Step by step, mile by mile

4 miles at the high school. It was really windy, but I just went there to measure out to course from yesterday. Turns out it's a little over 1.66 at the turnaround, so 3.33. I was talking to the officials after the race since it was just me and them for a couple minutes, and they said there was like a 17 foot elevation gain. My race report has me at 5:21 pace, and with the uphill I think I deserve a 15:59 3 mile split(before the gain at the end). That was in trainers and mere hours after a very tough day so I'm happy with it. Anyway after those 4 I drove around and found an extremely tough dirt road out in the desert, it was still very windy. First two miles were about 8 pace, then the wind and downhill favored me and I got the pace down to 7:06. I went 5:40 pace on this gradual downhill for about a half mile.

We did some strengthening at practice, including stair push-ups where I slipped and hurt my shin pretty bad. "Distance" run after. Some of the Varsity sprinters ditched the workout and ran with us as well. We drove 40 minutes up to flume trail, which included a death race between Aaron Mason and I which I can claim victorious. We did the run from the bottom of the trail to the top, where I parked. We ran not too quick but the trail was killer. At the halfway point we found a map and it said we were like 1/5 of the way there. We kept going and at some point the sprinters turned around. Aaron and I ran about a mile after looking for them bc we thought they were behind us. We drove back and found them running, they might have ran more than us haha.

3 miles and strengthening when I got back.

I left during third hour to go to the rec, where I ran 2 miles in 11:57, whoops. I lifted after and still made it back to AP bio. My Pegasi have managed to get me through 700+ miles.

Warmup, then everyone went on a 20 minute run, but instead I went on a 35 with 5x1 minute @3200 thrown in there. Hit .20, .20, .22, .22, .20. Not gonna lie, I felt tired. My stomach was really wrecked, which is strange because I had fruit and oatmeal for breakfast, and an apple, a ham sandwich and cheerios for lunch so nothing weird. Maybe all the fiber from fruit. Anyway. The pace felt a little out of the comfort zone for the first 2 then I eased up, last one was uphill. Strides after, then chilled on the turf with Baylee and the long D crew after. Pretty good work for being tired from solid runs and for running alone.

Toughest day I've had in a long time. Warmup, during which everyone but Mason and I stopped a lap early, insisting they'd gone four already. They hadn't. Last 200 Mason and I raced because we're idiots, got probably 29. Workout was 90-60-30 and 4x400. Mason Christian and I decided to go as hard as possible on the 90 seconds, but the 4x400 had a seperate practice so they had to leave. Coach said go and I was off. There was bad wind on the backstretch, which sucked because I had to run against it twice and with it once. Coach got really excited when I hit my 400 in 60. Backstretch again, and my legs were hurting. I was running alone in the wind so I wasn't as motivated, which sucks because I was 15-20m off hitting 600m in 90 seconds! Ugh. The 600 killed me for the rest of the workout, I was about 30m off 400m in 60 seconds and probably 20m off 200m in 30 seconds. I was alone for those too. 400's I ran the first one with the team, it was pace for half, kick the rest. I went quick and hit 33 then finished at 64. Next one I ran alone because everyone else walked a 400 and I wanted less rest for a better workout, so all the other ones were alone. 68, 72, 68. I couldn't kick during that 72, hit two 36's which is goal 3200 pace so pretty good. I did an extra one, 69. Three mile cooldown, I know I went hard today because 8 minute pace was killing my quads. Good day. Ice bath and core tonight. Got a small cherry slurpee and some snap peas because I earned it.

2 in the morning.

Mile warmup because my quads were shot to loosen up, then another half mile w Baylee. Did enough after that to add up to 8 for the day. Half mile barefoot cooldown after.

2.5 with strides, tomorrow's workout might be hellacious so I'm trying to simulate raceday conditions to get a prerace routine down. I was the only high schooler there, but there was a police boot camp sort of thing going on. They had a mile race thing which I stayed to watch. Winning time was a 7 something. Went home and my family was having ice cream to celebrate some things, including me getting the Strata scholarship, but I cant eat it so my mom made me pumpkin bread. 

Not a good day for me. Went to AP Bio and took a practice test, where I was one question off a 5. Ugh. I have no idea why but I drank coffe today when I woke up, and right before my workout. I thought it'd perk me up(I never drink coffee), it didn't. It actually made me really tired. Workout was 4-5x1200. First one was solid. Hit 71, 73, 74 for 3:38. That one was quite good. I started feeling dizzy after that and very lightheaded. I hit 73, 78, and 83 on the next one for 3:54. I was feeling like I was gonna black out so I decided to take a bit longer rest and switch it to 2x1000, 2x800. Hit a 70, 2:24, and faded again and hit a 3:03. Next one just sucked, 3:07. I decided to just do an 800 hard and call the workout good. 400in 66, felt really good and smooth, then suddenly just stopped. Annoying workout, but usually I hit a really good workout and have a mediocre race so I'm gonna say the same goes vice versa. Never drinking coffee again. All of my repeats added up were 3 miles in 14:48 btw. Cooldown barefoot for 7. I kept looking at my watch to see my time, like every 100m, and after I looked I would spend a second trying to calculate my splits which was detrimental.