Justin Hartshorn's running blog

Today is my last day in st George, I ran up to this awesome lookout it wasn't very high up but it still looked cool. Than I went back and did some laps on the golf course. Than after the laps I did some strides on the golf course. It was pritty awesome.

Short run today because state is tomorrow, didn't feel amazing today so I'm hopeing that I feel good tomorrow.

Today was state, we started out by going and looking at the changes they made. I like the new course. But we just sat around for a little while. Than watched the girls race, than we watched the 3a race. After that we went and Did a warmup while watching the 4a race. I wasnt feeling amazing on the warmup. But I usually don't, Than we went to the starting line and got ready. I was feeling good once we were on the starting line. The race started and I got out to a pritty good start. I kinda just wanted to not get to far behind Seth and Galen. But they went out really fast. Seth was in 4th place up the 2nd hill. Which was pritty cool because he Jamison and Galen were on the front page of the newspaper. After the first mile my stomach started to hurt, and going around the lake I felt myself slow down but I kinda speed back up again after that. Throught the whole race I was just trying to stay with thomas heaps. Which I thought was a good person to stay with because I was right next to him at region. The last mile my stomach was hurting really bad. But I pushed through it. And I passed Galen and Dallin Leatham, and got right behind seth. So I got 17th overall and 2nd Sophmore behind Ryan. 

6 miles down to AF and back. Craik did a 400 with Jones witch was kinda interesting.

Today we did the wall. I didnt really feel like trying but I ended up trying but not my hardest. I got like 4:56 or something so not amazing but than me and craik and josh explored a tube. and slid down it, it was pritty awesome.

Today Craik, Josh, Alex my brother, me and my brothers friend. Went and hiked this mountain right behind craiks house. It was a pritty cool hike, we started hiking up a river. Than we ran into like 5 Waterfalls that were really cool. Than we just went bushwacking the rest of the way up. And I came like 1 ft away from a raccoon witch was pritty scary. We also brought with us a flag with a smily face on it. and we wrote our names on it and named the mountain Palmer Ridge mountain. Its like at 9124 ft elevation so we gained like 4100 ft elevation. It was sick.