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

am: 3

pm: 2 warm and cool with workout of 4x1600m. goal pace is now 5:03 since i got a faster mile time. pretty indimateding time just looking at it. felt good but was off on the first one 5:07. started to not treat it like a workout and just went the easier pace of last week, 5:11. got mad at myself and knew i could hit this time if i could run that mile so made sure i hit every lap and that worked well, 5:03. tried the same attitude and wanted to finish strong. first 2 laps were right on pace and i fell off the third one and did bring the pace back on the last one. 5:10.

pretty disappointed with this workout. i really should have done a bit better. i'll get another chance next week.

weights after with 12 pull ups

am: 3

pm: easy 4 with striders so we could help out with our JV meet. the girls finally ran with us and i tried to make the best of it, but they just dont like it. meet went good. computer would misfunction a lot.

am: did our workout in the morning since we have a meet tomorrow. 1 mile warm and cool (so we could make it to school on time) then the workout was 16x200's at 33 pace. i hit them all easy, then the last 8 we did 1-2 seconds faster. last one was a 28. felt good. really tired after and just didn't want to move but no one lets me take a day off of school.

pm: 5 with 4x200's. all around 34 cause we did them like striders. excited for tomorrow.

am: easy 3.

Race Day: events for the day were 800m and 4x400.

I was pretty nervous for this 800 cause i didn't feel i prepared mentally early enough. it was my first open 800 of the year. I thought i had a late warm up too but it ended up fine (about 2 miles) goal was to get sub 2:01 to qualify for state but i really wanted to get sub 2. it was only me and a kid from cedar that at decent times for the heat and state was his goal too but i knew i'd have to run this in front to get it. race started and got boxed in from all the kids that sprint the first 200m, but slowly got up to 2 place by the 200 (29-30) hung behind him for a second then past him and flew to the end of the first lap (1:00) knew i had to go and i felt good. so i started to move faster. then the cedar kid all of a sudden came by me and past me on the first curve then went right in front of me and slowed down. i was mad he did that cause it threw my pace off and so i finished the curve and passed him again. last bit i started to go harder and tried to finish it hard. then right when i passed the finish line i knew i made it and was pretty reliefed.

ended up getting it by only .18 seconds. i would've beat up that cedar kid if i didn't get it. thinking about it now i think that move cost him more than me cause if he had only stuck behind me the rest of the way he might have got state himself instead of using his energy too fast/soon. i'm happy i finally have qualified for all 4 of my events. now i just need to move all the times down.

3 hours later i did the 4x400. i was hoping for a low 54 but ran it bad. ended with a 55.7ish

dont have a meet for another 2 weeks so now i have good break and have some good workouts for this next while.

am: met together at 8am and did a 10 miler with 20min tempo pace at 5:40. i felt very tired on the way to practice and didn't hope for anything great. we ran 3 miles then started our tempo. we ended up doing well and just slowly got faster as the minutes went by. ended at an average of 5:34. then finished out our milage. ready for a nap!

ran with abel and casey an easy 7 with 10 min tempo at 5:15 pace. this run felt very nice and made my day much better. tempo was good too. hit 1.9 mi which was an even average pace of 5:15.

good week and nice race. next week i may or may not have a race, but just need to keep myself mentally prepared and keep my confidence high.