1.25 warmup including strides. I had a bad start. I got boxed in right at the bottom of the hill. The officials are MEAN. They were screaming at us and it was kinda scary. When I got to the top of the hill I did whatever I could to pass people. Whenever there was a gap I did a few speed changes to get in front of the group. Then I'd move on to the next one. When we got to the big hill I could feel the lactic setting in and I had a hard time going up it. But then I remembered last year where I walked it and I told myself that would NOT be me, I would be strong this year! So I worked up that. At the top of it I could sense the negative thoughts piling up, and then I just told myself "I've done this a million times, it won't hurt to do it once more!" So then I picked it up. On the next hill though I felt like I just couldn't pick up my speed! It was weird. I tried to recover quick, but I could feel myself crashing. Going around that parking lot Bill yelled at me that not passing is not racing, so I tried to pick it up again. That whole last mile sucked. I did pick up the pace, turns out I accidentally turned on the satellite on my watch when we had to restart. Oh well they can't DQ me now! What's done is done. But yeah, i did speed up. I had a really hard time kicking though. Even when I knew I needed to kick I couldn't bring myself to. When 2 girls were passing me on the track, that's when I started to kick. I passed one of them back but the other girl got me. Then I did a mile cool down with Sarah and Megan. I'm okay with this race, it's better than I have been doing, but not quite what I wanted. | 