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Was warm and sunny again and was first shirtless run of the year. My legs felt really tired the first 4 miles then Ryan went ahead and I started to feeel stronger through the last 3. Averaged about a 6:25.

Ran at home today because everyone else was at the team's first meet. It was nice to run alone.

Felt really good after the first mile and probably went way to fast. Averaged a 6:05

2 mile warm up with a 2 mile tempo and a 2 mile cooldown. Me and Ryan Mcgorty's first tempo in a while. Was worried about staying consistent and fast. Suprised myself with to 5:07 miles on the road. Not bad for the begining of the season. Tempo's are extremely nice when you have someone there pushing you the entire way.  Legs felt ok still getting adjusted to training everyday.

crosss training day. Was good to build up some strength in my legs

Ran 12 1:00 minute hills on steep grass hill by myself. Felt tired but good to get a hill workout in. had a 2.5 mile warmup and cooldown. 

2 mile warmup with 5 minH 3E, 4H 2E, 3H 1E, 2H 1 E. Had to stop halfway into the 2 because my achilles was giving me some problems. Im transitioning into a new pair of shoes so thats probably why.

Easy run by myself. 

ran at home had to stop and stretch because i am having some trouble areas in my legs. Second week of training and interested to see how i do in the 3200m on friday.

easy run with striders. Legs are finally not sore. They killed all week from doing squats and lunges on monday. Did an insanity insane abbs and did 2 other core workouts during the week.

I wasn't sure how this race was going to turn out considering how it was only my second week back. I warmed up with Adam and Evan. I love racing at dusk and the track surface at Lake Braddock was extrememly nice. I was not looking forward to this race all day but when I got to the line I felt good. I went out really controlled unlike all the other kids in my race and just mainted a even pace thru the first mile. Alex Corbett was leading almost the entire way and I was in the chase pack until lap 6 and 7 when everyone dropped off. I was about 10 m behind on the bell lap and felt good. I wanted the W so I kicked hard. I caught Corbett on the homestretch and won my first race in Virginia. It felt good to catch someone on the bell lap.

Was at my sisters house for the weekend so I got to run at probably one of my favorite places ever. The Petersburg battlefield. I felt good until about mile 7 when the posterior side of my knee started to really bother me. I think it was my gastrocnemius.

My knee is still bothering me. I think its because I just got new shoes. Excited to head to Utah for spring break

was in the airport all day.

It feels so good to be back in Utah again. I got to hit an a.m and p.m run today to try to create less stress on my knee. Got to help out at Payson's home meet, and it was great to see everyone

Did a workout today even though my knee is still bothering me. It wasnt even that difficult but i didnt want to chance geting a muscle strain. 3 mile warmup with 4x 400 and 4 x 200. 

Went to the physical therapist to see what was up with my knee. I guess its just to tight and is pulling at the attachent site for the gastrocnemius. Its probably because my Newtons have me mid-foot striking a lot more than I used to. Its frustrating cause i really wanted to get some hard workouts in at altitude and got back to virginia.

4 easy and i made sure to really stretch my calfs.  I did a speed training session with my aunt which was a big mistake, I dont even know why i did that

Ran on the canal. Was sooooo sore

Finally got a good workout in. I had to wait to do it until 8 p.m. because of hershey track and the high school had a meet. I did 4x1000m repeats at I pace. Those were rough with the 20mph wind and i got a few seconds slow on the last 2. Then i did 4x10 hill reapeats. with a 2 mile warm up and a 1 mile cool down.

recovering from yesterday. Flew back to Virginia today. 

My knee is continuing to pester me. First day running back in Virginia. It was good to catch up with Ryan considering we hadnt ran together in 2 weeks.

Pre race loop with Ryan. Excited to run at our home invitational tommorow

I was really nervous to run the 1600 considering I hadn't ran it since January 14th. The other part I wasn't to excited about was running the whole thing by myself. I led after the first 100m just because the guys in the race thought this was a 3200 I guess. They would have probably gone 4:40 if I hadnt of token over. Ran the open 800 like an hour later and got a 2:03 ha. 

Just did 7 miles by myself. It was rainy and I got soaked.

This was such a weird workout, I dont even know where my coach got this idea. 2 mile warm up and cool down with 6 500 meter repeats. We only times the 400 of it because we strided into them. It was downpouring the whole time and frigid. Still managed some 65's and 64's though

Really bad thunderstorms so practice got cancelled. I waited until 8 to run because the rain stopped. It was such a good run. I felt great. My legs weren't hurting anymore. I could have ran forever. Really good confidence boost after having 2 weeks of knee pain.