On Sunday at 6:30 my alarm rings... its fair to say this isn't my favourite thing for a Sunday morning, but this was because I was heading off to a UKYDL race, with my club, and the coach was leaving my pick up at 7:30, unfortunately my pick up was the first one of four, so there was a lot of stop and starting for the first hour, but soon we were off. It wasn't long until we arrived... okay thats a lie, it was about an hour and a half, and I tried my best to get some of my work done on the coach, but that proved rather difficult. When we arrived we set up our base on the top of the bank and I got my blanket out and got comfy. It was 10:30 and my race wasn't until 2:45. I had my lunch rather early, because I wanted to make sure it was completely digested before I raced, so that occupied me for a bit and then the rest of the time I watched people race. The wind had started to pick up and when I was looking at the track, I could see it had been built into a dip, I thought I didn't need to worry about the wind. As the wind wouldn't be able to get you in the little dip... oh but how wrong could I have been. The time finally came for me to go off on my warm up, which I was actually quite excited about, after watching lots of people race. My warm up felt a bit like hard work to be honest, and my legs were struggling to get round the football fields a few times, at a very easy pace. I got to the start line, to only see another 6 other people, and I quickly realised I was in fact the only u20, and the rest were u17, so all I had to do was get around and I would win... simple. However I wasn't just out there to win, but I wanted to get a good solid 3000m time down for this season and see what I had in me. After 7.5 laps, of pushing through wind and running alone I came to the finish, and it certainly didn't feel like an easy race, my legs felt like bricks and I was battling through the wind most of the time, and not to mention running on my own, but to cross the line with a huge pb made me pretty excited, for hopefully more to come! Although I had a very full on day, and was out the house for 12 hours, it was good to get the 3000m under my belt, and made me even more excited for the rest of my track season, and to hopefully break some more of my goals.
Sorry this post is a bit late, but I have had an important english presentation I needed to get done, and now it is all done, so I can relax for a bit before my exams start on the 12th May (which also happens to be my birthday... not ideal!) Love G x
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5/3/2017 11:51:19 pm
What was your time?
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