Start of the Spring!

Yesterday was a great pre meet workout in beautiful nearly 80 degree weather.  Short approaches were awesome! Long runs still very sketchy.  Then Taryn and I headed over to the sand pits for Long Jump 101.  Everything went pretty well took me a few mins but then I managed to feel like I knew what I was doing again.  After practice we headed to the Ferg lawn to have a campus wide picnic prior to the showing of the girl's basketball final four game.  Unfortunately they did not win, but it was certainly awesome that they made it so far! Congrats to them!

Today we met up at 9 and headed to William and Mary for out first outdoor meet of the season.  I started the day with long jump.  I really had know idea what to expect because besides that pentathlon over break I had not jumped in year.  First jump I made it 4.30 m just 8 cm shy of the pr I jumped during the pentathlon.  Next jump opened up even more for a pr of 4.68 m.  I was incredibly happy, thats over 15 ft!!  Unfortunately on the last run I got a little too excited and fouled by about 2 inches : (

After a pretty good day long jumping I watched the finals with Michael and Andrew, who I really appreciate coming up for the day.  Then, went over and helped catch steps for the boys.  Overall they had a pretty good start for their outdoor seasons!  They ended incredibly early because the field was small and Taryn and I were not quite warmed up enough when the run way opened but thankfully they kept our start time at the scheduled 3 o'clock.  Warm up was once again awful and I refused to jump from a full approach at all!  I really need to figure out how to fix this!  But when the bar went up at 2.95m everything changed, I managed to clear it easily with a pretty ugly jump.  The jump was a little better at 3.10m and I still made it no problem.  I came up just short of 3.25 however, and unfortunately gave up my second attempt because I felt a cross wind take my pole.

Overall, today was a fantastic way to start the outdoor season and I cannot wait to see what comes of it. I was very happy to see my parents today, it was great of them to drive down to drop off my car!!  Can't believe that they made the whole trip in one day but I guess its what they do!