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Me and christopho went to the oval this morning to do some speed. He went off and did his own thing and I did a mile warm up, then a timed mile, then two 400s and two 200s and five laps cooldown to be at 4 miles. Oh yeah and we saw Susannah there!

I did the Shriner run this morning.

I dont feel very well. It's probably because of the bad air.

This morning chrissy and Iwent to park city to run in the clean air and the warmness. We ran along a paved trail that started at the tanger outlets.

Running in emigration canyon. Ah, so peaceful.

We did a memorial day 5k. First i warmed up twoish miles with Sarah, then waited around for the race to start. Once it started, all the walkers went to the outside where we were supposed to run, so i was constantly going on the grass to get around them. It was annoying. Then i cooled down half a mile and we took advantage of all the free bread!

So it was pounding rain, and Sarah and I had taken refuge under the bleachers until people showed up. Then we went to the oval, and I did 22 laps to equal six miles.

We did two miles on the track while Tomy and christopho were warming up, and then did the va loop except turning on gaurdsmen instead. I worked pretty hard during the loop.

I did two grass laps with Sarah at Sugarhouse while waiting for the track banquet to start. I'm glad its cross country season now!

AM- 3 miles with Sarah (sorta)

PM- we went up sunnyside to the shoreline trail, then followed that until the red butte water fountain. The whole way there I could feel the tostadas I ate in my last class a half hour before the run, so I decided to turn down to take the legacy bridge way back instead of the full run. I'm not sure how long it was so I'm just going to guess 5 miles.

This morning we did a 5k called the Linda Butters Memorial.I Warmed up around 1.5 miles with Sarah. I liked the course okay, but I wasn't that happy with my time. Afterwords I cooled down 2 miles with everyone, and got awards. Chrissy and Sarah got some pretty sweet trophies for winning.

So ever since the race on Saturday, my left foot hurts when I bend my toes. I didnt run at all yesterday and i think I'll give it today off too to see if it feels any better by tomorrow.

Well I tried to run today... But felt god awful so I went home. My foot still hurts and my legs felt dead and my chest felt tight. On the bright side, our visiting runner from Nebraska seems very nice!

AM- 3 miles, slow and awful. I am glad that I gave my foot time to heal though, because it didn't bother me much at all during the run. I just find it frustrating that whenever I try to work hard everyday at the workouts and actually see improvement, something starts hurting and then I'm back where I started.

First day of summer practice. We did a mile warmup around the pond, then the state course. I think the hills on the course aggravated my foot a little bit, but other than that it was okay. I might do two or so miles later today, but for now, i have to go take my drivers permit test!

PM- 2 miles. Incredibly cool and pleasant. I passed my permit test, hooray!

Pipeline today. I ran with a big group, and the miles just flew by!

P.M.- 2 miles. I love to run at night.

Four miles at sunnyside and the glen.

P.M.- 6 miles. I was originally only going to do 2.5, but Sarah needed a bit more milage so we ran along foothill to thunderbird and back along Wasatch. It was fun.

We ran at the JCC. I ran up to the rock pile, and decided to head back down because I kept stepping on painful rocks that hurt my foot. I added a mile in the parking lot, and later another 1/2 with Sarah.

Liberty today, we did one lap warmup, then the group I was in did one lap fireman, then another lap cooldown. Afterwords we ate breakfast at the park cafe.

My brother and I did a 5k in south jordan today. We got there a little late, so I only warmed up a half mile. I felt like I was giving it a pretty good effort, passing people on the down hill and such, but my time was crap so apparently I wasn't going that fast. Also, my brother and the guy in the lead took a wrong turn because the race people hadn't even set the course markers yet so that cost them the race. I cooled down to four, then we drove over to wasatch to watch the team finish their 5k, and I did their cooldown with them. I need 3.5 miles to get to my mileage, so i guess I'll go after dinner.

PM.- 3 with Sarah! Its always a fun time when you can't see the sidewalk in front of you because of blinding headlights. I still needed a half mile so I did a lap and a half around my block.

Today the team met at the peace garden. Everybody ran out twenty minutes and back. I liked this run because we had a small group of people, and it was nice and relaxed. Then we did step ups and leglifts and ten strides, where we had a very (cough) interesting cheer squad. Then we cooled down for ten minutes, and Eden, Stormy and I rounded our miles to six.

We ran at shorline today. I went a little past the yellow gate and back.

At liberty park we did one lap warmup, then twenty minutes of fartlek around the pond, and a lap cooldown. I had to add a little at the end to make it an even six.

Quick two miles to test my new shoes. I didn't like them. I didn't realize they were stability shoes, but when I ran in them I could feel the two different densities of foam and it was uncomfortable, so we're returning them on Monday. I'll probably find a more neutral kind this time.

Rest. I think my foot got worse today, its looking kind of puffy and red. I don't know what could've caused this, my new shoes couldn't have messed it up this much!

Cemetery run today. I did one lap in the cemetery to get to seven miles. I'm going to go to fifty miles this week, I think.

A lovely day at pipeline. Stormy and I picked it up a little on the way back, and the group went up the road a little to get to (around) eight.

Didn't go to practice today because of my foot. I'm sad because it sounded like a nice workout. I really hope it gets better quickly, so I won't fall behind the rest of the team. I've been icing it a lot recently to help with the swelling.

I did a half hour on the stationary bike, and it was a much harder workout than I thought it would be! I'm too short to run in the pool with the belt on, so i guess the bike will be my primary exercise and I'll just swim for fun.

Little bit O' swimming. Not really feeling the stationary bike today.

I went on a walk this evening. It was around 4-5 miles. My foot felt exceptional today, due to all the icing i did prior to the walk. I think its starting to heal up and hopefully I can start running soon.

Went for a swim in the evening and a walk at night with Chrissy.

Christopher and I went up to the elementary school playground for what I thought was to have fun. But instead he forced me to do core. It wasn't very fun.

We arrived in Arcata, CA today. I went swimming at the hotel pool when we got here, and I'm now back to doing my usual spastic bouts of racing to the car, a tree, etc with christopher without much pain in my foot. It was painful though when i was running full speed and he came up behind me and pushed me to the ground. Don't be fooled by outwardly calm demeanor, he's a freakin bully!

So today we were doing a hike in the redwoods, and I decided that I would run the first part and walk back down if my foot didn't hurt too bad. Turns out it felt pretty ok. This was without a doubt the best run i've ever done, because it was so beautiful and the weather was perfect for running, the high for today waas 59. The redwood trees went up and up for hundreds of feet but you could only see halfway up because the trail was blanketed with a thick layer of fog. On the way back I was kind of tired of hiking and got lost a little so it wasn't as pleasant but all in a a swell day.

More hiking today and a little bit of swimming after lunch. The running I did yesterday hasn't seemed to aggravate my foot much, so that's a very good sign!

Walk

Walk walk

Walk walk walk

Walked three miles at Jeremy Ranch, and I'm pretty sure we went swimming after that... My brain is failing me at the moment.

Its called running. Look it up.

Dos mas

OH SH**************************

Walk day. Taking things nice and slow.

Con mi hermano.

Another short run

I went to practice today, however I didn't feel good at all because I hadn't eaten anything all day and I am sleep deprived from going to bed really late all summer.

We did the loop from the track to gaurdsmen down to the cemetery, a lap, and back on 13th. I felt much happier today and I was especially pleased because I had this run in my head and hoped we would do it. Afterwords I did only one 300 and I tried reasonably hard to catch Becky who was two people ahead of me. Finally a big grasslap.

Short run to loosen up my sore muscles. I guess that's what happens when you don't run for a while.

Another two miles. I'm doing these silly runs mostly to get back into the groove of running everyday rather than thinking of mileage or anything.

Today went well! We did the shriner run and I turned back after the first waterfountain. I felt like I was going at a good clip most of the time, but I did notice some pain in my problem foot when I was finishing up on the track.

Am- I had a really good time during the morning run, because it was cool and dark and pleasant. The breakfast was also very good. We went up to foothill then down past the hospital and back on 13th, and added eight hill strides.

Pm- I really hate running on the track! We did a mile warmup and a mile of speed changes, then a mile repeat, then I did a five minute repeat and an 800.

Today we did the grass Relays in American Fork. Because of the wait for the restroom I didn't get to warm up at all, but thats all right because sometimes I think I do better with short warmups. I didn't race very hard on the first lap,so I tried to go faster on the second lap. My time seems slow to me, but then I factor in the haybales and my lack of running over the summer, and it seems ~okay.

Two of my brothers patented two-mile loops.

Oh hello blog! Its been a while! Today was the wahsatch Rendezvous at the cottonwood complex. Before the race I jogged around a little bit to wake up my legs and then we started the race. The race seemed to go by really quickly and I actually had a pretty good time running it, and I had a good finish moslty because I saw Elizabeth and I wanted to catch up to her, which I did. As for my time,it was still unsatisfactory but I'm glad my times are coming down and hopefully I'll be running a lot quicker in the near future.

AM- we started at the track and ran to sugarhouse via 13th and did a lap on the nice new pathway then went back on 15th. It went great-- but now that I think about it, i've never had a bad morning workout.

PM- mile warmup, mile speed change, mile cooldown. Isn't nine miles too much before a race?

Piiiipeliiiine

Pipeline with Christopher then wandering down the canyon looking for phone service.

Over to 13th, up to foothill, over to thunderbird, up to wasatch, back to 13th and down to 17th and home.

Pipeline in complete darkness. 10/10 definitely one of my best ideas. (Sarcasm) It felt really good though.

The conditions were great for my race because it hadn't started raining yet, and I felt good the whole time. There was a point during the beginning when it was really crowded that I was at almost a complete standstill, and at some spots I felt like I needed to speed up but I couldn't because there were too many people to navigate through, but other than that it was a fun race and I'm glad I took it seriously.

Chrissy and I went to the gym and i ran two miles on their tiny track (15 laps = mile) then did two miles on the statiionary bike then tried to do another two miles on the track but my stomach hurt so I stopped.

Ran along wasatch to Bills house. When we got home I developed a headache that ruined the rest of my day.