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October 9, 2005
My cross country girls are #2!
On Thursday, I followed up my cross training with a 5 mile run in the afternoon with the cross country girls and 10 pick ups. Friday, I hit the gym again and did the elliptical, stretching and lower body weights (I did upper body on Thursday morning). I ran 5 miles at practice. Saturday, I ran a total of 8 miles during my girls cross country invitational. I was gone from early in the morning until late at night, so that was all I got in. The girls I coach won this huge invitational, which will insure they are ranked #2 in the State! I wish the #1 ranked team had been there, so we could have seen how we match up, since they won pretty solidly over the other top teams. I am so proud of these girls. They worked so hard for a whole year since they finished 3rd at States last year and I am just so excited to see it paying off like this. I know I probably talk more about my girls than my own running right now. I just feel very blah about my running. I am running consistantly and working at adding back in some of the little things like lifting, stretching and cross training, but I know that I am just not putting my full effort into it. I just never get caught up enough with work, espesialy with all the meets added into my schedule. Now, living through my girls running is everything I could hope for. =) I just need to make sure I don't forget about my own training, and keep moving forward slowly. I am just not very patient with things like this. I tend to be an all or nothing type of person, but I am working on that.
Afternoon update:
I got home from work today about 2:30 and was out the door to run by 3pm. My husband was doing his long run, so I got 7 miles in with him. The weather was beautiful, 55 and sunny, and I am really enjoying my husband wanting to start running consistantly and building up his training. I am really busy and miss spending as much time with him and it really helps to get me out running when I know I will get to talk to him the whole way. We are off to do some errands, the most important one to me being getting a new water bottle. I lost my nalgene bottle and have been doing horrible about drinking enough water ever since. I am going to finish up with some yoga later tonight, but we need to get going so the stores don't close.
Posted by Ann at October 9, 2005 4:00 PM