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Today we did 5x800's.  My stomach was hurting so I didn't do it that great.  I ran 6 because Trevor missed one and I paced him on his last one.  I found out that I wasn't going to run at our duel meet.  I was going to do 400's in preparation for the UVU meet on Saturday.  Jamison and I are hoping to qualify for state in the 2 mile.  I think that we can both do it.  I definitely think that I have a good chance because my last 400 when I raced a 9:44 was a 62 so since AF is there the race will be faster and I won't have to lead and have qualifying pace while leading.  I can just follow behind and qualify for state.  Galen is trying to qualify in the mile. 

Did a modest run.  It was pretty fun.  Afterwords I did some pushups and planking and leg lifts while the other people did strides since most of them have a race tomorrow.  I like doing strides the day before I race and since I'm not running tomorrow I didn't want to do the strides.

Today we had a meet but my coach didn't want me to run so that I could get a good workout in tomorrow.  So I did a distance run with Spencer Smith because he wasn't running either.  It was 35ish minutes because I wanted to get back to watch the guys mile.  They were hoping to go sub 5 but Russell threw up right before the race and still raced a 5:06ish and Steven ran a 5:01ish.  The head coach asked me to be the announcer since I had announced the junior high meet.  It was fun because I just talked to the other people in the box who were recording the times.

We had a track work out today.  It was 8x400.  I wanted to run faster because I felt really good.  We went 66ish pace on all of them.  I felt like if I pushed it really hard I could have done 63 on all of them but 65 would have been a fast but still semi comfortable.  I felt really good.  I used to not like 400's but now I don't not like any of the workouts.  On Saturday I'm racing the 2 mile at UVU and I'm hoping to qualify for state.  I'm really excited for that.  Hopefully I will be able to.

We have the UVU race tomorrow so it was a really light run.  Lots of the guys went to legacy to run but I had to be back earlier so I stayed and ran at Lone Peak with Steven and Russell.  We went down to AF area and came back.  We ran for 32 minutes and then I did some strides afterwords.  I'm feeling pretty good about racing tomorrow and qualifying for state hopefully.

I'm so pumped.  I qualified for state in the two mile!!!!!  I was really worried because 15 minutes before starting time I got a really bad bloody nose.  I went to try to get it to stop but it wouldn't so I just had to go out there while it was still kind of bleeding.  I had to sniff a lot so it wouldn't drip.  When the race started it had finally calmed down a bit but it still was bleeding a tiny bit.  It hurt my throat so bad in the 2 mile.  I was so happy I was able to get through it.  I went the first two laps with Jamison and Lil Warner but they started falling off pace and my coach said that I needed to qualify today because he needs me in the sprint medley.  So I went without them and started pulling away.  I went up and caught up a guy from salem Hills.  This put me in second place and I was right on pace with hitting 72 second laps.  Mckay Johns was the only one in front of me but at this time (the 5th lap) he was 50ish meters ahead so it felt like he wasn't even part of the race.  I tried to pull away from the Salem Hills guy because one of my coaches said I was a few seconds off pace at 600 meters left.  I started speeding up but my legs did not want to.  So I ended up hitting the 400 meters left mark at 8:26.  I was super mad cuz I thought I wouldn't be able to qualify but I started trying to kick a little bit even though I was dead.  I managed until 100 meters left and then I died/  The salem hills guy passed me and I was gonna slow down a lot but I saw the time on the board so I realized I still had enough time to qualify so I got a little bit more energy and was able to kick it in from 50m left.  I ended up running a 9:34.85 when my nose was bleeding and it was extremely hot so I'm pretty excited for when I feel good and the weather is a little bit cooler.