So much depends... on the run you do today!

am: workout of 4x1mile. splits were 5:10, 5:12, 5:12, 5:08. i wrote up a big thing on this yesterday, but i guess my sister deleted it. overal wasn't the best because my breathing went crazy for some reason. weights after

pm: 3

am: 12 with 20min AT pace (5:40). I woke up treading this run because of the bad memories of last week, but it went well. we talked a lot and laughed a bit and it helped the run go by faster. we started the tempo and we ended with an average of 5:37.  i felt decent and my breathing was better. we had to stop a few times because byron had problems but it was alright.

pm: went out and did a slow 3. afterward i went to the park and was going to do striders except after i did one the grass was just filled with thorns and hurt really bad, so i just stopped.

am: 9.5 total. met for ANOTHER workout. 2 warm and cool with 3sets of 800, 400, 200. on old man hills. but coach had us do these a bit slower than usual since we have a hard workout tomorrow that is more important to have us hit the times. so all of these felt pretty easy but i still felt a burn on my thigh from the hill. times were: (2:43, 1:20, 37) (2:41, 1:13, 37) (2:37, 1:17, 37) good workout, i'm happy with it. weights after that felt better, i made sure to use my legs more than my back.

pm: 2 well my fam did a lot of stuff today so it took me right till 9pm. so decided to try the tredmil once....hated it. only could stand 2 miles. i figured out the difference between running outside and on the tredmil though. When you run outside, it's you running. You own the street, you set the pace. on the tredmil....it pretty much runs you. your the machine, its the human. its like the difference between being ranch cattle and a cow on a farm...no thats a bad example....buts thats the only thing i can think thats close.

am: last workout of the week. 6x800's at race pace (2:18) I've been really nervous for this workout cause it look scary from the outside. we had a 2 mile warm up and cool down. the workout wasn't very impressive: 2:20, 2:23, 2:21, 2:22, 2:26, 2:19.

i tried so hard to push myself into a groove and get my legs rolling, but i just couldn't do it. i only got close the last one because of byron, who took the lead at the beginning and made me run a fast first lap, then continued to push it to the end.

race is this week and i want to get state qualifyings. but looking at the people that are going, there isn't anyone besides our team that has runners that look like they will do it. I cant depend on others to get my time, i have to be able to push myself. i cant run like i did today.

pm: 3 felt very very good.

am: FINALLY an easy 4...then we finished it up with 4x200's hard. i think i hit most around 30 or under.

pm: met at the school with abel, byron, and casey and we ran our 3 mile double. afterward i did warm ups with the sprinters and practiced my starts on the blocks with them as well as hurdle jumping for the 300 tomorrow!

this was a weird meet. we had every weather you could think of in the 14 hours we were there. blazing hot, windy, shady and nice, rainy, hard rain, windy rain, hotter, less hot, you name it! anyway i felt like i was warming up the whole meet :)

so we had the 2 mile first. warmed up 1.5 miles then went to the starting line. my goal was to just qualify for state (10:01) so i wouldn't be too tired for the other races. no other compitition. race started and casey and i started to switch off leading each lap. we did alright but were a bit slow each lap. first mile was 5:02 or so. i felt good, wasn't to hard. then with 800 left we had built up to be like 10 seconds off pace and i realized we weren't going to make it at this pace so i took off and ran faster so i would qualify, and i did just barely 9:59.

next race was 300m hurdles. i warmed up and was excited to finally do this. i was in lane 7 which i didn't like but oh well. race started and i did terrible. i just studdered too many times and messed up. got a 47.2 and second in my heat but didn't qualify for finals which is embarrassing for how small the meet was. i dont think coach will let me run this event anymore but i want another chance.

then the mile. by now it was pretty windy and my goal was just state qualify again (4:35) race started and i went in third letting a few unexpeirenced guys break the wind for me during the first lap. then i passed them and on the second lap there was one guy ahead of me and i decided to let him lead again to break the wind but that was a big mistake because he slowed down a ton which made my second lap way to slow and cost me the time. i was mad so i passed him and tried to make up the time but didn't get it, 4:39.

then, since didn't make finals in the 300m hurdles, my last event was the 800 in the medley. my team did very well and we were on pace to qualfy if i ran a 2:03. first lap was 1:03, then i pushed and pushed trying to get it...but i got another 1:03 for a 2:06. i was sad i didnt get it for the team.

overall good week of milage and workouts! missed my goal of qualifying for all 4 events, but i know I'll get the other two soon...not the hurdle one :-)... i was mostly disappointed with my mile time but next week is our PV meet which will have a TON of compitition and fast kids and i know there will be fast time there.