Feh. So I can’t go to the Relays this year. I probably wasn’t gonna be able to run in them anyway. :sigh: Oh well, there’s always next year I suppose.
The reason why she was “upset,” as she said, was because I “waited so long to tell her about my performance.” Well, I actually wasn’t waiting. When I told her, I only realized earlier that day that the meet was on Sunday. Hmph.
She’s happy that I’m gonna continue my training over the summer. She thinks I could triple jump 10m, and I could get under 27 seconds in the 200. Plus, she told me the coaches that train me, including her, think I’m very coachable… and stuff. She said I have a lot of potential, I just need to get stronger and fitter. And that’s pretty much it.
Coach hates me… or something. I’ve also learned that she is kind of spiteful.
I suppose it was my fault. I didn’t realize the meet this weekend was going to be on Sunday. Until yesterday, I could have sworn it was a Saturday. So I had to let Coach know today that I couldn’t compete because I was in a dance performance.
Well, sorry for not dedicating my life to track.
Anyway, she feels that track is more important than this dance performance, even though I have to be in it. And that wasn’t even the only thing.
She freakin’ scratched me from the 100 today because I “didn’t warm up enough.”
Okay. Back in high school, I never warmed up for anything. And I get injured more here than I did back on the high school track team. And when I do warm up, it only takes me around 15-20 minutes, and since I ran in a relay previous to what was supposed to be my dash, I was already warm, so I didn’t need more than 10 minutes. Sorry Coach; you may have needed an hour, but I don’t need more than 20 minutes to warm up.
So, this is the outcome of this glorious fucking day; she’s pissed at me; she said “I was so excited about your 200 time that I was gonna take you to Penn Relays, but now I need to think about it… I need to figure our your future on the team.”
So, because I didn’t warm up because I didn’t need to, and because I have a life outside of track, I’m possibly gonna get booted off of the team? The one message that came to me throughout the whole thing was that she thinks I’m not committed enough to the team. That pisses me off more than anything in the world. What the hell is that supposed to mean?! I’ve been to as many practices as I could go to, I’ve been to every meet I was supposed to compete in. I’ve trained and tried to figure out a way to get faster, I’ve been injured and haven’t said anything about it so I could continue to do what she wanted me to do. Like, for instance, my back is painfully out. It’s been out for a few days. I still ran and jumped. Plus I jumped even after my knees started to hurt. How is that NOT committed?
Whatever. I’ll come back next fall whether she fucking likes it or not.
This is so fucking ironic; I finally get serious about something, only to get that thing possibly taken away from me.
And people wondered why I’ve always been so afraid to take a risk and get serious about something and strive to achieve a goal; because I FAIL in the end, no matter what I do.
My new record is now 79 seconds.
muhahaha.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled ass-kicking… I mean, program.
Because of my performance this past weekend, Coach wants me to go to the Penn Relays as an alternate for the 4×200.
Regardless of whether or not I’m actually gonna run or not, I’m still ecstatic that I’m going. I never even dreamed that I would get to go to the Penn Relays until at least my junior year, let alone this year. The Penn Relays are a BIG deal; only the best get to go. Hell, they have races for people who want to qualify for the Olympics. It’s that intense.
And I’m really happy that I get to go.
I want to get even faster and better and running and jumping. So, along with training this summer, I’m going to be figuring out my 100 and 200 strategies; mainly, how far I should accelerate before I hit my peak so that I can be at full speed while crossing the finish line. That way, I’ll be able to run at my fastest without burning out and losing time, and a lead.
This has been a good few days, indeed.
We won… again.
I came really close to beating my triple jump record of 9.58m (I got 9.56m).
I TOTALLY BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF MY 200 RECORD HELL FUCKING YES!!
Old record: 29.31 seconds
New record: 27.84 seconds
AHAHAHA! I FUCKING BEAT MY RECORD BY 2 FUCKING SECONDS! FUCKING YES! FUCKING YES!!
How did I do it? NO, I didn’t use steroids. Steroids are for losers who need to die. I didn’t over prep, and this time, I ran it differently. Instead of doing it the way everyone was telling me how to (running all out as far as you can as soon as you get out of the blocks), this is what I did;
I was in lane 1, so it allowed me to experiment a little. I ran the curve at 80-90% of my full speed, taking long strides to keep with the pack. Coming out of the curve and into the straightaway, I immediately accelerated to full speed.
And I kicked everyone’s ass.
I could hear Dad screaming things, one of the phrases that stuck out was “You’re in the lead! keep the lead!” and maybe he said “Pick it up!” too, but I can’t remember. I slowed down a little, but managed to pick it up before the end. And damnit I got an AMAZING TIME. I, at first, never thought I’d EVER get below 28 seconds. HA! And I did. And ever since, my mind has been replaying the thing over and over again in my head. I’m lovin’ it.
Since I’m literally about to fall asleep at my computer, I’m going to go take a nice hawt shower and go to bed.
GO BOMBERS!
(go me, while we’re at it, :-D)
So we got the split sheet for our meet at the College of New Jersey. Here are my stats…
My 100 time was indeed 13.93 seconds, much faster than the last time I ran a 100. Turns out, I actually did qualify for NYS B, aka states, but not automatically seeded. I didn’t realize I was THAT fast. Hopefully I’ll be able to run an even better time and qualify for the automatic seed in States. Still, it makes me happy that I managed to qualify for States by running; it makes me feel fast, 
Our 4×1 time was 55.78 seconds… not all that good. But it’s not big deal I suppose. The other teams kick ass, so they actually matter…
I did absolutely shitty with long; I fouled all three times… Triple wasn’t too bad. My top jump was 9.28m, not too far from my record, 9.58m, and I qualified for NYS B… still not too bad. Hopefully as I continue to improve my techniques, I’ll qualify for A standards, so I can actually go compete at States. It’d make me feel a lot better.
That’s a lame-ass title. But oh well.
I meant to update on Sunday after I had returned from the College of New Jersey (haha, you all didn’t know I went, either). Anyway, for the College of New Jersey, I think I did pretty well. My 100 pr is officially 13.93, not too far off from qualifying for states. A few tenths, if I recall correctly. Our 4×1 was good, but I don’t remember what time we got. My long and triple jumps were okay, but I’ve yet to beat my indoor pr’s for either.
As for yesterday’s meet, it basically sucked. Mainly because it was cold and windy. But life’s like that. Hopefully I got the shittiness out yesterday so that come this Saturday, when we compete in the Empire 8 championships, I can completely kick ass.
And, oh yea. I’m sick. Again.
Figures.
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