am- met ruth up at the school at 5:30, ran two warm up laps then headed to arctic circle (3 mi). I noticed that right under my right calf is really sore, and the left side of my left calf. As I ran my left leg felt better but my right leg felt worse.
afternoon- had nothing to do during seventh period so I ran home (1 mi) and then chilled for a minute. Then had my mom drop me back off at the school for practice. I ran 2 warm up laps, then a big grass loop (.5 mi) and then we started on our speedwork. We did two sets of five 200m sprints with a 100 m jog in between. I was supposed to be aiming for 40 seconds. My first set went like so:
1- 37 sec
2- 39 sec
3- 39 sec
4- 40 sec
5- 41 sec
I'm not sure if thats exactly accurate, but thats the jist of it. My second set:
1- 37 sec (ran in spikes)
2- 36 sec (changed out of spikes and ran this in my regular shoes)
3- 39 sec
4- 38 sec
5- 39 sec
I tried running in spikes on the last set but I decided that I don't really know how to run in them correctly and that they are probably doing me more damage than good (plus I hate them), so I changed back into my normal shoes and still did pretty well. I felt like I wasn't doing a stupid i-ran-the-first-lap-really-fast-and-now-i-am-slow-for-the-rest-of-the-repeats thing, and it felt good to be consistent. Doing 200s was sort of an adventure also, because it is such a short distance. After I did a cool down around the school (I'm guessing a little more than .5?). Overall it was a pretty good workout, I felt good today.
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