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Well that was boring.
April 29, 2014 (Morning)
Exercise Type: Other
Weather: Meh
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DISCLAIMER: I actually had a really fun year, read on for an explanation.
Guess I ought to do a post-mortem for this season/year. Hopefully I'll look back on this at some point and get something out of it. Or anyone else that might happen to be reading this too. At this time last year, I'd just finished a really solid track season. Wasn't the fastest I'd ever been, but I'd come close, and so I was feeling good about what I could do in the future. The first run I logged for last year's XC preseason I remember was "Mediocrity is Boring". I was going to try to keep that in mind, and try to excel in every aspect of life, not only running. Over the summer, and for most of the fall semester, I kept that to heart. I gave all I could at practice, and despite not having the best of races, I felt satisfied with the way that I had prepared for the season.
Unfortunately for whatever reason, I couldn't keep that rolling into track this year. After I took my two weeks off after Oberlin, I figured that I'd just take it easy for a while mileage-wise, and wait until Coach was done with XC to meet with her on how to best prepare for track. Due to extenuating circumstances, that I didn't get a chance to do that. Personally, unless I have a solid training program laid out in front of me, I feel like I'll have a tendency to struggle with how or what I should run. That's not a good excuse though. There's no one to blame except for myself for not having an effective preseason for track. It didn't help that I spent a good chunk of the season injured either. But if I had more good base mileage, maybe I could have averted some of those injuries. As a result of all of that, I don't feel remotely satisfied with my performance in track this year. Not reaching my standard of mediocrity was just boring.
The takeaway from all of this? Don't lose focus. That's two out of four seasons that I've had here where I just wasn't prepared to race at a level that I was satisfied with. The other two, where I did prepare, I felt amazing, and ready for any challenge that came up during the season. I think if I can just do the same thing I did last summer, be consistent, run every day, maybe even get some strength stuff in, I can do what I couldn't this year.