#pre meet

[running-4-mylife]

{Twas the night before the 2nd meet of indoor track

So she watched running movies, painted her nails, and started to pack.

She rolled out and iced her legs so she'd feel fine

For tomorrow's race when she'd have to toe the line.

She instilled her mantras in her head

So come tomorrow she can get this bread.}

-Late night pre meet running poetry😂

[off-k]

had to show off the angle. photo by @v2lab

[run-your-lil-heart-out]

6/21

Today I just ran an easy run before my big day [[race tomorrow]]!

It was a really slow road run, a little under 3 miles in 26 minutes. It was nothing too heavy, just a little shakeout before tomorrow. 

I'm actually very excited for tomorrow, I'm just really eager to race and give it my all. I've planned out my race splits and everything, I feel very prepared.

For the 1500m, to get the times I want, I need to run the first 300 fast. Somewhere in the 56-58 second range. Then, from there on out I plan to keep very even splits, somewhere in the 80-83 second range, and then give it my all on the last lap. If all goes as planned, this will definitely get me under the 5:10 range, and really close to the 5:00 range, which is exciting :)

For the 800m, I'm going to positive split it (run the first lap faster than the second lap). In such a short race, it's pretty difficult to run the second lap faster than the first, (unless if the first lap wasn't fast to begin with). What I've learned over this season is that I take the first lap out way too fast. In this race I'm going to aim to run a mangable 69 second first lap, and a 72 second second lap. This will get me in the 2:21-2:23 range, which is my goal.

I'm just really excited to run tomorrow (I know I keep on saying this, but I am! :) ) and really show them what I've got. Even if I don't perform the way I want to, at least I've had a great season. I've never ran in a race post season like this before, I've never trained by myself (not including cross country) for a race before, and I'm just proud of how far I've came. Last year, my PR's for the 800m and 1500m were 2:36 and 5:51, I never thought I would run the times that I'm running now and still want more. But I do want more, because I know I have much more in me. I know I'm capable of more. I'm going to run my lil' heart out :) 

[nicerunningday]

Henrik Ingebrigtsen (Norway) and Will Leer (USA) at the Pre Mile.

[nicerunningday]

5.000m at Prefontaine Classics

[nicerunningday]

Jordan Hasay at Pre Classic

[nicerunningday]

Eilish McColgan's Nike Mamba's sample for the Pre Classic

[run-your-lil-heart-out]

5/29

Just a normal practice today, I stretched a bit before the workout started as usual. Today we did our workout with the sprinters, which was something different. I have my individual 800m race tomorrow, so I purposely held back and didn't try my hardest during this workout (I know it's probably all mental, but I feel that if I work too hard today that I won't run my best tomorrow). The workout was to run two accelerated 150's (where you gradually get faster) at a moderate pace, then a fast 250, a full recovery (10 minute break) and a fast 150. I puropsely held myself back and didn't try my hardest for the accelerated 150's, but then for the 250 and last 150, I thought why not? It wouldn't hurt me to sprint 400m a day before my race. The thing is, when I actually started to try and put effort in, I still wasn't running as fast as I wanted to. Like I couldn't move my legs as fast as I wanted to. Sooo, I don't know what's up with that...hopefully that won't carry into tomorrow, because I kind of need to be able to sprint for my race tomorrow. I'm trying not to get as nervous as I usually do before races, I'm telling myself I'm not nervous, but I really am. I'm not even sure why I am nervous, because it's only the top 3 performers in each event that goes to the state meet, and I'm number 17. And the top girl can probably run laps around me, she's at least 10+ seconds faster than me. I shouldn't be nervous. I just have to focus on running a fast time for myself. Wish me luck for tomorrow, I'll write back on how it went. I don't want to write any times here and jinx myself, but lets hope I run fast :)