Persistence Pays

Five miles easy with my brother up in Orem. Looking forward to a great xc season. I am leaving to EFY today with Scott. It should be a great time. I am excited!

Well running at EFY turned out to be a little tougher than planned. They originall didn't want us to run but we were able to run during free time. Nice five miles run with scott at 7:29 pace. Another kid in our dorm is an xc runner so hopefully we will be able to run with him sometime this week.

Five mile run with Scott during free time at a 7:53 per mile pace. We found this cool path to run on!

5 mile run with Scott and Alex at 7:26 per mile pace. Of course there was the ocasonal "Run Forrest run" and "run faster" as we passed EFY kids on campus. We hit the cool trail again. Great run with great people!

Five mile run with Scott at 7:03 per mile. Cruised around campus. Good times!

What a day!!! Woke up at 4:20 in the morning to get back from EFY for work at 10. Luckily I was able to sleep in the car for a little while. When I got to work it was my first day as a lifeguard. It went pretty well. I got home around 8 oclock and was super tired and hungry. I ate dinner and laid on the couch and fell asleep for a while. I woke up around 10:30. I was really tired, but was able to make it out the door. I did 6 miles easy on the roads.

6.5 mile run. It was a pretty good run. Legs felt a little tired, but overall a good run. We jogged on the turf afterwards

7 miles today. We did a nice run on the trails and finished with 8x100 meter strides.

8 mile run today on the trails in Arizona. It was a good run and I felt pretty good. After the run I had to go to work so I wasnt able to go pool running at rileys house so I did it for thirty minutes after work at the rec center. I need to start stretching more.

8 mile run on the trails. Good run with the team.

4 miles on the roads around Little Valley. The last 2 miles we did barefoot on the grass at the park.

7 mile run with Caden and Bryson out on the trails. Legs felt pretty tired. It was nice to get the run done in the morning.

7.5 mile run today (with warm up). I felt pretty tired today and decided that I need to start eating something small before practice. After the run we did 8x100 meter strides and tabata. Overalll a good day.

Ran 7.5 miles out towards Hidden Valley. Average pace was a 7:36. My hamstring is pretty tight and I need to roll and stretch it out. After practice we had the kids camp. We played capture the flag and it was pretty fun. The best part about practice today though was I got to meet and get a picture with TY DETMER. Great day! 30 minutes of aqua jogging (pool running) later today.

7.5 mile run out by coach Thatcher's house. Felt pretty good. Average pace was 7:46. We did some tabata after. After work I aqua jogged for 30 minutes.

9 mile run today out on Navajo trail. Felt really good. We averaged a 7:35 per mile pace. Apparently we went on a different trail than usual which I didn't realize until we finished (sorry about that Kale).  )Overall a great run!!

6.5 mile run out by coach Thatcher's.

9 mile run with Sage behind the high school. The pace was slower because we started bush-whacking and the trail was pretty rocky. We saw two rattle snakes on the run. Overall a good run.

Pretty close to a five mile warm up today with 8x30 second hill repeats up Webb hill. Felt pretty tough, but good to start working on speed. I got a pretty bad head ache so I think I need to drink more fluids.

9.5 mile run with 8x100 meter strides. Legs were pretty tired, but overall a good run. I went aqua jogging for 30 minutes with Scott and Sage after.

Warm up plus 15 minute tempo run. We averaged a 5:53 per mile. The run felt pretty good overall and I was pleased with how we did.

3 miles in the afternoon. Left knee was a little tender (nothing serious). I iced it after the run. I ordered some new shoes which should be here by Friday. I will wear my pearls tomorrow because they have less miles on them. 

10 miles on the Jem trail. Legs were a little bit tired from the workout yesterday. Today my knee felt better than yesterday. After the run we watched the USA game and aqua jogged at brysons house.

6 miles today. We did a 12321 fartlek with the same recovery. I was okay with the workout, but I know I can do better. I kind of fell behind the pack at some parts so that is something I want to focus on. My new shoes came today, so I am excited to try them out!

8 mile run with Bryson. We averaged a 7:33 per mile. It was nice to get the run done in the morning.

On sunday my family traveled to California. We finally reached California around 2:30 in the morning and since we were travelling I did not eat the best. This made for a rough morning run. I was supposed to do hill repeats, but I wasn't exactly sure where a good hill was, so I flipped my workout to Tuesday and did an easy run with my bro. We ran 8 miles at a 7:35 per mile.