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yellow turtle

September 10, 2016 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: absolutely gross

Comments:
first race of the season. it was cool to put on a williams uniform and new spikes. It felt really strange yelling for williams instead of gds though. I kept going around corners and expecting to see Anthony. But it was really cool to be on the line with the whole girls team (38) and be surrounded by all these amazing runners and people.
race itself was meant to be taken at tempo. I felt like I was doing that for the first 2ish miles (there were no mile markers or signage anywhere and we'd only warmed up on part of the course so I was confused the entire time). I felt like I could go faster and I was passing people. It was a pretty course through the woods for a lot of it. Then the third mile was all out in the open. It was an absolutely disgusting temp and really humid, even by DC standards (everyone here is generally wimpy about humidity). Anyways, during the third mile the heat really hit me and I was pretty alone and I felt really bad. Sounds like everyone else on the team felt that way.

glad to get the first race out of the way. it wasn't good, for sure, but I'm just going to treat it like that 3:01 800 I ran at the beginning of the spring track season. I'm just really happy and lucky to be on this team and to be running and racing in college at all.