Notes
5k at Olivet for the season (and non-freshman) debut! Its been a long time since weve had a real race, so im glad to do it again! Great flat course but it was unfortunately 90° and sunny with essentially no shade. Got out what i thought was slow but my first mile was 6:33 so that was a pretty good start i thought. Made up some ground on a few Olivet girls, one was named grace and she was drafting off me for a while and people were cheering for her so I pretended my name was grace and that they were cheering for me. About 2.3 in i started getting a little cold and shaky like i was gonna pass out but i told myself to keep going cause i was almost there. Final stretch i locked in on the “treadmill mentality” as i called it cause i just zoned out and let my legs carry me with what was left. I attribute that to my treadmill tempos over summer, so i guess those did some good. Got to the finish and just curled up in the fetal position for a bit, i really feel like i gave it all I had, which hasn’t happened in a while since i felt like i couldnt get there in a time trial last year, so im kinda proud of that. When i stood up and started walking i felt like a drunk person cause i was swerving and stuff from the lactic acid accumulation lol. Overall happy with my performance, weird to be a scorer again, its been a min.