Running Blog

OKAY. First off, I would like to apologize in advance for the next few posts. Someone else did my entries for me. You'll never guess who.

AM: First time at practice in FOREVER. Read the team a letter from Frida, which was super exciting. XC camp later today.

PM: First run at camp. Easy 4. i really enjoyed being up here. michael finch is amazing i'm glad he cam up here too. i really think he is a good gangster. next time for my birthday i'm going to have him rap for me :)

AM: 9. today was one of my longer days but i felt fine. after the run i was sooo hungry. i think i ate 10 french toast! afterward i stared at michael for 20 min.

PM: 3, felt this mornings run in my legs. but i was still alright. had a good conversation with mia about gouda. played volleyball after. So fun. i spiked it down coach roberts face 3 times!

AM: 5. ran up a huge hill. it was really hard but i'm glad i did it. the boys ahead of us didn't mark the milage very well so we went a little to far but it was alright. the way back was really fun. i pretty much sprinted the whole way cause i was excited to see michael play volleyball. he's so cool!

PM: 3, ran by the lake with the boys. had a few action shots from stoners mom's camrea. almost beat the boys back but didn't sprint at the end. streched after and throw rocks at everyone. afterward i did my hair up high and everyone thought i was cool.

AM: 4. today michael and i wore the same shirt for third time this week! we took this run easy but i still felt sore. cleaned up camp after. even helped the boys because they are so slow. now camp is over and i'm sad but i'm glad for all the memories i was able to obtain through the years. since i was captain up here i got to give a few speeches and stuff and that was fun. plus i got to know the team better after missing so much. i love cross country! (and michael)

(Kay, this is actually me speaking again.) All in all, camp was an amazing experience for me. Being a captain up there and planning all the activities and getting to know everyone on the team was such a blast. I absolutely love our team, and I know we're gonna do some awesome things this season. I'm sad it was my last year of camp, for sure, but I'm super excited to see everyone grow and improve as individual runners and as team members. Love XC and our team!

7 miles with 2 tempo. Kay, it might not have actually been a full 7.. probably closer to 6.5. Anyway, we all met at the high school today (well, like 9 girls and 12 guys or something like that.) Stoner and Mia and I ran out hospital direction. Cause my hip started hurting yesterday, I was kinda hesitant to do the full 2 mile tempo, because it usually hurts when I go faster. We spent forever trying to figure out how I might be able to cut the tempo short and still run with them, and finally I just decided that I would start with them, and if it hurt too terribly bad, I would stop after a mile, but if it felt okayish I would just do the whole thing. My legs just felt trashed today.. they were pretty sore and felt heavy. And the really weird thing was that all three of us were having more trouble breathing down here than we did up at camp. Anyway, we started our tempo at Starbucks and ran that pace all the way back to the high school. My hip felt totally fine; don't know what was wrong with it yesterday. The only thing I had that I could possibly complain about during the tempo was how hard it was to breathe, but when I listened, Stoner and Mia were breathing just as hard as me, which made me feel better. Overall, a good run, and I'm glad I dragged myself to practice this morning instead of having to do it by myself later.

Today wasn't exactly a hard core workout.. I met up with stoner and Mia at the high school and we ran sandbergs. Except none of us woke up very early, so we didn't get out there til 10. It was soooo hot. We jumped in the river and waded around for a while. Stoner almost caught a fish, who I dubbed Roger. Then we ran out and doorbell ditched Jareds house.. Then we stopped at Janzens for water.. Then we dove into sandbergs three times.. The we finally made it back to the school. It was just so hot. We drove to harts for water.. Then we went home. The end.