AM: Arctic Circle. I iced my arch last night and this morning it hurt worse than it ever has. Blehhhhh.
PM: Race. Definitely did NOT go as well as I wanted it to. My arch hurt before, but not in the same way its been hurting the rest of the week. Before today, it was like an achy hurt. At the race it was like I pulled a muscle in my foot, if that's even possible. Rachel taped it, but it didn't do much good. And I started out way too fast. And then died. And got a sideache. And pretty much gave up on life. I tried to stay with Stoner when she caught up, but that didn't happen, so my main goal was to not let Frida pass me, because I could hear people cheering for her behind me. Then three other girls passed me and all I could think was "This. Sucks." Then on the last lap, Coach told me the plan was for me to stay on the other girls' shoulder, then outkick them. So I stuck it in there and passed the 3 girls.. and I came THIS CLOSE to getting Stoner.. but my breathing sounds like I'm suffocating and she heard me and kicked it in and beat me by half a second. And so I wasn't happy. And all I wanted was to talk my mom, but she was too busy being Super Team Counselor Who Knows Everything About Anything to pay any attention to me, so I didn't get to talk to her til she was done making herself a part of everyone elses problems. The only really good part of this race was that I got new spikes and socks, so no blisters. But I think I'm going to rest my arch more this weekend and maybe not run Monday, and we're gonna try some stretching and rolling stuff on it. | 