🌅Personal Briefing - Friday, May 22, 2026
Good morning. Here's your personal read.
🏃Training
🏃Today's Plan
🎯 10K - 2026-06-20 (29 days out) Phase: build → taper starts 2026-06-15 (24 days) This week: Two hard days (Monday tempo, Wednesday intervals) plus a Saturday long run; everything else easy. Next week: Finish taper and race-week shakeouts. Why today: Mon tempo and Wed intervals build race-specific fitness for the 10K; Sat long run builds durability; easy days protect the work. After this: Half Marathon on 2026-10-11 (142 days out)
🏃 Today (Friday): 22-min easy run · 8-min abs · 5-min stretch Target pace: 9:30–10:00/mi (Z2, conversational) Rest was already taken Wed 05-20 - Friday is a normal easy day. Z2 balance at 43% (build target ≥60%) - keep it easy today to rebuild the ratio.
Best window: Lunch - 74°F, sunny, wind 4 mph
📊This Week
Sat: 54-min easy run · 5-min abs · 8-min stretch · pace 9:30–10:00/mi - long run day - 48 min easy Sun: 22-min easy run · 8-min abs · 5-min stretch · pace 9:30–10:00/mi - keep the easy base going
This week: 4 runs · 9.0 mi · 76 min Zone check: 43% in pace-Z2 (build target ≥60%). Recent easy paces: 9:11/mi, 11:27/mi, 9:25/mi. If those feel conversational, they may be fine - pace zones are proxies. HR data from the COROS will clarify your true zones once it's set up.
Recent runs:
- Sat 05-16 · 3.7 mi · 42 min · 11:27/mi (easy)
- Sun 05-17 · 2.3 mi · 21 min · 9:25/mi (easy)
- Mon 05-18 · 2.8 mi · 22 min · 7:40/mi (Z4)
- Tue 05-19 · 2.6 mi · 22 min · 8:26/mi (Z3)
- Thu 05-21 · 1.3 mi · 11 min · 8:20/mi (Z3)
✓ Nice walk yesterday (17 min). 4 family walks this week - lifestyle win, not a run substitute.
☘️Notre Dame Sports
🥍Lacrosse - Semifinal Tomorrow
This is the day before. No. 2 Notre Dame vs No. 6 Syracuse, tomorrow (Sat May 23) at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2 from Scott Stadium in Charlottesville. Winner plays Monday for the title.
A few details worth holding onto going in. The all-time series is dead even at 12-12, but ND has won 11 of the last 15 meetings - including the 16-11 win in South Bend on April 25. ND is 12-2 on the season and 11-1 in their last four NCAA tournament appearances, with eight of those wins by five-plus goals. Their defense is fifth nationally at 8.57 goals allowed per game.
The Notre Dame names you'll hear most: Shawn Lyght is the Tewaaraton finalist on defense - first defenseman in a decade to earn the honor - and back-to-back ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Year. He'll draw Syracuse's top attackman. Thomas Ricciardelli is ACC Goalie of the Year with a 57.9% save percentage (fifth nationally). Josh Yago leads the offense with 47 points in 13 games, and is coming off a 4-goal, 3-assist quarterfinal against Hopkins.
The "dynasty" framing is real if ND wins out: a third national title in four years, on top of the back-to-back in 2023 and 2024. Syracuse hasn't won one since 2009.
Upcoming:
- Sat May 23 - Men's NCAA Semifinal vs. No. 6 Syracuse, 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2 (Scott Stadium, Charlottesville)
- Mon May 25 - Men's NCAA Championship Final (if advance), Memorial Day, ESPN
Last Result: Men beat Johns Hopkins 15-9 in NCAA Quarterfinal (Sat May 16).
🏈Football
A couple of new threads. Marcus Freeman addressed the "really loud" NFL rumors swirling around him - message was a reaffirmation of his commitment to the program. Coming off the offseason coaching market and into recruiting season, that's the kind of clarification that quiets things down for now.
On the 2027 trail: ND is making a strong push for top-100 QB Neimann Lawrence, and 4-star EDGE Darieon Prescott has been signaling "feels at home" energy on his ND visits. Both fit the priority board that emerged after the Layton von Brandt miss to Auburn. Elite DL Marcus Fakatou (Sierra Canyon, CA) is locked in for a June 15-17 return visit to South Bend, after a tour through Ohio State, Georgia, Texas, and Oregon. He's a difference-maker if ND lands him.
Jackson Vaughn's commitment is still on the calendar for Tuesday May 26 - reclassified to 2027, EDGE out of Bergen Catholic (NJ), and ND is the widely projected destination.
Upcoming:
- Tue May 26 - Jackson Vaughn (EDGE) commitment announcement
- Sun Sep 6 - vs. Wisconsin, Shamrock Series at Lambeau Field (season opener, 7:30 p.m. ET, NBC/Peacock)
Last Result: Blue-Gold Game - Blue 41, Gold 40 (Sat Apr 25)
🏀Women's Basketball
No news to report! Here's recent information in case you missed a previous newsletter:
Hannah Hidalgo is back. The reigning Naismith Defensive Player of the Year and Nancy Lieberman Award winner (best point guard in the country) returns for another year - last season she averaged roughly 24 / 5 / 5 / 4-plus and broke the NCAA single-season steals record. Around her: an incoming class ESPN ranks No. 5 nationally, headlined by McDonald's All-Americans Jacy Abii and Jenica Lewis. Niele Ivey is leading Team USA's U18 squad at the FIBA AmeriCup June 8-14 in Mexico. The 2026-27 opener is the Eternal City Tip-off in Rome, Nov. 1 on Fox.
Upcoming: Niele Ivey/U18 AmeriCup June 8-14; men's & women's open 2026-27 in Rome.
🔴Utah Utes
🏈Football
No news to report! Here's recent information in case you missed a previous newsletter:
The two storylines for Utah this stretch are both 2027 offensive line visits. Top-30 interior OL Gecova Doyal is in Salt Lake on his official visit next weekend (May 29-31) - finalists are Utah, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. OL coach Jordan Gross gets the room there. The following weekend, 3-star OL Tye Kennedy (Mountain View HS, AZ) visits June 5; he announces July 1 among Cal, ASU, Michigan, Washington, Utah, and Minnesota. Utah has zero OL commitments in the 2027 class so far - these two weekends are the swing.
Upcoming:
- May 29-31 - Gecova Doyal (top-30 OL) official visit
- June 5 - Tye Kennedy (3-star OL) visit
- Sept. 3 - vs. Idaho (season opener, Rice-Eccles)
🤸Gymnastics
No news to report! Here's recent information in case you missed a previous newsletter:
Utah finished 2026 ranked 10th nationally, missing the NCAA Championship by 0.125 at the Corvallis Regional Final - first time in 49 years the Red Rocks didn't make nationals. Avery Neff swept Big 12 Gymnast of the Year with conference-best NQS scores on vault (9.920), bars (9.935), beam (9.925) and all-around (39.630). Ana Padurariu won Big 12 Specialist of the Year. Coaching adds: Steve Arkell (USA National Team) joined as bars coach April 30; Olympic silver medalist Grace McCallum signed on as Student Assistant.
Upcoming: 2027 season opens January.
🌰Ohio State Buckeyes
⚾Baseball - Season Over
Michigan 3, Ohio State 0 in the Big Ten Tournament elimination game. The Buckeyes - who had stayed alive Tuesday by beating Rutgers behind Pierce Herrenbruck's complete game - couldn't crack the Wolverines this time. Final regular-season-plus-postseason record sits at 29-23 overall, 18-12 in Big Ten play. Tournament run ends here.
🏈Football
A quieter news day, with the loudest item coming from above. Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti said all 18 conference members unanimously back a 24-team CFP - "deep commitment to 24 and the access." Worth noting that Ryan Day quickly tempered the OSU-specific framing: he's pro-expansion broadly but "debatable if a 24-team format benefits Ohio State." Day's read tracks: under a 24-team field, OSU's regular-season margin for error stops mattering as much, and that's been the program's structural edge.
A weirder one: Jaxon Smith-Njigba called out a "disrespectful" printing error on his NFL Offensive Player of the Year trophy - the engraving labeled it as a defensive honor. Not the kind of thing you usually get to fix in front of cameras.
On the recruiting side: CB Monsanna Torbert Jr. (who decommitted from Indiana this week) has OSU as the team to beat for his recruitment. And the David Gabriel-Georges (5-star RB) official visit is still on for May 29.
Upcoming:
- May 29 - David Gabriel-Georges (5-star RB) official visit
- Sept 5 - vs. Ball State (season opener)
- Sept 12 - at Texas, 7:30 p.m. ABC
🏔️Treasure Valley
🍽️Food & Drink
Descanso opens today. The new spritz, beer, and wine bar with a Greenbelt-facing patio at The Boardwalk (521 E. 41st St., Garden City) is doors-open today - The Boardwalk's first new concept of 2026. Easy after-work or post-run option this weekend.
Looking just past today: The STIL + Bumble Coffee combo opens in Eagle in the former Negranti Creamery space (the Negranti crew is largely retained), and Vessel Kitchen - a Utah-based fast-casual chain known for protein bowls - is targeting late May / early June for its first Idaho location in the new Hemingway Building at 55 E. State St. in downtown Eagle.
🎉Events & Things to Do
- TONIGHT (Fri May 22), 7 p.m. - Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens its 50th season with "Macbeth," directed by Sara Bruner, in the amphitheater along the Boise River. Runs through June 13. Bring a picnic; lawn tickets from $26. Also tonight: Descanso opening day at The Boardwalk.
- TODAY (Fri May 22) - Roaring Springs in Meridian opens for daily operations of the season, with the new Hive thrill ride debuting to the general public (two 720-degree double-looping helixes through 7,000-lb fiberglass beehives - the second of its kind in the world).
- Saturday May 23 - Capital City Public Market at The Grove Plaza, 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (running every Sat through Dec 19). Ogden Raptors at Boise Hawks, Memorial Stadium, 7:05 p.m. Also Saturday: AC Boise vs. Fort Wayne FC, 7 p.m. (Expo Idaho, Garden City), broadcast KTVB Ch. 7.2.
- Sunday May 24, 1:05 p.m. - Hawks vs. Ogden Raptors matinee at Memorial Stadium. Warhawk Air Museum (Nampa) Memorial Day Flyover with $5 admission and food trucks.
- Monday May 25 (Memorial Day) - Morris Hill Cemetery ceremony 10:45 a.m., Military Reserve Cemetery ceremony 11:45 a.m. City of Boise turns on park splash pads and fountains (through Labor Day).
Weather today: Sunny, high 80°F, low 52°F, light SW wind ~9 mph, 0% precipitation, very high UV. Sunrise 6:13 a.m., sunset 9:09 p.m. Premium conditions for a Greenbelt afternoon.
📰Local Headlines
- Granite Fire update: New wildfire in Boise National Forest reported around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 20). Smoke visibility in the foothills the next couple of days - keep an eye out if heading north for Memorial Day.
- Memorial Day float reminder: Float the Boise's partner agencies are reminding people the official Boise River float season is NOT yet open. Don't be the holiday-weekend news story.
- Statewide seatbelt enforcement crackdown runs through May 31 - heaviest traffic days of the spring start tonight.
🔗Worth Reading
- NCAA Tournament Semifinal Preview: #6 Syracuse - fightingirish.com's official semifinal preview with Lyght, Ricciardelli, Yago breakdown.
- Where to watch Syracuse vs Notre Dame - 247Sports' TV/streaming details for tomorrow's game.
- Buckeyes Fall to Michigan in B1G Tournament to Conclude Season - official OSU recap of the 3-0 elimination.
- B1G, Petitti All In on 24-Team CFP - Eleven Warriors on Petitti's unanimous backing and Day's pushback.
- Idaho Shakespeare Festival opens 50th season with 'Macbeth' - Idaho Press preview of tonight's opening.
- Make-A-Wish families get first rides on The Hive as Roaring Springs opens - IdahoNews photo gallery of the new ride's debut.
Generated on Friday, May 22, 2026