Last AAU race! (Russell E. Blunt Invitational, Durham NC)

This Friday was my last AAU track race of my sophomore year! I ran the 3000, won my age division, but got a really disappointing time. After all these weeks of base mileage I still am slower than I was in track. Unbelievable. That race was supposed to give me some insight (given, not the best or most accurate insight) of how this cross country season is going to end up, and where I am right now as opposed to my goal 5k time of 15:30. If this race is any indication whatsoever, then oh boy, this season is about to be long and miserable. I shouldn't be putting myself down like that, especially when they said the heat index was 105 and humidity was over 80%. But the only thing that matters on the positive side is that I have a gold medal coming in the mail in a few days. I also wasn't able to run yesterday because I caught a major blister on the ball of my left foot during the race Friday. Ugh, if anything, this last race is making me worry whether or not I'll be able to take 4 more months of weather like this, especially when it comes to racing 5k's and 10k's pretty much every third day throughout the season.