AM - I've decided that in the best interest of my foot, I am going to take a couple morning runs off a week. I think I have finally figured out what injury I have. It is called sesamoiditis which is basically a tendinitis in the spot where my foot hurts. Here is some more info about it: http://runnersworld.com/injury-treatment/owners-manual-big-toe-big-deal?page=1
Race - 6 miles. 1.5 mile warm, race, and 1.5 cool. I got out pretty fast today. I'm not sure why but some races, I just feel really antsy at the beginning and I can't help myself from going out way fast and at other races I just can't get myself to get out. I went straight to the front at the beginning and I led the race until halfway where Jake passed me and I was too tired and had lost focus that I didn't go with him. That first half I was in the zone and I was feeling great but as I started to get tired and realized that nobody was right with me, I lost focus and sort of panicked like I did last week during the 3/3s where I was quite a ways ahead of everybody. I dropped pretty fast and Jake's lead became very big in quite a short time. Andrew and Dave also caught me and passed me and I really had to refocus here. They also gained quite a lead on me and as we came to the bottom of the park and started back up towards the finish, I tried to refocus. I worked as hard as I could and forced myself to keep going and not let the gap grow between Andrew and me grow. I ended up about 40 seconds behind Jake and 10 behind Andrew and Dave which wasn't great for being in the lead for the first half but it was a lot better than lots of my other races where I was significantly behind these guys. I'm really happy with my race, it was a good time and one of my best races of the season but I would be lying if I wasn't disappointed. I just feel like I should be running with these guys and beating these guys once and a while but I've only been able to beat them in our time trials but now they are starting to beat me or getting closer to beating me in those too. But as I've been thinking about this, I realized that I may be killing it in workouts but I haven't been doing all the little things like staying healthy. One thing that I really haven't been doing very well is getting enough sleep. With school, work, running, and homework, on normal school nights this year I've only gotten on average about 5 hours of sleep. So I'm going to really work on wasting less time on TV and such things and be more productive in my homework so that I can get more sleep. I think this is the one thing that is holding me back a little. I also need to stay stronger mentally throught races but I know sleep is killing me or going to kill me eventually if I don't take care of that soon.
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