Matt Todd Running

8 miles in the rain this morning. I wasn't pushing it super hard, but tried to keep up a decent distance pace. After 1 mile at a easy 7:10 or so my average for the rest was a 6:18/mile. I'm trying to gain at least ten pounds while I'm here because my grandma has hecka food, I'm already on my third breakfast.

Fun fact of the day: 15% of France's male population died during WWI.

Another low distance run today. I kept this pace somewhat easier today so I'll be fresh for a good speed workout tomorrow (like 6:40s). It was ridiculously hot this morning and I must have lost at least 5 pounds in water weight. I ran past the Sherman high school and successfully located their track so I'm in the clear. Shout out to the fish I just ate because it was delicious.

Fun fact of the day: the word "pentasyllabic" is, in fact, pentasyllabic. and I heard today that the Lego Movie never actually says the word "lego" once, I've never seen it but that seemed crazy.

I woke up really late this morning on account of my watching Anne of Green Gables until 1:00 AM with my family... uughhh smh @ myself. Anyway, It was, yet again, already hot and my calves were so tight my achilles tendons could almost function like guitar strings. I warmed up the 3.25 miles to the high school and got in a good long stretch on the track. I did a 600, 500, 400, and 300 at goal mile pace followed by a 300, 200, and 100 at goal 800 pace. my times were 1:47, 1:29, 1:09, 50, 47, 32, and 14. all of these were a lot slower than I was hoping for, especially since the workout was so short, but it was really hard to stay on pace all by myself. Add my fatigue and lack of motivation to that and I suppose it wasn't too bad. After the workout I just ran back, coming in at just over 8 miles.

Fun fact of the day: Mansa Musa (some african emperor dude in like 1200-1300 AD) was the richest man to have ever lived and could have literally purchased most countries in the world today with his estimated 400+ billion dollars. I suppose that's slightly more money than I currently have in my wallet.

Tempo run this morning after a 1.5 mile warm up. I went 5:20, 6:20, and 5:18. I was supposed to have a slower one in between, but they all still should have been faster. It is really hard to keep a pace when I'm all by my self, but on the plus side, a 16:59 3 mile was faster than I ran at state this year in cross country. really goes to show how terribly most of my xc races went. After that I just finished with 4.5 slow miles, I think the heat makes me really sluggish so I'll try to wake up earlier tomorrow.

Shout out to Kallie Bunnell for being super hot. Also shout out to all my homies racing at Arcadia this weekend. good luck to you all!

Fun fact of the day: If you were to divide the exact length of a river by the straight line distance it covers, the ratio would be approximately pi. That is to say, the average of this ratio in all rivers in the world, mathematically speaking, should equal 3.14. Cool fact, still hate math though.

I LOVE ELEVATION!!! I felt so awful, sluggish, and tired all week at sea level but coming back up through Colorado Springs felt wonderful. I don't know what it is but I'm always happier with less oxygen for some reason, or maybe it was just the Texas humidity that killed me. Anyway, today was just a recovery low distance run so pretty easy, kept the pace around 6:50. 

Shout out to my boy Connor for slaying his Arcadia 2 mile. He ran like a 9:27 so hit him up if you're a babe. Also shout out to my grandparents' wonderful hospitality and whatnot this week.

Fun Fact of the Day: some japanese guy named Tsotomu Yamaguchi survived the bombing of Hiroshima only to be hit with another nuclear bomb when he went home to Nagasaki. He survived both and lived to be 93... just in case you thought you had a rough week.

Hey this is the first time ever that I've actually trained over spring break so that's cool. Hill workout today. I was again by myself even though I'm back in good ol' Lehi. ran 2 miles to warm up over to killers hill before doing 2x(15, 20, 25) second uphill sprints and one set of 20, 25, and 30. It was pretty much all out and fairly continuous so I felt good with it. After that I just did 6 more miles at a slow pace to finish up. 

Shout out to the 3000 miles I've driven over the past few days and to Smiths for sponsoring my bathroom break today. Also shout out to @Definition Dallen for getting a sick two mile PR. 

Fun Fact of the Day: There's a McDonald's in Arizona that has turquoise arches and it's the only one in the whole world that isn't golden.