Hayden's Blog

Today was laps at the rodeo grounds in spikes. We found a partner and then would switch every lap. We had to do 5 long and 5 short laps. While your partner is running you have to be doing a plank until they finish. My partner was Spencer. We were racing Joe and Branson for the first 5 laps until they fell behind. My final four laps there was someone trying to race me so that really pushed me. We ended up finishing first mostly due to Spencer. Afterwards ran 4 easy hill miles in Providence.

Ran the Logan River Trial today. Was an easy pace with Highland coming up on Thursday. We were all really tired from yesterdays workout. Later I went motorcycling with my family up by Tony Grove. All was going well until I hit some really loose gravel while taking a sharp turn. My bike crashed right onto my left side. It left a couple of scratches and a giant bruise right on the hip that has bugged me for the last month. And then because of my great luck my bike suddenly stopped working about halfway up the trial. It took me an hour to push my 300 pound bike 3 miles back to the truck. There was very little downhill and a lot of uphill on the way back. So I got an extra workout in today. Just hope the bruise goes away before Highland on Thursday.

My leg was still bruised from yesterday so instead of doing Upper Turkey I did laps on the track to try to loosen up my leg for tomorrow. My hip kept getting better the more laps I did so I figured I would be fine doing the Tutu Relay with the rest of the team. You're supposed to have 2 boys and 2 girls run 400m while handing off a tutu. I teamed up with Easton and Branson because there were not enough girls so 3 boys kind of makes that fair. I started off and was able to get second behind Eric for the first lap. Branson went next and gained alot of ground and put us pretty far in front. Easton went and maintained the lead. Then I went again and managed to hold off Spencer and the "dream team" for first place. But we got DQ anyway but thats alright because we had fun any way.

Raced Highland today. I knew I needed to get out fast but I went out too fast. My first 400 meters was at a 4:00 pace. I had a hard time recovering from the start. Eric kept catching up to me which pushed me. I finished two spots in front of Eric. It was a rough race for all of us so hopefully this is just a first race thing and we can get over it for our first home meet.

Nice and easy run today. Coach wants us to recover and get some rest for our first home meet on Wednesday. All of this smoke in the valley is hard on my allergies. Good luck to Joe, Eric and Brian tomorrow at the Top of Utah Half Marathon. Wish I could do it but I believe I aggravated my hip injury again so I don't want another injury.