Sock tans

4 miles, 7:29 average. My cough is getting pretty gnarly, whenever I stop running I have a coughing fit for a solid minute. It’s painful and I couldn’t muster up the guts to go longer, so I’m pretty glad that practice is on our own until Friday because it gives me time to recover.

Apparently the majority of the team is taking a couple days completely off of running. I forgot that’s a thing. I always just feel so guilty when I don’t run and the idea of taking days off kind of frightens me, but logically it makes sense. Better not to burn out. I’ll still continue to run anyway because going on short easy runs seems like enough of a break, but I’m also wondering if it might’ve been smarter to rest and get over my cold... I know if I asked Coach he’d say yes but again I just have so much guilt when I don’t run. 

Coughing doesn’t hurt so bad anymore so the run today was a lot nicer. My energy is down though so I still only went 5. 

Windy run. Starting to feel a little better, but I’m still nervous for practice tomorrow. 

Practice today! It wasn’t half as bad as I was expecting. I still didn’t feel great but you know that’s okay. Warmups, 2 mile warmup and strides. Workout was 4x400s with 4 minutes recovery, 4x200s with 2 minutes recovery, then 8x100s with a 100m recovery. With the active recovery I avoided any coughing fits until the end (which I was worried would happen in the middle of the workout) so I was quite happy. Also, the wind was out of control, on one of the 400s a huge gust came and it literally felt like I was gonna be blown off the track haha. You know it’s windy when the football posts are leaning back so far that it legitimately might tip over, Coach told us to run on the other side of it for recovery haha. Anyways!

400s: 76, 74, 76, 84 (the REALLY windy one).

200s: 35, 35, 34, 36 (wind to our backs was nice)

Didn’t time the 100s

1.25 cool down to get to 8.

Super windy still. Tried not to look at my watch because I knew the pace would be slow, 8:01 average. I’m feeling a lot better, though my energy is still a little down. Didn’t eat before I ran, probably contributed to that haha.