Step by step, mile by mile

I felt awful today, I'm never drinking RB again. I'm also extremely sore due to the clinic yesterday. In church I had to leave immediately after because my family wanted to socialie and go out for lunch. I was on the fence about running today, but after blowing my nose for the 49763 time of the day I decided to go. I drove up to McCoy and ran on this dirt road I had never ran on before. The way up was terrible. I felt like total garbage and it was hilly and muddy towards the end and I turned around just a bit before 2.5, Avg pace was like 8:30. There were a ton of people out shooting today and I feared for my safety. I picked it up after the muddy part when I started coming down and eventually I saw the glimmer of my truck in the distance, looked at my watch and figured I had 1.5 left. I suddenly started just going really fast, I don't know how I managed it. Last 2 miles were under 13 minutes, last third of a mile was 5:18 pace. I felt really crappy afterwards but after some post stretching my sickness started to lift up, I don't feel great now but better. I dropped the average pace down a minute due to the second half so 7:30 pace. Ran a little when I got home to add up to 5.

AM - Alarm didn't go off at 7:30 so I woke up at like 10:30 instead. Did a 3.5 shakeout @ 6:28 pace. Still extremely sore.

PM - First day of track! Mile warmup, then "The Long Road Home" workout. The basc gist of it is you partner up, run one lap, do 50 clap push ups, three laps, 50 V-ups, five laps, 50 squat jumps, seven laps, 10 sled pushes, five laps, another 50 clap pushups, three laps, 50 burpees, one lap. It's pretty awful; Coaches checked registermyathlete.com and anyone not on that got kicked out. Me Aaron and Christian were on that list, but luckily I called my mom and she registered me last second. I partnered up with Mason and we were off. Baseball soon came in on the field inside the track, and they kept hitting baseballs at us. There was a protective netting, but if you were in the inside lane you were going to get hit. We had a ton of people at practice and Amson and I were lapping them pretty soon, but lapping was difficult with our remorseless less-than-human baseball team inside batting at us. I think I was the main target from the seniors after the notorious "bird" incident. Anyway Mason and I went ham and won it by quite a bit, we were pretty unstoppable. I never even did any girl pushups, which is a rare claim. Good work from the team today, excited to get back at it.

AM - All juniors took the ACT today, so no school until noon. Ran three miles in to morning down to the adjacent neighborhood, where I discovered a trail I could climb up to. It was muddy and still pretty snow covered, but I liked it. It ended right after the normal brutal hill so it's nice to know there's a way to skip that. Avg pace 6:58.

PM - Mile warmup, then a "core" workout. I remember the first week of track being grueling as a sophmore and difficult as a junior, but this was really easy. If it had been longer maybe it'd be a challenge but we only had 6 core stations to go to and only had to do the exercises in 1 minute intervals, I'm thankful for all the sprinters being born in april because when we go by groups we always go by birth month and I'm with them. I stayed for hops, sleds, and balance, and then ditched. Three mile easy run shirtless(miniscule detail but whatever), was going to go longer but changed my mind. Avg pace 6:52. Headed to the track and did 4x400's with a 200m jog in between(probably 1 minute active rest). Soccer was having tryouts and they loved my outfit consisting only of BOA's and Zante's. I had constant cheers and whistles for me while I ran. Went 67, 70, 69, and 66. Wasn't too hard, but I want those times to feel really comfortable, they didn't feel too amaing, but I'd account that for completely dead quads from the past few days, and idk how much I like the Zante's for speedwork. It'll be nice to eventually do repeats with someone... one day. Anyway I prefer my LT's for sure. Came back and jumped in the cooldown and I don't think anyone noticed my absence. Another mile cooldown by myself afterwards.

Yoga and 3 miles later. No watch but it was quick.

Mile warmup. Workout was running up bleachers, run a 400, push-ups up the bleachers, run a 600, 50 V-ups, 4x100 strides w/ like ten second rest, 50 burpees, 200, push-ups up bleachers, 200, run up bleachers, 100 one legged squats. 2 sets of that. Coaches have us maybe 45 minutes before they told everyone to stop so I went ham and was the only one to finish the workout. I have to shoutout Aaron for being right with me until the last set of burpees and push-ups where I went ham, he was the only other one to get all the way to the final station besides me. S/O to the breakfield twins bc I went ham to pass them and it was difficult, and shoutout to Brady for being right behind me Aaron and the twins, it's his first year of track and he's already killing some workouts. Led a easy cooldown afterwards and a 2 mile cooldown by myself after my sisters soccer game. I went to Cafe Rio alone after and got the usual salmon and tortillas, and they were almost out so the portions were maybe half the usual, so the girl handed it to me and told me just to go! What a sweetie. Good day.

Easy day today, my legs were tired so I did some by myself but nothing major. Mile warmup, then the entire team had to run the neighborhood, I ran with Mason, Christian, and Kedric and we took it a little briskly. We did an extra mile as well. Turns out Aaron got stuck behind and ran the same way we did, and so did Brady, turns out he's going to be a distance runner. Nice. Mile cooldown by myself after.

Mile warmup, and it was awful. My entire family was sick today, and I went to the doctor as a preparation thing and I had to sit in a room alone with my ill sister for an hour, so if I didn't have the virus before I'm sure I had it after. My lungs burnt worse than I can ever remember in my life. I had to stop the warmup premature. Coaches wanted me to just "tough it out", and I sat down for a couple minutes and told them my body told me I have to rest. They eventually let me go. If ever I've had doubts in my coaches today was the day, I honestly don't think they don't care about me after my recent performances. Looks like I need to impress next friday. I got home and slept for three hours, and felt SO much worse when I awoke. I was having cold sweats and could barely move I was so fatigued. And with preference tomorrow...

I woke up with a temp of 101.5 and felt like shiz. My parents wanted me to just tell kyrie(my date) to go w/ someone else, but that wasn't going to happen. I sort of accidentally took twice the recommended of Tylenol. With ten minutes until she picked me up, the medicine hit and I felt great. Day date was great. Got home and got ready and my tie and pants got lost so I wore jeans instead, and I tried suspenders but they immediately broke. So no tie or anything. I felt good, until me, Kedric, and Kyrie got into some intense "just dance 4". We played the luchador match and I honestly thought I'd die after. I felt like trash for the dinner, and I took more Advil after. We played some wii U after and the tv burned my eyes if I looked at it for more than a minute. Driving to the dance I honestly thought I'd pass out. I was freezing and hot at the same time. But once again the drugs hit at the perfect time, right as I started to dance I was told after I'm a good dancer. I went really ham and with the day date and such id count this as 2 miles. huge shoutout to Kyrie for asking me, had a dandy time.