Running Blog

'Easy' 3.. Holy speedy! I guess discussing missions just excites us, cause we caught up to the boys. And stayed there. My tummy didn't feel too good, and I walked out of 1st period early cause I just felt sick. But the rest of the day I ws fine, and I felt fabulous at soccer today.. Beyond stoked for region. I know without a doubt that our girls can do this! And our team dinner just made me more sure.. Even though we had a few breakdowns.. Sorry girls. (: Love you all dearly!

AM: Easy (much easier than yesterday!) 3.

PM: Race. I really wasn't sure how I was going to feel when it came to race time. Beforehand, I was just whatever. I couldn't even be bothered. I was dancing with Stoner and Mia, and singing and cheering. As it got a little closer to race time, I started to get a little snippy, but I wasn't really nervous. When we started, I got in a pretty good place for the beginning, and for the first little bit, Stoner and Aimee and I were running together. Then I just kinda.. fell off. I'm not really sure why. I didn't feel like I slowed down at all, and mentally, I still felt fine. But more people started passing me, and I was kinda just like 'what the heck?' cause I honestly felt like I was pushing. Obviously, with people, including a Cedar girl and Mia, passing me, I wasn't feeling as positive as I had been.. but my main objective was to keep the Cedar girl that I could hear behind me from passing me. That's pretty much the only thing that kept me going through that big lap. As we ended that lap, I knew I had to push harder, or she was gonna get me. I went to pass the Cedar girl in front of me (who also plays soccer, and I felt stupid talking to her the last time she beat me, so I wanted to get her this time), and she surged a little, and I kinda backed off.. then I tried again, and she surged again. So I tried to just stay right behind her and hope to get her at the end. The distance between us got a little bigger, but I just tried to keep her within sprinting distance. But as we started the medium lap, she passed Mia and I knew one of us had to go. So I started going harder.. and as we got to the bottom of that lap, I just went. I passed Mia, and kinda hoped she'd stay with me, but I really just wanted the Cedar girl. Finally, finally, finally I got to her and she surged a little again, but I was just like 'I do not have patience for this again, girl.' and passed her. I was a little scared of how early I started pushing at the end, but I just didn't want her to pass me back. So by the end, it was less of a kick to go get the girl in front of me as it was a kick to keep the Cedar girls behind me. So.. this race wasn't my best.. but I really felt like I was pushing. And I got the Cedar girl, so that was good.. And I beat my last time on that course, which is a refreshing change. Overall, our girls took 2nd, which was kind of a disappointment, but I am really proud of our girls and how hard we've worked this season and how far some of the younger girls have come.

Easy 3 to Arctic Circle.. State soccer game today.

Didn't go to practice this morning.. No ride and I was super tired from last night.

PM: workout. Yippee. 800, 600, 400, 200, 400, 200. I wasn't feeling great today. My stomach really was hurting.. No particular reason, I'm not sick anymore or anything, my body just hates me. But I tried to keep it positive.. I didn't even complain about it til after we were finished with the workout. Anywho. It was kinda drizzly when we started. Our 800 ended up being 3:00, with a nice pack together up front. The 2 laps were exactly the same pace.. 1:30 and 1:30. Then our 600.. I'm not sure what the time was on it, but our time at 400 m was 1:22. Then came a 400.. Coach told us to make this faster than the 1:22, but not so fast we couldn't beat it on the next 400. We ran it in 1:17.. I was a little afraid we wouldn't be able to beat that after running a 200, plus by this time my stomach was killing me.. But the 200 was fine. Then came the last 400.. The one that was supposed to be super speedy. By now, it was quite pouring rain and my stomach felt like someone was stabbing me. So I just wanted to get it over with. I ended up running it in 1:08. And the 200 after was still pretty good. So it felt good to have a good workout even with a stomachache and the usual pains (my back and my toe). But I didn't really care how good my workout was, cause my stomach was just dying, so on the cool down I got a little snippy with Stoner.. Sorry Rach! (: by the time we finished the cool down, I just wanted to collapse. And I had to pee like none other, so I was kinda snippy with Roberts too when they gathered us under the booth thing. Really, I was just not a pleasant person today.

AM: Easy 3.. smelled like wet bird over by Arctic Circle, and I was gagging super bad.. Prolly grossed TB out. Sorry girl.

PM: Well.. I wasn't sure of the mileage cause someone won't update the PVHS blog. And yes, I'm being intentionally snippy. We had wave hills today.. six of them! Felt fine.. Super muddy and icky over there, and I was sliding all over the place, but the weather was great and I felt good. The end.