Desert Chiva Running

6:15am- 30 easy

3pm- 40 minutes/ 4x800s + 4x400s. Hardcore

6:15am- 30 easy

3pm- Prerace 30 with 4x200s

6pm- Cedar Invite- Varsity

We warmed up like 15 minutes to my grandpas house. Before the race while doing striders and such I felt really tired and stuff which made me panic. I started out fast as heck but I felt suprisingly good so it did not worry me to much that I was up in the front. Paul and Nick and the top DH guys caught me on the track. The second lap some DH guys passed me and I went with them but they were really going and after a while they broke away. Thats where Dallen probably passed me I think Im not sure. Third lap Scott moved up on me and that helped me to keep pushing. It was quite the battle and he would pick it up and I would go pass him but neither of us could break away from the other. Going up passed the soccer fields he made another move and by then I was feeling like he was finally going to break away. Then I quick changed that mind-set and busted my but and got right back on his side then I was attacking and made a surge and I never saw him again. My kick was strong but not very long only like 90 meters or so I should have probably kicked sooner but overall it was a good race. 3rd on the team 26th overall. I got a sweet PR for the course but we needed to move up on Desert Hills more so we could get them at state which didnt happen.

6:55am- Ran up to our marathon aid station.

3pm- Paul forgot his keys at the aid station so we ran up there again and then the down diagonal for minutes. Coach did awesome in his race. True chiva warrior status.

6am- 30 minutes easy 

3pm- 60 minutes 2-set michigan 25:59. Macen ran sub 5 1600 today and I have never actually done that so he is fastest freshman right now. 

6am- 30 easy 

3pm- 30 easy. ran around the hood. ate pomagranites. walked through the valley of the shadow of death. realized there was nothing left.

6am- just a regular morning run as usual

2:30pm- JV meet today so varsity went over to the region course for the workout. 2x800s and 5x400s. It was hard and all the 400s were under 110 so good.

6am- 30 easy

3pm- 15 minute warmup then all-out 1600 on track. I got 4:49 which is a beast PR. I think I could have pushed more 2nd and 3rd lap because the last lap was too easy. Not enough pain to be called an amazing race I think but hey, I have regained my fastest freshman title from Macen so yess. If I can force my self to get like 3:30 on the first 3 laps then the last lap will take care of its self.

3pm- 40 minutes with old man hills

8am- 30 minutes through the desert of the chiva. Found some wild dingos. Ran up some giant sand dunes. It was all good

6am- 20 minutes easy

3pm- All-out 400 300 200 100 with full recovery. They were not super fast for me but yeah whatever

6am- 20 minutes easy

6pm- Region 9 Championships- Varsity

It was a good race you know. The girls had a beast race right before us so I tried to keep that positive energy in my body. I started off right with the leaders for the first mile and I fell off of them harder than I should have probably. Jake passed me up and it was good to see he was finally racing like hes supposed to. DHells 6th guys was in front of me and I tried to close the gap but trying to push that hard kept making me fall off again. I passed him with a major push up the giant hill and I died again but last 200 I passed him with my yolo kick and so yeah. Decent race, decent time. STATE IS GOING TO BE EPIC. Especially when our top runners finally pull it together.

3pm- 30 minutes easy with striders. I was super sore.

8am- fall break so we get to go do some suicide hills. Super slippy and wet. People fell down.

8am- Master blasters. Hardcore

11am- 35 minutes easy up to the park and back

6am- 20 minutes easy so dope

3pm- wave hills at the middle school. so fun cuz this time they werent wet and nobody fell down.

5pm- 30 minutes and yeah we did some little speed workout and practice the start of the race.

7:30am- 20 minute run around the area it was nice shakeout before the race

2pm- UHSAA 3A State Championships

I blew it. I forgot to run with heart. It was a hard race but in the heat of the moment I forgot to do amazing. Really I think that is how we all ran. We warmed up and I was feeling ready to break the 3A freshman record. My start was good and I got in good position and after like the first mile we were together pretty good. The second mile is were I ruined it. It kind of fell apart but in the moment I wasnt thinking that it was just like keep pushing keep going faster. I was fighting the pain instead of embracing it. Paul was right with me and we were staying with each other but we should have gone for it. The rest of the race was pushing to the finish trying to pass some guys but to late to change my race around. Super hard and fast race but theres definitly a difference between that and running with passion and heart. 

3pm- went down to the sullivan park and went on the new trail. The trail was actually closed but we ignored the angry lady and ran on it any ways. then we turned back cuz the boardwalk had paint on it. Fun run

3pm- Ran around on trails through sandbergs and through marlar territory. Dope. Dylan got stung by a bee

11am- it was really slow because I ran on a ton of giant sand hills. I was like going 15 minutes pase up a hill about 1/2 miles long and it was in deep sand like on a sand dune in the sahara desert

6:15am- 30 minutes easy and cold

3pm- 6x1000s they were so dope and hard. yeah these were hardcore. I suffered from anxiety of not knowing how many we were supposed to do and it kept me from going allout on my 6th one but still it was good strong workout. I hit about 3:25 every time. Im glad coach told me to stop but I kind of wish I did 1 more because my 6th wasnt allout

6:15am- 30 easy just like always 

3pm- TRT  out in middleton or something. yeah fun but I never have my trail runners for these runs. Im sore and stuff

6:15am- Super cold run and its not even winter. Im going to freeze

3pm- 60 easy down on the river trail. Got like 8 miles or so. Beast and Feast plyos after.

6:15am- 30 minutes easy

3pm- 2-set Michigan I got 24:55 which broke Pauls freshman record by 45 seconds. It was really awesome and stuff. Coach was going to stay right on A standard so I stuck with coach and stayed completely focused and relaxed. Through the whole thing I just never doubted myself or worried about any of the pain. It was just fast running and it wasnt hard because I made it easy. Thats what I call a perfect run. or almost perfect. It felt good to break Pauls record because I missed my chance at state to break that one.

3pm- Halloween run and ice cream. It was great