Hurricane Break!

what a first week at school!!  Earthquake on tuesday, then evacuated for a hurricane friday!  It was nuts!!  quite an eventful first day at school!!  I did a few haphazard workouts, but I am still working to get back into routine!  Thursday afternoon I headed over to the track and ran a mile of stride the straights jog the curves.  I did some push ups, one set of 25, one set of 15 and a set of 10 claps  :)    in between sets I did two sets of 2 min abs.  It was really hard!  Been a long time since I have used those muscles! Guess ive got some work to do before the season starts!

Friday Kelsey and I headed out of the area and back to Pittsburgh/Ohio for Kole's first birthday party!  I cannot believe he is one already!!!  He is so incredibly cute!! It was so much fun playing with him all day saturday!!!  Sunday morning, Kelsey Meghan and I got up and headed to a park near them.  The loop they wanted to run was 5 miles.  I hung with Meghan for the first half.  Then went into a bit of a psycho mode and went crazy for the last half and pulled away from her.  Had to slow down every once in a while to get directions :)  It felt really good to push that hard on a run!  But I still have lots to do if Kels and I are going to run a 10 k in october!  It took me just under 45 mins to run the loop!  Not bad, since that is the farthest I have ever run!!!  After a great breakfast and some cards, Kels and I got back on the road.  We are now in a hotel in Williamsburg and hoping to be back to normal by tomorrow night!  Been quite a week, but I can honestly say that I am really excited for this semester.  I think it is going to go better than I originally intended!

Oh well...

So today did not go as planned.  Slept in nicely then did a little work and relaxed before heading to practice.  I was early because I needed to heat my hamstring.  As I waited coach walked over and told me that the VA tech meet this weekend was so small and packed with D1 jumpers that starting height would be 3.45 m or 11'6".  So at practice I was supposed to see what I could do with the bungee at 3.5 m and then we would decided.  Short approaches felt great today so I was hoping for good things despite the fact that 3.5 meters is a foot above my life time pr.  Warmed up my seven step approach from yesterday and got the steps down perfectly.  But whatever has been stuck in my head lately refused to get out and I only got off the ground once today and it was barely a jump.  So I made the decision as to whether or not allow me to jump quite easy for coach.  Unfortunately this means that there was basically no point in me being here all week and I could have gone home.  Oh well...

Then my day got even better when I came back to my room to discover that the power company was doing something outside and I would be without power from 5-10 tonight.  Thankfully, Kelsey is wonderful and came and got me and I am spending the night in Williamsburg.  I am just glad today is over.