Matt Todd Running

Short distance run today with pre-meet. The two 400s that I ran were in 68 and 67, tomorrow I'm shooting for 69s so it was a little fast. I didn't run today but nearly everyone that did was amazing to watch. Shout out to Brinn for qualifying for state in the 200 and almost making the 400. Shout out to my good friend Garek for slaying the 2 mile with a 9:22 or something, Also to my boy Conner Mantz for being the only one sub-9 with a 8:58. That 2 mile was just such a sick race to watch. 

Fun Fact of the Day: NASCAR doesn't actually require participants to have a driver's license and the name "Jessica" was invented by William Shakespeare. Also, these facts have nothing to do with each other. 

Finally got to the BYU invite today. I loved hanging out and racing here with such a stacked field and plentiful babes to get shut down by. My race was pretty good too, I wanted to go sub-4:40 but I still pr'd by a few seconds so I'll take it. I was in the back for the first lap and then passed people each lap after until I found myself in first place. I really love being in front, but some AF chump ended up passing me and I barely missed out on getting the tape and his 4:39. I guess I need to push just a little bit harder and hopefully I can drop another six seconds at region next week.

Huge shout out TO MY FRICKIN BOY CONNOR!!!! he ran a 4:23 (2nd fastest overall not including golden hour) aaaannndd qualified for state. Sean also killed it with a 7 second PR for a 4:24.8 and missed state qualifying by decimals, He'll get it at region though. Thom also ran a personal best so it was a good day for Lehi.

Other notable preformances include my homies Conner Mantz and Garek for going 4:12 and 4:13. Maybe not as good as conner was hoping for but I probably shed a few tears when he held off Josh Collins at the end for the win. Also Garek just keeps on cutting off time and it blows my mind how fast he is these days. That 4A mile at state this year is going to be ridiculous. One last shout out to my friend and teammate Dylan for re-breaking his own school record with a 1:55 800, He's insane. 

Fun Fact of the Day: I'm sunburned as h*ck right now.

Got that taper game going strong today, only had 6 miles so that was crazy. We took turns pacing connor on his speed workout so I had 1x800 at 2:21 and then just some slow distance. I'll be running the mile and two mile on wednesday and thursday so that's pretty dope, gonna hit that 4:35 and 9:45. Feel free to judge me if I fail. 

Fun Fact of the Day: Due to less available resources like paper and leather plus an increase in war-time piety, there was actually a serious Bible shortage in 1943. Also J is the only letter not on the periodic table.