Sucess isn't given, it's EARNED

OK, so it was kind of a sad day at the beginning, but turned into a shocking run..... It was raining slightly so I ran in a long t shirt and shorts I decided to bring the garmin today. All the sudden This turned into a race against myself after running in the awful heat for numerous days, the cool air felt good. The wind was blowing at a decent rate, all the sudden I got to my one mile mark and ran a 6:00 mile, I kept going determined to keep it up. But when I turned I was running into the headwind, straight into it. At my two mile mark, I got 12:10 I was angry I didn't keep up a 6:00 mile pace, I kept going up to the hill by the temple and had to stop at the stoplight for 30 seconds so I paused my garmin, then I kept going I finished my 3 mile time trial slightly down the hill at a whopping 18:17?? what the heck did that come from? I got my IT band injured for track and had to reduce my mileage, maybe that helped. Well yes this course isn't the state course, so yeah hopefully i won't get injured and i can keep this pace up and work on hills as this course, didn't have many. But I cooled down for a couple miles and was so excited that I think I ran home too fast! But I couldn't believe it!!! I ran a 18:17 3 mile!!! I couldn't be more excited I managed to run a 6:05 last mile pretty excited for XC.

Just did short 200m hills at 7 at night, did yard work all day so I needed to get a run in, a little sore from yesterday but not bad.

So, I'm finally blogging again, let's see how long this goes. Well Saturday I wasn't able to do a longer run, so I did one today. Well, ran about a 7:12-7:20 pace according to a running calculator. So a pretty decent run, It was cloudy and fairly cool,I ran in a long sleeve shirt and felt pretty good. Ran on the Murdoch canal then ran to AF and then the driving range and back, saw a lot of bikers today, only 2 runners kind of funny. :)

Ran into Josie, on the the canal!! it started out cool, but finished pretty hot. The sun came through the clouds and it suddenly the cool air turned warm. All well :)

So I ran on the canal again, and then when I turned I got heat and the headwind. It wasn't as good of a run ran about a 7:30.... :/ oh well.

Shorter run today, it was hot, felt like a little tired today. My throat was dry I probably should have drank more water.

quick run,super busy day. One more day of school!!

My legs felt heavy the last three miles, it was warm and windy. But a good run overall.

hot run today on the canal. I saw a lot of bikers but not one runner the whole way, funny. About a 7:30 pace..... 3 weeks until Af half can't wait!

six quick miles in the rain.

So i wasn't planning on doing this race, of course not I did a hard run yesterday and ate beef the night before anyway, i get a text at 10 o clock at night from Emily saying the XC team is doing it. So with my sore back ( which is odd) and tight calves I raced it. I saw Sophie Barid and ran with her for about two miles, she wasn't taking it too seriously. So our first split was a 6:13 pretty decent, the next one was slower about a 6:50 something and then she sped up and ran a 6:05 or something for the next split I slowed down a bit at the end.... but for not really preparing at all it was a decent race. I hope to do another 5K soon to see my real time, but this was a good race despite. It was a pretty slow race though....

Ran 5 by the pond in Highland, felt a little sluggish, I'm glad I have my roller.

Did 7 200m hill repeats by the church, did a mile warm up and 5 mile cool down in Alpine.