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starting slow and keeping fitness levels up so the start of summer running isn’t terrible. Definitely felt a drop in aerobic capacity and endurance

rest day, finished born to run, highly recommend if anyone wants to read a book is actually interesting

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I cannot thank anyone more than my parents. This was one of those races where I really appreciated my team and those around me. When we had our meeting with coach my initial thoughts were just listening, not internalizing the talk. I do remember the Devin Garg quote on the wall where he said, “This meet really made me appreciate the team.” Going back and looking at other people’s races I realized that moments like Matt rogers breaking 10 was out of pure love for his dad and him conquering cancer. Using coach’s advice to dedicate this race to someone made me feel like I could run through a wall and shatter it. My dad has always shown up to my races and sacrificed his time, and this track season was nothing but failure after failure. Why the hell was I not improving when freshman year I was rolling out of bed and PRing? But the thing I truly appreciate about my dad is that he trusted me throughout the process. He never blamed me or forever hated me because of my shitty performances. He always said to compartmentalize and move on to the next one. As I’m writing this I’m realizing that he’s always been there for me, win or lose, PR or not, injured or not. Today I decided not to care. I realized that beating myself up about my past races that were done, my past performances that didn’t reflect my fitness levels, or making up excuses for my lack of true effort or pain mid race was all a waste of time. My mindset truly shifted when I was observing the races and noticed a DGS freshman racing carelessly, like a horse on a racetrack. Today I embraced that side of me and unleashed something I didn’t know I had: tenacity. I questioned myself mid-race: “Are you going to toil in the pain, or are you going to snatch the opportunity at hand?” That is when I realized, with everyone cheering me on, I channeled all of this energy into my race. I had unlocked a new mental state. I started hearing the music. I was a horse ascending from the depths of hell. All of my demons, all of my shitty races, and all of my hate was released. 5:07. I couldn’t have asked for more coming from a 5:24 stagnation point so-called “SB”. Thank you coach for bearing with me the entire season up until this point, and thank you mom and dad for raising me and supporting my comeback arc for running.

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2 mile w 4x4 races today, [In the 2 mile] I was stuck in no man’s land and could not push with anyone. 4x4 we went out well but crumbled in the last 200

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cold meet, but I needed to stay on the pack during lap 2. that would have put me in a better place.

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AP Exams, reminded me of @DevinGarg when he was doing them. Felt like a race, there were people getting tired 3/4 of the way and crumbling at the end. Other then that the workout was good, really felt it in the last 100m and proud of myself for not giving up.

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treadmill run

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chipped a little time off, not too happy though about strategy. need to get out harder and pay if that’s what it takes

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🅱️

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sat long run

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friday reco inside

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need to work on absolutely crushing the last 250m

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was in Morocco and was surprised to see a fellow runner

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meet day, had a better performance than last time but not ideal. But, I’m happy that I’m making increments of progress which counts, especially during Ramadan.

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Tuesday recovery

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Monday workout

4.5 mi

plainfield + drills