Float like a hot tub, Sting like a hot tub

ran to hauula park and tempo ran back in my vibram 5's calfs are dead. 

Some hills

I ran with coach Schag for the first time since I left on my mission. We ran up to Kuhuku and I was feeling it. We hit the golf course loop and I was reminded once again what a special place this is. Beautiful Sunrise. We threw golf balls and tried to make em in one of the holes, lets just say I should stick to running...

Cooled down in the Ocean

Down to Hauula with Coach Schlag. He gave me is old GPS watch Im gonna try and fix it.

I ran up to the Laie Summit trailhead, through some plantations, got some water at Laie Park and hit Hukilau swam at sunset with some kids i knew from work then ran home barefoot along the sand and climed up the secret way to my house. 

Later that night I came home and the house was COVERED in roaches. Big black flying ones. There were at least 20-30 inside the house it was so nasty. I killed a bunch and grabbed my phone and wallet and left. Slept at my boy Nicks house. Crazy stuff. 

hauula and back. in the heat of the summer.

4x400m hit 1:08, 1:06, 1:06, 1:04

first time doing a workout like that in years haha 

on my run I startled a chicken and it flew into the road right as a car was coming and got compleTELY DEMOLISHED!! In one second it went from a living breathing animal to a BURST OF FEATHERS right before my eyes hahaha. Now I know that chickens definately can get to the other side.

other than that pretty uneventful run. I went up into the hills towards Gunstock.

Broke in some new sandals. Run up Bike Path at dusk and saw some horses. WYLD STALYONS!

Feeling pretty overwhelmed with School coming up and working 2 jobs and trying to get in shape haha one step at a time. Met with Kinikini she said Im all set to walk in december I just need to add one more credit... im thinking golfing or underwater basketweaving.

Ive been waiting on this lady to come fix my moped. I waited all afternoon she said she was on her way. shows up at 10:30 pm, its pouring rain, Braden (my brother) was still woozy from his sea urchin accident/strep throat/ jet lag coming back from fiji, but after an hour or so we got Dirty Harry back up and running. 

not a run just something id like to remember down the road.

Got some new Altras today. they are sweeeet. I took em out and im super impressed. I love the zero drop in a trail shoe felt like the sandals but with some grip. 

I did 6 lonley millas out to old baldy (water tank hill) found a couple of old trailheads we used to run back during College Ball. I kept it under 8 mins/mile (although I still needed to rest for a bit at the top...)

Greatful for: banana bread. Dave Kunen made me some today

I started off just seeing if I could even run 10 miles alone but I kept up a pretty fast pace and turns out I ran 10 miles in just over an hour which is quicker than my marathon pace so I am feeling very optimistic. I felt good at the end too. didnt feel very spent. I couldve hit a 1:30 half marathon easily. 

very good signs. motivation to keep training. 

in my efforts to convince braden to run the marathon with me I woke him up at 7 and we made smoothies and ran from Castles to the fish and wildlife conservation place he stopped at the car and I ran home. 

We snorkled and got acai bowls. great day.

Ran late at night. Listened to music on a run for the first time in years I was so distracted I ran 5 miles and so I had to run the 5 back with blistered feet. serves me right for not listening to my body i guess. First long run in sandals since college ball.

8 in the morning with coach schlag, felt pretty tired from the run the night before but it felt good to wake up early and run

My boy Evan moved in with me, he got home from his mission in Portugal last month. He ran with me in 2016 for BYUHawaii and here we are again.

6 miles earlay in the maarning up around the watertower. We jumped in Temple Beach after the run just like old times. 

After work we were bored and decided to run again. We did a sunset run about 2 1/2 and stopped to do pullups and pushups at a playground behind TVA.

Ive been eating healthy, making smoothies out of fresh and frozen fruit + oats/peanut butter and drinking V8 fire water. I feel the best I have in a couple years. 

Went on a walkabout with Evan down to Hauula. Flat road running, 7:30 pace. Sun went down and we were jumping over potholes and rickety bridges and whatnot all the way back. We cracked open some cold ones (hawaiian sun lilikoi nectar) and talked about life. Gettin ready for class to start.

At 6 am I had my first "time trial" for my early morning 1 credit jogging class. Even though its a short race and it doesnt really matter for the marathon I still think its good to log it as if it were a real race just to get in the habit.

There are about 30 people in the class and 2 or 3 people went out full on sprinting. And after the first 400m there was still one guy just giving his all about 50 ft ahead. I had just woken up and was not interested in taking first, but I kept the distance and focused on keeping a solid pace. Had a feeling he would tire out. Went through the first lap at 4:57 and as we started the 2nd and final lap sure enough speed racer hit a wall and I, without speeding up, overtook and dropped him. I kicked up the pace and finished first woo hoo! My bpm was 160. I cooled down to temple beach for a swim.

I had my first round of classes this semester and swam at Pounders with my brother some big waves. 

At 5 pm or so my buddy Nick took Evan, Chaz and I up to Laie Summit trailhead and we ran up to the forest. We made it in 23 mins (its two miles but close to 600ft in elevation). We burned it down hootin' and hollerin' I had some cramping in the ribs area. It was super fun to run with an actual group and even though nick and chaz havent been running for a long time they were able to keep up really well. It felt like the good old days running with a team. We got back down to the car right as the sun was a settin' and we caught moon barrels for a solid 45 mins after the run.

2 runs and 3 swims aint bad. Im feeling very healthy and happy what more can a man ask for!

Song: Forever Heavy // Black Moth Super Rainbow

Laie Summit, lot of hiking, little running...

to Turtle Bay and back at 2 am with the full moon as my guide

shook out the legs with evan around laie

Rainbow Warriors game!

morning: I ran bike path and turned up the military farm road for 7 

afternoon: Ran up Laie falls trail with Evan and Nick. We made it up in 22 mins and I took it kinda slow coming down because I had just eaten 2 day old 7 bros burger and was feeeelin it. We caught some moon barrels at Hukilau. Life is good!

I worked out at the gym with Chaz daddy at 5 am

rad 2 miles for my joggin class. I beat my old time by 20 seconds.

My training plan (which I have been horrible in keeping to...) said to go 11 but I wanted to see how far I could go in 1:30. Turning around at 45mins [at chings fishing supplies store]

I left at 5:20. Ended at 6:50 with a beautiful rainy hawaiian sunset all the way back towards Laie. Turns out I went 7:14 pace and hit 12.6 miles. I swam for 10 mins and ran barefoot on the beach unil I hit 13.1 haha. 

Im feeling pretty good and Im happy I can at least to half a marathon near my stretch goal pace. Which is pretty fortunate considering 2 months ago I was maybe hitting 5 miles a week tops. Just gonna keep at this. Ive still got 2 1/2 months until the race. 

I also lifted weights at 3pm ish.

loop around laie