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I forgot about yesterday

Now yesterday I was going to journal but completely forgot, so i'll start with yesterday. So I wake up on a beautiful saturday like all saturdays and today is my race day. I awakened at 7:30 and drank some water and went to Charlotte right next to Grandmaster Evin's school to a small event that consist of a 1 mile, 5k, 10k, 15k, and a half-marathon. So i'd be running the half-marathon and I went and looked at the trial real quick and went back to the start and, and bamm! The crowd of like 100-ish people zoomed off and we started downhill, like a really steep downhilll, so I was going at a 8:30 minute per mile pace which was WAYYY to fast, I was needing to go way slower like a 12 min per mile pace, but oh well, I slowed down to a high 9 min per mile pace for the 1st lap (I have to do 4 laps), and my plan was to start fast and go only a bit slowler like 2 mins slower but clearly not, I kept a really low 10 min per mile pace for the entire race and the last lap was torture. I got some electrolytes to boost me and help with cramp, but after I took them it felt like it didn't help, I mean I was kinda alone the last lap so all I heard was my own self breathing and my hard foot steps plunging into the earth, the last like mile my vision started to go a bit blurry, but that really didn't matter and I just pushed through and up to a 8 min per mile pace for the last .5 miles and finished and I ended up getting a metal and got a time of 2 hours and 12 minutes and 34 seconds WHICH WAS 30 MINUTES LOWER THAN I EXPECTED! So I really happy but I just wanted to go home so I got a quick energy drink and I arrived home and I had a grueling headache and my legs were dead so I passed out and woke up later and I just did nothing for the day execpt eat and play some games. Today I woke up with horrible leg pain in my right leg from yesterday which was already a great start, I didn't have a headache though! Even then I still went to class, I survived class somehow and made my way back home and didn't do much till like 3 pm which I went to CVS and got compression tape and wrapped it around my knee to relieve pain and I went for a run! I know you would think I would have to rest but no. I went for a 2 mile run and beat my pretest time even with me walking some of it. I was kinda happy and I really did feel great and loved that pain of that and after I felt fine, of course my leg still hurt but what ever. I then brushed my dogs up and got their shedded hair off them and then took a shower and now im bout to read, Good night!

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