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Sidwell "Relays" (without the relays)

April 5, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: cold, windy, cloudy !!! brrrr

Comments:
sooooo cold! thought it might rain and would be a bit cold, but not freezing and windy!
shoulda done more warm-ups, but team wasn't the most organized (understandably due to weather and week-day meet...)
ran a very strong 400. dunno what my time was, but probably not great due to weather. wait, oh yeah, i think i got a 72 or something? ehh yeah, i hope now that i've been training with the sprinters my time goes down...haha. well at least i can laugh abt it knowing i'll improve. anyway, i got out nice and fast, no - really agressively - and kept it going through the turn...until i got to the last straight-away, where the coldness kicked back in...it got real hard to keep pumping my arms and making my legs move quicker (i kept telling them to go faster but they were so stubborn!), and not due to fatigue, but because my muscles were just freezing up. i would say it was awful, but it kinda wasn't. i felt a sense of accomplishment. i really did run well. even though i coulda just given up, i didn't let that girl behind me surpass me. i pulled through, just barely, staying strong past the finish line.

the 200 was all too different of a story. not enough warm up, too much cold weather. but this time, i was even colder than before. now that race was actually kinda miserable. i ran a pretty good race. i know the 200 really isn't my race (too short), but i still wish i'd beaten that girl. i thought it ended past the numbers like the 100 did (giving myself an extra second to beat that girl), but it didn't. and i can give myself whatever excuse i want, but i coulda beaten her, if i'd just wanted it the tiniest bit more. well, there's nothing i can do now, and i still did run a good race.

side-note: just read anthony's "impressed by" forum entry...and oh-my-god it made me so happy. from "Sixteen powerful 100m sprints with focused form" to "Two hailstorms at the same meet and still so many good performances!" then "new school record" then "hoppers scattered amongst cherry blossoms" ... what i'm i gunna do without you anthony!