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down with the sickness

February 4, 2012 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

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Battle for the Obelisk: Victory for Case! it was a real cool day of events to watch, and after losing 127 to 126 last year, the 153 to 101 victory felt real good. lots of people had pretty good races, including our DMR which was real exciting to watch, even though it was a weird start. didn't get to do my part, but i live to run another day. can't win em all.

anyway, my race was pretty sub par. not that i could have done much to change it, i was overloading on vitamin c and water all week, but 3 or 4 days just wasnt enough time to recover from being sick. still have some time to show what i got and try and make indoor conference. i'm not an idiot, and know its a stretch, but i don't stray from the goals i set. its why i still raced today knowing it was very likely to be shitty. i went into the race with probably the best mental state i've ever had though. i was ready, sick or not, to run how i'd planned this race out earlier in the week. this i am incredibly proud of. my state of mind is something i've been unable to control before, but had a firm grip on it today. carrying that through will help me in the future. just tim ethan and I in the 5k, and on a good day, cmu only has one guy who i can definitely say would beat me. evan gates. so the race starts, and this cmu guy who is not evan, takes the lead. i think to myself, "wtf?" i knew this kid is either playing decoy, or just thinks he's better than he was. so i put myself in position right behind evan, while tim and ethan kind of follow this other kid. this worked perfectly for my strategy i developed before the race which was to run a normal race pace for as long as i can and i'd be satisfied, no matter how long that would be. because as positive as i could be, i felt it in my body that today was not the day. so i followed evan through the mile perfectly on pace for 15:50, about 5:03. tim and ethan were up a bit from us, and this was when evan decided to start racing a bit. i still felt okay, and i told myself, sick or not, i'm not letting him drop me now. so i kind of let him pull me through and he was slowly pulling away but this kept me on pace for maybe another 400 before i tanked. the rest of the field passed me, and i was done. it was a little demoralizing, but i know that i put everything i could into that race. and i wasn't going to drop out, even though i was tanking pretty hard, because thats not what i do. not sure what my time was, like at all. i didnt stop my watch at the line for sure, but sometime between there and when i sat down i did, and my watch was stopped at 17:26. but i dont really give a crap. the first 2k, and the mental makeup of my race is what i need to remember for the rest of the year.

i know there isn't much i could do about it, but getting all ohio was a big goal of mine, and it just wasn't happening. kept composure better than i expected though. i was real pissed for 5 minutes after the race, before i could accept it. trying to take a page out of ben's book and work the patience. i know my time will come. getting healthy, we'll see what next week brings me.