Run, faster, stronger and higher. That has been pretty much my life after Miami; track practices and one Meet (=yleisurheilukisat). So, I chose long distance. I'm just slower than other guys in sprinting for sure. Others have run over the finish while I start to set my starting blocks.
This week, we had SPRING BREAK, from Wednesday to Friday. It was again time to just be, doing nothing. Things I did are not even worth of telling. Boring Xbox, movies and guitar stuff you know. Fell asleep already there..? Hopefully not.
Track practices have been nice, just as nice as running circles can be.. We (me and one other guy) distance guys run 1600 meters, rest, 3200 meters, rest, 1600 meters. Then we have usually time to do some weight lifting. This is usuallu schedule for every week from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursdays we do all the events which we will have in a Meet, which is usually on Friday. In practices I started to feel pretty good about my stamina and running. Running is so relaxing, I think. Even though relaxing on couch is not bad either, with some beer.. But I have to stop dreaming! I'm athletic.. My feelings about that everything's fine kinda crushed. Let me tell about that.
It was a beautiful Friday afternoon. Our team left to the Track Meet by our school bus. Thank God it was indoor meet.. It's not that cold here than in Finland. Not snow haha. :)) But still too cold in Sami's opinion to run outside. We did our warm-up with our team and were ready to start. Our coach, who is a really nice guy and talented coach (he's a cop..), decided that I'll run 1 mile and 800 meters after that. I was SO nervous before a man did the starting shot. I've been running for fun in my free time for a long time (not during the winter when I was sitting on a bench in basketball). But I realized that running and competing with others and running one circle is a WAY different thing. At start I made the most stupid mistake.. I started way too fast, and tried to keep up with fastest guys. By doing that I wasted all, my lungs and heart... and started jogging. I tried to catch other guys but that was just a dream. I ended up by being the last one in my heat (=juoksuerä) and didn't feel my lungs or heart at all. Don't laugh guys.. that was a TERRIBLE feeling. I had few hours to recover from that before my next race: 800 meters. Breathing still hurt when I started to run.. I run the whole race with one guy called Kyle (same name as my bro has), and it was kinda funny when they said: "Go Kyle, catch him!" In the end he didn't catch me 'cause I did a HUGE sprint with Finnish sisu the last 150 meters. So, I wasn't last one in that race. You guys should be proud of me. :--)) I still think I would've done better in 800 meters without running that 1 mile first.
To be honest.. I don't wanna go on like this. I have decided that I ask my coach that "Could I change my distances from 1 mile and 800 meters to 800 and 400 meters. I really hope that would be possible. I don't wanna suffer anymore in meets in future.. And we have like 16 of them coming.. Meets are not so nice because you have to compete with blood in ur mouth.. just not my thing, and they usually take 5 hours.. because there's so many events and both men's and women's. After tomorrow I'll know am I able to switch my distances to more comfy ones. Let's hope the best.
Sorry.. this was kinda "complaining whole the time"-blog. I'll promise I will dry u tears and make ur sad faces (because of my sad blog) to smiles in my next blog. I totally promise I'll write more often in future that I've been doing before. Maybe just that promise makes u smile (or "I wouldn't care less").
'til next time
Sami, the runner
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