Desert Chiva Running

I watched lots of Parks and Rec and also I watched James Bond on netflix. I was very sick and miserable. I was supposed to do the 3200 today at the distance carnival but nope cuz Im sick

620am- Nick didnt want to take me to morning practice on acount of his achilles hurts so I ran from home with mi papa. We did a nice 4 mile loop and it was quite peaceful.

8pm- Ultraspire Distance Carnival- 1600m

Me and mi hermano arrived at like 715 or so and it was quite chilly. Lucky I had 2 shirts 1 sweatshirt and 2 pairs of shorts on. I watched our guys do the 1500m for the decathalon and then I went and warmed up a bit. Then I curled up on the ground and conserved body heat. For the start of the race I was in alley #2 (my favorite alley) so I felt very blessed. I had absolutely no plan for this race because I do not believe in mentaly preparing and such. Any decisions that I make will be made in the moment not beforehand because that doesnt leave me freedom to do as I feel.

My start was quite good and fast and so did most of the PV guys like thats all that I saw for the first lap was our team. I think my first lap was like 107 or something. Lap #2 brycen and some guys passed me and my reaction was a little late. I did start kicking it in gear but not untill they had already gapped me a bit. The last lap was decent but as I was starrting to kick hard some Snow Canyon guy passed me and slowed down right in front of me and that really just screwed up my kick. I stepped on his shoes like 4 times then I attempted to go pass some guys. so annoying. This was a nice race and a sweet PR but as soon as I fix up a couple of things then I am totally ready to go sub 440 then sub 435 and maybe by a miracle I could state qualify. But that is still 10 second away so I got to focus up and start having some killa races

also just a side note here I am on the Lone Faithfuls list again so please comment or something. I dont like being on that list

backpacking in the grand canyon

8am- 4x1600s. THey were mostly garbage.

615am- 30 minutes easy. yo no sabo

3pm- Panther relays today. I would put this as a race report but I dont know any of my times. I ran the 400 in the distance medly, the 4x800, and the 4x400. I warmed up to Hearts and back. I dont think I PRed in anything but I dont actually know any of my times. I could tell the 800 was slow because the wind was blowing insanely hard at the moment. Really fun meet. one of the best.

615am- It was rainy and cold but fortunatly I brought my emergency sweatshirt so it was nice. Always bring an emergency jacket. Always

3pm- 60 minutes with 3 sets of fartleks (2 hard 1 recovery 1 hard 30sec recovery then 30sec hard) thruout the run. We went up green springs drive all the way to the top then down to my house were we cut through the desert. Then we discovered mi perro chillin and she tried to run with us so the guys waited for me and I took her home and shut her in the house. After this we did some weights and such and it was good.

615am- starbucks 4 miles

3pm- we did some handoff practice and the we went out on the road. We did the shoe run but some city workers were working on the bridge so we ran in the river. We discovered a dead beaver. We left a minecraft sword on the porch this time hehe. When we got back we did 200s. the end

4pm- We were over at the DH Invite but I wasnt running so initially I watched my brother run the 1600m. To get some minutes in me and Bryan and Jake and Macen ran a cool loop but unfortunatly Jake got stung in the face by a bee. LTL what can I say. Me and Macen went and ran around the town and through a park with water feature which we ran through and that was great. 

9am- Desert Hills Invite- 3200m

Well the bus was late picking us up from the highschool so I rode over with Cam. The bus showed up right as we left but yolo we drove over anyway. Me and Dallen and Jake and Mitch and Andrew and Preston warmed up around the loop in which Jake got stung in the face by a bee yesterday.

I started out in the last alley on the very outside and that sucked and the first lap was like a 114 but I was still pretty far back in the pack. Coach was yelling at me to move up there and I was having some trouble doing that cuz guys dont like to move out of the way. I wish everybody was just chill and fine with letting people move around the pack but nope, they make me go around them every time. The dude next to me was always right up in my grill but after the 3rd lap everthing spread out pretty good. My 1600 was around 459 and I tried to keep it going for the next. I need to work on the second 1600. I think that I was running with Andrew and some guy from Richfield but im not sure my memory is not good right now. The Richfield kid was making a surge and breaking away from me and Nick and Paul were yelling at me to move up around him but I didnt what can say I just didnt. Looking back, if I had pulled out a major surge and gone with him I would have been way closer to breaking 10 minutes. With 400m left I was at 9:00 flat so I was thinking man I can state qualify easy I just got to run a sub 60 400. Easy. jk. I still had a nice last lap though and a pretty good kick. Still a step off my best but I will get there. 

Afterwards I drank some water and we went on a cool down. I got some airheads (the best candy ever) and we all got some snacks and headed out. Unfortunatly I somehow lost one of my airheads. It was pretty sad. We ran over the dirt mountain and me and Jake went at pomagranit pace cuz he was eating an orange and I was eating my remaining candy. On the return trip we were being stalked by some bees so we caught up with the group for strength in numbers. Nick ran in the 4x400 and they missed state qualifying by less than .5 of a second. The sun murdered my skin and I was tired for the rest of the day and we watched starwars at Zachs and ate food. Gotta say, today was a good day

615am- 30 minutes to starbucks

3pm- Workout today was hardcore. We had a 1000 at goal 1600 pace then ?x400s which means 400s at current race pace untill you cant do them no mas. I hit the 1000 at 252 which was pretty good. We had full recovery after that luckily cuz that was at "all to the wall" pace. My 400s were consistently at around 110 with 1min recovery. After 4 coach let us recover for 5 minutes. My 5th one was like 106 then my 6th was around 114 and I couldnt breath very good so I stopped. Then I went and pumped some iron. I currently have a migraine so ima go to bed 

615am- 4 miles easy 

3pm- Coe #1 today. I wrote all my times out on my arm but I lost my watch and nobody was yelling out times anyway. I ran close to Skylar but really I dont even know what I was suppposed to be hitting

6am- We had a morning workout today because we had a youngsters meet in the afternoon. It was cold and windy but I brought a jacket so I was prepared. We warmed up to Hearts and back and the 16/32 crew did 6x800s at 3200 pace. Despite the wind, I was hitting my times right on. We took heart rate every 2 repeats. Me and Preston were runnning together on most of them. My repeat times were around 229/230 for the first 5 and on the last one I hit 228. Good workout. Yeeeezzzz!!!!!!

3pm- easy 3 or so before the youngsters meet in which I did all the announcing and such and also summarized all of StarWars for Macen. hehe

3pm- no morning run. We did the shoe run and the freshmen actually ran with the team today. It was good. Macen skipped practice for no reason. We had pre-race 200s. That is all that I have to say.

615am- 30 minutes easy squeezy like a lemon. It was good

430pm- Dixie Invitational- 1600m

I warmed up with Preston and Cam and Nick and we ran to Arbys where they serve good mood food and slice up freshness and such. I drank some water. 

My goal was to get like 435 around there at least sub 440. There is not much to say about this one. I dont know if it was a bad day or I was just being lame and either way it was just not a fast good race for me. I ended up with a 442 basicly matching my previous PR. After the race everybody abandoned me and I went for some cool down all alone. 

11am- Dixie Invitational- 800m

 I didnt wake up early enough and I only had some toast and milk for breakfast so not much nutrients. Upon arrival to the meet we chilled and ran some reverse indian run on the track. Then me and Cam did some backwards reverse indian run and then we watched the people do the 3200 in which like 3 of our girls and none of our boys qualified for state. Like 30 minutes before our race me and Nick and Cam and Paul warmed up to the park and around the city. I did some striders on the field as Cam was winning his heat of the 800 and that is good.

Me and Nick and Paul and Skylar were all in the same heat and I didnt even know Brycen was doing the 800 and he was right next to me in alley 3. I was thinking in my mind I am going to beat him today but nope. As soon as the gun went off I forgot what my plan for the race was and it resulted in a bad start cuz I was brain dead and trying to think basic thoughts. I started out slow like all the way in the back of everybody and that was bad. Coming into lap #2 I was still in like dead last and so I tried to get my A in gear. In my mind I was like freak I am tired. With like 250 left I saw Brycen like 3 seconds in front of me and so I caught up to him but then he started going hard and we battled it out for the last 100 meters. Hey I am ashamed that he beat me because I know that I could sprint faster than I did. Plus with how slow my first 700m were I should have easily been able to get up to top speed. But no he beat me by .08 and I now join Jaxon in the club of missing top 8 by less than 1/10 of a second. Luckily though you get ritz crackers if you are in that club so heck yes

This meet I got no PRs but next time I will because I will choose to make it hurt mas. Live mas. Its my life, my xbox. Coach is tired of me running slow and so am I. After we went and got some post-race GoSnow shaved iice. I have the utmost respect for that establishment and its merchendise. 

615am- nice and slow 30 minutes

3pm- we had 3x1600s today at 93%. It was hard and suckky

3pm- 10x400s @ race pace - 3 seconds so I was supposed to be hitting 107s about. The first one was 108 and the next 4 or so I was at 106-07. #6-10 my legs were turning to jello. The 8th and 9th sucked and I got like 116 or so but the last one was like 110 again and it was really hardcore

615am- 4 miles really relaxed and chill. Mi padre took me to practice cuz Nick skipped today

3pm- Desert Hills JV meet was today and also some of the guys went on a trip to Vegas for school so there was not much guys at practice today. We took some flyers and drove up to highland park and distributed the flyers around the neighborhood. I dont even know what that was for it might have been something for the running center. It felt like that took forever but we were only at like 20 minutes. We had 60 total so we ran around some trails and stuff then we went back to the park and did striders. Listend to some 21 pilots it was great

6am- Morning speed workout today. Warmed up to Hearts and then did Coe #2 on the track. It was easy

3pm- Pre race run with 200s. We went the usual pre race route but cut it short to hit our times

4pm- Snow Canyon Invitational- 1600m

Warmed up around the school and through some dope trees. They said they were going to do the fast heats first but they lied so we waited around on the field for a while. It was windy and wind gives me anxiety and so that sucked. I barely made it into the fast heat and I was on the very outside starting. I opened up fast in a 105 and it went downhill from there. People passed me and I did not go  with them. I had no focuse and I let myself slow down. waaaayyy down. I actually was planning on being fast this race so after I was depressed cuz I did not go fast. Bummer. Major Bummer. Jk it was not bad but I got beat by a freshman and I need to get a good race in and bounce back.

930am- SC Invite- 3200m

I slept on the bus ride over and im not gonna lie, it was great. The weather for the 3200 was perfect- nice and cool with overcast and light rain and barely any wind. I warmed up on the track with Jake and also Dallen and Mitch and I drank alot of water because of hydration is important. My plan was just consistantly hit 115 splits the whole race with extra speed at the first and last laps to push me under 10. and state qualifying would have been nice.

The start of the race was slow- the gun went off and I got right out in front with all of the Ogden guys but they were all hanging way back. Lap #1 was 115 which was on pace but I learned from science that you should start out fast and drop some time while your still fresh. Lap #2 they got moving and people started passing me. Dallen was right beside be and I sat right on him like a duck on a log. Somewhere around here Bryson passed me and I was a bit worried but i decided to forget about him and run my own race. Hes just a beast anyways and there is nothing I can do about that untill I become a beast as well. Me and Dallen got in a nice rythm and kept pounding out 115/114s till mile 1. My first mile split was 457 I think and so I was right on track. The next couple laps were rough but Dallen and I were rolling and i kept telling myself just focuse on 1 lap at a time dont fall off, dont slow down. Coming into the final lap I was going for state qualifying and coach yelled at me I have to run a 109 to do it. This is where I failed bad- coach said run a 109 but I ran a 109.38. I pushed hardcore and had a pretty nice kick. Unfortunatly yeah I missed state qualifying by .38. Its quite frusterating because I can think of so many places in the race where I couldve gotten half a second. I blame it on the Ogden guys for going out so slow. Im getting good at missing my goals by less than half a second. 

I cooled down with JAke and Mitch and Dallen and I discovered multiple rabbits on the trail we were running on and so our cool down consisted of chasing down little bunnys through the lava fields. Not very smart but way fun and it also made me think of why rabbits dont ever trip or run into things even though they run at like 30 mph. The rest of the meet was awesome and Trevor gave me a huge cinnimon roll and I ate it, also I shared it with people to be nice. It started to be rainy and sucky but then I rememberd my parents were parked at the north end of the track in an air conditioned vehicle. Me and Jake hung out in there for the rest of the meet and it was real nice. Today was a good day beacuse really even though I missed qualifying I still got a nice PR of like 12 seconds so time to go chill, go eat more food.

615am- nothing haha 

3pm- Cosmin test todaaayyy. Wow it was hard and sucky no lie. The last one my legs were so dead I could hardly run. I ended up with a 1490 and I discovered that Im only running the 3200 at Herriman and that is depressing because I dont know if I will get to run it at Region so I might not get a chance to go sub 440 which I know I can do.

When I got home I took a 4 hour nap so Im just great right now. Also I was thinking of changing my blog name to "Alex's Feelings Journey" Any thoughts?