Running Blog

Workout. 4x30 sec F pace, 3x 800 I pace, 2x 1000 T pace. All on the track. :P It started out well.. the 30 seconder things were fine. As was the first 800. Then.. I kinda fell apart. My legs hurt so bad! And my breathing went weird, but I think that's more mental.. when something else is going wrong, my breathing goes haywire. Because the inhaler didn't help a ton. So that's my self-diagnosis. Anyway, so my last 2 800s were icky. Not really great at all. The 1000s we did Indian style again- hallelujah. There's no way I woulda stuck in there if we'd done them normally. But they were good.. there was some confusion at a few points, where we weren't sure if we were supposed to pass whoever was in front, because the pace was slowing down. But other than that, they were good. By the end of the second 1000, it was me, Stoner and Mia doing the Indians by ourselves.. that was interesting. Having only three people is kinda fun.. but at the same time it's a little more tiring because you have to push so much more often. Anyway, the workout was okay. Not super pleased with it, but I ended it strong, so it was all right.

Easy 3 with striders.. had a pretty wimpy showing from the girls side today.. there were only six of us. But we had a nice run.. we even broke a record. Striders after were fine too. Something's wrong with my back though.. for like the past month, it's been hurting.. but not awful. Today though, it killed every time I took a step. I don't know if I did something to it, but it's killing me.

So.. kinda frustrated. I got tripped at soccer yesterday and did something funky to my hamstring. I thought I'd be okay during the workout.. if a little slow. But by the time we got to our 3rd lap of the Michigan.. I was 20 or so yards behind. Coach pulled me off the track and had me stretch. And at first I was okay with it.. I don't want to hurt it more or anything. But when everyone started finishing and had such great workouts, I started to get kinda mad. I could have had a really good workout too.. and that's the second not-so-great workout for me this week. I'll ice it tonight and stretch and stuff.. and hope and pray it gets better by tomorrow.

Hamstring was better today.. my soccer coach made me leave practice early yesterday to go talk to Mark, cause I couldn't run very fast. But Mark wasn't there so I went to get some ice.. only there were no ice bags. So I iced later that night and rolled and stretched this morning.. it's feeling better, but is still kinda sore. So I didn't do the 200's, just to be safe. But I'm sure I'll be fine for the game tonight and meet tomorrow. I'll keep stretching and ice more tonight after the game.

Well.. definitely not my best race. I was sick and my back was killing me, so I was already struggling mentally. I just got out there and died. I felt like I couldn't breathe and I was letting girls pass me all over, and I only passed 2 girls on the track. I was super bummed after. Then all of a sudden I couldn't even stay standing anymore. I was super dizzy and shaky. So my dad made me go straight to bed when I got home (well, as soon as he was done lecturing me on how I've done this to myself by doing so much running and soccer on so little sleep and food) and except for work, the car wash, and a math test, I've been confined to the house to rest all weekend. I've slept more this weekend than I have in forever. 8-9 hours of sleep a night and 3-4 hour naps. I'm still sick, but hopefully this helps and gets me back on track for region.