Up and Running!

This morning I got up and joined Kurt for his morning workout!  I am so excited to have someone to work out with!  Don't know if my body has stopped needing sleep or if I was just excited for today but at 6 o'clock I was up and ready to go!  Started out with about a mile loop round the area.  I was kinda struggling by the end but ill be up for that is no time!!! Then we went to the park and ran 30 meter cut backs.  His call was for 2 sets of 10, with minimal rest between each one.  He also pushed me through one extra one at the end just to always keep getting better.  Obviously he beat me every time but I am proud of my self for keeping up my speed the whole way through.  Then we headed back to the I house got cleaned up and headed to our first day of class!! I was so excited!!  Our prof this week is great.  The majority of the stuff was review from radiohem last semester, I am so glad I took that class!!!  3 hours of lecture is a long time though!!! After a nice lunch we toured a little then went back for another 1.5 hours of lecture!!!  This is def nuclear boot camp!!  But the profs no what they are doing and give us nice breaks where we go to the court yard and throw a frisbee or volleyball, and they make sure we have snacks!!  I'm gonna do a lot the next 6 weeks but im sure it'll be awesome!!!

Finals Week

Had a nice weekend off leading into finals week.  Enjoyed the time to relax, Marissa and i got in some good shopping.  Michael and i had a good run, though I did nearly die because I could not breath after about 2.5 miles.  The results of dehydration and excess heat.  Then had a nice dinner with Michael's teammate friends.  Easter sunday was very nice, went to 8 am mass with Michael, then he came with me to Northside at 10:45, lots of church!  managed to successfully make cheesy potatoes for dinner with Kels.  According to grandma i am now successfully domesticated! not sure how I feel about that!  After a fun dinner, enjoying the successful completion of lent, came back and got to work studying.

This morning i had my toughest exam of the week, radiochem.  Went much better than expected, took a long time but overall I feel pretty well.  Had a good practice this afternoon.  Working on building my confidence for this weekend! should be big!  triple at 10 then pole vault at about 2:30.  I am currently seeded about 7th for triple so I am looking forward to the chance to compete and hopefully pick up a few points.  In the pole vault, I am seeded second behind the jumper from Penn State Behrend who hit 3.50 back in march.  She has not done took much since so it will be interesting to see!  Hopefully she does well so she can push me to some new heights!!!

Preping for my leadership exam now, then have essentially three days to get ready for physics and o chem in friday.  Everything is falling into place!

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!