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I sort of feel like running has betrayed me a little bit. 

What I mean is, I don't understand how I can put so much work and effort in to something and never see the fruit of it. 

I don't understand why I'm racing so much slower than last year. 

I'm killing it in practices. 

I'm so much more fit than I was then. 

But I don't understand why it feels different. Why I don't feel confident. 

My coach told me today he hasn't given up on me. 

He thinks I just need to find that part of me that was here last year... the part that doesn't want to be beat. The confidence. The want. I want it so badly... but that hasn't been showing.

He also told me he thinks I have just taken on too much this year maybe. 

Maybe I don't have time to focus as much on running as I should. 

... I don't know what I think about that. I DO feel spread thin. But I don't feel I have a choice. And I thought I was doing okay balancing everything. 

The point is, after today's race, I feel like doing nothing more than giving up. I feel so down on myself. I feel like I'm never going to bounce back to my old self. 

And I feel like I don't deserve to run at a four year.

I don't want this blog to turn into a place of negativity, because I KNOW that everything is okay and that God is bigger than all this and that everything will work out. 

But I need to be honest. And I need to get it out. I feel like a failure. I don't know what's wrong with me. I only have a few races left to find that girl that was there last year. Maybe it came too easy for her. Maybe I'll have to work harder.... but I have to do it.