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this previous weeks mileage was taken off a pencil/paper log i had before i joined the blog, not sure where i went by now.

I had taken the previous week off and hadnt done speed for quite a few weeks, felt dead the whole time and ended up with an average time.

ran to legacy bridge in the U, felt pretty good on the way up and even better back down.

i missed a few days already this week since im on a new schedule, im trying to get a more consistent running time in though.

ran out to sugar house park and did a loop and half, its starting to get really hot now.

six miles at an easy pace in the U campus, i finished in about 45 minutes.

ran out to sugar house park, did a loop on the outside path and went back, it was really hot.

PM 3 miles

quick run around my neighborhood, i was going to go longer but had a time constraint.

Ran in my neighborhood again, i'm still not used to 95 heat.

i didnt go for as long as i would have liked to because i have 2 assignments and a test tomorrow.

ran up around the zoo from sunnyside and on wasatch for a little ways, its was pretty shady so that was good.

Did a nice run out to sugarhouse, did two laps on the outside
then ran back home, it was still fairly cool oustide so that was a nice change.

ran out to sunnyside and up around the zoo to wasatch. Stayed on wasatch for a little while then dropped down and made my way back home.

PM - easy miles in neighborhood 

speed workout with wasatch athletics.  Started with a lap around the park and then a mile of speed changes.  we did one 800, two 400's, and three 200's.  Cool down was another lap on the outside.  I felt pretty good during the speed, but i dont remember my times.

ran from my house through the U of U and up to the fountain by shriners.  It was a good run, but i was a little bit stiff from the speed last night.

ran pretty easy up to the fountain at shriners and back, i didnt push too hard since im racingt tomorrow.

i felt really sluggish during the first two miles of the race, my legs were feeling like the just couldnt turn over as fast as i wanted them too.  I wanted to hit a faster time, but i guess bad days can happen.  Also the skyline cross country team came to this race, they had 5 people under 17:00.

ran up around legacy bridge in the U and looped back down through campus, i felt pretty good and it was shady too.

ran out to sugar house, did 1 lap and ran back home, i felt ok, but i wish i could be training with the xc team.

speed workout with wasatch athletics. warme dup 1 lap around shp then 1 mile of speedchanges. the workout was 10 400s.  i was feeling sluggish most of the time and i wasnt focused very hard because i have a huge test tomorrow for chemistry.

ran up to the fountain at shriners and back through the U, i was feeling a little tired at the beginning but that pretty much faded away by the end.

ran through my neighborhood tonight, it felt a lot hotter today than it has felt the past couple days.

up around the zoo out to thunderbird.

ran to the U and weaved down and back up to my house.

took it pretty slow to loosen up a bit.

ran to shp, 2 laps then back home.

speed workout with wastach athletics.

went out for a long run after my chemistry final, it felt great to be done with the class.

easy run through my neighborhood

AM - 4.5 at liberty with xc team

PM - 3.5 easy in my neighborhood 

easy miles to hit my weekly(50)

workout @ shp

1 lap around park, 2 miles speed changes, 1 more lap around park.

(adrenaline GTS 102) 

ran the last two miles of the des news 10k out and back, it felt pretty good but it started getting hot near the end.

(Adrenaline GTS 107)

two miles in preparation for the 10k tomorrow.

i had a pretty good race today, it was my first 10k so i wasn't sure what kind of time i would be getting.  2 miles warm up and 4 miles cool down.  I think my chip time is off by 15 or 20 seconds though because my clock time was around 4:17 and i didnt start right on the line in the beginning.  

AM- nice and easy out to sugar house, 2 laps and back, i was a little bit sore from yesterday but not too bad.

PM - easy 4 miles around my neighborhood. 

took it nice and easy up in the U campus, my legs were feeling pretty good and only slightly sore.

5 light miles in my neighborhood, felt pretty good.

 AM - ran to the fountain at shriners from shp and back, felt pretty slow today.

PM - ran 3 light miles on my own, felt good to loosen up a little bit. 

AM - 6 miles at dry creek with XC team

PM - 8 miles, 10 one minute fartleks, 2 mile warm up/cool down.   

ran at cottonwood complex, did a warm up then 6 hills.  we did core work then a cooldown on the region course.

6 easy miles before my vacation

easy miles while in montana, it was below 50 degrees when i went.

still on vacation

3 easy miles at night

vacation again 7 am

                       5 pm
 

cottonwood complex with xc team - aren't hills great?

PM 2 easy miles to loosen up a little bit. 

6 easy miles on the jordan river trail with xc team PM - time trials 1.5 mile warm up. we did the state course but cut it off at the end so it was about 2.5 miles long.  after i did a short .5 mile cool down. 

10 miles on the pipeline trail with xc team, after the run we some of us sat in the river for a while.

ran into the U campus and came back around by the zoo and along wastach.  I felt pretty good today, but i got out later than normal and it was really hot.

light run to get loosened up for the week.

fartlek workout at shp  5,4,3,2,1 with equal recovery.

AM - 6 miles on dry creek

PM - speed work with wastach athletics, we did one 800, two 400s, 5 200s.

hills at cottonwood complex, my legs felt very tired the whole time.

did a bike/run at jeremy ranch in teams of two.  I was supposed to be with emma but she couldnt come so i was with susannah.  We would run one mile then bike one mile for 5 miles out then the 5 back.  Susannah and I were the first place team followed closely by Stefan and Jeromy.  This is a fun workout and we should do it again next year.

PM - 4 light miles

liberty park, warm up followed by a 3 mile tempo run then a cool down.  I felt really bad on the tempo miles, my legs just felt dead after about half of a mile.

out to sugar house, 2 laps on the outside grass, then back home.  It was really windy today.

ran in my neighborhood for an easy 6 miles, im feeling a lot better than i did at the end of last week.

warm up around sugar house

1 set of curcuit

5 1000 repeats on the state course, my splits were : 4:00   4:01   4:00   3:54   3:56

cool down around the park again.

i felt like i should have been pushing a little bit more, especially on the first 3.

shore line trail run with xc team.  i felt really tired and my legs were heavy today.

PM - 8 miles.  sorry about missing the speed workout, i forgot it was tuesday already.

hike to desolation lake with xc team.  It was 6 miles to the lake then 4 back to the lower parking lot.  we had lunch at the lake.

PM - light 3 miles, didnt have much time so i only got in 3 miles.

liberty park with xc team.  1 lap warm up followed by two laps of fireman.  My group hit 20:50 even though 2 dropped out and most of the last lap we only had 4 people doing it.  we did 1 lap cool down.  Our pace felt really easy.

PM 5 easy miles to legaccy bridge and back, im still slight sore from the hike on wednesday.

ran up around the zoo on wasatch out to thunderbird.  i felt pretty good going out, but the part on foothill i dont really like.

ran up into the U then to the fountain at shriners and back.  the U campus was really busy today because it was move in day for the dorms.

PM - 4 miles easy in my neighborhood, felt good this week.

easy 7 miles around the zoo, i felt ok but it was really hot near the end.

PM - added an easy three miles in anticipation of the middle of the week being short on miles.

1 mile warm up, 1 smile speed changes, 1 mile fast, 2 800s.  For a cool down we ran around a 3.25 mile loop.

PM - 6 miles to legacy, down to the U of U chem building and back to my house.

schriners hospital fountain and back.  did 10 100s and 2 progressive 300s at the stadium.

wheeler farm meet.  I felt terrible this meet, my legs were heavy and just wouldn't seem to respond.  i got 19:11 but i was hoping to do much better than that.  After the race we did 10 hills.

AM - ran to sugar house and did 1 lap then back to the stadium, did 5 100s.

PM - ran up to sunnyside and did a 2 mile warm up followed by a two mile tempo run and two mile cooldown.  i got 14:21 on the tempo, slower than i wanted but for some reason ive been feeling slow and physically exhausted since the beginning of the week.

speed workout after school

1 800 then 8 400s  2.75 warm up, mile speed changes 5 laps cool down

zoo run from myhouse, it felt good to take an easy day after the past week.

7 miles in the morning

6 miles in the evening.  

Big week coming up with BYU invitational at the end of the week.

ran up around the zoo and along wasatch to thunderbird. 

felt nice to run in the rain, but hail wasnt quite as nice.

am - 5 miles with 10 1 minute fartleks in the middle

PM- 5 miles to schriners drinking fountain and back.

meet at cottonwood complex.  I felt really tired the whole time but still did alright.

ran 3 miles in the evening.

legacy bridge run at the U.

2 easy miles in preparation for BYU invitational

2 mile warm up with strides before the race.  I got off to a pretty good start in the race and was feeling good for the first loop, as the second loop began I started to lose contact with Spruce and by the third loop I had no hope of catching back up with him.  I need to work on my mental focus of staying up with people, i know i have the strength to gut it out and keep up with people, but today i just didnt and it caused me a much slower time than i know i am capable of.  I think if i could do this race over again i could drop over a minute from my time.

PM - i ran 2 light miles tonight to finish off my weekly mileage. 

AM - to sugarhouse 5 hills and back

PM - speed workout 200 400 600 800 1000 800 600 400 200, 1 mile cooldown.

AM - ran up around the VA then came back to the soccerfield and did 10 hills.

PM - run to sugarhouse, one lap around and back

tri meet murray.  20:57?  i think that was my time.  I had REALLY tired legs and my calf was hurting a lot for most of the race, especially downhills.

2 miles very light afterschool

Not as well as i would of liked to do, but it was an improvement over wednesday.  My legs felt a lot better, but for the first 2 miles of the race it was really hard to even find an opening to get past groups and i didnt get a fast enough start.  This meet was a good learning experience for upcoming big meets.

AM- 9 miles in the morning in the U campus

PM - 7 miles to sugarhouse, 1 lap, then took a slightly longer way back.

AM - 20 200s with equal recovery   6 laps warm up 2 laps cool down

PM - 5 miles zoo run with 1  300 after

AM - to sugarhouse, 5 hills and back

race at cyprus

AM - liberty park

PM - hospital run 

run to sugarhouse with 10 400m hills

run to gateway

AM - VA loop, 10 100m strides, 1 mile cooldown

PM - 1.5 mile warm up, 10 x 400m, 1 mile cooldown 

AM - run to sugarhouse 1 lap on the road

PM - 1 mile warm up, 2 mile speedchanges, 1 mile cool down. 

fartlek workout at granger meet