Running Blog

Didn't get a great warm up in.. but I still felt ready to go by the time we lined up.

RACE: The start was horrendous. I'm not very good with my elbows, and it seems that every other runner girl in the world is, so I was super squished and I was stepping on people everywhere. But when we hit the loops, I got out around the crowd and for the entire first mile I was passing girls all over the place. It made me a little nervous, cause I knew that the first mile is the easy part and I didn't want to start too fast then not have anything for the next two miles. But I remembered that last year the hills were where I passed everyone, and I figured it would be a good idea to get in a good position, then continue to pass people on the hills. And it worked out just greatly. On the switchbacks, everyone just suddenly died and I passed 6 or 7 girls right there. Then I knew I'd have to keep it up, because last year everyone I caught on the hills passed me back on the downhills. So I kept the pace over the top of the hill and down, even though my legs were dying. On the crossover, Coach told me that I was in 21st place, and to catch a few girls. So I did, on Poopout hill, getting into 17th or 18th place.. but then three girls caught me on the downhill. On the way up Reservoir hill, I passed a girl or two, but I was still in like 20th ish place. I really didn't think I'd have very much left for the finish, but when I hit the Gauntlet, I could hear all of our freshmen and sophomores cheering for me, and it helped a ton. I ended up finishing 17th.

Mia and I got a pretty excellent cool down in trying to catch up to Coach, and then cheering for Stoner and Michael. We were all over that course. Anyway, as for the race, I was happy with it, and it was a 42 second improvement over last year's time, so that's pretty good. Good way to end my XC career at PV.

Good news! The blog has a new feature. If you happen to run .1 of a marathon, feel free to write it as such. That'll be handy for all those times I run 2.62 miles.

Okay, okay, sorry.. sometimes I just can't resist being sarcastic. Anywho, first day back!! To tell you the truth.. I kind of like being on break. Not that I don't like running.. but I have so much free time without practice after school! But I don't mind being back running either. Curse my intensely burning apathy toward running (name that show.. well, minus the running part). Anywho (again), today I ran tres with Roberts and Stoner and Mia over to Arctic Circle, then we went to the mall to get prizes for the Egg Nog run on Thursday. Fun fun. I did ALL of the talking (take that, Mom. I will be absolutely fine living on my own in college). Then I went into the weight room and watched the boys take some jumping test.. I was the only one who couldn't reach the little plastic bars. Shoot.

Single double church. Today was a lovely run. We ran with Megan, Alli, Lizl, and Kai-lai Gillespai. We zig zagged through traffic barrels, found a 35 year old check for $20, zig zagged some more, found a golf ball, bounced the golf ball, chased the golf ball (several times.. mostly Megan's fault), lost the golf ball in a storm drain (Alli's fault), and had lots of laughs and fun. Love those girls dearly. Later Alli and I went to the bowling alley to pick up some certificate things Hunter talked to the guy about.. they gave us six free bowling passes for the race! Yay!

We had to speed today so Mia could get to her date, so the three of us started on our run to Green Springs right away. It was rather fun.. Stoner threw some snow in my ear though. And we had some.. interesting conversations. I feel like whenever Stoner's involved, the conversation always reverts back to one subject.. It's like the theme of our xc season or something. Anywho, we got back and Alli and I went and got delicious hot chocolate and gave Michael his birthday present.

Oh ick. Today was the egg nog run. May I just make it known that I didn't even like egg nog before we did this. Even the name sounds disgusting. So.. on the first lap, I managed to drink it all.. On the next two.. I put it in my mouth, then couldn't make myself swallow, so I spit it out.. and on the last one, I just didn't even drink any. But I didn't get any prizes, so I wouldn't call it cheating. We raised $363 though. Yippee.

Christmas break!! Yeah!! Easy 4 with Janz and Stoner and Megan and Liz and Maquel. DIx2.

Thought I went 5, but ended up being just over 4. Went by myself today. Lots of time to think.

yes. i am a slacker. im sorry. i really did mean to get out ans run he past couple of days, but every time i wejt to leave, i decided it was rar too cold. but todays run was quite fun. janzen, mia, stoner, and i ran out in town in our giant 50 cent thrift store shirts. we swung on some swings and took pictures at the temple.. and almost sat and stretched with this random girl but mia and janxen were too chicken. it was farther than3 miles but im not sure he exaxt distance. so.. thats all.

trail run with stoner and mia.. we finished and pretty much said "that was fun.. lets never do it again". it was freezing and we were all tired. ab workout after.. p90x was on the tv, but most of the soreness will be from laughing.