So this semester is drawing to a close. I have an orgo final tomorrow morning at 9am, and a smattering of others next week. Also, my VLSI project is floating there, wondering what to do with itself. My team worked hard on it for about 2-3 days, emailed the group and then the professor for a status check, and haven't heard back since. That was 2-3 days ago.
Back to today. I finally got around to visiting the running coach here at hopkins, and told him about my desire to run on the team. He tells me that there are size constraints and such. But he says that he's willing to let me run w/ the team for a trial period next fall after school starts. The problem as I see it, is that I need to be well under 16 minutes for a 5k. My current PR is 17:56 if I remember correctly, so that is well over a 2 minute PR. In a 5k. So I'm looking for a seriously breakout, break-through summer. I think I can divide it into 3 parts: First I need to prove to myself that I am in sub-17 shape, which was supposed to be this past April. Next period, I need to get another minute off of that, putting me at ~16 minute shape. That will the majority of the work for this summer, moving my pace up to 16 minute 5k shape. It comes out to about 5:10 pace I think. Then comes the final push to go from 5:10 pace to 5-flat pace, ringing up a nice 15:30 5k time.
I watched a video on flotrack today that contained a great quote, "I believe that god has given everyone the ability to do anything they believe they are capable of doing." Though it was in reference to doping, I really have to believe that I can do this. I have to believe that I can do the work and see those increases in performance if I'm even going to have a chance at this. I'm going to be in China for most of June, so that certainly does not help the situation, but I need to make the most of what I have now.
It's do or die.
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