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

am: 3. planter felt a lot better during this run, not so much after.

pm: 1.5mile warm and cool then workout of 4x1mile (goal 4:56) with one lap recovery. during the warm and stuff it was very windy and rainy so coach said not to worry if paces were a bit off, just do do our best and thats what i just thought too. however it went much better than i thought it would.

first one felt easy and smooth, hiting every pace right on; 4:56. Next one was a tad slow on every lap, so i finished a harder at the end and ended with another 4:56. third one first two laps were right on, then third lap i felt i was going the right pace but for some reason i was 4 seconds slow! so i finished hard trying to make it up but i only made up 2 seconds, 4:58.  last one i pushed the first lap hard, second went well, third was slow (again), then finished strong for a 4:55.

very happy with these times. planter didn't hurt at all during these, but did on the cool down, but i borrowed a sock thingy that flexes your planter all night that should help. and i'll ice it tonight.  Weights after.

am: 3. iced my panter for 15 min after.

pm: 1.5 mile warm and cool with workout of: 3x(600m (goal: 1:42), 400m (goal: 1:08), 300m (goal: :48), 200m (goal: :28, 100m (goal: :14))

very windy day but felt pretty confident (mostly from yesterday's workout) and planter didn't hurt too bad. we started and i figured my 400 split wrong so i was off 1:44. rest of the workout went pretty easy. i had to push myself a lot, and things happened here and there that through my time off but it was fine. 1:05, 48, 29, 14. second set: 1:42, 1:06, 48, 29, 14. third set: 1:44, 1:05, 47, 29, 13.07! after we were done i was surprised how good i felt. it would've been hard but i couldn't held another set at those times. so i was happy with this workout.

the past two days really have hyped me up. i'm excited to race the 1600 and 3200 this week and i know i'll get huge chunks of time off my PR!

am: 3. i was late so i spent the first half of it pretty slow. nice run. been taking care of my planter like crazy and it has been feeling much better, so thats good.

pm: easy 6 with striders and lifting. it was pretty windy and a bit nippy. on the striders coach grabbed a gallon of water and threw it on me, and i stood there for some reason just looking at him and he threw more on me before i realized i should've moved...unbeleivable! it was freezing. and all the girls called me names...

am: 3. i was really late so i ran all of it by myself. really good run though. i thought a lot about this weekends races and the strategy i want to use.

pm: easy 4 with 4x200's all around 31. not the best feeling run but it felt fine.

am: 3. nice easy morning.

pm: drank lots of water today and prepared mentally for my race very good. my goal was a 4:19 with a 1:03 first and last lap and no laps over 1:06. we got to the school and warmed up. i still wasn't feeling way smooth or very good after the usual 2 so i went another mile and a quarter and felt a lot better. did a few strides and got ready for the race.

Austin Brower was the only one ranked ahead of me at a 4:21. i was a 4:27. gun went off and he flew out of the starting line and i got stuck for a second but quickly got out. he was going really fast and i knew that would be too fast for me so i eased right behind him, came through at 1:03, perfect. now i just worked on closing the gap on us and for the next lap it stayed the same, 1:06. next lap i tried to pretend it was my last on took off faster. i felt pretty good. i could tell that austin was beginning to struggle a bit and i gained a couple meters on him here, 1:07! (red flag) last lap i took off and closed the whole gap in 200 meters and coach told me i was right on pace for the school record (4:18.12) all i needed was a :30 last 200. right there i pass Austin, but right as i passed him he spirited up and took off faster and....left me in the dust. i didn't even end close to him. he ended in a high 4:18. and i ended in a low 4:21, 1:03 last lap. then all the excess decimals added another second.

Very Very pleased with this time. 6 second PR and finally a decent time for myself. I ran all my splits where i wanted except the last two were a second slow, but really the thing that killed me was not finishing strong. that has been a challenge for me my whole high school career and i still just cant get it down. i really get outkicked 3/4 times in my races. just need to trust it and work to make it better i guess. 

tomorrow is the 3200m. hoping for another PR there!

ate whatever i could shove down this morning and head to the meet. i felt better going into the warm up but after the 3.5 mile warm up i wasn't as bouncy as yesterday. goal for today was school record 9:27.

race started and i jumped to the lead and ran a solid first lap, 1:08. right what i wanted. from there i was hitting on pace but my 4th lap was quite a bit slow. i came through the first mile in 4:48. i still felt really good and i knew i could negative split it. so i pushed hard through the next couple laps but i just kept hitting 1:13 over and over instead of my 1:10 i wanted. last lap i knew i missed it but i tried to finish strong anyway, 1:05.

i was disappointed i didn't get the time i wanted. it was pretty much the same time i got at PV a couple weeks ago. But a big difference was this meet i won by ~25seconds, so i didn't have anyone pushing me like i did at PV. I know i'm in better shape than this time because of my mile yesterday. Next week i'll race it again, but this time Jordon Cross will be there and he's ranked in the top 2-3 in the state for the 2 mile (9:20) so i know he'll push me to a faster time.

good week of running. very happy with how my workouts went, and very happy with my mile time. goals for next weeks races: sub 4:20 mile, 9:20 2mile.