I am still going to be extra cautious this week, especiall with my calf, so I will take this week relatively easy, until I am ABSOLUTELY sure I will not have reocurring problems. However today I felt great and had no issues at all. After school (today was the first day) which consisted of my 2 classes (PE and seminary) I have all year :) Ha! I am so glad I worked so hard my Junior year (full high school schedule, plus 10 college credits per semester) so that now I can just focus on running and excelling in that as well as planning the future. Anyways after school I found Ky Vorhees on the track and I decided to join him in some interval work, and WOW Ky is fit! I was doing 600's with him and me being a distance runner thought I could easily out run him in some 600 intervals. I was wrong. He was pulling off mid- 1:30's easily, meanwhile I was struggling to run 1:40. Afterwards we did some 300's and I got even more embarrassed. In my defense I haven't really done any speed work for over 3 months now, but still... afiter that XC practice started and we did some trail running. Anyways the first race of the season is tomorrow, however it is more a glorified time trial than a race. I am interested to see where I am at, at this point of the year and if the summer of MUCH hard work has truly paid off. I have heard that the weather tomorrow will be less than ideal so if that is the case then my time goal will have to go out the door and I'll have to purely base my fitness on my competitors. Of course the goal is always to win, however, if the race does not play out very favorably and I lose I will not put too much concern into it. I still have all season, and the first race does not make of break the season in any way.
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