P.V.H.S.X.C.S.T.S.

today we mourn the loss of Liz Lunt who decides she's going to push herself and try running with the fast people always so that she can "improve". Breann hasn't left me yet entirely, but she's working on it. Four miles still feels rough, and I'm pretty sure without Liz there to push us, Breann and I went pretty slow today. Today we talked about running goals for the season and for high school in general. It'll probably take a lot more work than I'm currently putting in to reach my goals, but I don't think I can do much more right now.

I've been feeling exhausted lately from running four every day, last season I only went four once or twice a week. So today I took it easy and Breann and I just ran to the Chevron and back. The hill is getting. . . less deathly? I can't say easier, because it is by no means easy. But I only start feeling like dying when I'm about 2/3 up as opposed to 1/2 up, so I guess that's a plus. I would be interested to know how long it takes me to run three miles now. I just wonder if I'm better, worse, or the same as I was last season.

Be proud. I did striders! Coach, I have a confession to make. . . I pretty much don't think I've done striders since last summer. You know I really want to get better when I start doing my striders! Today was the dirt mile, 11:40 and then 11:25. I don't know why it took us forever today, last time I had like 10:40, so I don't know what's up with today. I felt like I was doing pretty good, but I guess not. Okay, second confession of the day. My left foot really has been bothering me lately. It was hurting me a lot at the beginning of track season for a few months but then it went away and now it's starting to come back and hurt when ever I'm not wearing shoes, even at home.

grass run yet again! I am hating these less and less, so I guess that is a good thing. I was all by my lonesome today, but for warm up I was able to stick with the main group which is something I've never been able to do before, but we'll see if that lasts. My foot was kind of bothering me, I've found that it hurts most if I point my toe at all, and it hurts mainly in the arch, but it's not too bad.

Running while on vacation. In Arizona. At noon. This all better pay off. I ran around a park that I estimated was a little more than a quarter mile 12 times, and I ran to the park and home, and around a bit more. so estimated about 4 miles. about halfway through I felt dehydrated, but I survived. It was actually a pretty nice run, a bit of shade, mostly flat, with sprinklers at the last lap. I wasn't feeling too hot (or I was feeling too hot) at the beginning, but by the end it felt just as easy as any three miler I did last year.