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ran with chris. didn't heat before running because I used the capzasin around 1:00 and the package says not to heat while using it. i felt sore as expected, but it wasn't that bad. stretched and iced after running.

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heated my hamstring before running. did a mile and a half warm up and a mile cool down. did some basic hurdle drills and some first hurdle starts. my hurdle form is much better now than it was before i took time off and i feel like i can actually get on my toes and sprint. i'm still not at 100%, but its significantly better than where i was. for some reason, my quads were really tight today after the first set of hurdle drills, so i cut the day short since i'm not going to fix anything major a few days before conferences. i probably didn't do enough of a warm up since it was somewhat cold outside. i was trying to be conservative with my mileage, but i probably shouldn't have skimped on the warm up.

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did a really short run. i haven't been feeling that great throughout the day, so i didn't want to push it. i started to feel really bad around 8:00PM. i started to feel dizzy, light-headed, and off balance. after grace left, i tried going straight to bed, but i couldn't fall asleep for an hour and a half because i had a really high fever. i needed to get two additional blankets to not feel like i was freezing. i woke up periodically throughout the night because of the fever. i wound up laying in bed until 1PM the next day. the fever is mostly gone now, but everything else is still bothering me. things aren't looking good for saturday.

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didn't run today. last night was by the far the worst of the sickness (high fever, dizzy, etc. see yesterday). I felt a little better throughout the day. the fever broke and i wasn't dizzy by the end of the day. i barely ate anything throughout the day because i felt like i was going to throw up. i never actually threw up though. i ate a bowl of a cheerios and a protein bar and drank a lot of fluids (water and orange juice). when i went to bed, i had a fever again, although not nearly as bad as yesterday. if i feel better, i'll try racing tomorrow.

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still felt sick when i woke up. alec offered to drive me to conferences late so i could get more sleep, but I've slept about 22 hours over the past two days so i wasn't even that tired. i still didn't really have an appetite, but i made myself eat breakfast anyway. i knew last night that i was going to race. this has been a rough season for me and nothing has gone right, but i wasn't willing to give up on the off chance i could score points for the team. this past week has probably been the best few days i've had of hurdle practice, so it really sucks that i had to get sick before racing. i was hoping that i could ignore the sickness and get through the race. i was wrong. the warm up was a little discouraging. i did 1.5 miles and felt pretty tired, my hamstring was tight, and my breathing was pretty shallow. i was probably still slightly feverish, although i tried to not think about that. i did a bunch of hurdle drills and strides and felt pretty warmed up for the race, but it didn't help very much. all of my hurdles were pretty sloppy because i didn't get a good start. my plan was to stick with the guy in the lane ahead of me (i was in lane 7 and he was in lane 8. he was the fast seed so i knew if i stuck with him i could make it to the finals). i fell off pretty quickly and never made up ground. i had trouble getting over the hurdles well and i think i stuttered before all of them. the last straightaway was really bad because i ran out of breath. my breathing was shallow during the warm up and it was really bad on the last stretch of the race. i felt really shitty after the race, partly because i'm sick and injured and also because i couldn't muster enough energy and willpower to qualify for the finals. i knew it was a long shot, but i also knew it was going to be a really close meet and i wanted to help where i could. i was pretty happy that i didn't throw up/pass out though. that was a real possibility going into the race. even though racing was probably a stupid decision given how shitty i felt, i'm still glad i did because i would have been really upset had i not raced and we had lost by a few points. i originally wasn't going to cool down but bob said i might be on the 4x100 tomorrow since andy hurt his hamstring, so i did a short cooldown just in case.

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i went to bed with a slight fever again but woke up mostly fine. i was really congested and couldn't breathe out of my nose, which really sucked. luckily, cone raced the 4x100 instead of me. i'm not sure it would have gone well had i done it. the meet was great to watch. literally every event ended in a point swing and a new leader. It was great to see our team come together and outlast the hopkins team. this wasn't a meet where hopkins imploded, it was a meet where we legitimately beat them at their best. its a great feeling to win like that and finally get a triple crown victory. everyone on this team has worked so hard to get to this point. in my opinion, winning outdoors is much more difficult than indoors or xc because there are so many more events that, historically, we aren't that good at. it really speaks to the depth of our team and the commitment of every guy on it that we can come out victorious in a meet like that. in a season where so many guys were sick and injured (myself included), its really impressive that we can pull together a victory.

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today marks the first day of me listening to my doctor and taking 3-5 weeks off to fix my hamstring. i'll probably wind up taking 1-2 weeks off with no running/cross training at all and then i'll start doing cross training for a few weeks after that before i start running again. if i feel better later in the week (still sick, although significantly better), i will probably start lifting and doing core work as well. i'm going to make this the best summer of training i've ever had.

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off. feeling much better. i think i'm back to normal now.

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didn't run again today, but i did do about 3 miles of walking because i had to go in for job orientation at the lab where i will be working this summer. i'm going to have to find a better way to get there because walking three miles a day on top of running high mileage over the summer would probably suck.

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didn't run today. although i did walk up and down multiple flights of stairs to get all my stuff in my car as i was moving out (i live on the fourth floor of my dorm and made at least 15 trips).

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did core work.

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did 30 minutes (10 miles) on the exercise bike.

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did 20 minutes on the exercise bike. did some core work as well. the exercise bike we have at my house aggravates my hamstring a little bit, so i might stop doing it until i get back to haverford and have access to the gym next week. after i get done on the bike at home, my hamstring seizes up when i sit down for too long, similar to how it did after i got done running, except less painful and i can sit down for longer.

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off. mowed the lawn, which hurt my hamstring a little bit.

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did some core work. hamstring was seizing up throughout the day when i sat down for too long.

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off. moved into my apartment for the summer. spent about 6 hours cleaning the place because it was filthy. i don't know how haverford can claim they need two weeks to clean the apartments before we can move in and have it look that bad.

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first day working in the lab. i had to walk about 6 miles today roundtrip (1.2-3 to the train station, 1.5 to the lab, some other walking throughout the day going to different places/buildings in the lab) which was fun. i think thats more miles than i ran at any one time during the last month or two of track. did some lifting after work around 7.

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off. started using the LUCY bus today, which saves almost three and a half miles of walking and drops me off right in front of my research building. i felt much less exhausted at the end of the day after taking the bus back and forth from the train station.

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lifted after work again around 6:30.

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didn't run. did core work.

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meant to lift again today, but i didn't get out of lab until around 6:40 because i was doing imaging with the confocal microscope. didn't get home until around 8 and didn't feel like doing anything aside from eating.

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went down to the shore with grace for her birthday. got sunburnt.

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still at the shore. still sunburnt.

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went home for the day and mowed the lawn. i'm getting tired of not running, but my hamstring still hurts sometimes, especially today after mowing the lawn. it does feel better than before, but still not where id like it to be. technically, i have two more weeks of time off to hopefully heal my hamstring (according to my doctor) before he will consider having me get further tests done. i might see a sports doctor or someone else because i don't think two weeks more will do much.

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did core work.

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got done work early (back to haverford by 6 instead of the usual 7-7:45). went to the gym and lifted and did 15 minutes on the bike. i felt pretty out of shape at first but i eased into it. i would have liked to go longer, but i had to cut it short because i had to be somewhere.

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