The King of Controversy

AM - 7 miles. 4x1000 (trying to hit 3:56) with 3 min. recovery and 2x300 (all out) with full recovery and Harts warm and cool. My 1000 times were 3:53, 3:57, 3:57, 3:57 and my 300 times were :48, :56. I did pretty well on my 1000 except for the first one but on that 300 I hit a wall barely 100 meters in and I couldn't sprint anymore. My shin was still about the same.

PM - 4 miles. Hot 3 miles and then striders by myself. My shin actually felt way better than this morning but still hurt a bit. 

AM - 6 miles with 20 min. AT tempo (6:40 pace). This was actually one of my better tempos. I was able to hold my pace for the first 10 min. and still held a pretty good pace (a bit slower but not much) the last 10 which is actually pretty good considering how bad I've run tempos before. I think it helped that it was only 6 miles because it helped me thing a bit more positive. We had plyos after. My shin actually didn't feel too bad on this run but my legs were pretty tired after doing plyos. 

 PM - 3 miles. It was nice to go a slow pace and just relax.  

AM - 7.75 miles. Old Man Hills 3x(400, 400, 200). Coach told us to back off a little bit but still have a hard push. I did pretty well and my shin didn't really hurt but I've been slacking off on getting to bed early over this break and I was feeling pretty tired. 

PM - 3 miles. I almost let myself skip this run because I was feeling so tired but it felt good to shake out the legs. 

AM - 5 miles. 4x600 (goal: 2:00) with 120 beat recovery and Harts warm and cool. My times were 2:05, 2:01, 1:59, and 1:57. My first one was a little slow and the last one maybe a little quick but pretty happy with how I did. My heart rate was even below 120 when we checked it one time. We had plyos after and it was so tiring.

PM - Hot 3 miles. 

AM - 5 miles. 4 easy miles and 4x200. I was still feeling pretty tired which isn't good considering I'm racing tommorow. Nice to just take it easy and relax.

PM - Another hot 3 miles. 

I came to this meet thinking I was only running the 3200 so I was pretty happy when it was the first race of the day but I also ended up running the last event which was the 4x400 with Casey, Nick, and Paul. 

I ran a 1.5 mile warm up shortly after we got there and then I threw on some spikes for the first race ever checked in for the race. Casey told me that my time should be at least 30 seconds faster than our 2 mile time trials from cross so I was shooting for under 12:00. I ended up getting it but according to my watch, I only got a 12:05. I felt like I ran pretty strong throughout the race but I had a terrible second half. At the halfway point when I checked my watch I was around 5:40 so my second half was almost around 6:20. I had a pretty good finish even if my kick was only around 200 meters. I was able to pass a couple of kids at the end which felt really good. I ran a cool down of about 1.5 miles after.

The 4x400 wasn't until the very end so I waited for like 6 hours before it started. I ran to Wendys and back to eat so I wasn't totally motion less during that time. I was going to run the third leg but I couldn't get down how to grab the baton so they ended up having me run first. I ran a 1:02 split which is pretty fast for me but compared to the actual sprinter teams running it, I looked super slow. I had a lot of fun with it though and we were able to qualify for 5A State Girls and even scored some points for the team.