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CMXLIX

September 27, 2015 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: Pretty, required long-sleeve shirt

Comments:
The van dropped a large group on the side of Route 7, which we took to Ingraham road, making a left, then doing some huge loop which would have taken 90 minutes, but we had an add-on digression in the middle just to make sure the run was nice and long; rural dirt roads, passing by various people's farms and estates as usual. Once again, I got completely dropped by the group at around 70 minutes, running the rest with Tarduno, Liam S., and Alex. I felt somewhat better than last week, but unlike last week, I got so worked up that I practically had tears in my eyes. The combination of the cough, yesterday and today was kind of the tipping point, and my legs felt irreparably tired. On the one hand, I was able to accelerate during the last 15 minutes, but on the other hand, I could not stop thinking, "You're a loser. You can't even do the training runs, let alone race." So during the past 48 hours, I've been angry with myself, and trying to figure out how to move past this cough which makes me sound like I have the plague. Tea and cough drops hardly do anything! So I am taking a REAL down week this week, today (Monday) OFF and seeing about procuring some real medicine. Maybe on the next long run I should cut my losses and run with slower people, but I have to find a way not to start freaking out the minute things aren't going my way.