Gotta Run...

A.M. Regular Angel Heights 3 miles.

P.M. 4 miles up in Virgin in the shade.  Nice downhill run.  Got home in time to watch an old friend of my brother's race in the Olympic Trials 5000m.  Josh Rohatinsky.  Awesome!

A.M. 3 miles out and 3 miles back on a dirt road south of town. 6 miles.

P.M. 6 miles out south to my house.  Took the longer way at Angel Heights to make it 6.  Pretty hard run, but took it easy the last mile for a cool down to conserve my legs.

I'm running the Freedom 5k in Provo July 4th.  Should be good for a speed day. 

A.M. 6 miles on a dirt road by the Jem Trail up on the H hill. 3 out and 3 back.

P.M. Was going to go 6 on the same route as yesterday, but my hip has been bothering me just on the right side and every step it hurt.  I stopped after 2 miles where my dad's truck was and decided to stretch it and ice.  Hopefully it isn't injured.

Decided not to run this morning cause my hip is still bothering me when I try to run. I'm thinking it's from overuse and too much stress. I play racquetball frequently and weightlift with my olbliques. Perhaps it's just from stress while running. Anyway, I'm going to see what happens in the race tomorrow and decide what to do after that. It doesn't hurt except when running and it usually goes away after a half a mile or so once it gets warmed up. Could it be a muscle that's just sore or...I don't know but it's just inside my hip bone below my belly button.

Jogged a couple miles with Hayden and Joe before going to bed. 2 miles

Jogged a mile with Hayden and Joe before the race and my hip wasn't hurting at all.  Started the race with hundreds of people.  I was behind a lot of people at the first but quickly got through to the front and hung there with about 10 guys for about 2 miles.  Then it was just 5 high school runners in a pack at the front.  I caught up to the first two on the hill and thought I could take them in the last stretch.  But Jonathan Nielson from Timpview took off and beat me by 6 seconds.  I got 2nd and Steve Morrin, a sophomore at Lone Peak got 3rd just 3 seconds behind me.  Hayden got 4th in the 10k and Joe got 13th I think.  Jogged a mile cool down afterwards.  My hip didn't bother me at all during the race but afterwards it was killing.  I'm going to rest it this weekend and see how it feels monday.