Sock tans

This morning I slept in, thought maybe sleeping longer would help me get better faster. But I missed the morning run which made me sleepy all day, so idk if it was really worth it.

It's weird to be back to a small group, I liked the bigger group at practices, but now since region's over only top 10 on our team are required to come to practice. And we definitely didn't have 20 kids at practice today...

We went down to Liberty for speed. Went long way to the fountain, then over to the hill. We did 5 hills going from the road, up to where it starts to go down, turned left and came back along base of the hill. Then did a mile, 5 more hills, another mile, and 2 x 800s. I was supposed to hit the miles at 6:00 pace or under. I hit 6:06 on both of them. (Random fact - that was a second faster than the time I got on my first ever 1600) :) Not that it really matters. On the 800s I went 2:52, 2:42. I caught a cold over the weekend, looks like the sickness on our team finally spread to me. I was pumped that I didn't get sick, so it's a bit discouraging. Made the speed a lot harder, my throat burned and on the 800s my lungs started to as well. I was discouraged, I wanted to be hitting my times. I think mentally I was struggling too just because I want to be feeling awesome right now so that I can sharpen up for State. If I didn't have this stinking sore throat I know that the speed would not have felt that awful. Went back up to the track.

I'm trying to get healthy again, gargled with salt water and drank warm lemon/honey water. The salt water didn't hurt as much as it did yesterday, so maybe that's a good sign?

Was going to run this morning but couldn't run alone in the dark and didn't have the motivation to go to Steiner. This cold has really drained me of energy, this run normally wouldn't make me this tired. I don't usually get tired on runs until about 10 miles in, but today it was at mile 5. It was adventure run. Stopped at the Shriners drinking fountain even though I expected it to be off, it was on but the water had an electric flow going through it so not much of a drink. I'm just not gonna go to that fountain anymore. Got to the track and turns out the boys went to the second drinking fountain. I added on with them when all of them got back until they got to 9, then added a little more to 8, until I decided Id add to 9 cause I hate feeling like a slacker. I really do feel exhausted, I haven't felt this tired since my first 15 miler on rail trail. If anything positive can come out of it Garek got better in a week so maybe I can too, which would make me better by state. Not quite how I imagined this week would go.

Today we did VA loop and went along guardsman and into Sunnyside to the white tree. We did 8 strides and then 800s. I finally felt like I could push myself today, except my pushing myself was at a slower pace than normal. I was supposed to hit 2:50s and I told myself I WAS going to hit them whether or not that meant giving it my all. Which it did. But you know, I don't care. I know if I was healthy for the effort I gave they would have been a lot faster, and effort is all that matters right? We were supposed to do 4 but Bill made a deal with me that if I went between 2:45 and 2:50 on the third I wouldn't have to do the last one. I was right around the same time coming around the last turn so I had to really work to make sure I was under. But I did it. Times were 2:50, 2:50-2:51, 2:47. It was really windy too so that sort of sucked. My throat and lungs burned and was really congested, so much pressure in my nose! And on top of that had a headache. So for having all that and still hitting the times I'm happy. Did a lap and back to the track.

Today we did pipeline. Went out to the 4 mile mark, turned around and when we got to Rattlesnake we started a 10 x 1 minute on 1 minute off fartlek. Finally am starting to feel better, up until now it has just been building and slowly getting worse, so it's a good sign. I still sound like death and have congestion but my throat no longer burns. And the headache was a one day thing I guess :)

6 miles easy at Liberty.

5.75 easy. Was visualizing State in the middle of the run and realized I accidentally brought the pace down below 7:00, so I brought it back up. Sorry :)