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Today just might have been perfect. We ran at the UVU meet, and it was nerve racking af! Racing students who were legitimately recrutied by colleges to run for them was weird, but it brought a lot of fresh insight into my running approach! So, I PRd by a solid 30 seconds in a matter of 3 weeks! I was genuinely shocked! There was only one single moment where I let up my ground at all, which was great cause I sometimes have an issue with that! I felt the pain set in after 2 laps, and that was where I hit my first wall, and unfortantely, that was when I gave up some ground! I was right behind Ethan and Dylan the whole time! Also, it started hailing on the 3rd lap, so that made things interesting haha! My time dropped to a 4:45 1500! I think I'd attribute this success to two things: racing against people who are stupidly faster than me, because it dragged me out beyond my limits, and being metally rough! There was only one moment in which I gave into my desire for comfort during the race, and everyother time I had to choose between letting myself slow down and maintaining my pace, I choose to maintain pace! I definitely think my mental toughness has improved a bit! Now, I've got to mention the saddest/best part of this race! My goal was to at least beat one college runner, essentially don't take last, and to my surprise, I did it! I was not expecting to pull it off but I outran this dude Luke from Westminster, which felt kind of epic! Today was probably the best race that I'd had in over a year! So Stoked!
One Good Thing: I pushed through several mental and physical barriers
One Negative Thing/Something to Fix: I let up on the very first mental barrier I hit. I think next time I need to focus on moving up when I feel that first wall hit.
Song: Land of the Free by the Killers & How by the Flaming Lips
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