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Regionals

November 26, 2016 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
I got a lot of sleep the night before because my hotel was only 20 minutes away, and I set out what I needed and packed the rest of my stuff up Friday evening so it only took like 10 minutes to get ready. I'm not exactly sure what time I got to the pavilion, because my watch died the night before and my phone wasn't working. I think it was probably around 8:30. Lizzy and Zoe got there really late so we didn't do a shakeout run because it was too close to our warmup time. Grace and I did a quick shakeout walk instead. It was cold and rained a bit before our race, but by the time our race went off the temperature was basically perfect and it wasn't raining. Yesterday I didn't really want to race and I thought that today I would be excited (in a good way), but I wasn't at all. I guess I wasn't thrilled about the idea of pushing myself in a race. On the line I was nervous, but I think I was just feeling intimidated. I don't have that much to say about the race itself. The start was average, not very fast or slow. Going up the last part of the hill I was probably running slower than when I ran the course on Friday. The whole race I knew I was going at my tempo pace, but I never did anything about it. I saw Grace not too far ahead when I got to the bottom of the hill, and I thought about speeding up to catch her, but at the time I just didn't see a reason why. My time is only a few seconds faster than last year, but I expected that even when I was racing. I'm actually not too disappointed (about my time) because while I know that last year I did not have my greatest race, I certainly wouldn't have considered it to be a tempo like I did this year.
After the race, Grace said she felt like she was tempoing too, but I don't know about anyone else. We also took some pictures behind the Nike merchandise shop.
Anyway, after my race at Sectionals, I kinda wanted to stop because when only considering races, my season has basically been trash. STACS was my only good race and McQuiad and Pre-States were just decent. I'm guessing that my mentality changed because physically I felt great before every race. I still don't know how it could've changed because I've never had this problem before. Maybe I set my expectations too high, but I don't think that's true. All this only applies to races though, most other parts of the season, like training, were good. A few hours after sectionals, I decided to continue because I knew that next year I'd regret not taking the opportunity to extend my season. I'm glad I did because overall I enjoyed running for those 3 extra weeks and coming to this meet. This track season I'm hoping to take down whatever mental barrier that I built for myself, and pr in the 3k. Last year I improved by like 70 seconds and while I kinda doubt that's going to happen again because 70 seconds is a lot for the 3k, I want to break 11 minutes. I guess I'll just see what happens. I'm also determined to get over a steeplechase barrier so I can experience racing steeplechase. The past two years I've been able to get over regular hurdles, but I've always been too scared of getting over the steeple barriers, so I would find other ways over/under/around them during practice. Now that we've got an indoor track team I think I want to try the pentathlon this winter (just for fun).
The warmup and cooldown times are probably not even close to being accurate because my watch died.