Go Westminster Griffins!

I ran the Dani Bates Invitational in Twin Falls.  I finished in 18:50 (coach and I had my time at 18:43) for a new PR.  I was hoping to run faster but the wind affected my in the last 2 miles.  Went out fast, maybe too fast.  Two other schools put their top varsity runners in the JV race to make sure they got medals (too slow to compete in the varsity race).  I was 7th overall in JV and now 8th on my team.  Still working to get the times I need to be back on varsity (another 30-40 seconds here is what I needed).  I am proud of my race.

6 good miles with Ben. 

7 miles at pratice three of which were mile repeats. My first mile, 5:52. Then 6:11 and my last mile and .1 was in 6:38. I was the fourth fastest kid on the team. 

6 easy recovery miles at pratice. 

5 miles of tempo run today at a hill in shamrock park. Good workout. 

4 miles and a bread run

Race today and i was running JV. i started off at 5:45 for my first mile and wasnt looking to good. Next mile cam at 11:51 and i was starting to get into the race. Then i saw Dad on the sidelines and i started pushing i went from 16th to 8th placce in the last mile and medaled!!! i raced a solid last mile. it was a windy flat race with a plane, yes a airplane, constantly circling over head. it was very loud. My time actually put me on stop 7 on the team. 

2 miles with mom, katelyn moxie and dad! mom and kate did awesome!! then 4.25 with dad and had a good conversation, 

5 miles at XC practice.  Speed workouts on the track (instead of capture the flag like some of the team).  Hard work today....400m in avg. 70 seconds! (69-72).

Bread run today, nice and easy.

We ran the City wide XC meet today at Freeman Park on a VERY windy day.  I ran pretty well and passed the first mile in 5:48.  Second mile I started to move up and caught Matthew and was dropping some of the other kids.  With about 800m to go I moved into 6th on the team but Matthew had more kick in the last 50m and got me by about 1 second!  Back on varsity.  Tough run but I love this course.  IF team finished 3rd out of 4 teams so it is a challenge to see if we can qualify for state and the district meet next week.  We will have to run hard.  Highland, Skyline and IF and in a hard competition...Madison and Hillcrest are 90% sure to be going.

5,5 miles at pratice with a good ole speech from coach. 

6 miles at pratice and top of the world run. Down from the cannon to the railroad tracks and back with preassigned female partner, Kate. 

6 miles with Dad and company around the river in the morning. It was a group run at a solid pace. I tried a pair of Zoot Solana shoes!

Then i ran 2.5-3ish with Moxie. 

4 miles at pratice. 1 mile at 5:47 and some two hundreds coached talked alot today...

4 bread run miles.

Last race to try to break18:30 and i did it! The race started off fast and i went out at 5:39. i worked my way up to Matthews shoulder,and he and i, trailed some Madison boys. 2nd mile hit and i started going, passing the two boys and picking up the pace. Matthew came along too and then the last 1000k hit, and it was windy. i stuck behinf matthew and with the last 200m left i really started pushing but matthew and his awesome kick passed me and beat me by 2 seconds. i beat Taft and Thomas though but we missed going to state by 14 points..... 3 of our boys are going though. good end to the season. 

5.5 miles with Andrew after school, recovery pace. 

6 miles with Dad three of them with Kate. i ran 3 back to back tempo miles today at 5:48, 5:53 and 6 flat. not bad after race two days ago. i also praticed form tricks with dad, and with these tricks i ran almost 400ms at sub 5 pace. at one point it said 4:11 pace....

8.2 miles with dad, andy, ben, matthew and albert. we started training for Nike cross and did alot of fast fartleks and some hill runs. it was a very good run. 

No run.  I gave my confirmation speech at church today!!

5.25 miles with hill workout with the boys at Community Park

7.5 miles with the boys as an easy run around the area...good times.

Ran speed workout with the XC team for nike.  1.5 miles easy warmup then 12x~200m hard with ~200m recovery.  We were on a grass field so the distance was close to 200m.  Dad has us run pretty hard 29-34 seconds per intervel.

7 miles of recovery with Dad, Matthew and Ben. good pace and did some good form drills before we left. my form is getting better. 

I ran with Ben and Matthew from our house to the running store for about 6 miles.  Dad said do a tempo so we ran hard but the wind was pretty bad.   Overall felt like this has a good effort.