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October 3, 2005
Away 4 days of 7
This past week has been hard to keep up with. I was gone Tuesday and Wednesday at a Directors Retreat for work and gone on Saturday and Sunday for a trip I took the junior high students on. And I still had to get all the same work done as usual this week. On Monday night the weather did clear up and I had a great run. Afterward I grabbed a quick shower and met my husband and his parents for dinner to celebrate my husbands birthday. Tuesday, I had to leave so early for the retreat that I was not able to run in the morning, but I did get about 4 miles in at my girls cross country meet that I drove back for in the afternoon. Just a quick note, I am so proud of my team. They finally had that break through race where they used the potential that I know is there. I had a girl in the 17s, 1 in the low 18s and 3 in the low 19s! They worked so hard this whole past year and I am excited to see what lies ahead in these final weeks of their season. Wednesday, I hurried back from our retreat to get to practice, where I ran 10 miles on trails with the girls. I was so sleepy, since I stayed up way too late at the retreat tying to be friendly (I missed all the social time earlier in the day leaving to go the the girls meet). I was not paying attention to where I was steping, which is a bad idea on these trails. I did a nice nose plant on a downhill during the first mile. At least it woke me up and I did not really hurt anything, just some bruises, scrapes and lots of dirt. Thursday, I did about 800 meter grass loops with 2 of the girls who had to miss the workout on Friday. Friday, I did some running before and after the rest of the team's workout (which I did not do since I had done the same thing the day before), to get a run in. Saturday, became up day off even though I did not really need one since I had severl easy and short running days already that week. Even without a run, I only got 3 hours of sleep to be ready for our early morning departure on our junior high trip I was leading. We had great weather and we did a lot of physical work at the place we were helping. I also really enjoyed the campfire, smores and spending the evening outside in the country. It's been way too long since I have been camping. Sunday I got home from the trip (no running in the morning when you are the adult in charge of 20 students who are all 13 or younger) about 5:30. My husband did a great job of talking me out the door to run, like I told him to before the trip. I knew I would be exhausted, but I did not want to take 2 full days off in a row. We ended up running my 7.5 mile loop, although we walked a little towards the end, since his foot was starting to really hurt. That finally gets us caught up to today. I am off to work and than we have a hilly tempo run planned this afternoon.
Posted by Ann at October 3, 2005 7:43 AM