weekly post

Its been a long time ever since ive been on this site. I've been having fun in the winter snow for the past two months. I love the winter almost better than summer. The only thing I dont like about the winter is that it gets dark way to early. I'm gonna try to enjoy today like theres no tomarrow because I have a snow day today and my school never closes most of the time when its 4ft of snow and its below zero. I might blog later I'm gonna go on a long run.

Happy Birthday!

Its been a while since ive posted on here. So far im happy because ive been through the best weekend ive had in a long time. I broke my vibram five finger strap so im going to have to get a new pair, but for now im stuck with big bulky blocks on my feet. Im not gonna buy me another pair of five fingers because why spend $100 on some shoes already with absolutly no sole when you have bare feet already. Well you are going to have to spend alot of time after or before a run trying to get your soles tuffer which might result in loss of time on runs which also equals less milege. That also reminds me! I havent been having time to go on runs lately since the doctor situation again and now that im going back to school and winter time is coming I have less time in the day to make good milege on my runs. So I try to make up more of my runs on the weekends. So far today I think I ran about 10 mi or more, I wish I had one of those fancy gps watches so I can monitor my milege count because I might be either logging alot more milege or alot less milege than I say I do. But that session I did was about 1 hour 30 or 40 minutes because I check the time on my phone. I would have did another two miles but my stupid old new phone keeps on dieing on me. I gave it a full charge and its gonna just die on me in the evening on my run when its getting cold. But im gonna try to get me a new phone neext week. Another new thing thats new going on in my life is that I got a new dog. His name is James (AKA Bark! Bark!). We call him Bark! Bark! most of the time because he responds to it. He's a stray dog I found in the streets not to long ago, but he is a really nice dog. I dont really know how old he is but he's middle aged im guessing. But my mom wants to get rid of him. But im gonna try to keep him a little while longer. But after having him I noticed it takes alot of responsibility taking care of a dog especially a stray dog. But its worth it in the end depending on how much you love dogs. I have surgery tomarrow on my eye, I need to get rid of this stye which is an eye zit. So im gonna go hit the hay. Before I go ive forgot to mention that my birthday passed not to long ago on Halloween im 15 now so i think im old enough to do a marathon by myself by myself cant wait. So bye!

Breaking Free.

Im am now starting to break free, my milege is increasing because instead of running 2-6 miles im starting to run for a whole 2 hours non stop and i have no idea how long i be running but i be averageing about a nice 7 or 6 minute pace. But I remember doing 10 miles not to long ago. And now that im out of cross country I dont have to worry about my milege being way to long. So thats a pretty good thing. I might go on a run pretty soon and I dont know how long am I gonna run today, but I might just go on an easy run today since my calves still hurt from yesterday. I know im gonna be a great distance runner when I grow up, and I'm gonna use my abilitys to help people. Im not gonna do races for money ( well maby when I need help myself) but do charity also. The sun is out shining now and its gonna be a beatiful today and any body who read my blog just go outside, dont sit on your but and waste your time exploring the internet. Because there are many places to explore out there in the world.

Worst day ever what should I do!

I had the worst day ever. I had a cross country meet today and we came there late and the race has already had started, so instead of watching it we ran the course. When we were about to run the course I asked for some water before we ran but he told me no thats bad. So I ran without no drink of water ( really dint drink nothing today just a small bottle of gatorade). But when we started running on the first time around the course I just had to stop because I just couldnt breathe or swallow, and I was dizzy. He started yelling at me and started saying your always making excuses during meets, so he let me go get something to drink. I was on my way back and here come some friends I met 2 weeks ago that beat meet last meet. We were just talking about how much we like running before I start again. Then here comes the coach yelling at me saying YOUR JUST STANDING THERE! YOUR A PATHETIC EXCUSE OF A LONG DISTANCE RUNNER! YOU DONT DESERVE TO BE ON THIS TEAM GET OUT OF MY FACE! YOUR PATHETIC! I didnt really say anything. Just let him yell at me. I know im not a pathetic excuse because im the only decsent one on the team, because my first race was an 18:15 and only a freshmen. So I decided to quit the cross country team. So when i went home i told my mom about what went on. And she told me i can talk to him about it tomarrow or she will come up to the school tomarrow and have a word with him shes really mad. Also does my coach have the right to talk to me like that? What could happen if imform the principal? But now that im off the team i still gonna be a runner but im just gonna run by myself again.

Ran barefoot for the first time and it was brilliant! Cant wait until my soles get tougher so I can get back on my fast pace again for cross country.

Later on today.

I took a day off running today and decided to play tennis at the park which was fun a little. All the pros were there while I was playing against the wall trying to get there attention. But instead I met another boy that is 14 like me but he wasnt that good at tennis so I took it easy on him. But he did become a little bit of the pain by breaking the rules. He wasnt wearing any shoes, hitting balls on other peoples courts and chasing after them while they were in a middle of a game. Some guy actually tryed to kick us out think we were just some misfits from the hood that have no idea how to play tennis. By the way he was playing I knew he couldnt beat me I can ace him easly but I didnt really say nothing, didnt want to start anything. So instead I went to cleveland heights to play tennis which was fun. Now that I'm home I'm just sitting here typeing my blog. Wish I had some more followers I need new friends to talk to. So if anyone come up on my blog page please comment and follow me please!!!! Thank You!

Weekly update.

I recently became vegetarian and vegan sometimes and so far I am doing very good. I think I could stay this way for a long time even though now I have to cook and prepare my own food but yeah ive been doing really good lately. Ive also increased my running milelage to 48-50 miles a week and im doing it in vibrams. I thinking on going barefoot pretty soon. Yesterday Ive had cross country practice for the first time and they thought I couldnt keep up. I told them I could but they didnt believe me, so they said if I could keep up with this one girl named Brittany, she's a senior at my school that has been winning all the races in cross country I can join the team. For our run we had hill training. I've never ran up a hill to many times because Ohio is really flat land most of the time. I wish there were mountains in Ohio. So we had hill training and it was a really steep hill. The hill was like 1 1/2 mile up and we had to keep on running 2 more miles back to the school. When we had started Brittany had started about 10 min before me. And then my group started. The couch really didnt think I was really that fast and when my group started off they took off at a 9 min pace up that hill but I took off like a bat out of hell. Everyone was like WTF. So I ran up the hill in abou t 7 min and my legs were pretty much dead after that and then I had caught up to Brittany and past her. She stayed and followed be hind me. I could of just left her but I didnt really know the course that well so I stuck with her. With only a one fourth of the mile to go I stopped cause I fogot to drink some water before I started running. I had a headache, stomach ache, and dizzynouse. So I the rest of the way I went at an easy pace. But yeah I enjoyed cross country though I cant wait until wednsday for my next practice.

Milege

Im been having doubts lately on my milege becasue i think i havent been doing enough so im gonna start logging more maby about 40-50 miles a week maby. I need to stop doing 32mile a week because I need to make a change because i am a growing up boy about to be a man! I need to start doing 100mile weeks when I get older and win marathons and ultra's. Im going to stop being a slacker and get ouut there. Next year im going for a 2 hour marathon at the age of 15.

My week so far.

I've been logging decent milelage lately but right now im taking a 1 or 2 day break because I havent been running good after that week. I cant even run an easy two miles so I said to myself I need to take a break because I have to be ready for cross country tryout next monday so my legs need all the rest they can get. Ive recently became vegetarian and sometime vegan and my stomach started to hurt for a couple of days because my stomach needed to get use to having no meat If anyone comes and read my blog and there vegetarian can you give me some foods I can eat for protein because the only protein im eating is almonds and beans and some peanut butter. I would really apppretiate it and thanks.

introduction

Hello my name is Nathan Burton I really created this blogger account to keep track of my running progress and to talk to other runners to get advice from them and maby to get other people to follow my blogs and make new friends. Currently im 14 and im about to be a freshmen at John Hay School of Archetecture and Design. But im feeling good today just did a short 2 mile run to since I was in a hurry to go to Wild Water Kingdom. Tomarrow im thinking about running 10mile tomarrow and maby go back in the evening. My interest when I grow up is to be an elite marathon runner or a elite ultra marathon runner and being a construction worker on the side. I might not be the best at those sports when I get older since im not from those high elevation places and I never had any training advice or been on a real track team. The reasons why I run run is to do it for fun, to relieve stress, and give me something to do. Most of my running is on the track but its starting to get boring running up there everyday, it has gotten to the point that I get track sick from going around in circles all day, but hopefully I will not be running there to much longer because cross country tryouts starts August 1st cant wait for that. People actually talk to me since they see me at the track all the time and they be track coaches and track teams be talking to me wanting me to join there team and they tell me to work on my speedwork. I say I will do it but it really hurts and I have to take out a couple of days because my legs be hurting like crazy for a couple of weeks. I actually trained with a track team but they didnt have any distance runners they only had sprinters. He told me I had to work on my speedwork. So he had me running uphills, sprinting 200m then jog back 10 times and stuff like that. Then he entered me into a track meet my legs was hurting after all that different training. He had me doing the 3000m, 1500m, on day 1, then tommarow I do the 800m relay then the 800m. During the 3000m I was racing against a 17 year old and two 11 year olds. Me and the 17 year old actually became good friends but it sucks that we live on two different parts of ohio. Maby I will see him during cross country season. But during allmy races i was the only one without track spikes I was just wearing my trashed Saucony Bullets. During the race start I kept up wit h the 17 year old for a while then he started pulling away we both laped the two 11year olds twice or triple times. But he lapped me during the last lap. During the last lap my track coach kept yelling at me telling me to sprint the last lap but im a crappy sprinter and my legs was so much in pain I couldnt but I did it though. But I came in 1st in my age group since I didnt have any compitition. But I couldnt stand my coach because he was yelling at me with his competetive ego. But I ended up finishing the 3000m in 12 or 11 min. During the 1500m I came in 2nd in my age group but came in 7th over all. The one in my age group came in 2nd or 3rd over all. And the sickest part of it is they run 1500m faster than I could sprint. At the end of the race we were just talking about how mcuh milege we do a week I do 32-48miles a week they all did 20miles a week. I was shocked they are faster than me but they cant run as long as me so that got me interested in doing ultramarathons and stuff. During the 800m I came in 2nd to last they run fast. But I became good friends with them to but they all live on another part of ohio to. The only distance runners in cleveland are me and my friend eddie are the only ones. And all the rest are from the west side of cleveland or from akron or other places. In the 800m relay my team came in first because it was only one team we competed against and they were younger than us. But a week after that track meet I was going to track practice and after that I went into my book bag and I noticed my phone was gone. I went up to the tack coach ask him can he call my phone because I think it got stolen or lost. He called it and he acted like someone answered it and start acitng like he was yelling over the phone with someone who stole my phone but then he started laughing saying that noone answered and he pretty much made a joke out of it and everyone else laughed to with him and they all started teasing me. So I just decided to never run with them anymore. Right now he's been trying to look for me since I was the only one who had qualifyed for the regionals. And the only student who actually did all my training without cheating. So now im just training by myself again. My training plan is to run 2 hours straight in the morning and maby whatever how many miles i want to do in the evening (no sprinting). I really got tired of running competativly anyway. It almost got me burned out. I also hate it when people and other coaches ask me who do I run for. I dont run for anyone I run for my own fun. I run to earn friends, have fun, and to relieve stress. I dont want to do it for money, fortune and fame. Well maby sometimes just in case I get tired of life kicking my ass. But it might not come to that im use to being poor. My parents divorced because my dad cheated on my mom and my parents dont have enough money to buy me expensive shoes. I dont really have any friends my age i can hang around because there probly playing the game or playing basketball which i have no idea how to play and i never get picked. So my only friends are me my feet and my saucony bullets. Im maby thinking about just going barefoot since I dont have any cushioning in my shoes anyway. But im hoping to do an ultramarathon soon if the let me do it. I really want to do the Burning River 100 august 1st but thats the day of my cross country tryouts. But yeah if there are any distance runners in ohio hit me up I would enjoy to have someone to run with. My email is burton.nathan@rocketmail.com. But yeah thats all I have to say today I hope you really enjoyed my blog today thanks for reading.