well this is my last entry. I went running with the team today for the last time, just to say goodbye and stuff. Turns out they were doing 3 mile repeats. the last two and a half months I've only run 5ish times, nothing in the past 3 weeks. but Tyson Boyer and Casey Kimzey (both graduated and haven't run much that past little which) decided to just do one mile and try to break 5 so I did it too.
warmed up a mile, then stopped for 10 minutes or so stretching and talking about how out of shape we were. finally we quit putting it off and started! (it was a dirt mile by my coaches house) we started out fairly fast trying to get moving. I was having a very tough time breathing because I'm sick (nice time to be sick, eh?) but just stuck it in there. Casey led the first half at about 2:19, followed by Tyson at 2:22, then me at 2:24. at this point I just wanted to give up. I was so dead. but I kept at it because they were too, so last bit I just tried to push it and started to catch Tyson, then passed him and caught Casey and he fell off a bit, but Tyson stuck right on my heels.
then he went right up on my side and I tried to push to win but I just couldn't go any faster so we finished side my side, I have no idea who won. I looked at the watch and was relieved to see it said 4:59.1!!! so I didn't care who won anyway (casey finished good with 5:10ish)
barely cooled down a mile, but my chest hurt so bad and my nose was going crazy. but i'm very glad I ran. Perfect run to end on! now off to the Philippines! | 