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Location:

Hurricane,UT,U.S.A.

Member Since:

Dec 25, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Highschool Champ

Running Accomplishments:

400 -- 53 secs (4x400 split)

800 -- 1:56 (open) 1:55 (medley split)

1600 -- 4:23

3200 -- 9:33

5k
-- 15:30

10k -- 32:23

Half -- 1:14:10

Short-Term Running Goals:

State champion for cross-country and track

Break the school records for 3200 and 1600

Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 4:00 mile

Run the marathon under 2:20


Personal:

I'm a junior at Hurricane High School. I love music. I sing in the chamber choir and I play the piano and the guitar. Other sports that I love include basketball, soccer, and racquetball. By the way, if anyone's up for a game of racquetball, I'm game! Anyways, gotta run...

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Race: State 3200 (2 Miles) 00:09:33, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 2
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
2.002.004.00

Woke up and my legs felt a lot better than the day before. Ate another bagel and got some juice. Then we went to the track and waited for the girls to run all their 3200s. Some guy got hit by the javelin through his leg! That postponed everything for another half an hour. I didn't run till around 10:00. This time I had a good start and kept it up the whole race. Ran a 1:10, 1:10, 1:13, 1:12 for the first mile in 4:45. I started to get tired on the 6th lap and was breathing hard. I was running right with Mike from Morgan for the whole race. I debated whether to pass him or not because I could tell he was tired. I decided to wait. On the last lap I took off and passed him along the backstretch. I got 2nd behind Luke with a 9:33. PR by 8 seconds! Luke ran 8:54! Insane!

The 800 was my last race. Montes from Ogden who was ranked 1st was hurt and didn't run. I was up against Ryberg and Luke. First lap was horrible like always in the open 800 with everyone throwing elbows and cutting people off. I finally broke loose and got behind Luke at the end of the first lap. Just pulled it in the second lap and beat Luke at the end to get 2nd with 1:57. Ryberg won with 1:55.

I felt pretty good about my performances and my legs felt better after all my races than they did before all of them. Our team went on to get 2nd! We beat Judge by 4 points. Cedar won. We got 2nd with only 7 guys! Got home around 12:30

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00
Comments
From Little Bad Legs on Sun, May 18, 2008 at 20:15:17

Impressive way to end the year! You've got some incredible talent. How many colleges have offered you scholarships? I'm sure if it's not already, it's going to be an impressive list by the time your senior year finishes!

From Dustin on Sun, May 18, 2008 at 20:23:36

Great job at the state meet. With a good summer of training, I'm confident you can have a great senior year. We'll have to get together sometime over the summer and do some runs. I noticed your buddy Joe just joined the blog and is planning on running the marathon, so maybe I can get in touch with him and do some training together.

From Sierra on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 00:11:53

Karl you did great out there! You're an amazing runner! Congratulations on everything this weekend! :)

From Ruthie on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 02:27:21

Dang! You're doing so well, keep it up! Good thing Luke is a year older than you so you finally can get a state championship next year! :) Great races and awesome team finish too, you guys really deserve it.

From dave holt on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 21:04:05

Great racing up there - and great season!

From Predog on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 21:09:42

Dude, you are the freakin man. I can't wait til this summer with the club. You are my hero even if you were a little off my predictions:) Actually I think y'all got the medley one. Anyway, rest up and we'll have an awesome super long mileage summer so you can run like an 8:42. haha. Peace.

From James on Mon, May 19, 2008 at 21:20:03

Good running at State in all of your races. It was fun to watch you out kick Luke in that 800m!

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, May 20, 2008 at 20:12:09

Congratulations on a PR! I hope racing against Luke was instructive. You beat him in the 800! He does not have any more speed than you! Why couldn't you beat him in the 3200?

I do not think it takes a genius to figure out that the difference is that Luke has a more solid base. The only way you can beat Luke in a 3200 is by doing better on the base mileage than he does.

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