Enjoy the run

6 easy miles in Smithfield Canyon.

Today was a 4 mile tempo, my splits were 6:10, 6:00, 5:57, then 6:23. My lungs were burning the whole run which sucked and my last mile was not what I wanted but other than that I felt I had a good run. 1 mile warm and cool.

Just an easy 3.5 miles today, my calves are a little sore from yesterdays workout.
 

Met up with Conner after school to run an easy 8 up Smithfield Canyon, it felt pretty good.

Today I did 4x1600m repeats on the track, my splits were 5:36, 5:45, 5:47, and 5:51. I was hoping to get them all under 5:40 but at least I kept them all under tempo pace. 

Easy run with Conner after school it was a fun just a headwind on the way back.

I found some XC guys after school and we did an easy and kind of slow 6.5

Today was an awsome run, 10 easy miles up Smithfield Canyon.

Nice and easy 8 miles with Ethan after school, Ethan took me up Green Canyon where it was a little muddy and cold but it was still a good run.

7 easy miles up Smithfield Canyon.

Ethan wanted to go on a run so I went to his house for an easy 8 when I got home Kyler wanted to go so I went 4.5 after with him. There was snow and hail but it was fun to go run with friends.

5.5 easy miles around town.

I woke up this morning and found a free entry for the Smithfield turkey trot so I thought I might as well go for it even though I wasn't initially planning on running it. The 5k runners started about 40-50 meters behind the 10k runners whick was annoying because within the first 30 seconds of the race I had quite a bit of people to pass. I got in the gutter of the road and tried to get past as many 10k'ers as possible. I found another 5k runner weaving through the crowd of runners in front of us. Luckily, for me, he tried to go to the outside of all the runners around a turn then tried to weave through the rest. Once we got through the crowd I decided to stick with him, we caught up to the front 10k pack a few minutes into the race then slowly passed them. By the time the 10k and 5k courses split we had a good 100m lead from the pack. I felt unusually tired by the end of the first mile (probably from my nerves), the other runner I was running with was running almost exactly my tempo pace (uphill) so I just decided to stick with him. Once the second mile and the uphill running ended I decided to pick up the pace, fortunately the runner that I was with before had become tired and that was when I knew I had the race. Overall I felt pretty good, I didn't do a good job of handling my nerves but I will have other chances at that before track. My splits were 5:51, 6:01, 5:28 and 10 seconds for the last three hundreths of a mile (sadly it wasn't a full 5k).

2.5 warm with 2, 1 minute intervals at 5k pace, and 2.5 cool.

6 miles with Tyson and Ethan. Slow pace. 

6 miles with Kyler on saddleback. I ate too much before and we kept the pace sub 7 so I didn't feel the best.

8 miles easy with Ethan.

4 miles very slow and very hard. I didn't feel good at all my legs were tired, I was tired and I felt like I was barely moving. 

I was super busy and wasn't able to get enough miles the last half of the week.