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Marathon

October 22, 2016 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
I'm so mad because I wrote a lot and then my chromebook died and I lost all of it. Anyway... Nisha said that the temp was about 38 with wind chill and rain so it felt like 25 degrees when we raced. Ms. Grey lent me her arm sleeves which was really nice, they definitely helped a lot but I was still freezing and they were a little big so they kept falling down. When we ran the course, it was already muddy and wet, I felt really tired and weighed down but it was partly because I was wearing so many layers. My shoes were already soaked through. It was really hard staying warm until our warmup. The warmup was really hard and I was still cold after in spite of about three layers. I started getting really nervous at the line, I was pretty miserable. I did not want to race and I did not want to be cold and wet. I probably should have tried to have a better attitude. At the same time I was ready to have a good race though and I really thought I was going to. I got out really fast, I was a little behind Char and ahead of Zoe. My goal was to go out hard and hang on for dear life. Unfortunately this didn't work out so well. I started falling back going back up the starting line and Zoe passed me. I slipped and almost fell three times and accidentally spiked some random girl. On the little hill coming down next to the starting line I counted four West Genny girls ahead of me but then another one passed me and I started to freak out. Then I was thought absolutely not, I am not about to let her get me that easily. I passed her again and tried to create a gap. I was just focused on widening the space between us but some people started passing me again. Then out of nowhere two West Genny girls passed me and they were going so fast, I tried to go with one of them but I just fell back, at that point I basically just gave up. I really wanted to go to Feds and when they passed me I knew there was no chance of beating them. I was so unfocused, I kept thinking about how cold I was and how my feet hurt. I'm so mad at myself for just giving up. No matter who is in the race, how things are going you should never just give up. With like less than a mile to go (I think) I realized that I was still in the race and I had to keep pushing. I got a burst of energy which was weird. I felt like I was going to fall over but I also thought I picked it up. I was coming out into where that back woods part opens up and you can see everyone and the WG were way ahead. My kick felt really slow. When I finish I felt so crappy and I started crying. Nobody really had a good race. I am disappointed because at Manhattan I was so happy with my race and so pumped up to race again. I had no idea what my time was, I definitely didn't think it would be a pr but I thought it would be decent. Unfortunately, I ran 20 seconds slower than I did when I was sick at prestates...