morning run

Very proud of myself for waking up at 7 this morning and going on a nice mile or so run.  The hills killed my legs and it was already hot!!  Still glad I went out and did something!!  Got lots of good shopping done this morning with my parents and now heading out to spend sometime with Meghan.  Can't believe I leave in less than 2 weeks!!

Sunday = work day!

Not too much of an off day for me today, but very happy I was so productive!  Got up just before 7:30, threw my laundry in the wash then headed out for a run with Kurt.  Did the same loop as wednesday, just over a mile.  Had fun making him sprint out the finish even though his legs were sore from the day before.  Went hard about 50 m from the finish and knew he wouldn't let me win (which i didn't :( ) But it was fun nonetheless.  Then after a nice breakfast I got to work on my lab report.  Fought with it for several hours before heading to the weight room.  SJSU has a decent weight room, not breath taking by any means but it will serve its purpose for the summer.  Took me a little while to get acclemated with the area then got going.  Decided to go for a full body workout.  It has been a while since I lifted so I kept it light.  Started with 3x8 NG pulls, with leg raises  (great to have the equipment to do these again).  Then headed over to bench, 3x8 at 95 lbs, low weight but I was by myself and it was my first day in a while.  Also, the clips for the bar are terrible!  Don't think I will be doing many workouts where I need to change weights!!  With bench I did decline abs with a 25 lbs weight.  Then 3x 5 cleans at 95 lbs, and 3 x 8 sets of the shoulder series.  Finished up the lift with 3x8 lance step ups with a 35 lbs weight with 3x8 decline russian twists with the same weight.  Ended the day with a nice cool down on the treadmill.  Afterwards its was nice to catch up with my parents a little, and get to talk to Michael, been a while!!  Then spent several hours trying to finish up this ridiculous lab report,  all done now.  Got a pretty busy week ahead, but hoping to reintroduce lifting into my schedule.

MEN are Conference Champs!

Congrats to the guys team for their victory this weekend!! They worked really hard and totally deserve it!! The girls had a much harder time and finished up second to Methodist, who is just too deep in the sprinting events.  Congrats to the boy vaulters for taking 2,4,5 and 6!!  Also Amanda cleared her first height and managed to get over 7'3"!!!  I had a bad day, lets just leave it at that.  guess they have to happen every once in a while, but hate that it had to be at conference.

Was so excited my fam could be there to visit though!  It was great to see everyone!!  I am really looking forward to heading home for the summer in  few weeks!!  Also so glad Andrew was able to stop by!!  And Michael was able to stay long enough for the meet too, even though he had a really bad day of his own!

Crazy to think the semester is over, but looking forward to a change of pace.  Have to refocus and get ready for two more last chance meets!

More Rain!

So today in anticipation of rain we had practice inside!  It was fun to move the other pit around!  Practice went really well felt great, only did shorter approach stuff though because the pit is new and hard so coach did not want anyone falling to it from any great height and hurting themselves.  Then headed to a quick dinner and spent the next 4 plus hours studying for the two exams I have tomorrow.  At least they will be over around noon!  Excited to see my parents and grandparents tomorrow!  Also, Conference gets rolling tomorrow at 5 !  Lets go CNU TF!!!!

ALL Done!

Once again the time got away from me and I have been negelecting posting!  Overall it has been a good week.  Wednesday practice went well, had several good attempts one the 13, 130 pole before my legs got too tired.  Then hit the weight room for one last day of lower body.  Got there with enough time to do 3 sets of front squats, 5 at 160, 4 at 155, and 3 at 150.  Then spent the rest of the evening writing a paper for my honors project!

Thursday was a busy day!  Last day of both honors and leadership, Then a few more hours on the paper.  Followed by a tough practice.  One paper the workout did not look hard, 3 x 300 with full recovery.  But when running at race pace and still not feeling 100 % healthy it took all I had!  Did manage to stay pretty close to the times given though.  The range was 45-49 secs.  I ran the first in just under 48, then second at 49, and the third at 50.5.  Def pleased.  Afterward, we hit the weight room for some upper body work. 
 3 sets of 10 bench at 105 lbs (moving my grip out made it easier! Thanks Michael!)
2 sets of 10 shoulder press at 50 lbs
2 sets of 10 incline press at 50 lbs
2 sets of 10 low rows at 25 lbs
2 sets of 10 NRG pulls at 75 lbs
2 sets of 10 Lat pulls at 75 lbs
Overall a pretty good day.  Managed to get my paper all done and printed out.  Turned it in friday morning

Last day of class today.  Disappointed my radchem prof did not get our tests back, but i will live.  Also, pleased to end o chem with a 95 on my last test, especially when I did not study much!

Today's practice was a little more rough.  Legs were kind of sore from yesterday and running felt awkward.  Could not get a consistent step going from any distance, even my three steps were weird.  Coach told me to just call it a day and let the legs rest over the weekend.  Then watched my team finish up a round of the circle game.  Now its on to a relaxing weekend of studying for finals!

Also very exicited about the Easter packages from Grandma and Grandad and my parents!  Looking forward to enjoying them once lent is over! Only two days!

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!