We are who we choose to be.

AM- We all met at Jake's house then drove out to Warner Valley. Did an easy run out on the trails for 81 minutes and got 10.5 miles total. We had a dispute about Zion National Park. Coach and some of the uneducated guys think it's called Zion Canyon... When really it's Zion's Canyon! Cause of like possessives? Am I right?! After that, we took turns riding the parts of the trail that went up...? What're they called? The guys know what I'm talking about. I ran up the rainbow one. We flipped it at the giant dirt hills. On the way back we reminisced about when Nick did that one thing on that tempo that one time and also we played follow the leader as Nick taught us all a bunch of dance moves.  In case anybody wants one, I'll be selling homeknit p-beanies for 10 dollars. Coach wore his America shorts which were a bit revealing, but Andrew was okay with that. Happy President's Day!

AM- 4 miles easy. Met at the school at 6:15 and we did the normal route. Nothing kewl happened today except that Andrew was dying of laughter for no apparent reason and also he still hasn't gotten his car back even though he told us all that he would like 2 weeks ago. Listened to smooth jazz on the way home because I forgot to pack a lunch... I have a dentist appointment today and I'm so scared. I inspected my teeth as well as my hideous face like 50 times this morning checking for cavities and specks of good lookingness. I found neither. Oh man I hate the dentist...

I have a small cavity in my back right molar and need a filling... Why do bad things happen to good people?

PM- 2 mile warm, 1.5 cool, 4x1600s @ 87% (goal: 5:25 hit: 5:28, 5:25, 5:20, 5:21), 2x300s (goal: :44 hit: :45, :44). Felt pretty crumby today but was able to hit these pretty decently! I have already started enjoying workouts more this season than last season. And I've been hitting them a lot more accurately than last year too! It's all in the attitude change. Jason's taking this week off of workouts so I was pretty much by myself (Nick has a faster time, Andrew, Jake, and Dallen are just 6 or 7 seconds behind me though. Cam, Paul, and Skylar do 1000s. Alex sat this one out for some reason). Can't wait to race! Just gotta keep it positive and see what happens! I've never been legitimately this excited for track season! I wanna beat Connor Baller.

AM- easy 4 with Holt, Hell Raiser, Jake the Snake, Andrew, Jason, Alex, and Bryan mostly. Another Gillespie was feeling sick or something. Nothing too tough. Time trial is tomorrow! Found out I'm in the fast 1600 heat ;) excited to see what we can do.

PM- easy prerace 6 out to Dambergs. Felt hot today in 2 ways, if you catch my drift. 4x200s afterwards went :30, :31, :31, :31. Nothing too tough just something quick to get the legs moving. Didn't feel quite on point today, so it's good it was an easy run!

AM- 4 miles easy. Idek what the crap I'm doing with my life.

PM- Time Trial: took 4th in the mile with 4:51. Kind of disappointed with the outcome but next time I'm just gonna have to run faster, that's all :P

AM- 4 miles easy

PM- 45 minutes easy out into Marlar's breeding grounds! It was so scary! Took a detour into Randal Revine! 

Running the Dogtown Half tomorrow. Wanna get a sub 6 average, 1:17.

Prerace: had a nice bagel and banana before heading to the start line. Got there about 30 minutes early so I waited a while before warming up for about 5 minutes. 

Race- 3, 2, 1, go! And there we went! My 2nd half marathon. got out pretty quick with Andrew, Alex, Kade, some older dude, and Jake. That group, by mile 3 or so, was taken down to just me, Andrew, Kade, and the older dude. Andrew and Kade fell off at mile 5ish (first 10k was 36 minutes according to the older guy). Him and I worked really well together and closed the gap on PI dude and Nick! By Sullivan Park (mile 7??) we were only meters behind! We stayed that way for a mile or so then I saw coach start to run with Nick. I quickly surged up there, with older guy and PI guy just meters behind. Coach really helped keep me focused. I knew I was sitting in 2nd because Aaron Metler was the only guy in front of our group, but I didn't let that get me nervous. Coach left us at the bottom of Majestic and I started to gap Nick a little bit, to the point where I was in great 2nd place position by the top! Nick had a killer last mile though and ended up catching me and gapping me by 14 seconds by the end. We left those older guys in the dust though! And I was able to come in 3rd overall! I have a giant check for 100 dollars, but unfortunately I could not accept the prize money, as I am a high school runner. I hate dumb rules! Pretty cool to have 2 PV guys in the top 3!! PR by like 10 minutes!!