#WolverineWay

AM- I was supposed to go to LA freeway with the team today but it got rained out so we decided to not do it. We ended up meeting at Monarch with the rest of the team and doing our own run. We ran up to the Reservoir then down to the Cove then to Main Street and back on 13400 and we added another .25 to make it 10. 

AM- Easy run with the team today. I felt like crap the whole time so I was not going to push the pace or try and stay with whoever was going to. My stomach hurt bad the whole time and I could barely talk without stopping in mid-sentence to catch my breath. But when I got home and ate some food I felt so much better.

PM-8. Warmed up 1.5 miles with the team with 4 striders. Our workout was 5x1000 repeats at 3:10 pace with 200m recovery. We hit like 3:09 on the first one and like 3:07 on the second. Our third repeat was 3:03 and it did not feel that hard until the last 200. Our last three were 3:07's but they felt a lot harder than that. After we went and did 2.5 cool down.

PM-6. Drove down to Arcadia today with Jaydn. We hung out the whole day pretty much. We went to this park near Arcadia High and decided to run to the track. There was signs on the track that said closed but we went in anyway and talked to a coach who said it was cool if we came and ran on the track. We ran 3 miles with striders on the track and talked about our race and just about everything else. We ran back and I stretched and did some idiot drills.

PM-4.5. Hung out at the mall and the beach then went to Arcadia to watch the races. Some kid ran a 9:16 in the slow heats so me and Jaydn figure that we should be able to go 9:06 easily. After we went on a pre-meet run and I stretched afterwards.

AM-2.5 Easy run with Jaydn around the area of our hotel. We watched some races then hung out and saw a movie.

PM-5.5 Got to the race and saw Shea win the 800 and 1600 within 50 minutes of each other. She is quite attractive and a great runner. Seeing her compete so high at this meet boosted my confidence in the Utah athletes and I seriously thought 9:06 was not out of reach. Warmed up with Jaydn for a mile and a half and did striders and stayed warm for my race. Got my seed, I was seeded last in the heat which was 37 and put my shoes on and did some more striders.

RACE: I got up front quickly so that no one would mess up my stride and I could control the pace. I led the race for the first lap and got passed when they got tired of following me. A lot of people passed me and I must have been near last place but I just hung on and tried to stay in the race mentally. I hung behind Jaydn for the next several laps then with 400 left I made my move and passed about 5 people in the last lap finishing 22nd. I hoped my time was fast but it was not. I ran a 9:25 which is not even as fast as I ran at altitude last year. I was the sixth fastest runner from Utah. 

After I was done, I watched Ben race the Invited section of the 3200m. He ran an unbelievable race, He hung in like 7th the whole race and with 400 left he made his move and then Bernie tried to go with him. Bernie caught him with 200 left but Ben was too fast and began to pull away faster than Bernie could catch him. Ben won with a 8:45 setting the fastest time ever at that meet and by a Utahn. Jake was 16th in the heat with a 8:59 and Connor was a 9:04 even though he lead for 4 laps.

After seeing that, I took Tomy and Jaydn to go cool down and talked about college. We tried to recruit him and I'm hoping he joins the program. We ran 2 miles for the cooldown total I think.