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🌅Personal Briefing - Thursday, June 4, 2026

Good morning. Here's your personal read.

🏃Training

🏃Today's Plan

🎯 10K - 2026-06-20 (16 days out) Phase: build → taper starts 2026-06-15 (11 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 (129 days out)

🏃 Today (Thursday): 20-min tempo at Z3–Z4 · skip · 8-min stretch Target pace: 7:45–8:30/mi (Z3–Z4, comfortably hard) 10 days since last hard effort, Z2 at 88% (target ≥60%) - scheduled hard day was missed, time for a tempo.

Best window: Lunch - 71°F, sunny, wind 11 mph

📊This Week

Fri: no run today · 15-min abs · 10-min stretch - Friday rest from running - abs + stretch, recharge for long run Sat: 65-min easy run · 5-min abs · 8-min stretch · pace 9:30–10:00/mi - long run day - 60 min easy

This week: 3 runs · 7.9 mi · 74 min Zone check: 88% in pace-Z2 - ✓ on target for build (≥60%, pace-based).

Recent runs:

  • Thu 05-28 · 2.5 mi · 23 min · 9:01/mi (easy)
  • Sat 05-30 · 6.3 mi · 60 min · 9:29/mi (easy)
  • Mon 06-01 · 2.3 mi · 21 min · 9:06/mi (easy)
  • Tue 06-02 · 2.2 mi · 21 min · 9:21/mi (easy)
  • Wed 06-03 · 3.4 mi · 32 min · 9:31/mi (easy)

✓ Nice walk yesterday (31 min). 3 family walks this week - lifestyle win, not a run substitute.

☘️Notre Dame Sports

🏈Football - Tickets Day, Fakatou Tour Shifts to Austin

Single-game tickets go on sale to the public today. The Notre Dame 2026 single-game public window opens this morning per the schedule the program flagged last week. Secondary-market floor on the Sept. 6 Wisconsin Shamrock Series at Lambeau is sitting around $354 with a median near $888 on the resale platforms, so the primary window matters if anything in the home schedule appeals. Standard advice: if you want a seat at a specific game, today is the cleanest path.

Tomorrow the Fakatou tour shifts to Texas. Marcus Fakatou (5-star DL, Sierra Canyon, No. 2 nationally at the position, 6-6 / 275) closed his three-day Georgia OV on Wednesday and now heads to Texas June 5-7, then Oregon June 12-14, then the closing Notre Dame OV June 15-17. Public read this morning: A-to-Z calls it a Notre Dame–Ohio State race with the Buckeyes holding "a slight edge right now" following the two Rivals predictions, but the Irish closing slot remains the structural argument. The Marcus Freeman OV-closer track record is the through-line every analyst keeps returning to.

Quieter news on the 2027 board. Wider coverage this week reframes the picture: ND lost LB Noah Glover to Miami and Monsanna Torbert pulled his June 19-21 OV, but the defensive line haul (Jackson Vaughn / Abraham Sesay / David Folorunsho / Aidan O'Neil) is being called "a monster" by national writers - Partridge's January hire continues to look like the most consequential staff move of the offseason. Tight end remains the soft spot: the staff is still pushing on Malik Howard but Oregon's late emergence pulled the race to three-way.

Track and field has a real June dot on the calendar. Obiora Okeke punched his ticket to Eugene with a fourth-place shot put throw (19.32m / 63'4¾") in the NCAA East First Round; he'll compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships June 10-13 along with Amaya Aramini (10,000m) and Sophie Novak (3,000m steeplechase). Three Irish reps in Eugene - quiet but worth marking.

Upcoming:

  • Today (Thu Jun 4) - 2026 single-game tickets on sale to general public
  • Fri-Sun (Jun 5-7) - Fakatou Texas leg of the OV tour
  • June 11-13 - Julius Jones Jr. (WR, legacy) OV at Notre Dame
  • ~Weekend of June 12 - David Folorunsho OV at Notre Dame
  • June 12-14 - Fakatou OV at Oregon
  • June 10-13 - NCAA Outdoor Track Championships, Eugene (Okeke / Aramini / Novak)
  • June 15-17 - Marcus Fakatou OV at Notre Dame (closing slot)
  • June 19-21 - Albert Simien (OL) + Segun Alexander (DL) OVs (Torbert cancelled)
  • June 27 - Julius Jones Jr. commitment announcement
  • Sun Sep 6 - vs. Wisconsin, Shamrock Series at Lambeau Field (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:

Niele Ivey leaves for Mexico next week as head coach of the 2026 U.S. U18 National Team - FIBA U18 AmeriCup runs June 9-15 in Irapuato, Group B against Argentina (Jun 9), Mexico (Jun 10), Paraguay (Jun 12). Robyn Fralick (Michigan State) and Charmin Smith (Cal) on staff. Team USA is chasing its 12th straight gold. Back in South Bend, Hannah Hidalgo returns for her senior year off a junior season that set the NCAA single-season steals record at 202, plus the Naismith and WBCA Defensive Player of the Year. Louisville frontcourt transfer Anaya Hardy (6-3, 4.9 ppg / 4.2 rpg, .667 FG% at Louisville) was the program's first portal add in April - fills the post hole left by Cowles, Sanchez and Prosper. Irish open preseason at No. 8 (USA TODAY) / No. 15 (On3).

Upcoming: Niele Ivey leads Team USA U18 at FIBA AmeriCup June 9-15 (Irapuato, Mexico). 2026-27 season opens Nov. 1 vs. Villanova in Rome (Eternal City Tip-off, Fox/FS1).

🥍Lacrosse

No news to report! Here's recent information in case you missed a previous newsletter:

The Tewaaraton ceremony in D.C. (May 28) remains the offseason headline - Shawn Lyght became the first defenseman in award history to win it, joining Pat Kavanagh (2024) as the only Notre Dame players to win college lacrosse's top individual honor. Schmeisser Award for the second straight year, ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight year. The 2027 men's roster will be the first since 2020 without a Kavanagh leading the attack, but Dylan Faison, the No. 1 ranked 2026 recruit, has reclassified and is on campus, eligible for next spring. Kevin Corrigan returns for his 38th season.

Last Result (men): Lost 16-9 to No. 1 Princeton in NCAA Championship (Mon May 25).

🔴Utah Utes

🏈Football - Friday's OV Weekend One Day Out, Scalley Roundup

The big OV weekend is now 24 hours away. Friday brings the largest visitor wave of Morgan Scalley's first cycle - confirmed names include Tye Kennedy (3-star OT, AZ, July 1 decision), Cam Pettijohn (LB), Kelvin Eiwo (OL), Josh Christensen (EDGE), Gecova Doyal and Lincoln Mageo (4-star interior OL), Blake Wong (4-star WR), plus 3-star QB Brody Rudnicki (California) and 3-star safety Darrod Jacobs. Nine officials confirmed by the Deseret News, with Tiki Teeples also back on campus. Wider list than the early-week scouting suggested.

The Deseret roundup is the framing piece worth reading. Brandon Huffman's projection: "seven to 10 new commitments by then" by late June, with Utah currently ranked last in the Big 12 at four commits (Henderson, Teeples, Mailei, Stewart) and rapidly closing. Scalley's pitch line the paper led with: "We have everything we need to win big here" - continuity-and-culture framing rather than a flashy new-staff sales pitch. The Stewart commit (3-star OL from Chandler, AZ, late Tuesday night) is being treated as the first Scalley/Gross/D'Orazio proof point - beat scheduled Boise State and Wazzu OVs to lock him in.

GM Joe D'Orazio is the secondary story. On3's longer feature this week framed his data-driven recruiting pitch as the actual differentiator: D'Orazio sells parents on a $546,000 estimated upside to staying put through a four-year career, rooted in the modeled NIL/portal churn cost. That's the kind of detail the staff is putting in front of OV-weekend families. Year-1 operational identity is starting to come into view.

Rice-Eccles debut now 91 days out. Sept. 3 vs. Idaho (Thursday night) - first matchup with the Vandals since 1993.

Upcoming:

  • Tomorrow (Fri Jun 5) - Kennedy, Teeples, Pettijohn, Eiwo, Christensen, Doyal, Mageo, Wong, Rudnicki, Jacobs OVs (big weekend)
  • June 12 - Ben Rainwater (2027 OL) OV
  • June 21 - Jag Ioane (DE) OV
  • July 1 - Tye Kennedy commitment decision
  • Thu Sept 3 - vs. Idaho, Rice-Eccles (Scalley's HC debut)
  • Sept 12 - vs. Arkansas (Rice-Eccles)
  • Sept 19 - vs. Utah State (Rice-Eccles)

🤸Gymnastics

No news to report! Here's recent information in case you missed a previous newsletter:

Avery Neff capped 2026 with WCGA Region 2 Gymnast of the Year, Big 12 Gymnast of the Year (sweeping the AA, bars and floor individual titles), team MVP, three perfect 10s (vault at Sprouts, vault vs. Southern Utah, bars vs. BYU), and a 7th AA / 4th floor finish at NCAAs as an individual qualifier. She enters 2027 as an 8x All-American and the unambiguous centerpiece of a Utah team that finished 10th nationally (197.500) and missed the NCAA Championship by 0.125 - the first time in the program's 51-year history it sat out nationals after a record 49-consecutive appearances. Carly Dockendorf is extended through 2031; bars coach Steve Arkell joined in April.

Upcoming: 2027 season opens January.

🌰Ohio State Buckeyes

🏈Football - Tomorrow Is the Gabriel-Georges Pivot, OL Adds Vasean Washington

The Gabriel-Georges race shifts to Knoxville tomorrow. 5-star RB David Gabriel-Georges took his Ohio State OV May 29-31, and tomorrow (Fri Jun 5) he visits Tennessee - the Buckeyes' biggest single threat for the commit. Ole Miss and Georgia visits close out the cycle ahead of his July 22 commitment. Eleven Warriors flagged earlier that Ryan Day's staff sent the entire offensive coaching staff to Tennessee for an in-home before the OV - the program is treating this as the most important non-Fakatou pursuit on the board. The 247Sports framing: Gabriel-Georges is "arguably the most important recruit left" regardless of position.

Fakatou is still the bigger headline. Both Rivals analysts (Steve Wiltfong, Adam Gorney) flipped their predictions to Ohio State last weekend, and the Buckeyes are now publicly viewed as the frontrunner heading into Fakatou's Texas OV tomorrow. Larry Johnson's pull and the early-tour Columbus position remain the structural OSU advantages. The open question: whether that lead survives Texas, Oregon, and the closing Notre Dame OV. Same recruitment from yesterday, same split signals.

Roster note from the periphery. Former Dartmouth OL Vasean Washington committed as a transfer add to the OL room - quiet announcement this week but a real depth piece. Also worth marking: Cris Carter and A.J. Hawk are both on the 2027 College Football Hall of Fame ballot, and Kenyatta Jackson Jr. + Jermaine Mathews Jr. were named to the Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list for the upcoming season.

Ticket calendar. OSU mini-plans go on sale June 16 (10 a.m. ET), general-public single-game tickets June 26 (10 a.m. ET). Single-game start at $57 and scale by opponent.

Upcoming:

  • Tomorrow (Fri Jun 5) - Gabriel-Georges OV at Tennessee
  • Jun 5-7 - Marcus Fakatou OV at Texas
  • June 16 - OSU mini-plans on sale
  • June 26 - OSU single-game tickets on sale (public)
  • July 22 - Gabriel-Georges commitment
  • Sept 5 - vs. Ball State (12:30 p.m., BTN)
  • Sept 12 - at Texas (7:30 p.m., ABC)
  • Nov 28 - vs. Michigan (noon, FOX, Ohio Stadium)

🏔️Treasure Valley

🍽️Food & Drink

The Boardwalk's outdoor-party-zone identity comes into focus tomorrow. Apex's Greenbelt Night Market launches Friday, June 5, and runs every Friday "3 to sunset" through Labor Day - vendors, cocktails, live music, dancing, the whole plaza activated. The Spitfire Tacos + Tequila grand opening was Tuesday (third Idaho location, taking over the former Bao Boi space along the river). Ground Rules (sports bar + garage-door plaza opening) is now targeting a grand-opening window of June 10-13 in the former Neighbor Tim's BBQ space. Peregrine rooftop bar slips to July. If a Friday-evening walk-up date appeals, tomorrow night is the cleanest first window.

The rest of the June pipeline carries over. First Watch in Meridian (6192 N. Linder Rd., Orchard Park) is on track for mid-to-late June. Anderson Prime American Steakhouse in Star (10206 W. State St.) penciled for sometime this month. Vessel Kitchen (Hemingway Building, Eagle) - Utah-based protein-forward bowls - at or near soft-open this week. Nowadays Coffee (vintage diner-inspired, 4295 W. Chinden, Garden City) still on early-June soft-open watch.

The Smoky Pickle in Star (10206 W. State St., wood-fired BBQ in a converted grain silo, Texas brisket / Santa Maria tri-tip / southern ribs, full pickle bar) - still summer opening target. Sunday-drive day trip if it lands well.

🎉Events & Things to Do

Tonight (Thu Jun 4) - First Thursday:

  • 5-8 p.m. - "Pets & Their Peeps" at JUMP Park & Share Studio (with Idaho Humane Society) - pooch parade, pet contests, dog demos, obstacle course, pup cups. Free.
  • 5-6:30 p.m. - Lobby Hop wine-tasting walk between participating downtown venues, part of Idaho Wine & Cider Month.
  • 5-9 p.m. - "Meanwhile, Out West" opening reception (Bonnie Griffith) at Idaho Art Gallery.
  • 6-8 p.m. - Live music with Landonious Monk at 8 Horses Lounge.
  • 6:30 p.m. - "We the People: Becoming American" at JUMP - City of Boise + Idaho Office for Refugees America 250 storytelling event. Free.
  • 9:30 p.m. - KOS MTV 80's Video Dance Party at Knitting Factory.
  • Citywide - Annual Freedom From Hunger Food Drive with Boise Rescue Mission Ministries + Albertsons.

Tomorrow (Fri Jun 5):

  • 3 p.m. - sunset - Greenbelt Night Market launches at The Boardwalk (every Fri through Labor Day).
  • 5-7 p.m. - Hikes + Hops with Foothills Learning Center ($10, one beverage + guided hike).
  • 7:00 p.m. - Bailey Zimmerman with Hudson Westbrook and Blake Whiten at the Ford Idaho Center (Nampa).
  • 7:30 p.m. - Ballet Idaho's Cinderella at the Morrison Center (Garrett Anderson / Anne Mueller choreo, Prokofiev score).
  • 8:00 p.m. - Crankdat at Treefort Music Hall.

Saturday (Jun 6):

  • 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Capital City Public Market at The Grove.
  • All morning - Treasure Valley Triathlon at Esther Simplot Park / Boise River Greenbelt.
  • 2 p.m. + 7:30 p.m. - Ballet Idaho's Cinderella (Morrison Center, matinee + evening).
  • 5-9 p.m. - Redwood Park west Boise neighborhood night (live music, beer garden, food trucks, craft vendors).
  • 6:30 p.m. - Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live at Lyle Smith Field, Albertsons Stadium - 14 trucks including a Boise State–inspired one. New on the calendar since yesterday's read.
  • 7:30 p.m. - Seahaven at Knitting Factory Concert House.

Sunday (Jun 7):

  • Afternoon - Savor Idaho at the Idaho Botanical Garden. 30+ Idaho wineries and cideries, headline of Idaho Wine & Cider Month.
  • 7 p.m. - Iration / Tribal Seeds / Surfer Girl at Outlaw Field, Idaho Botanical Garden.
  • 8 p.m. - Rostam at Knitting Factory Concert House.

Weather today: 71°F at the lunch window (per the training engine), sunny, wind 11 mph - mild day for a tempo. KTVB has Boise running upper-80s by midweek's tail; today is the cooler edge of that ramp.

📰Local Headlines

  • Boise State to lead regional semiconductor hub. KTVB this morning is leading with the announcement that BSU will anchor PINES (Pacific Intermountain Node for Semiconductor Education) - a multi-university + community-college + industry partnership for workforce development. First federal/regional semiconductor program with Boise State at the center.
  • Boise indefinitely pauses water recycling facility project. City put a stop on the long-planned facility per KTVB; reasoning + reset timeline not yet detailed in coverage. Worth watching given the public-utility implications.
  • BSU president search. State Board still on track to consider recommended finalists and name the sole finalist at its June 17-18 meeting at Boise State - now 13 days out. Under the law that took effect in February, only one finalist is named publicly, followed by a 10-business-day review window. Nancy Glenn (VP research / economic development) is acting president during the transition.
  • St. Jude Dream Home giveaway June 10 on KTVB. Estimated value $900K; channel-7 winner announcement.

🔗Worth Reading

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