Desert Chiva Running

6:15am- 30 minutes out past arctic circle

3pm- 50 minutes with 8x800s. we had to hurry and get going so we didnt get stuck inside on lightning suspension or whatever. I was slow on my 800s like usual. I dont know if it is just that im slow on mondays or if im bad at 800s but I always seem to suck at them. Weights after. The rain started coming down so good thing we hurried to start practice.

6:15am- 30 minutes in the rain. it was beast.

3pm- we watched some videos in coaches room then went for a 60 minute run. Striders after. it was great

6:15am- 30 minutes same as always. Practiced handoffs with a random pipe we found.

3pm- PV Time Trial #3

We warmed up like 10 minutes or so then got back, got my spikes on, and we raced. It was not very good. I was not mentaly prepared for the race and stuff. The start was really fast and I could tell I was going to die off but when I did, I didn't do a good job of pushing through and staying up in the group where I should have been. On some other races I feel like maybe I could have pushed myself more, but this race I know I could have pushed harder. I got the same time as last time trial so yeah not my best preformance. After we did our mile repeats coach came to tell us varsity spots for upcoming meets and all that jazz. I was thinking crap because that was no bueno race but when he tells us who is going to Herriman on friday first thing he says is "Alex is going..." and I was like yes. Im running JV still though but still im going on a varsity trip so yes. 

6:15am- same thing as always

5:30pm- We had lockdown because the cops were chasing down some bank robbers so we were late. Me, Macen and Brianna were all late together so we ran together and I didnt know how many minutes we had so me and macen ran around the neighborhood and went through sandberrgs but the girls was there so we just went up the hill instead of going around the pond. 4x200s after

12pm- 40 minutes at the state course with 4,3,2,1, cruise intervals.

5pm- Herriman Invite- JV race

The race was really beast. I was the only PV boy in the JV race so I warmed up all alone and stuff. It sucked that I was all alone though like at the start everybody has like 10 people on their team and im just all alone. My start was good and the first mile I just went and got in good postition but it was hard because it was up a mountain. After that first hill I was pushing hard to pass some guys on the downhill. It was really fast and I passed a couple guys from Bingham on the way down the mountain but then a kid from AF came up and passed me and I pushed with him up the mutha cussa. The last 3/4 mile was brutal. On the mutha cussa I was super drained from coming down the mountain so fast and I just made myself push all the way up it. The mutha cussa was so hardcore my legs were on fire. For the rest of that gradual hill to the finish i was just trying to hold on.  I was trying so hard to switch gears and get moving but really there was nothing left in my legs. The whole race the terrain is just hardcore and hilly so that just made the race super hard. The finish was definitly not my best but I kept my position for the most part I was 7-9 place through the whole race. On that gradual hill after the mutha cussa was where I could have used some teamates to help me push because I really fell a part in that section. It was good race but still I have room to improve.

1:30pm- me and macen did an adventure run up a mountain which was hardcore then we discovered some heavy machinery which we thought was like a secret base like area 51 or something. Then we ran through some wierd explosive dirt and saw some nube dirt bike dude and chased him down and it was Jakes brother Colton. Then we found a pond that was like nasty as crap which haad a castle in the middle like a prison or something. Then we ran up the road and Colton was just following us so we told him to do a backflip on a jump which he did. Then hard finished at like 6:15 pace and finished at macens grandmas house where we got hydration and coolant.