Conner had promised me he was going to pace me for a sub-six minute mile for quite a while, and today I finally got him to do that. My mom also bought me some really nice flats that were on sale for $20 this last spring and Conner helped her pick out the right pair. I hadn't ever used them and he said it would help my time. We drove down to the track and did a half mile warm up. Then I put my flats on and stretched.
During the mile I was pushing it really hard and a little too hard at the beginning. At some points I wanted to just give up and go slow, but Conner kept me going. I got around a 6:02 which was a PR, but not what I exactly wanted. I was still happy, though.
Afterwards, I went on a nice cool down/jog. As I was going around the track, Conner was doing mile repeats or something like that. About half a mile in, the football boys came onto the field and I knew some of them. I thought I'd just do 3 or so, but then I got the idea to just run home. After a mile and a half, I told Conner what I was going to do and did it. On my run home, I went super slow because it was really muggy and I just wasn't feeling like going very fast. I had fun, though, running with my older brother. |