We are who we choose to be.

THE WARBEAST IS BACK (hopefully for good this time)

AM- Pretty sick morning 4 with Connor Baller and the pv crew (probably a record turnout as well). Super proud of what our guys are accomplishing so far this track season... Especially our younger guys.

PM- 10 warm/cool, 800-1000m@1600 goal pace (full recovery), 2-4x400@3200 pace, 2-4x400@1600 pace, 2-4x400@1600 goal pace. I did okay this workout, but the short day at school kind of threw off my eating schedule and I was running full which is never fun. Alex and I went the full 1000 and hit a 2:49. I don't think I was fully recovered after 10 minutes, but went on with the workout anyways. Went on to do 9 of the possible 12 400s (i don't think anyone could hit all 12 today on the boy's side) at 1:14, 1:14, 1:13, 1:14, 1:10, 1:09, 1:07, 1:07, 1:09. Didn't really feel my best today, but that 1000 gave me confidence that I can run a state qualifying time in the 1600 if I really put my mind to it. Good day. Weights afterward. Also I jumped Megan's van for her afterward.

Shoutout to my man, Skylar for getting his mission call to Sao Paulo, Brazil!

AM- 4 miles easy Starbucks. Pretty nice morning (meaning it's gonna be HOT this afternoon). Had 9 guys, about 5 or 6 girls, and 2 perky coaches there today. It's a great day to be a panther.

PM- 4 miles and 8x20sec sunrise hills. Felt pretty good but my legs are tired from yesterday. Semi easy day.

K I have to Controversial Cam this up today: What are your thoughts on people flying the Confederate flag?

Why do I ask this?

Today after the youngster meet at PV (where I ran a beast shot put ring), I was walking to my truck and saw that the truck parked next to me had an American flag and a Confederate Flag flying out the back... I thought to myself,"dang that's kind of stupid that that idiot is flying around a confederate flag because of what it stands for." and so I get to my truck and I notice that THE CONFEDERATE FLAG WAS GONE. I looked around and saw these dudes running away from the truck with the flag and I didn't think twice about it... I don't support flying around a Confederate flag anyways. But then I was thinking about how even though I may not like it, that guy has a right to fly his flag whenever he wants because he lives in the good ole USofA. I sat in my truck pondering these things... AND I got out and I ran around trying to find those kids for a good 20 minutes, but they were nowhere to be found and I felt super angry that they would steal this guy's flag. I walked back to my truck and the owner of the other truck was there!!! I talked to him about how I saw some kids steal his flag. He got into his truck, and PULLED OUT A BRAND NEW ONE. He said,"wow those kids will be surprised when they see me driving around with another one." He was swearing up a storm talking about how he was gonna find those kids lol but then he just drove off. Anyways, so what're your thoughts??

AM- 4 miles easy Starbucks. Legs are so dang tired today. Luckily we have an easier run this afternoon 

PM- Easy 30 minutes and 4x200s. Running the 4x1600 as a workout tomorrow and then racing the 1600 on Friday at the Ultraspire meet. I'm feeling pretty confident that I can state qualify the 1600 after our workout on Monday where I was able to hit 1000 at that pace. My PR was at the PV Dream Mile back in December I think when I got a 4:39. So we'll see if we can't demolish that on Friday!

AM- 4 miles easy Starbucks. From having a ton of guys on Monday, today seemed pretty disappointing we had like 8 guys: 2 of each grade. Like Noah's ark.

PM- DH distance carnival 4x1600 champions PVHS heck yeah lol. Just did that as a small workout and did about 55 minutes total at the meet.

AM- 4 miles easy Starbucks. Today started with only 3 guys:me, logan, and Mikey. Like coach said, the guys who show up to morning practice show the most improvement and Mikey and Logan are awesome examples of that: with Mikey getting 10:30ish in the 3200 yesterday (freshman) and logan with like a 2:05 in the 800 (soph). We ended the run with 7 guys (Dallen Mitch Carson and Andrew all showed up late) and those guys are all beasts too.

PM- Hit a bunch of miles at the meet. Raced the 1600 which was supposed to start at 8:30 but then was changed to 8:00, back to 8:30, and ended up being ran at like 8:45... Felt like Hurricane invite all over again ;) but ANYWAYS, my race was going really well, I was in like 4th with 500 meters to go, and pretty much on state qualifying pace... And then I died. I literally felt more tired than I ever had in any 1600 of my life, my legs could not move any faster and started to go a lot slower... Finished like way far back with a high 4:40s (i think) and was not very proud of my performance. Idk if it was because of the race being so late at night or what, but I know this wasn't anywhere near my best. I ran 4:39 in cross postseason, so I think I should be around 4:32 next time. This race was a fluke: not big deal.

AM- easy 10 out from my house through grapevine. Finished hard which made it nice since it's all downhill from the Maverick to my house. I was feeling really bummed about my race the night before and really got thinking about it and decided it really just wasn't my night. I have great races ahead of me, as well as crappy ones, but when all is said and done, you just gotta race the best you can every time and whether that is good or bad doesn't matter as long as you give it your all. And I'm READY to go and kill whatever race Holt has me do at Desert Hills this weekend. I'm ready to give it my all and I'm feeling confident.