I succumbed and took cold pills last night and ended up staying up pretty late doing work because I felt so much less groggy. Still got up at a decent hour to eat, took cold meds again, and this time got some kind of weird buzz off it like last time. Soooo I was going to crash and nap, but though of how much I would regret it if I didn’t go for a run, so I went out in the gorgeous weather:
-jog to track (very close)
-1 mile run hard
-range of motion, mobility drills, stretch
-4 laps ins and outs- 2x100’s, 2x50’s, walk rest
-full hurdle mobility, 2x3 walkovers for techniquel, 3x3 run throughs @ 5 steps
-jog back
Depending how sleep-deprived I want to be tommorow, I might get a lift in after our game this evening, or else try to find a time for it tommorow night. I’m SO glad I went out, I feel calmer and I ran off most of my buzz It’s definitely time that I start doing my own track workouts on the side regularly.
p.s. breathing with the tongue ring seemed to be fine…
not enough sleep, as always, woke up feeling kind of blah again. I went to classes but called my coach and told her I was feeling sick, and she told me to go to the health center and then get some rest because she feels like I have been sick for longer than I realize. which i guess is true- i felt ok for a few days in the middle, but I have basically been sick for 3 weeks.
soooo… got blood taken for labwork and picked up some medicine, and hopefully I don’t have mono, anemia, a sinus infection, or thyroid problems, and all I need is some rest. I’m sure it’s a result of stress and lack of sleep.
clearly I didn’t do a workout today. my hamstrings are pretty sore as they always are when I start up training after a break, so perhaps its for the best.
still sick, but no worse. Went to bed around 1am (very early for me lately) and woke up at 5:30, starting doing reading and work at 6:15 and kept at it for 6 hours… haven’t concentrated so well in a long time.
sooo now I am pretty drained, heading for some serious sleep and holding off on practice.
COLD day today, ended up being outside for one reason or another for the past 6 hours which was not so fun and probably not great for sickness, but i still don’t really feel any worse. we played midd and lost in overtime 4-3, which was really really tough to take since we had the lead until the last 3 minutes of regulation. everyone is depressed, it will be a shit show tonight…
had initiation last night-so funny. I stumbled back into my dorm after the debauchery dressed up in god knows what with my hair wrapped around a cup on my head and FROSH written on my face, having made a fool out of myself all over campus. The tequila didn’t feel quite as good this morning- reminds me why I normally don’t take shots and I don’t drink too much in general because I get drunk so fast. Once track starts I will be drinking even less, I might as well start now.
today I think will be the last day that I take off for sickness- this week should be a hard week in field hockey so I should be able to make up for lost time somewhat. it will also be a killer week for work- both hw and jobs, so I won’t be getting any sleep. awesome.
yes… especially if taking adequate rest means that i will definitely fail out of school
this place is very tough academically, to put it mildly. This is my 13th year learning french, you’d think i would be an excellent french student as I was in HS, but what did I get on my french essay? 55/100.
if anyone can recommend something to make me focus, that would be awesome. not only is there not enough TIME, but when i do have free time i mess around and can’t focus on work. i should have taken a year off, then i would be practically BEGGING for work to do.
Ther is something called “Go” made by Black Star Labs. you can find A link to thier site through Regenerationlab.com
I took it before my SAT II’s and on my Writing essay I was So focused that Ideas were coming to me as I wrote them down. and for me, I need extra time, so to formulate a cohesive and intelligent essay like that was outstanding. It’s really intented for training to help keep you focused under fatigue.
Did a short lift today which was pretty miserable:
incline bench
squats
core circuit
glute/ham raises
felt weak and stupid and fat.
had conditioning practice which was pretty good, lots of stickwork conditioning, plus some running and jump rope stuff. tommorow we are doing the running test that we did at the beginning of the season, so the pressure is on.
the past couple days i have been getting intensely scared again that i am gaining weight here, it is making me really uncomfortable. i find myself wanting to go back to what i was doing over the summer, not for an extended period since track starts soon, but just until then so i can drop down to where i feel pure again and lean.
feeling a bit better today-
got to nap for a couple hours in the afternoon and was GROGGY as hell afterwards, so much for that fatigue-fighting technique.
Did the “beep” test for field hockey, sort of a recovery/speed/interval running thing which is really hard because there is a constant starting and stopping and changing of direction. But I beat my previous score by 200 meters which is good i guess, improvement is improvement.
I have a lot of soreness from yesterday’s lift, and I just made it more stiff by modeling for 2 hours. ouch. Tommorow is our off-day so I am going to do my own workout and lift unless I REALLY don’t sleep tonight, in which case I will only run. The rest of my team is probably out drinking on this exciting tuesday night, but true to my word I am being more careful… staying in to do political theory yesssssssssssssssss :rolleyes:
best day ive had in a looong time in general, and also in training.
got 9 hours of sleep which was excellent, got a lot of errands and laundry and little stresses out of the way since we have the day off from practice. got an A- on a paper and which was like YES i won’t fail out of school
then went to the track:
-full WU: 100 skip 400 jog, 2 laps of ins and outs 100’s, range of motion, mobility
500-400-300-200-100 with 4 min, 3 min, 2 min, 1 min rest in between them. These were really fun, I wasn’t trying to run my fastest training times ever, just trying to get back in shape and get back into it. I decided beforehand what I wanted to run, and I ran each one on to the SECOND at 1:40, 75, 55, 35, 15.
-hurdle drills to stretch out
the sort of a random collection of lifts:
-10 min. core circuit
-DB bench
-tri’s
-lunges
-groin
-RR
I didn’t get into squats and cleans since I still have a bit of soreness from monday. This week was going to be the week from hell because of a huge paper due friday, but that paper has been extended to monday which is great, and it’s very like that I will come home this weekend since our game is close to my house. It would be nice to smooth some things out with my parents and get that stress out of the way.
COUNTDOWN TO TRACK: 11 days! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i am so happy tonight that I am singing and practically crying :rolleyes: mood swings are awesome when they take you UP! i feel sort of like i am really buzzed physically, but i haven’t had anything that would make me high…
had a mental breakdown
-had a LOT of coffee
-went for a run at 2am around campus for a couple miles
-went to sleep at 3:30, got woken up by my roommate at 4, then slept until 8-somthing
soreness is gone
that run felt incredible, if i didn’t know better i would make it a habit. 1 part eating disorder, 1 part mental breakdown, and 1 part caffeine… what an awesome recipe.
had practice which had a decent amount of running, felt pretty good. tommorow will be easy since we have a game on saturday, so I am planning on doing 5x300 and lifting if I can find a good chunk of time.
lots of work tonight- might go out for another 2am run tonight i am stiff from modeling, my shoulders and back are kind of tight.
it’s confirmed- i am going home after the tufts game and probably staying until monday morning… should be nice.
another late-night run for a couple miles… it feels great to loosen up, get the caffeine out of my system, and get settled down so I can sleep. the temp is nice out right now to get refreshed- probably won’t last too long.
only went out for about 20 minutes but at a pretty decent pace, so somewhere around 2.5 miles. it is now 2am.
had a fairly easy practice, functioned like tempo.
game at tufts tommorow. i’m going home afterwards to see my dog and write a paper and you know, maybe say hi to the parents somewhere in there. it will also keep me from drinking, which is good.
i had planned on 5x300 today, but the sleep deprivation caught up to me and i couldn’t keep my eyes open in class, much less drag my ass out to the track, so i relaxed and napped a bit instead- the workout can be pushed to tommorow. some slight hamstring and groin soreness, but mostly it’s all gone.
just found out that someone from my high school class has died… don’t do drugs, kids!
had a looong night of sleep.
have been writing a paper today, plus very cold and wet weather, so no workout. tommorow is supposed to be our hard conditioning day, and we will be punished for losing. That is the only time when I really resent not playing- I didn’t do anything to contribute to the loss, yet I will suffer just as much as everyone else. i guess thats a big part of what team sports are about, but i can’t help wishing that it would just end already.
rumor has it that my track coach might not be ALLOWED to yank me, which would be bullshit. that hope is all that keeps me going.
what is stopping me is my own pride and desire not to be a quitter… i really would have trouble with that. i have put so much into it already that i want to finish what i started, but at the same time i want out REAL bad.
It’s definitely time that I start doing my own track workouts on the side regularly.
in general, and also in training.
i am stiff from modeling, my shoulders and back are kind of tight.