"If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail"-PRE

am- 6.62 miles/ 50 min @Dirt Mile repeats w/pace drop each mile. Today went pretty swell. So we went up to the Dirt mile and did a pace drop thing. We were supposed to start the first mile at 7:00 but we were going slow at first; so it was 7:20. The next one was 6:40, then 6:30, then 6:15 and then we did a 1000m cause thats all the time we had left. I lead with Andrew and Skylar but they both fell off but Jake came up and so Jake and I ran together for the last mile and a half or a little more. I really felt great! My left knee on the outside was hurting from the third mile and on but not enough to make me slow down. Great run today and I'm excited for a week-ful of workouts and runs with the team!

WORD OF THE DAY: today's word is "defense" cause Coach Holt said there is no defense in running. And its also because the Cavs played some beast defense. Defense means to stop something or someone from accomplishing. Ex: The Cavs played good defense which helped them win game 2 of the NBA Finals.

RHR: 48

am- 4.62 miles/ 15warm/ 15cool with striders in between; all grass. Today was a nice day for running. I feel soo good. I am excited to see what happens coming to the start of the season cause I feel just like last year. And that feeling is fresh, confident, and ready to push myself! We did grass run today and it was nice. Preston told us about his birthday yesterday and what went down;) After running we had kids club and I was with the 7th-8th grade boys and they were a little dumb at first but then it was fun. We played ultimate frisbee but to score the goal was a soccer goal that you threw the frisbee into. Super fun! And that was it. 

RHR- 48

am- 7.5 miles/ 60 min E. Okay since somebody deleted this from yesterday, the run was up to the Parkway and then down around the trailer parks and stuff. Went out to the Sandbergs pond but just up that road by it and looped over to the elementary. Ran by some aporcot trees and I ate um and they were delicious beyond measure! Yup thats about it.

RHR- 49

am- 3.6 miles/ 30 min E with striders. Nice run out to the tortoise trail and around the desert out there. Great run and its good to see all the new kidos pushing and working hard! I am really impressed with our freshman too. Those guys are gonna be good. And the girls too, thats just kinda given:)

RHR- 49

am- 10.06 miles/ 80 min E w/ quicker finish. Wow best run ever! We started at the Heritage Park in coral canyon and then went to the prospector trail, which is my favorite run ever! Wow I felt great, did get a little lag feeling in my legs at about 45 minutes but that was really it. The quicker finish went awesome too. I pushed it a little quicker than we wanted but thats alright. But yeah the run was just amazing! I really want to do it again:)

RHR- 50?

pm- 5.02 miles/ 35 min (3x3:00min pick up intervals with 3min recovery) . Wow never will I ever forget to charge my watch! My watch was dead so I didn't run until 5 and it was sooo hot! Great run though, the intervals were at 6:00 pace. I definitely felt some lag from the run yesterday but it was still a good run. The xc girls drove by coming back from the relay thing they did so that was cool. 

Dream mile was super awesome!! I was betting on Mikey to be a underdog winner and he was soo close! What a beast goin after it. And the girls race was pretty decent too. 

WORD OF THE DAY: today's word is "ecstatic" because that is what adjective Andrew Nielsen used to describe his feelings about the coming cross country season. Ecstatic means to be like so overly excited about something it is almost exploding the person containing it. Ex: Andrew said, "I am just exstatic for cross country this year!"

RHR- I forgot to do this