Sock tans

Still sticking to 6 miles a day, energy wise I felt okay, not awesome but I wasn't dying like I was last week. Toe/foot is really buggin, I hope I can get it under control. It's close to how bad it hurt on Saturday, but it's different now. I think it was just inflamed on Saturday, it was a bit swollen and so I've been icing and taking ibuprofen. Today though it only hurt a little at the beginning, when we were going downhill I hardly noticed it but as soon as we turned and went uphill it began to hurt more, until finally it was so bad that I slowed down a TON and was limping up the hill. When it flattened out a bit it didn't hurt nearly as bad and stopped limping a bit. At one point though it was shooting pain towards my heel which hasn't happened before. Alesha and Nate both said there's bruising, but I don't recall ever doing something to aggravate it. 7:35 average.

HR 52

I was worried about my foot this morning, cause I knew that if it hurt like it did yesterday or saturday I would have to take time off of running which is something I didn't want to do. So I was wary of it throughout the warmups, form mile, and even mile of warmup, but it wasn't a bother. There was a little dull pain but it wasn't bad at all. That combined with the fact that I could actually do some of the workout today put me in a great mood :) The full workout was 5x1000, 4x400. For the 1000s we were supposed to start out slow and progressively get faster, first 400 in 94, next 200 in 45, and last 400 in 84-87 I think. There was some confusion about the pace for the last 400 in the first 1000, so we went faster. 3:39, 3:42, 3:44. On the 3rd I fell off the pack in the last 100 because my legs were tightening up and I couldn't move them fast enough. Coach pulled me aside and told me that now I was to finish off my distance. So I cooled down in lane 8 while everyone finished the workout. I hit the pace so I think coach just said that cause I had fallen off the pack. But it was a good time to stop because my foot pain was starting to increase, it wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday though. Overall happy with it because it wasn't forced and felt good for once :)

HR 58- disclamer: it was a bit higher today cause I realized I fell back asleep after my alarm went off and was gonna be late to practice.

Didn't have time to finish to 6. It was just 50% today, a group of us peeled off (we were cruising by the end at sub 7 pace) cause we had class at 8. I was a titch late but my professor's chill with it :) Also stoked cause fall break starts for me once I'm finished with my classes today cause we will be traveling tomorrow, perks of athletics :)

HR 54

Flew out early this morning, once we got to the airport we drove to a park and did our run, 7:21 average. I felt alright, once again I actually had energy! However the long flight and drive I think caused motion sickness, I usually don't get motion sick but I felt like I was gonna puke and had a slight headache. It went away later so that's good! Oddly my quads hurt too. We did pickups in the middle, that was usually where I felt them. Otherwise felt good!

HR 52

1 mile shakeout in the morning, felt pretty good.

Sending good vibes to Natalie, who is racing in Wisconsin today! Good luck!

Later ran the course, I absolutely love it! It's beautiful :) then did the last 1000, it was 3:24 for me. Felt good, my quads were a little sore and I'm getting sick yet again (just as I think I am over my cold I get another one?) But other than that I felt great!! Excited to race tomorrow!

HR 56

I'm so frustrated. I was convinced I was going to have a good race up until the boys raced, they didn't do so hot. I tried not to let that affect how I did. Ibrahim or Mike had said that their legs felt really heavy and as I thought about it mine did too. But I forgot about it later so it was fine. I was feeling a little off, not awful but just in kind of a funk. But I still was convinced my race was going to be good. I wanted it to be good so bad.

We did a mile shakeout in the morning. We warmed up a mile and a half and did warmups, stretches and strides. Was a bit nervous at the start just because of how many people were there.

Coach told us to stay to the right so we wouldn't get boxed in and that helped, still had to slow down a bit on the first turn but it wasn't too bad. I saw Angie and Josie and tried to go with them but I was just far enough back that girls quickly went in front and I lost them in the pack. Once I saw them again they were way up ahead and I surged to try to catch them. I got close, but the pace felt fast and forced, not relaxed. I soon fell off as I settled into a slightly slower pace. That was a bad idea, I got passed and passed and passed. I still felt like I was going fast but evidently not. I had a hard time pushing myself harder, I think that's the main problem with this race. When I got to 1000 left I started to pick it up, and 800 a little more, then when we came around the final turn and I could see the finish I did a little more, and with like 200 left I began to give it my all. I was really happy with my finish because I passed like 5-6 people. In high school I struggled with kicks so that was great for me. I think I was sub 3:00 last 800 which was the goal!

I felt like I had more energy than at Griak, but had a hard time pushing myself out of my comfort zone. I also wonder if weight is an issue, when I went to the doctor for the tests and they weighed me I had gained 10 pounds. Coach doesn't like us to weigh ourselves so I don't know if I've gained more but I think I have. But I just don't know how to healthily get my weight back down to where I was before moving out, all I can think of is choosing better foods to eat so that's where I'll start.

Foot was fine until I did a stride before the race and I think that aggravated it, didn't feel it in the race but after I certainly did. It's definitely the tendon connecting to my second toe cause the pain moved farther down. Felt it after the race when I started cool down.

1.75 cool down while cheering on teammates.