Alli's running blog

AM- easy 20. I am super pumped for region tomorrow!!!!!

PM- pre-race, fun run to sandburgs! Then 200s afterwards which we did in the form of masterblasters. We had a team dinner at my house tonight and nows there's a hole in my wall... I don't think they're invited back next year

AM- easy 20

PM- region... Warmed up and got to the starting line. I was nervous and that's bad news cause I don't really get nervous. We got our way good and I led with Mic from cedar and Caroline for the first lap. The second lap I stared to slip away but me and Jacey worked together and pushed each other. The third lap she started to take off and I didn't go with her apparently. I had a decent kick and ended with 20:23 which is not at all where I wanted to be. I'm not thinking i''m running at state anymore because I placed 8th. On the bright side I've never been happier because we took 1st overall with 25 points and that's 2 years in a row of a region title!! It wasn't my best individually but honestly I love my team and I'm so happy everyone did so good

No morning run thank goodness cause I had to stay up till midnight doing math. Then when I woke up I felt way sick so I stayed home for the first 3 periods and didn't eat or drink anything. I went back during lunch and was feeling betterish. We just had 30 min easy and my legs felt so heavy and my stomach was still hurting bad. Definitely excited for fall break these next days

We had the option of 16x50m alternating all out and tempo pace or 4x400s all out with 3 min recovery. I did 4x400. They were a hard push. I did very good on the first one and my mental game was strong. I started to slip after that but it was still a good workout. I have a weird thing about me that when I get done and I'm tired I feel so much better when I close my eyes so I did like my whole cool down with my eyes closed. It was actually peaceful. 

We had 40 minutes easy and we drove to Middleton to run it. We had a good quicker pace going and it felt way good.

Practice at 1:30 again to get prepped for state. 15 min steady state with 2 wave hills. We did 10 warm up over to the middle school which I felt fine during. Then when we started the steady state I was okay for a little bit and around 6 minutes I started to feel very very sick again. I guess I'm not over it. I'm applauding myself for my ability to stick with the pack under the circumstances. The hills were okay. I almost biffed it on the 1st downhill, I really thought I was going down. Very very slow run back to the hs and now I'm gonna take everything there is to prevent sickness.