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

yikes! this whole thing is just getting really rough! even though the uphills today weren't so steep, I was still dying. I could feel my form slowly deteriorating into nothing more than a clumsy walk/jog. My foot also was hurting me, not so much during my run, but when I was doing striders I seriously feared that if I took one wrong step, I would twist my ankle. My foot is hurting me all the time now, and I seriously wish I could go talk to Mark or something. . . which reminds me I need to keep trying to get Mariah out here, I'm lonely, and she may possibly be out of shape enough to run with me.

I just went three. I felt super exhausted today, and my foot is really hurting me. On the run up the hill I had to stop three times. for some reason I was just out of it today. but I did get to run with Mariah (who is still better than me, even though she hasn't been in forever.) It's just kind of discouraging when new people or people who haven't ran in forever come and totally waste me, even though I've been trying so hard all summer.

afternoon run in a few words: sweaty, hard, painful. my foot is hurting me like none other, just walking on it sometimes makes me want to scream. I very much so do not like the pain, and I don't know how much longer I want to try to deal with it. but funny enough, my foot probably hurts least in the middle of  a good run. but on the up side swimming was a ball! I really enjoy team things like that, I basically only come to cross country for the people.

todays run was. . . something else. My foot was hurting a ton on the way to hell's whole so I stopped for a short bit to tighten my shoe, which helped some. I didn't hurt so much going down the whole, but when I got to the bottom I tightened my shoe some more. I didn't stop on the way back up the hill even though it hurt, not so much my foot, more of just my legs. but I ran back to the elementary school at a snails pace, without my foot hurting too much.

fabulous! I feel bad that all I do on here is complain, so just assume my foot is killing me and I feel like I'm running so slow. I've discovered my speed ratio though compared to other groups on the team, I can run 2 laps in the time it takes the varsity boys to run 3 and I can run 3 laps in the time it takes the varsity girls to run 4. I loved kids club today, I think I know all the girls who semi-regularly show up by name, which is super helpful, and probably means more to them than "yo green shirt! you're it!"

I actually have no idea how far we went. first we ran around the mountain to the Delta sign by the freeway, but then turned back not seeing where to go, so we went back to the beginning of the trail around the mountain, and turned up into the gated neighborhood. I don't think that's where we were supposed to go, but believe you me, it was easily among the more difficult and beastly runs of my life. there was this huge steep and long hill in the neighborhood, we followed that and then we saw a dirt trail leading up a mountain, so we "ran" up that (with a handful of breathers, never walked, but stopped to catch my breath.) we got up to about the height of the towers, but it was kind of on a different hill, so then we turned around and went back the same way we came. um so yeah, super lost, and terribly difficult. on the plus side, my foot hasn't been hurting me too much yesterday and today, it's just mostly my ankle now, which is better than before!

My blog posts are turning into novels, I'll have to work on that. afternoon was really good. I don't think I was super fast, but I didn't feel slow today, even this morning (besides on the mountain). I think when I feel slow is when I get discouraged the most, but today was really good. I got chocolate milk with Devin and friends afterwords and then went swimming at Megan's, I love doing things with people on the team, they're the best!