We are who we choose to be.

WOOHOO! 200 recorded miles in my Kinvara 3s! AM- Did 6x1000m with mile warm and mile cool. It was pretty easy. It's fun to talk with Nate, Jake, Andrew, and Jason on these runs. I felt good overall. Getting pretty excited for camp next week! It'll be a blast! RHR:54 HR: ?

PM- Did the arctic circle 3 miler run with the team. Felt pretty easy, but boy it's hot out there. I had a sideache the whole time, which sucks. How can I prevent those before they happen?! Skylar says he's not gonna join XC even though he's a natural at it! He'd rather join football I guess. Now it's time to eat some bacon.

AM- Today marks the 100th mile in my Kinvara 4s! WOOHOO! 30/30s at 126 meters in 30 seconds. Today was pretty tough, but I was determined to hit more than I did last week (14) and I did! I got 20. I woke up this morning feeling really tired and dehydrated. I really need to work on staying hydrated. I was tempted to not even go to practice today. That would've been a big mistake. 1 mile warmup, 1 mile cool down. (half a mile barefoot warmup).

Running Club- I added on 2 miles because I paced the 5th and 6th grade girls race and boys race. Those kids are very talented and determined. Today 2 kids in particular have gained my respect. Gracie Clements and Scotty Bushar. Those are some determined kids. Both of them would not fall behind me. They both tried their very best to stay up with me and because of their determination, it gave them some personal bests. I did not pace them in particular, but they both dared to keep up with me. I love running club!

PM- This was supposed to be a nice easy 3 miler. If anyone ever tells you that was what it was, punch them in the face. It all started off all fine and dandy, but about a mile into it, I started to have the worst sideache ever. It was seriously the most pain I have felt running. It felt like satan literally put his hand in my side and took his sharp, pointy claws and started to squeeze my insides. If I ever have a sideache as bad as this, I will personally walk up to the pope and say every swear word 20 times. I ran up to the grapevine trail and I decided to rest and see if the sideache would just go away. So I sat there and watch the lightning (which was super kewl) for about 5 minutes. It felt like satan pulled his arm out finally, so I started running again. And then it felt like I got shot in the side. I literally got down in the fetal position for a minute or 2. I decided that I was going to finish or die trying. I ended up finishing, but not without casualties. I lost my manhood and every shred of respect and dignity I had.

PM- Went and did a 3 miler from coache's house at 3pm. It was so hot! We ran on the grapevine trail. I just about died, but we swam afterwards and made nerd swords so that makes up for it. It was pretty easy overall.

PPM- Did my morning run at night. I ran to the Sullivan Soccer Park place and hung out with Skylark and some others. Then I ran back. It was a pretty easy run overall and I was probably going like 7:15 pace on the way there.

AM- 6.75 miles. This morning was super tough! We ran to Hell's Hole and did some super crappy hills there. The people from the city told us we couldn't run on the part we were going to go on, so we went to the huge giant hill. First, we did 4x1minute hard. This was the toughest part. I would always start out too fast and be dying by the end... Or I would be stuck behind people. After that we did 4x30seconds hard. These were awesome! I was in the front with Reed on all of them. Cam was really impressive on the last one. He just sprinted past all of us. I decided that whenever we're having a hard time in a workout, we all should just C.A.M. (conquer all mankind) it. Then we ran back to the school plus a block. Pretty tough day today.

PM- 3 miles. It was super hot today. We did the Artic Circle route. We went pretty slow the whole time (which was actually pretty nice). I had a teeny sideache almost the whole time, but that didn't bug me much. I've been working on being more hydrated and it's working. I'm getting really tired of how much I sweat though!

AM- Today we started at Pine View Park in Washington Fields. We ran 7 miles with 2.5 miles AT tempo. I'm not sure what our pace was, but it was fairly hard. I fell off the main group quite a bit about halfway through the tempo and then I gained some ground by the end and ended up maybe 75-100 meters away from them. My legs felt a little sore from yesterday's hills. I feel like I'm giving crazy amounts of effort towards running for such disappointing results. I don't know. I'm just glad we don't have a double run today. And may the record show that when I wrote this I was on the first page of the mileage board! Woohoo!

YES! I finally hit a 50 mile week! I felt amazing on this run. Byron invited me to go with him and Dave on their run tonight and I invited Jason to go with us. We ran a 5 miler up the Coral Canyon hill. I was expecting it to be super hard because I've never ran up it before, but it was surprisingly easy. What's more is that we finished this 5 miler in 31-35 minutes! That's sub-7 pace! By far my fastest 5 miler ever! It wasn't even that hard for me. It was for sure a 5 miler because we had a Garmin with us. Afterwards, Jason and I ran an extra .55 miles to get in 50 miles. This got me thinking of my first 5 miler about a year ago. It was quite possibly the worst run of my life and took me about an hour to do. I've improved so much and I can't believe it took me this run to realize it. My hard work is paying off. I'm good and I'm just gonna get better from here.