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January 2015

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Location:

Cedar City,UT,

Member Since:

Apr 07, 2013

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I ran in middle school.

I ran in high school.

I enjoy running.

I love my life.

And that's all that matters.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Go on a mission.

Avoid debt.

Run for fun.

Race for endorphins.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Marry a beautiful girl.

Have some kids.

Get a job that makes me happy.

Perfect the art of racing.

Give underprivledged kids a shot at life.

Love my life. 

Personal:

I am striving to be the best me I can be. For now, that means I'm going to college at BYU and attempting to walk on to their cross-country team for the fall. I am expecting to serve a mission following the end of the semester. My goal in life is to teach the deppressed how to geuninely smile, the anxious how to stand confident and courageous and the heartbroken and hopeless how to regain faith. The world would be a better place if more people learned how to love.

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Couldn't run cuz family happened.

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Didn't run. On the road all day.

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Actually a pretty solid run. Left calf and right hip flexer kindof tightened up cuz of all the snow, but it was good.

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7.000.000.000.007.00

Easy run through the standard bike path system. Fun run.

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7.200.000.000.007.20

Simlilar thing to yesterday but backwards minus dikes and the new trail. Fun enjoyable run. My legs feel about as strong as ever. Got new shoes today too. New Balance 980's. Never thought Id see the day where I bought New Balance on my own free will.

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4 with Harris and then another 4 after. Ran a 5 minute mile dowm mainstreet for funsies. Enjoyable day. Awesome to see the coach again.

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Would of done more, but I fell asleep in three out of four classes today and was in desperate need of a nap. Ran out past eagle point and pack. Very comfortable enjoyable run. 

Note to self: Don't eat fish right before a run.

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SUU honor band all weekend. I probably could've run more but I needed a nap in my down time.

Goals for next week: begin serious training, 6 days a week, strides, other stuff

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First run with the team. Ran out to Eagle Point and back.

2 solo after. I need to be more efficient.

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Ran to Suu's indoor track and ran 30 minutes with the team and ran back. It was actually pretty fun. I closed in a 26 lap on that rectangle thing they call a track. (Distance per lap =.1x)

Ran 2 after which should be around 8-8.5.

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Extended dikes + 3 after. A bit cold but overall a very enjoyable relaxing run.

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5.5 w/ team. Bridge.

8x100m strides w/ jog back

2 post pep band

Awesome day. Legs feel so smoot and legit.

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Bike Path Narrows w/ team

3 after

I love running. Hills don't fase me at all when I run with the team cuz that 7:30-8:30 pace is just a peace of cake. Hit up the hurricane game in hurricane today too which was super fun.

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Drove out to three peaks to hit up some mountain biking trails I'd never been on before. Started on big hole loop, ended up on three peaks loop, made a wrong turn and had to backtrack a ways. I kept running around the three peaks loop trail and missed a turn once I made it around the three peaks themselves onto a new trail that hadn't really been made yet. (just a bunch of orange flags) I was getting tired so I changed to the map mode on my ancient Garmin 305 and trail blazed back to the parking lot. Tons of fun running solo through my new found paradise.

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Pretty legit run. Dropped a sub 4:35 pace for 600 meters just cuz I wanted to. It was fun. Solo run cuz milk day.

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9.250.000.000.009.25

Walmart bike path with the team.

The end of the mid-distance workout

3 extra

Sore from the form drill I did with the mid-d peeps. It hurt a lot.

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3 in morning during late start. Gorgeous run. Not to cold. Very enjoyable.

5.x with team plus some extra running around. Blue water tank. I've got pretty good endurance right now, at least running up hill like those didn't hurt too much. Now I just gotta stay uninjured.

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5.25 Independance run with the distance team again. Nice and slow. Enjoyable. Got Brennon to kick with me again. We hit pretty close to his mile pr pace before he fell off. He's gonna improve a ton if he keeps with it.

4 back through that bike path system to SUU to pick up my dad's car.

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5-6 with team doing every form of indian run imaginable. Inverted is by far the best. I'm a huge advocate for the "run slow, train relaxed, race fast" theory.

6x100m indian run strides

3 by myself. Drove to the mouth of the canyon to run on the bike paths down there. I like driving to my runs. I can run more places.

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10.500.000.000.0010.50

I have no idea how long I ran today so this is an estimate. If any supernatural powers exsist in the running world I would like to forgoe any bad luck rought upon me by augmenting my mileage. I swear it was not inteneded. This is simply an estimate.

4:47 Got bumped by Piercen Maez wiht 150 to go and it screwed up my kick. Fun race. Pre-race goal: 4:45

2:07 very easy and relaxed until the final 20 meters where I saw Piercen again and my mentality dropped and I died. Sad, but awesome race. Pre-race goal: 2:10

Ran to my gma's house for lunch

Ran all the way around the BYU campus for funsies and a cool down.

Ran back and forth and up and down and through stairs and under bleachers. 

BYU indoor meet if anyone or any future version of me is still unclear about what's going on here.

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6.0 with team plus running back and forth from school

Fast finish for last mile. Very fast actually, probably close to sub-5 and started conservatively.

6x100 strides. Did these too fast

3 on lay hill

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Junkyard 7.x with the team. Super relaxed and Cole pushed it hard towards the end and it was super relaxed. 

To and from school (.5) + lap warm up (.25) + 800 with mid d team

2.x out at bicentennial park (SUU course)

Calves were cramping after yesterday's strides that I did too fast. Overall the legs are super crazy legit although I'm hitting serious sleep deprivation.

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5 miles with the team 7x1 minute fartlek w/ 1-2 minutes rest. Started out at what felt like goal mile pace and then Coach Harris said we were doing 7-8 so I backed off to around goal 2 mile pace, except the last one I killed with Luke. It ended being 4 down hill and 3 up hill. Lots of fun. I'm really learning to love fartleks.

5-6 on a new run I'm calling Lost. It starts down at Eagle Point and runs up the Junkyard trail connects to the end of Banks and comes back. Gorgeous, although I ended up running in the dark for the last mile or so which was pretty sketchy. Still need to find my GPS watch. It's been gone for about a week now...

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6 Extended Dikes with the team. Tayson and Logan and I designed a Lord of Rings out of distance runners. Kale Sharp and Nephi and Nick all die unfortunately, but it was pretty freaking legit.

4 at the SUU indoor track cuz I wanted to. Watched two intramural basketball games simultaneously which was way fun. One was actually pretty intense. 

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3 mile warm up

1 mile race

3 mile cool down

I migh be fudging on the miles a little but I don't care. I've run further than I've blogged everyday this week. Mile race was fun. Went out in a 65 and I thought I was gonna die, but I held on through 3 miles and then called it mentally at the last 400 cuz I hurt and I didn't have a desire to PR today. Too much effort.

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Warm Up 

800: 2:05

Cool Down

Warmed on the roads around the ice oval and up a super steep hill. Legs weren't feeling stellar.

Cooled down on the massive expanse of grass fields surounding the ice oval.

The 800 went out in a sub-60 and I held on but didn't kill myself over it. Pretty decent for an average effort after a higher mileage week.

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