Great day back!

Today was the first time I have done anything substantial at practice in what feels like forever!!!!  but it seemed like giving my knee the time has really worked.  I was able to have a full jump day today with no pain at all!!!!! So exciting!!  Today was our one big jump day before tech on saturday.  Started off with the normal warm ups.  Short approaches felt pretty good.  Even my full runs felt fine!  First couple were a little awkward looking but then i just used to the tape on my knee and was just fine.  Thought it would be a good idea to just go straight to my big pole today since i know that that is what it will take to get over the heights i need to this weekend.  My first jump on the big pole was a bit of a mess.  Didnt make it past the box, and came crashing down.  Managed to get pracitcally over the side of the mat, and all my gymnastics training paid off.  Just collapsed when I hit the ground and got up just fine!!!  Think I gave Maggie a heart attack though :)  Shook me up for a min, but then grabbed the shorter pole and went up no problem!  Took three jumps with the bungee at 3.40 then 4 more at 3.70.  I have a major problem with jumping to the bungee.  My jumps at 3.40 were just as close as my jumps at 3.70...not good, something I have to work on in my head for the next few days.  Also, I am still not going up the way I need to be.  Hopefully, I will be able to get things to click in during friday pre-meet and saturday's meet!  Getting really excited!! and really looking forward to spring break! itll be nice to have a change of pace!

Recovery Week

So since I somehow managed to do something to my knee while triple jumping on sunday, Coach and Maggie have been making sure I take things incredibly easy this week.  Monday and tuesday were pretty chill for the entire team so I did not miss much.  I have been doing all my rehab stuff and trying to get it healed up as soon as possible.  Coach already decided he does not want me to jump this weekend at Mason, he wants me to have a good week of prep with real jumping practice before I go after a nationals mark.  So the plan is to take this weekend off to heal, then go after it next Saturday at the Tech meet.  I am currently sitting 37th on the nationals list, top 15 get in...At the moment it looks like I will need some where between 3.60 and 3.70 to get in!!!  Def doable!!!  I would really like to spend my spring break in Iowa!!

As for the knee, today I was able to do basically all of my warm up, except for a few extreme things.  I tried to do some short approaches, but Coach kicked me out...said I wasnt running straight, oh well, hopefully in the next few days! 

GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a day!!! That was most definitely the most exciting a meet has been in a long time!!!  Both teams went in as underdogs and came out on top!!!!!  The women's meet came down to the last two relays!!!  So exciting!!!  This is the first time since I have been at CNU that both the men's and women's teams have won the title at the same time!!  The team did such a great job today!!  The women's team completely swept the meet!!  We won as a team, Coach Wingard won as a Coach and Dira won both track and field athlete of the meet!!!  The only one the men's team gave away was the track athlete.  So we really have nothing to complain about!!!  Overall the team had 50 PRs today!!! And for the first time in a long time I was actually on that list!!!  Came in really low to make sure I cleared something.  Lauren ended up putting things together and her and I got over 10'6" together!!  It was wonderful to have someone to jump with!! and wont lie, the only reason I got over 11 today was because I did not want to lose to her!!  She is a great teammate, and I like her a lot, but its gonna be a really competitive couple of years!!!  I was so happy to finally have a break out day today!!  Literally, a foot and a half higher than I jumped two weeks ago!!  Still not the most I can jump, I know I am ready to go over 3.50 m plus!  I am really looking forward to Mason next weekend, I always do really well there, and I wont have as many baby jumps so I wont be as tired.

So excited to finally have a new height to report!!!!  Way to go CNUTF!!!!!!!!

Conference tomorrow!!!

Been a while since I have posted, the past weeks have been pretty busy but have ended on a really good note.  Finally got my approach figured out, turns out I was about 3 feet outside so that is why I was having a rough time taking off.  Got that all fixed on thursday after I was an hour late to practice...rough morning.  Clicked again at the pre meet this morning.  Top end still isnt perfect, but easily cleared a 3.0 m bungee with a terribly ugly jump!!!  had a great time spending time with the fam today, really glad they can all be here!!! starting to get nervous for tomorrow!!!  Both teams are underdogs, but both could make up the gap!!  Tomorrow is going to be a really exciting day!!!  Ill let ya know how it goes!!

just another week...

this has been another really crazy week!!!!!!  lots of school work and tests and lab reports, but I am finally on the home stretch, got one more test tonight, then done for the week!  Practice has been alright.  Monday we did not do much of anything. Did have a good day lifting though.  Got up tuesday morning and ran 10 200s, every 3 mins.  It was tough, but I was surprised how well I was able to do them.  Wednesday was a jump day, got frustrated with pole vaulting so went to get some triple jump work done, came back to PV and was able to get off the ground a few times,  my running style has now gone from linebacker to truck...not good.  This morning we did runs with the sled and accelerations.  Not too bad at all, but man are my legs sore, still from tuesday I think...

blehh...

Another meet that was less than awesome.  I managed to jump 2.91 this weekend...not really happy.  Also, managed to triple jump 8.89ish again.  Hopefully the next two weeks will be good before conference!

Long week!!!

Sorry I have fallen behind on this this week, its been really busy...The meet last weekend was not really much to report, I was really dissappointed.  The week started out pretty slow.  After a 2 mile run sunday my legs felt great, but pole vaulting was not much to report on Monday.  Got up Tuesday morning to run Lions and Gazelles...which translates into me running 150s chasing the glyco group.  Ran the first 3 in 21.  and the last one in a low 22.  Its fun running workouts where you get to chase and be chased!!  So much more motivation!!  Wednesday was once again a really frustrating pole vaulting workout, but I did get some great work done in triple jump!! Thursday morning we ran 3 sets of 30, 50, 70, 90.  Running fast was fun.  Today we had our first pre-meet day since december.  I got off to a rocky start pole vaulting, but then Coach put up the bungee and after a few jumps everything started to click!!  I went over 3.50 m and even jumped at 4.00.  It was a lot of fun!! I am really excited to carry that momentum in to tomorrow!! Hopefully it will be a really good day!  Been a while since a meet has gone well!