Justin's Blog

Well guys I'm back!!! After a well needed 2 week break of no running, it felt good to get back to it today. For the passed 2 weeks I've been just playing other sports to stay a little active. I was trying to gain 15 pounds to hit 150 just for the fun of it but sadly my metabolism is to fast haha :P When I weighed myself this morning I weighed 136.8. I guess it just wasn't meant to be :'( but anyways... today I did 8 minutes of core and then I met up with a couple of the guys. I ran to the school to meet them and we were off. about 16 minutes into the run for them (20 for me) Alek and I started to pull away from everyone. So we just decided to continue with that pace. We were running the normal 8.5 mile loop but for me it since I ran from my house it would be a little over 9. It wasn't until 27 minutes into the run that I decided I wanted to get home sub 60... haha so I started to pick up the pace more. I knew I would have to negative split the rest of the run pretty hard. It wasn't long until I started to gap Alek. Once we were off the trails, I waited for him to catch up really quick then took off again. When I had about 3 miles left, I looked at my watch and saw I still had to pick up the pace. So again I left Alek. Sadly my stomach started to give me really bad problems and I had to uh... stop and use a tree and leaves..... lol. Alek caught back up to me and once we got to the park I went and used the actual bathroom. Alek kept going and I just started after him once I was done. I got to the school and I saw I only had 2 minutes and 50 seconds to get home to go sub 60, but I knew that only average when im going really fast it takes me 3 mintues to get home. So I kind of took off like I was running an 800 haha. When I got to my street I started to sprint to try to make it. At my house I litterally leaned like I was finishing a race and stopped my watch to see that I barely made it running 59:59.22 hahaha. Pretty great run for my first day back.

Oh by the way a couple days ago I officially decided to run for Utah State University so I'll walk on the team starting in the fall semester.

Not going to lie but this mornings run was miserable. I got to bed pretty late so I didn't wake up to go run with any of the guys. I end up just going by myself. I ran from my house, to the park and up the trail, to the end up pipe and back. it took be about 59 minutes total for the run. I kid you not, I had a head wind the whole entire time which pissed me off because I was already tired from yesterday. Then to make matters worse I began chafing down below because of my stupid shorts. The whole run just sucked. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

Today was better than yesterday. I ran from my house to the park and up the trials. I then went out on exercise trail and then back. On my way back I ran into Alydia and we talked for about 5 minutes. I then continued on mt. Ogden trail to 29th street, out to st. Joes and then back home. Almost home I ran into mike and ran with him for a minute just to talk really quick I got home at around 59 minutes.

Later on I went and played some intense ultimate Frisbee at the park. I know I'm going to be sore so I'm worried about tomorrow but oh well I guess haha.

i'm calling this run the 2nd worst run of my life. I started from my house and ran roads to weber state. the whole time I just felt terrible so I stopped and stretched a little. Then I continued from the football parking lot out to the church on Old Post road. Once I got there I was ready to be done. The whole run I just felt like I was dying and tying up like at the end of a race. I sat on the sidewalk and rested more. The guy who's house I was sitting in front of pulled up in his driveway. He asked if I had hurt myself but I told him I just felt terrible. He offered me some water which I gladly took. I ended up talking to him for about 15 minutes. He was a really nice and great person and I was happy to have met him. I then left and finished my run back home without stopping. my finishing time was like 58 miutes.

I met with the guys at Weber State. We just went flat out to pipe and back. Little by little guys dropped off until it was just Alek and I. When we got back to Weber, we continued out for another half mile and then back to make it a full 8 miles. 56-ish minutes.

I ran to the highschool and met up with Alek. We just went straight into the run without stopping and without saying a single word to each other. We knew we were just gonna do the normal 8 1/2 mile loop. It wasn't until 29th street that Alek asked if I wanted to lead and I just said no. The starting pace of the run was pretty decent but we just progressively picked up the pace little by little. When we finished at the school, we went and ran a mile on the track just finishing the pace we were already going. We ran a 5:58 which felt really comfortable and then I left and finished at my house. 70 minutes.