Redemption

7.5 mile fartlek (3:00 @ 7:00 pace-:30 @ 5:00 pace) This workout felt great! The last 200m of the workout I ran a :27 200m. I also created a daily standard warmup routine (2 laps jog, 2*50y strides, 2  laps jog, drills, 2*50y strides) I decided I needed to up my warmups because I have been having trouble with warming up, and have spent half the workout still trying to get loose. Cooldown routine is (1 mile easy, 4*100y strides)

Strength Training: Upper Body

AM: XC Practice 5 miles @ 6:27 ave. with 1 mile warmup and cooldown.

PM: First day of scout camp up in Kolob. I will be kept pretty busy up there trying to finish all the merit badges I need for my Eagle. So I will try to workout and run AMAP (as much as possible).   

  Cinder Block Strength Training :)

 AM: I had to be ready for breakfast to help cook before 6 am, so that meant I had to wake up at 4:30 If I wanted to get in a good workout. I set my alarm for that time but I guess I slept through it because next thing I know I woke up and it was almost 6. So I just went out and ran 2.5 miles. I snuck in any extra running I could during my free time. However, I didn't want my scoutmaster to think I was using this campout for a personal little running camp so there was only so much I could do. Probably finished the day with 4.

PM: My Dad was in charge of putting the Aaronic Priesthood Encampment together. So he was there and was able to give me strength training workouts to do with cinderblocks. Ha! They were actually really hard workouts. The only problem is my strength training workouts always take me over 2 hours so when I had free time between classes I would do it, a lot of people would say like wow do you just workout all day long? Do you ever stop? And that made me nervous because again I didn't want to seem like I didn't care about the campout and just wanted to train. So hopefully that message didn't get sent out, I just love  to workout and stay fit.  

Strength Training: Total Body

Ha! This kid in my ward volunteered to wake me up at 4:30 in the morning since I've been having trouble waking up. He was like "I wake up at 4 am every single day." I wanted to say: and do what? But I just thought it was awesome he wanted to help. He woke me up and I woke up Jesse and Isaiah in their camp area and we actually got in a good 10 miles that morning. So that felt good especially because it was at 8000 ft altitude and one way was straight up, however coming back was straight down. We averaged 8 min miles going up, and 6 min miles coming back down for a 7:15 mile average I think. Which isn't bad for 4:30 in the morning at 8000ft altitude, with no real good sleep, and terribly unhealthy food :)  

Strength Training: Plyometrics, core

So I guess the kid in my ward did wake me up... but then I mumbled something and went back to sleep...however, I have no recolection of this happening. So that afternoon I ran with Jesse and it was probably a good 95 degrees or so. My Dad told me to take this trail up to the water tower and he said it would be about a mile. Well we started running up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up. Unti finally we decided to turn around because we had been running for 35 min and didn't bring water and we still had to turn back. Well on our way back about 2.5 miles or so later we see the water tower. Ha! We went WAY too far. Afterwards we did a little bit more of running and a bit faster paced around the campground.

I did not have time to do a strength training workout today. :(

Woke up at 4:30 am again (Last day of Camp!!!) and ran 10 miles up and down the trail again. Then packed my stuff went to flag ceremony and headed home.

Strength Training: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, Core