Alli's running blog

Pretty sad that this is only my 2nd blog update this month but hey.

1 mile warm/cool and we did thousands on the track. We had 1, 2k and 1, 1k. I got 8:10 and 4:03(i think). On the 2k I started out with Mia and Liz and stayed with them the first 3 laps. On the fourth lap Mia started making a gap between both me and Liz and Liz started to push up too. I tried to stay with Liz best I could so i finished barely behind her. On the 1k I fell behind more with Ali. We pushed each other pretty much the whole way. Today was a good workout though.

Let me just say, BEST RACE EVER! My goal time was to break 21 minutes because the lat race I ran (not counting herriman) was the last time we ran cedar and i got 21:20. At the beginning I was fine no nerves at all really. We ran around a little and cheered and stuff. I ran my warm up without my brace thing for my stupid achillies to see how it felt and it hurt a little but felt fine mainly so I didn't wear it in the race either. I always get nervous right before he shoots off the gun. I started off not being able to pass anybody because I was so boxed in but then made it out to the outside so that I could start passing people and I got up with Mia. I started to fall back behind and Liz caught up with me. She passed me but I stayed with her for the entire race. People passed me and I passed them for pretty much the entire race but on my lat lap jut before going in between the tennis courts and baseball field coach was there and said my time right now was 17:55. And I though "I'm gonna get 19 minutes!!!" So I tried to push it but I didn't have a ton left in me so I just barely sped up. Liz was barely in front of me but she started creating a gap and so she was like 4 seconds ahead of me. I finished pretty strong I think and I could not stop smiling because I got 19:51.2! I was so happy I beat my PR by 1 minute 29 seconds. It was a way fun race! Anyway I ended up with 33 overall (i think) and 3rd on the team! So yeah, it was a good time.