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For the first time in my life (not counting middle school basketball tryouts), I'm worried about making the cut, and it couldn't come at a worse time. I missed all of last week of track, aside from Friday, due to a high fever. I knew that not only did the strain on my body of being sick hurt me, but missing the workouts from that week hurt me as well, and this has made itself more and more evident every day I practiced this week. Monday was bad enough, with me struggling to keep up with the rest of the group on our 45 minute run (at around a 6:45 mile pace), but Tuesday really showed how out of it I was, when we had to do 4x600M in 1:41 and I was coming in a good 5-10 seconds behind the pack I normally ran with, and I could only do 3 of them.

Here I am, wondering what kind of an effect this will have on my last season of track ever, and then I realize that our only home meets left are the one this weekend (which I almost certainly won't run well at due to the close proximity of my illness and lack of training) and our home finale on April 20th. In between we have a few away meets, and those are pretty much my only chance to improve up until my last chance to break 2:00, or even break my PR, at our last home meet.

Of course, with away meets coach can't enter our tightly competitive squad of 6 800M runners, all of which were top 8 in our conference during the indoor season. So the travel roster is limited, and unfortunately for me, I found out today that whether or not I'm going to the away meets depends entirely on my performance at the meet we have in two days.