i could not even see the track, so i went in to the turf and stopped running. It freaked me out and have never had anything like this happen to me. I think it is my lack of sleep. I have only been getting 5-6 hours of sleep and pushing my body really really hard. I have constantly been falling asleep in class and even at work just sitting their. I am going to start getting more sleep and take some naps. If you have any advise please tell me.

Today at school i was still really tired and worn out, but it was like a blessing in 2nd period we had a free day and i went and actually slept in the corner of the class. I was out that whole period and would try to get some naps in all day at school. Then after school i went to track and did a 1 mile warm up and felt okay. Then i decided to do one 400 with some of the sprinters and i was okay. I ran it in 1:01. That was weird this morning, i have been eating and drinking all day though, so maybe that is what it is. After i did a 4 mile cool down. Then i went home and took a 2.5 hour nap. That felt amazing. I will get to bed early now so this don't happen again. I think everything was a factor and my body was just so worn down and i hit a wall like in the marathon. Lets hope this never happens again. I'm breaking 4:30 and 9:50 this weekend oh yea. (DS Trainer: 103.25)

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself."
--William Faulkner

I slept in today and felt really good. I had a good day at school and stayed awake. So i went to track after school. I did a 1 mile warm up then did a 6 mile recovery run with Kendall from my team. I pushed that run at the end to work on the end of my races. Then we did 1 mile worth of barefooted striders on the grass. After that we did a 1 mile cool down to end the day.Then i went and got some chocolate milk (which i have been craving lately). I'm feeling good for a good time this weekend. (Stratus: 82.83)

Full body weight workout at night.

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

-Pre

Got another good night of sleep. After school went to practice. Did a 1 mile warm up. Then did a 3 mile easy run with Alex. We went on an adventure on pathes we have never ran on. After stretched good. Feeling great for the race tommorrow. Good luck everyone.

(DS Trainer: 107.25)

Toaday was the start of the big Pine View Invitational. I was excited and thought i was ready to break 4:30. I did a 1 mile warm up, then another right before the race. I came in ranked 3rd. It turned out to be a pretty crappy race though. I only ran a 4:34 and felt like crap the whole race. I just could not get my legs going. I knew i could of stayed with Karl and Josh but legs wouldn't let me. It was a perfect day and Karl ran a 4:23. WOW! I also ended up getting caught by a Woods Cross kid at the end by less than a second. Oh well i guess everyone has those days. I will just work a little harder and do better next time. I am still learning how to race and don't quite understand it all yet as much as others. I think i'm going to drop the miles down to about 45 or less.  I guess it will come. Good race everyone.

Did a 2 mile cool down after the race. (DS Trainer 111.25)

Oh yea Adam Timo broke the state record in the high jump jumping 7 feet 2 inches. It was the craziest thing i have ever seen besides Luke Puskedra.

Today was the second day and i wanted to do better today to make up for yesterday, alot. It was the 3200 today and i was mentally, physically, and spiritually prepared. Are race started and to my luck Karl was not running. Ha Ha. Their was still good comp though. I went out and stayed in 4th or 5th for the first 5 laps. Then on the 6th i decieded i had to push the pace if i wanted to break my goal of sub 9:50. So i took off in first place and kept it for the remainder. Until the very end though when Ben Johnson of Orem followed me and had a excellent race and great kick. He passed me on the last 100, but i was not going to let him beat me. So i used all i had and caught him at the end for a photo finish. They could not tell for a while who won, but it finally came through that i won because of my lean. I ended up winning by .02 seconds. WOW! It was a fun race and is my favorite race. i PRed by 5 seconds and achieved my goal. I don't know i always run good in the morning and night never right after school in mid day. My legs seem to have nothing at that time (showed in my mile). I am really excited and know i am growing in running and am increasing just the way i want too. It will all come a little at a time. Soon i will be not just fast but super fast. Did a 1mile warm up and 1 mile cool down and got a nice big blister on my foot.

Now it was time for the 800 in the medley. I was not to ready for this and dread 800's. It didn't help i had a blister on the ball of my foot, which i will have to take some time to heal up. I was going to do my best though. We had a little lead when it came to me and i took off with Ben Johnson again right behind me. We were running pretty good and it all came down to the last 100 again and he just out sprinted me and won me by less than a second this time. Darn! Man all my races were really close this weekend. I wish i could of won them all though. I still need to work on that leg speed. I ended up running a PR 2:07 800 though, but know i could run it faster. We were only 4 seconds off of qualifying and will save a day to just do that. I was really impressed by my self today and everyone else at the track meet. Now its time to heal up and have a rest week next week. Oh yea are medley team ended up taking 6th. 2 miles warm ups.

The bad part about today was that are boys team lost to Orem by 1 point and took 2nd. 78 to 77. It all came down to the 4X400 and Orem won it to pull ahead. We didn't have a team because everyone left, what idiots. Its okay though were looking good for state and didn't have all are guys show up. We are doing really well this year. (Stratus: 86:83)