4/24/10 Mount Vernon Relays

On Saturday, the track team was in mount vernon for a rather large meet. My only event for the day was the 800 meter leg of the distance medley. I still felt pretty honored to be running it because at invitationals, only the top two runners get to run. That must mean that I am sort of fast! I was sore in the morning but after warming up and stretching numerous times, I was in great condition for the run. I held a fast pace, and actually passed someone on my first lap. I'm still waiting on coach to give me my time. After I ran I went home and stretched down some more. I plan on using my GPS in my track races so I can post my times, heart rate, pace, etc.

4/20/10 Tri-meet

Originally, we planned on a dual meet at Northridge, but the school Lakewood showed up. I signed up to run the 4x800 and the open 800. The 4x800 was quite an interesting race. The referees left hurdles in every lane except for lane 1. There was no passing lane!!!! This upset multiple EK people, as we got 4th place due to the dumb refs. Overall it was a good race and I tried hard. For the open 800 I finished with 5th place and a time of 2:29 which was slower than my 4x800 time but still good enough to finish in 5th. On Saturday we have the Yellow-Jacket Relays, where I plan on getting into "Spectrackular" by getting a good 1 mile time!

4/19/10 Track Practice

Blahhhhhh back to track on a quite sucky Monday. On the bright side, we have a meet tomorrow which meant a light practice for today. I went on a chill 1 mile run with Mitchell. It was pretty relaxing running through the wonderful hills of Howard, until I hurt my achilles. Coach does not have the events for tomorrow, but i plan on getting enough points to letter!

UPDATE!

So, spring break got the best of me...thus, hardly any running, zero blogging, and a whole lot of procrastination. There was a track meet last night though (4/13/10). I ended up running the 4x800 and the open 1 mile. I'm not sure of my 800 time, but the good news is that we didn't get last place! does 4th place get points? Anyways, in the open mile I decided to aim for a 6 minute mile just so I could relax and save some energy for our thursdady meet. I wore my fancy GPS and paced my 6 minute mark until I received the opportunity to pass 4 kids, which I eagerly did. I ended up running a 5:50 mile. It is a much slower time than my usual miles, but I placed decently.

4/1/10 Track Practice

Since Thursday was our last day before break, we had a practice just for the ironman challenge. I was hoping that it would have been a joke since it was April fools day and all, but that wasn't the case! We had to run 4 - 400 meter sprints with a break after the first two. My shins were hurting pretty badly. I would not say that I have to have ibuprofen, but my shins are not fully healed and I cannot run at my full potential unless I take it. Anyways, the first 400 was very fast and I finished over 10 seconds early. I definitely had time to spare so I slowed my pace down about 8 seconds. After the first two, we stretched out and then finished our other two. We wont be at practice on Friday, or next Monday so I plan on lifting some weights this weekend.

3/31/10 Track Practice

Since it was the day after a meet, coach had the distance runners go on a 30 minute run. We decided to run down the bike trail. I love when we go down there for runs because it's so scenic. I ran on the trail for the Hellbender Preserve, and then the rest on the bike trail. Afterwards, my legs felt great and I was ready for Thursday's ironman challenge.

Track Meet 3/30/10

On tuesday, We had a meet at Coshocton highschool. I was signed up to run the 1 mile and open 800, but I only ran the mile. In my mile, I was in a pace group with 4 other East Knox runners. we paced the beginning at about a 5:40. After the first two laps, I broke off from the pack and ran a faster pace. I ended up passing 3 kids and finishing in 5th place with a time of 5:27......3 seconds better than Saturday!!! I'm slowly making improvements.

3/29/10 Track Practice

On monday, we had an extremely light workout since we had our very second meet on Tuesday!!! I accumulated a total of 1 mile the whole practice and then finished with a deep stretch.

Track Meet 3/27/10

On Saturday, we had our first track meet at Riverview high school. I had to be at the school by 7:45am in order to get on the bus in time. After about a 45 minute drive, we arrived at their track. It was a chilly morning, and we were the first team to get there. After warmups, was the first event which I was in. It was the 1 mile race. I felt great but i got a little bit nervous. I ran a fairly good time which was a 5:30. I cannot remember what place I finished in, but it was not last! Later in the day I ran the distance medley. I was the first leg of it which meant I had to sprint 400 meters. I ran as fast as I could but hit the wall on the last 50 meters. My quads felt like they swelled up and I could hardly swing my legs to run! I finished strongly though and got a pretty good handoff. Overall the meet was great.

3/26/10 Track Practice

On Friday, since it was the day before our meet, we had an extremely light practice. I ran a light 1 mile just to make sure my legs were ready and then proceeded to stretch down heavily afterwards.