Notes
At some point this season, around Oshkosh, everything started to get harder. It was very subtle at first and almost imperceptible, but the past 3 weeks have kinda sucked...I've been pretty fatigued, sleeping a lot more than normal, and even though my legs have felt awesome due to the taper, struggled to relax on runs because it's felt like I haven't been able to get oxygen. CV pace has felt like a sprint, and during races I've felt like I have one gear...if a move is made, I just can't go. In fact, I start falling backward. I've had the weird back injury, too, which I think is the result of running a large portion of races and workouts in oxygen debt, causing weird muscle tightness and altering my form. The frustrating thing about this is that, since I've been trying to get ready for a national meet, I've mostly had to kinda ignore it and just try to ge myself ready to go. It feels like anemia, but I already take dangerously high levels of iron, so I didn't get tested because it's not something I can easily fix so I didn't want to know. Hopefully now I can get stuff sorted out.
I put myself in it. I held on (and held it together mentally) a lot better than regionals, but still dropped around 100 places. Obviously, that is unacceptable. At Dan Houston this year I was unstoppable. I will be unstoppable again.
Thankful that we get another chance. We will miss you, Caleb.