Sock tans

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3 with Megan

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Today was a speed workout. We did our normal warmup, then mile warmup and mile speed changes. Then we did a 1000, I was supposed to hit 3:15, but I hit 3:37. Then we did 5x500s. The first one felt great, then the 2nd one wasn't as great, and then I just crashed mentally. There's really no excuse for it, I've decided excuses are lame. I just mentally didn't want to do it. Plus I had a lot of crap on my mind, I was stressed about school and certain people weren't helping one bit. It wasn't necassarily that the speed was incredibly difficult, it was my attitude towards it. I think if there wasn't so much stuff going on at the track and it wasn't so windy. Whenever the 300s people started after our first 200 it was hard on me to see people who are normally slower than me in front, the wind was really hard, and so that was where I would crash a lot. I really wish I had just mentally sucked it up and just gotten it over with. I think of my good speed workouts and just wish today was one of them. Today was NOT a good day for me. I don't like mondays. My times went something like 1:35, 1:38, 1:45, 1:45, and didn't catch the last one. Then we did a lap and I thought we were done because I didn't hear anything else about the workout. All I cought was a 1000 and 5x500s. No, we had to do another 1000. I was so mad at certain people, I didn't want to do the speed, and I just was not in the mood for a surprise 1000. I started out pretty fast out of anger, then crashed and practically jogged the rest of it. 4:17 I think. I'm ashamed of myself for breaking down so much. I did 3.25 cool down, the .25 I figure makes up for the little bit of recovery I didn't do. Apparently they did 200s too, I once again had no idea about it. I felt like such an outcast. I will step up my game for the rest of the week though, I do not enjoy feeling like this.

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3 with Megan

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Today I sort of expected Bill was gonna make me do speed again, I don't know why I didn't bring flats. Although, I expected it to be the same as yesterday. I did the normal warmup, then a mile warmup and a mile speed changes. Then did a lap and started. The workout was 3 sets of 4x400s, first one at 79 and each would get 1 second faster. The first set was 76, 76, 77, 78. Second set was 81, 83, (2 combined) 2:40. Third was 82, 78, 82, 76. I definitely felt the lactic in my legs on the second set. Patrick and Garek were there to help push me, which helped :) Then I think on the third one in the second set Tomy, Chris and John jumped in to help pace me, thanks guys! I just listened to Tomy giving me advice and tried to do it, and when he started to pull away I tried my best to stay with him. Towards the end it got really hard, on some of them I could feel myself slow down on the last 200. Sometimes Tomy would literally push me to keep me going and not crash, which actually helped, thanks! This workout was definitely harder for me than yesterday, but I'm glad I did it, it'll help me prepare for the Davis invite and BYU. I then did a 4 mile cool down with the boys.

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I did 2 miles of warmup including strides and such. I raced the 400 and the 800 in the medley. First was the 400, I was in the 2nd heat. I felt like I went slower than what I did at the Alpha meet, but it was actually faster. I think it was because I knew what the 400 actually felt like in this one and expected it to hurt. I, for some reason, didn't really even feel ready to race. I don't know why. I like being spread out in lanes, then I don't get elbowed and cut off right at the start like in the longer races. :) with 100 to go I could've gone a little harder, I regret not doing so now, and I just let Emmaline go. I shouldn't have, I should've fought. I need to get better at that, it can't happen at region. Oh well, congrats to Emmaline for winning!

Then I ran about .75 including strides. In the medley my team had a good lead. I went out hard in the first lap, I wanted to get 2:30 or under. My first lap was 72, then the 2nd I slowed down and finished with about 2:34. I'm alright with it, I am tired from yesterday and monday, so I think I can go faster than that. In order for our medley team to qualify for state, we need to go 10 seconds faster. I think we could do it, everyone will have to work hard, but we can do it :)

Then I went with the boys and did a fartlek right after eating a ton of cookies. Yay. I actually felt alright :) I kept up with them for the first few, then I fell off but still worked. 3.5 miles there.

Today we did the normal warmup of 2 laps, stretching and drills. Then we did our bleacher drill things and then did X strides. Then we did 2x300s with the chase thing, mine were a 57 and 52 :) then I did a cool down with Tomy and Chris until our 15 minutes were up and we finished to 5.

I decided to drop the 1600 and anything else I made it in to be fresh for the 3200, so it'll be similar circumstances to Arcadia, a little bit of pressure and fresh legs :) I'm ready for a great race!

Today we did the usual warmup, then a mile warmup, mile speed changes, mile cool down. Nice and easy day, tomorrow is Davis!

Today was the Davis Invitational. I went down later because I was racing later in the Invited section. I warmed up with Tomy, Chris, and Bill, then did drills in the school, and then a few strides before the race. They put us on the track a few minutes before the race actually started,  leaving me enough time to stress out about all the fast people in my race.

The first mile was good, I felt pretty good and it didn't seem like that fast of a pace. I came through at 5:33, then I started thinking way too much about it and it started to go downhill. I didn't think I could come back, I just basically gave up. Even when I heard Bill yelling what I needed to hit to qualify, I thought it was gonna be too hard to hit, so I didn't try as hard as I should have. I am mad about my race, if I could I would do it again. I shouldn't have fallen off of the girls in front, it was a ton harder once I did. My mom told me I shouldn't be so hard on myself, but it's hard not to be. But I did look at results and on the bright side, if I would've been in the other section I would've been third! But that doesn't matter, I still should've done better. Now I just have to focus on region because I don't think I made it into the 3200 for BYU.