We are who we choose to be.

AM- nice and easy with the guys. Normal morning run to the strip mall.

PM- 2 warm, 1.5 cool, 4x1600s 85% (goal: 5:34 actual: 5:32, 5:34, 5:28, 5:22), 2x300s (goal: 0:44 actual: 0:44, 0:44) weights afterwards. I did pretty decent today. 3rd 85% week in a row and I've hit every single rep. Should be moving up to 87% next week. First one I had Jason to help me, but he was feeling eh today so he dropped out on the rest. Pretty much ran it all on my own (except the first laps) with the exception of Andrew being on my tail for most of the time. I've never been able to hit my times so consistently and so "easily" (not that it's easy, it's just not killer like I'm used to). 300s were solid. Coach said last week that if I wanna be a state 3200 guy that I'm going to have to get some speed and run :44s! Last week I hit :46s which was disappointing so my whole goal today was :44s on these and I did it. Pretty tough day on the track!

AM- none today seeing as we are only going 3 times this week. We'll get everyday in next week.

PM- Trail Run Tuesday and Beast and Feast. We went to the trails out past pioneer park and got about 8 miles. Felt nice but my legs are feeling kinda tight. It was a fun run still :)

during most of the run, I kept thinking about the 3200 and visualizing myself running it. I know for a fact I can state qualify and then even place at state! Just gotta keep working my hardest, running my best, and not be lazy. I want it more than I want pretty much anything. Can't wait to see what I can do this season.

AM- 4 easy normal route 6:15 am. Pretty normal. My legs are kinda dead. Hopefully I'll be able to hold up in the AT tempo this afternoon. I loathe track tempos! I'm sorry coach! But idk. I can keep up just fine at least these last couple weeks so it shouldn't be too killer.

PM- 18 minute tempo. Felt quite a bit of tension in my quads today, but still managed about 5:40 for the 18 minutes. 

PM- easy 8 Washington Fields loop. Nothing too tough, but even easy runs require a bit of effort! It was fun. All the guys are looking strong so far! Striders afterwards up on the grass.

AM- 4 easy

PM- 8 total. Old man hills! 2x800, 4x400. These were tough but I did well! Out first 2 800s were faster than all of last week's. And then on the 400s I finished 1st, 2nd, 1st, and 1st for the 1600 and 3200 guys. Prolly wouldn't have been of Nick was still healthy :/ but we did great without him!

AM- 4 easy on the usual route. Pretty calm this morning. Talked about some of the success I had with Megan on Saturday ;)

PM- 8.5 total, 4x1600s @87% (goal: 5:27), 2x300s (goal: 0:44). Great day out on the track today! My side was feeling melancholy, and I was feeling kinda cruddy going into this, but I decided to take my feelings out on the track and hit my 4th good 1600 workout in a row. Jason, my buddy who ran the same Kosmin, went in and out on this workout because of hip issues. I went 5:28 (with Jason), 5:28 (1st half with Jason), 5:26 (no Jason), and 5:16 (2nd half with Jason). Last one was fast with even 2:38 800 splits. Last 2 were the ones where I had killer sideaches and I still managed to throw down on the times.

300s were the real goal and I hit :44s on both again today! That means next week I gotta go :43 or I'll become like one of those guys who never breaks 5 in the mile, but always gets so close!

AM- 4 miles on my own. 3x Dirt mile (long way there from my house). Still feeling eh so I decided to just go on my own this morning. Didn't really wanna run with anybody. Debated whether going to school or not but I did cause Sage writing test. Honestly don't know what is up with me. since like Saturday I just haven't felt my best! 

PM- 7 miles easy Chuckawalla. Beast and feast afterwards. Pretty good easy run.

AM- 4 miles easy. Starbucks. Nice and refreshing run.

PM- 2 miles warm, 25 min AT tempo (5:47 ave) on the track, cooled to 55 minutes. Felt good on this until the start of one lap in particular: going into about 18 or 20 minutes, I was starting to side cramp up and suddenly Mitch or somebody takes the lead out hardcore on a big surge that I wasn't ready for. Stuck in there though just about 10 meters behind the whole rest of the tempo. I LOATHE track tempos. I like river trail tempos :P I'd like to apologize about being a pace vulture though. I just hate surges unless I'm the one throwing them in ;)

Started the morning off dumb when I got to my car to get to practice, sat in the seat, and fell asleep. Woke up about 30 minutes later and just abandoned the idea of running this morning. I don't know what's up with me. I get 8-9 hours of sleep every night!

PM- 15 warm, 25 cool, 10x200s (goal: 35). Chill workout. Just pretty much have us an idea of race pace while being on the track. Pretty easy. Forgot to mention I saw Tanner Sharp from DH at the temple yesterday so that was kewl.

after practice, my subwoofer suddenly started working so I cried of happiness and blasted Limit to Your Love like Byron used to! It blew my brains out!

AM- 4 miles easy

PM- 8.25 for the run then striders after. Just nice and easy. Went Albino route today and that was different and fun!

AM- got to the school at about 7:40 to get minutes in before the race cause we had 80 minutes today. I ran 45 down the normal morning run route to the TownPlace Suites Marriott. Then I warmed up with some of the guys for a little bit and got 60 in before the race total.

Race- got out pretty quick but Nick was too fast! He had gotten rid of us all by the end of the first mile. Me, Jason, and Andrew stayed together for the first half or so then me and Jason gapped Andrew a little bit. Jason's hip started to hurt so he dropped early as not to injure himself. Stayed pretty much by myself the rest of the time and ended at approximately 17:05. Nothing too killer, didn't feel all out. Good way to get the LT in today.

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!!

Wow last week I got 69.5 miles in! That's the most in a while!

Goals for the week: get my legs to stop hurting from the half, hit my 1600s on point, hit my tempo! Also get my nipples unchafed

AM- 4 miles in the snow!!! Epic run and took the oppurtunity to run shirtless in the falling snow. St. George snow is the best

PM- 5ish miles on the track. 400 afterwards. I hit 62 so nothing too special. Threw some shot out after too haha! 21'5"

BEAST OF THE DAY: Hell Raiser for his 55 400 at practice today! Keep it up, Hell Raiser!

AM- 4 miles easy pretty chipper outside.

PM- 7 miles easy. DI then track work. Reverse indian run!! Super fun with tons of the guys. 

BLOG BEAST OF THE DAY: Robbie for his epic successful tempo!

AM- 0. Woke up and was feeling pretty sick so I just fell back asleep. But I should have gone anyways. There's a big difference between not being able to go and finding an excuse not to go. Mornings are my weakness! New goal: don't miss another morning run (unless I absolutely cannot run) for the rest of the season. If I wanna race like a champion, I gotta train like a champion.

PM- 8 miles easy. Kind of weird having 3 easy days in a row, but I trust coach's judgment and the program. Just ran around the school grounds in between decathlon events. We did 110 hurdles and 200 m. Went 21.7 and 28.1 haha so nothing too great! Just for fun anyways I guess...

BLOG BEAST OF THE DAY goes to Eric Lambert from Cedar cause he's a pretty good runner and was the only blog I reviewed today! Check him out.

AM- 4 miles easy. We went a little bit faster pace this morning which felt good. Normal route to Starbucks. Morning runs are cool, the hard part is waking up!

PM- 2x100 (balls to the wall pace), 5xyoungster hills, cool to 7 miles. Pretty nice day! Hit 13.45 and then 13.8 on the 100s. Youngster hills were also a nice hard pace and I practiced passing Andrew up the hill since I'm gonna start doing that a lot more often ;) then we did a big cooldown around the mall and Harts and then back to Pine View. Good day. Chucked a discuss too!

BLOG BEAST OF THE DAY goes to Joey Buck for his pretty insane workout! Check it out. It's a good read! 

AM- 2 miles warm, KOSMIN! Short cool down. me, Cam, Paul, and Dallen did this this morning because we're going up to the 3A Basketball state tourney this afternoon! Paul and Cam did a 2x1:00 Kosmin and Dallen and I did 4x1:00. Wanted to break 1500 meters, and was right on track after the first 2, but fell off pace the last 2. I hit 1480 meters. For those of you who do not know what a Kosmin is, it is an anaerobic workout which helps you find out your pace for the regular day-to-day workouts. On the track, you go 1:00 all out, jog for 3:00, start where you finished the first one at, go 1:00 all out, jog for 2:00, start where you finished the second one, go all out 1:00, jog for 1:00, all out for 1:00 from where you finished the 3rd one. Measure how far you went on all 4 combined.

Lunchtime: went out 30 minutes with Cam and Paul before heading up north. Did an epic route around the mall and Harts and such. Got some "hollas", unfortunately all of which were from my grandma.

BLOG BEAST OF THE DAY goes to Connor Baller for the legit shout out! If you don't already check out his blog, which most everyone does already anyways, check it out!

AM- Ran 50 minutes w/10 progression AT-LT. I ran in Murray with Cam and Paul and it felt really nice this morning! We made our way to Hillcrest High and ran on their track for a few laps then did the tempo. We were successful at hitting the right times, but we were supposed to go longer. I don't think I was going to be able to hit it for any longer so we dropped out 5 minutes early. Ready for the 3A State Game! Pine View vs Dixie!! The DHells vs Dixie game last night was so epic and I feel bad for anybody who wasn't there! Ended in QUADRUPLE overtime!