Fly like a Falcon

I did pretty good this race. It was my first 5k of the year. The race was a little long of what my dad got on his garmin. My goal is to beat 20 miuntes this year. I won my age group, and only males in the 16 to 18 year old age group beat me. No females beat me in the race. I placed 6 out of 195. I beat almost 190 people. I did OK, but I think I can do better. I enjoyed the race.

I have been running  a little but I just havent wrote it in the blog. I also have been running home from school on some days. I have not been running much in the winter because of basketball, and now I am slowly starting to run more, but I still do baseball, flag football and some basketball.

This was my first half marathon. I think I did pretty well. I beat most of the runners in the half marathon. I did not get the time I wanted which was 1:30. It was a lot of fun doing the race. This is the is the longest race or run I have ever done. In mile 9,10,11,12,13 I was getting really tired. My average mile was 7:28, I was trying to get a average of 7:00 minute mile but I did not. I haven't been training much except for doing other sports. I think I still need do more training so I can get my goal 1:30. My legs still are tired and sore. I ran with my new running shoes in the half marathon. They are pretty good running shoes. I did 11 minutes better than last years 1st place runner in my age group. I think they should give out better awards, because I only got a mdal that said Salt Lake Half Marathon, and said 2008 on the ribbon part. They also should take more time to announce the awards, they were rushing through because not a lot the people in the half marathon were there. I hope they will do the awards better next year. I want to try another half marathon soon. I love running. 

i ran in kids race at draper and won, but the race was dumb. It was too short and not measured right. I dont have time to run much more but I do run home from school some days and run alot on my football and basketball teams. I ran for a touchdown and passed for another. Also had 2 innersepsions. In baskteball i scored 12 points

Today I ran in a short race called Coookie Chaser. I could only do the 2k as I had early baseball. There were 118 people in the race. I got 2nd in the race beating everyone but Mackenzie Morris. He was 6:56. I was 7:13 and this was a PR fpr me. I wonn a wood plack award, then i had to go to baseball and then flag football

I did good this race, but I did not reach goal to break 20 minutes. I did better on this race than last years by about 25 seconds. The courses were different. To me last years course was a lot better. Thet did not give ribbons or medals out because they wanted everyone to feel particapation. I won a big bag gummy bears at the race. I like that race but there were too many sharp turns. My avereage pace was 6:58 seconds, which is OK. I hope to do better next year in this race.

I ran at the BYU track. it is fast. I broke my PR by alot and my new one is 11:31.5 it is a fast track and running with some high school runners helped but i got a bad gut aik for awhile. My dad says this is a great effort

I also won 3 field events. Im very happy I broke the state record for my age group in the javelin throwing 100 feet and 7 inches, got a PR in long jump and was ok in shotput but i did that after 3000 run. I couldnt do other races because Friday I had school and had 5k saturday

i had trouble running with stomach ake and allergy, but i think I did OK, last year 21:51 so I improved 43 seconds. The race is fast with alot of downhill to start. A big rv pulled off the road and got in front of me i had to run around it. i won my age group. this was my 2nd meet in a row but i have not done any training this year as i have too many other sports. Last week was baseball on most days plus i had choir concerts Maybe if i cn train I will do better and beat 20 minutes

my dad and I did a slow run. We just ran around in the neighborhood. I enjoy running

Had Olympic games - I won 4 gold medals in basketball, soccer, tennis and track

This was my first county practice. I wanted to do more running but we mostly played games. For the last 15 minutes we did long jump, sprints, and throwing the discus and shotput.

Today was raining a little. A lot of kids not show up. We did some conditioning. We did a 400m, then a 300m, 200m, 100m, and a 50m. Then we did shotput and discus and long jump and sprints.

My dad and I went to dimple dell valley to do some running. While I was running I got a cramp. We enjoyed the run. It was very beautiful. It was warmer than what we expected so my dad and were sweating with our underarmor on.

In the morning I attended a Hershey Track Meet, I won the 400 a PR 1:12.8, I won the 800 in close race also a PR at 2:51.9 but didnt like how I ran, I got a stomach ache and almost lost at finish. I also got second in softball throw almost winning at 133 feet 5 inches.  In afternoon We had another county practice. We did sprints, shotput, discus, and highjump. Our jumping coach gave us some workouts to do for building leg muscles.

I had a track meet. My first event was 1500m run. I did pretty well. I did not get my goal but I got my PR, at 5:42. Then right after the event with a couple minutes of rest I had the 80m hurdles. This was my first time ever doing this event. I did OK. I placed second in my age group at 18.52 Then I decided to go do some mini javelin throws. I threw 4 but they were not that good. I had to go straight to the 200m dash. I placed third in my age group. at 33.42 I decided to just do that for fun as Im not a sprinter. Then I went over there to fiinish my 2 throws, and I end up doing better than before with the distance of 90ft and a 3rd of an inch for 2nd place. Then I go do my last event long jump. I did pretty well and won. I did not get my goal but I got my PR of 12 feet 11 and half inch. I missed my goal by half an inch.

My dad and I went to bridal vale falls to do some running. We ran a couple miles. My legs were very sore from my track meet. We also hiked to the base of the waterfall.

Then I went to baseball which I was OK.

my dad said i could do one report for all week

Monday to Thursday was at Utah Ute basketball camp from 8 to 4 each day. My team lost in finnals so got second. i also got second plce in shooting contest. I will count this as 2 miles for each day.

monday  track practice at dimple dell county, 2 miles

tuesday  end of my competitive baseball team, we had a team party

wednesday  track practice at dimple dell county, 2miles

thursday hershey track meet. I got PR and second place in 100 yard dash My time was 15.14. i got first place in softball throw at 122feet. I got first place and PR in 800 at 2:46.3 i dont like that they wont let you run 1500 meter until you are 13 years old That is not fair. my dad did some warmup with me. I will count this as 3 miles

friday Copper Hills County track meet. I ran the 80 meter hurdles and got third. I dont know my time. Then I ran the 1600 meter and won in 6:01 a PR. my daD said I won by over a eighthh of a mile. Then I did 4 x 100 relay and my team got second Last I did the high jump and jumped 4 feet 2 inches and got second. i will count this as3 miles. I dont like that they run 1600 i think it should be a 1500

saturday holiday 5k. i was alittle tired and it was hot. I ran 21:23 and got first. I almost beat dakota in older kids divizion. i won a medal and got a free pizza coupon as prize and ate alot of popsickl;es I also met Brent he is my dads age but alot faster

im behind in my racereports as I have been veryvery busy. I have had 5 track meets in 1 week. I like to run but wish they didnot have them all at the same time. my dad said that the race oreganisers dont talk enough to each other or work things out all the timeI dont remember the dates of all races or the exact time of less than seconds.

Race 1:we drove all the way to ceeder city, my dad said it cost over $75 in gas. I won 2 gold and 2 silver. I got gold in hurdles, I think about 17.5 Next I did 800, I got 2nd, I think 2:52 Then high jump, I got 2nd at 4 feet 1. I could have done better and won but I had to hurry on jumps because it was a hour late and i hadd 3000 meterI got to 3000 late it had already started as we did not hear announcement You could not hear it at high jump pit. I still won gold at 12:20It was very hot day to run

Race2: I think this was on Wednesday. I took it easy and only did short races. I dont know my times as county coach doesnt tell you until you get ribbons. I won my heats 100 meters and hurdles. I tried discus for fun for first time and through over 50 feet. I aslo ran in 4 by 100 relay but they would not let us pick team. I got slow kids. I tried hard and ran fast at anchor butcouldnot catch other team

Race3: this was on thursdays at BYU for state championship. i like running at byu track today was pentafflon. i only lost to older kid by 15 points. I got over 1500 points. I won 3 of the 5 events. I got PR in 4 ofn the 5. They are hurdle 17.3, high jump 4 feet 3and half, shot put 23 feet 8, and the 1500 meter 5:28. Other was long jump at 12 feet 11. That day was very long and hot and i got tired but I wonn a silvermedal

race4:this was at byu for state championship. I did my events as I had another meet today. I got 3 gold and 1 silver I got revenge and won long jump with PR 13 feet 7 and 1/2. I only jumped until I beat every one in high jump to win and savemy energee. It was hard to do as they were late and I had to do all my events about same time. I won 3000 but they goofed up and stopped us at 6 and one half laps instead of 7 and one half. My dad said I would have been around 12 minutes ormaybe less. Then i got second in javelin I was tired after running the 3000and it was very very hot so I lost my state record in that for now but I know I will get it back next year. I qualified for all 4 events and pentafalon to got to regional in arizona but we cant go as dad doesnot have money and said it is to hot to go there

race5:this was today at orem for Hershey state championship. I did not do well but still got 2 PR and placed in all but will not gett to go to national chamionship in pennsilvaneya. I got pr in 800 running at 2:44 and in softball throw 136 feet. i was slow and did not run good in 100 meter but imnot a sprinter

I also went to track practice and basketball practice and baseball practice. This week I have basketball camp. my dad has been busy and not run much. this is a long report i hope you got to read it

ran a good race and won my age group at 20:34. Dont know overall place. loop race with shade because sun wasnt up, i wish more races would start at 7:00. My dad ran too

Then I went to county track championship. I did not do long race becuase I already ran a 5K. I tried differnet things, I am the County champion in long jump with a PR of 13 feet 9 and 1/2 inch. I anchorred my 4 x 400 relay team to first for championship too. Im not a sprinter but won my heat of 200 meter and got 5th place, I also threw the discus and got 5th place

Now im gioing to basketball

I have not been on blog but Ialso won my age at July 4 Murray 5k in 21 minute something. I hope this year to win the cicuit long distance running for my age.

I havent done much running practice but ran twice with Utah project team on trails and a little at track practice. I finished baseball, today is last day for track and basketball. Maybe I can improve since I will only run now for while

I ran ok and won my age group. Time was ok but not as good as i wanted. I like the first downhill part. I was around 19:30 at 5k but then got tired. I dont know my overall place yet. i won a nice medal. We watched Sasha finish his marathon

Race was same as Draper race but started later. I think they should have started it earlier at 7:00 as the sun isnt up. The last mile had the sun in my eyes which I did not like. I wanted to do better but still got my best time of year i also really got a pr as my dad said this was a certofide 5K, I easily won my age group and beat lucas and dakota also. My time was better than draper race. i am also running with not much training as im busy now as we are movin, I dont know my overall place I won another medal

We now live in Washington, ran with my dad and dog, see my dads report. I ran about 1.5 mile more than Dad doing some sprints running and coming back to him. Goodbye to my friends in Utah

I almost won the 5k. It was a trail race. I lost to a 18 year old but i got 2nd place and beat all runners but him. The race was in the forest and had some bridges, I started to get lost sometimes. This is only 3  times Ive run all month as we moved and have been unpacking

Ran with big kids on Discovery trail from bridge park at bird center to Robin Hill park and turned around. It was fun running over bridge. I ran good

Today i ran agian this time at dungeness park. I got to see views of the ocean and dungeness spit that has a lighthouse. It was nice day to run

Ran today at Robin Hill park which is on trails in forest. I tried to keep up with the big kids. I got stung by a bee on my ankel and that hurt alot. My goal is I want to run someday at olympics which my dad and I watched last week

Trip to lighthouse with big waves and seals

Ran today in the 5k at Bremerton. I ran a good race today. I got a PR which made me happy. I broke 20 minutes

The course was OK except that you had to do 3 laps instead of a loop. The Navy recruits from the navy base were there. I would have done better but with the laps the slow people got in the way and the biggest problem was that on last lap i had to pass the group of navy guys and there was about 100 of them. I think I could have gotten 19:50 at least still i were 16th of 179 runners

I also had to race again against high school kids in my age group which I dont think is fair as they are much older and run on their high school team. but I know I will beat them someday. They didnt give much for prizes just ribbons

afterwards my dad and I went to the docks and had a hotdog and blackberry desert and saw a navy destroyer ship

went to my Grandmas and we ran at race at Loggers playday. It was not a big race. I got seccond place of all runners i should have won, i only lost to winner by 5 seconds. He was high school runner. I didnt run as fast, it was all flat and I like hills better. it was also down and back same way which is more boring. I won a medal. my dad liked race as it only cost $3.00. During week I run with older kids but only have time to list miles and not blog

Dungeness Park. 2 things happened today the US border patrol and police made me and older runners leave some trails we were running on as they were there for something. We also saw a gray whale while running on cliffs above the beach

Ran 800 meter at school in 2:39 in PE. I did 2 laps while most kids did only one 400 meter.

Then ran in afternoon with older kids at Robin Hill

Dungeness

Hill work at Robin Hill Park. One of the hills the kids call Death hill. saw a big hornets nest too

Today I ran at a high school meet in their open race. The open race is mainly high school kids who have not enoufh practices or running seperate not with their team. There were also fast older kids and college runners. The race went aroung the lake which goes by the Washington state capitol. It was mainly flat with a little uphill i think I ran a good race and my training has helped. I was the youngest person in the race.

Then I went to the pepsi punt kick and pass contest. i surprized my dad I won my age group but dont play on football team. i get to go to regional championship now for football

Ran at Dungeness at moderate speed

Ran at Robin Hill with older kids at easy pace

Tempo run at Robin Hill

Improved 3 1/2 minutes from this course last week

one slow mile at marilyn nielsen county park ran on beach

Ran in the Salt Creek invitational open race. I was 42 of over 240. Most of the kids run under 22 minutes so it is fast race. It is fun race as you jump over hay bayles,  and run up wood stairs and run through a tunnel where there was a world war 2 gun battery. It is through campground, in forest and above the ocean by port angeles. After the race my dad and I went to see the tide pools. I also got a Salt Creek running shirt. I need to get closer to my HS competition and my goal.

I watched the middle school race they wont let me run because im in sixth grade and it is for 7 and 8 grade. So the coach let me run the course on my own after the race and my dad timed me. I goofed up on first try, ran a mile and went wrong way so I had to try again. this time I ran the right way and finished the race. Even with no one to run with and being tired from already running a mile my time was the 2nd best. Only adrian a fast 8th grader who is 3 years older than me would have beat me and he is one of the best in Washington. There were 3 schools. i was mad for running wrong the first time so that helped me run fast the next time. My dad says we need to measure the course as this is a fast time but the coach said it is 1.85 miles

i just checked fastblog says that is 5:19 per mile so my dad is probably right it must be a shorter distance so we will run again sometime and measure with my dads garmin

I am updating this, the middle school coach said it is 1.8 miles and he measured it twice. that would be 5:28 miles but my Dad thinks we should someday measure it

Today we had a 1 mile race at my school, I did Ok but only was 6:02 which I think is good but my dad says I can run faster. It was on track and I lapped every kid at school. The next best time was 7:58

Then i ran at Robin Hill in the forest on trails with older kids in the afternoon

Robin Hill Park in the forest

Dungeness park by the ocean

I ran the course after the high school kids ran. I ran alone. This was one of the hardest courses Ive ever done. it was a very hilly course. There is one hill called death hill it is very steep. I had to run after race as Im too young to run with them. I did pretty good when I compare my times. I would have done well in the JV race. My time was better than many of the high school runners

ran high schhool training course. we worked on stamina. had trouble breathing so my time wasnt as good as last time but it was ok

i ran a good race. My Dad said I looked relaxed and had better form. I beat everyone except for a fast kid from Seattle who was older than me. This was PR for cross country. Luckily rain stopped but race was slippery. I slipped at beginning of race. It had a stairs, a steep hill and ran by a lake. I also joined a new running team they are called the Federal way flyers. I will run for them at meets but cant go to practices as we had to drive 3 hours to get to race. On way back my dad and i stopped and played football at one park and walked along beach at another park. The next day i went to a marine museum, got second place in a soccer contest, watched hydroplane race and practiced basketball

Robin Hill park hill work

Robin hill lower loops

basketball practice afterwards

1/2 mile at PE class. Went to middle school race. i was going to run but my leg hurt and I was limping so I just watched race and looked at course for another time. my dad iced my leg

1/2 mile in PE testing my leg

basketball practice

leg is ok

1/2 mile in PE at 75%. leg ok

Ran in Hoquim Invitational in the middle school race. I ran good only two older 8th graders beat me and not by much. Leg is healed. I got good time but wish it was a full 3k 1.86 miles and not 1.78. My grandma and grandpa saw race too.

Then after I went to washington state soccer championships and i won even though i dont play on soccer team. Next I wa sin the pepsi punt pass kick championship, i did good getting 4th place

Robin hill park

Dungeness park. I saw some deer who ran by us for awhile

This is not really a race as I ran it after high school race. They wont let me run in high school race but i can run the course by myself after the high school runners finish. it was raining and getting cold then but i like to run in rain and on hills. I feel free then. the coach and my dad got me in very fast time 18:18 my dad doesnt think i can run that fast but i can as i ran with big stride and felt free and i like to run in rain. the coach said I would have won the Jv race for high school. My dad said if time is right i would have smashed my 5k race but this race was only 3 miles

Today I won a race. it was at seward park by lake Washington. There was a good hill. I felt good and led the race all the way and won by 25 seconds. Two older kids who are good runners did not run. my dad and coach say im running very well now. my leg got scratched up from blackberries on the race. I won a big blue ribbon and my dad bought me hotdogs after the race. On the way back we took the ferry boat across Pugit Sound which was cool and then stopped at bainbridge state park where I found moon shells

basketball

Robin Hill

Sequim high school area fields

3 hours basketball

We took ferry boat to seattle early. race was at woodland Parl. has good hills. it wasnt a good race for me but i did ok. the kid who won killed me but i easilly got second place. it strted out walking course, then i got bad nose bleed before race

3 basketball tournament games

Did 13 400 meter runs on the track. Average time about 1:20 to 1:25

I ran for fun as im in 6th grade and you have to be in 7th and 8th to run. I only lost to Adrian and he is one of the best. I ran so-so. Didnt push myself enough. Much of race is on narrow curvy trails finish is on the road

Only have time to blog miles for last 2 weeks. Ran on beach today with big waves

not a good day. I did ok but was sick and threw up in race and that slowed me down. a couple kids beat me that i beat before because i had not much energy left. Still I won our medal and our team got the championship. race was at seattle woodland Park. my dad and I stopped at point no point lighthouse and walked on the beach. we saw some killer whales which was fun. i havent been training as fast as there are no kids now to run with, my dad tries to run with me but isnt as fast as me so i slow down

Ran a good race improved 20 seconds on the course. I qualified for nationals. Also our team got 2nd place. mainly second year midgets beat me, these were the best kids running from washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. I ran the hills well. no one passed me after the fast start. I started in 20th place. I go to Virginia for Nationals

Back in utah - ran at Highland High

Back in Utah to see  my mom. Ran in thanksgiving race. there was almost 1200 in race. I was 25th overall and won my age division. I past 2 runners at finish with a sprint. They only gave a ribbon for first place prize. My dad said I did well as I beat over 1100 other people

This was easy race. I won but i didnt push myself as much because of cold. and I actually ran part of it wrong way and ran alittle extra because I didnt remember race course from last year. There were only a few kids at race and I wish there were more fast runners. But it was good to run with friends in Utah again. My dad said i need to push myself more when Im leading. We go back to washington in Monday. Not bad 2 races, 2 wins and 2 blue ribbons

My last hill workout at Robin hill Park

my last track workout at sequim high school I also ran 2 miles at my school for PE

practice run at national race. it was muddy

this is my last report and race. It was the national championship and it was in Virginia. There were about 300 kids in the race and they are the fastest kids in america. The race was mainly on a big trail through flat grass. i was disappointed that there werent any hills as I do better on them and beat more runners. The weather was OK, my dad said in upper 30 degree temperature, I ran for my Federal Way team, but there was only 3 of us so we did not have a full team. the others were chicken to come. The start of the race is fast and crowded. I got a Ok start. During the race I felt good and pushed it as much as I could. i passed some kids and tried to gap them to break their spirit. i tried to run tangents but it was hard to do as it was crowded. Near the finish I tried to kick with all I had even though i felt some pain. I passed several kids at the end. I beat over 200 kids. This was probably a PR for me, but I had one race with faster time but my dad doesnt think that was a full 3k. I was the top runner for my team. I also beat 5 of the 6 runners from my old Utah team. However there were many fast runners. You had to be faster than 10:40 to be all american. I hope to do that next year as I will still be a midget. My dad said if i was less than 4 months younger I still would have been a bantam and would have gotten fifth or sixth place.

Next year i need to get a faster start to get out of the crowded runners and still get my finish better to catch more runners. My goals for next year are to get all american and break 11 minutes. I plan to run more this winter than I did before but i can only run a little becuase of basketball. My dad bought me a cross country sweat shirt and a steve Prefontaine tshirt. Then we went to mcdondalds we also went to a nature park and some civil war battle fields. Next year nationals will be in Reno