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Racing Away

September 26, 2010

Friday

4 Miles in 35:49 [8:57 per mile]

nice easy run before our race in Carbondale, IL

Saturday

1.08 warmup

3.1 race – 21:45

Yes a 30 second PR. Have you ever ran a race where you PR’d but you weren’t happy with the way you raced? That would be me.

Hopefully next week when we go to Louisville (one of the biggest meets we will go to) it’ll be a better race and a better time.

.95 cooldown

We ate at Quatro’s Pizza afterwards because everyone said it was the place to go in Carbondale. Deep Dish Pizza and it was incredible!

I’’m going to try to post more often, but I am incredibly busy this year with the team. I’m not just a loser sitting in my room all the time haha. I have practice 2 times a day, class until the afternoon, studying and homework each night and hanging out with the team. So I promise I’m not quitting the blog, I just will blog when I have the time.

I haven’t taken pictures lately of my food because I just got into “I don’t want to blog” this week phase.

But here are some that I have taken.

You know, everyday I think about how much I want to live in apartment, mainly so I can cook my own food. It normally goes like this:

If the cafeteria has nothing good to eat – eat pizza, it’s always good.

Therefore I end up eating pizza a lot. 🙁

This week Alex and I went to Red Lobster (I’ve never been before) and it was incredible! I ordered the Shrimp Fettuccini and it was so delicious I ate it all. I would say though that for the portion size it was not worth the money. I got a half order and there was about 10 bites if that for 11.99.

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Race Recap!

September 8, 2010

So my first ever collegiate race was Saturday.

It was a 4k, not a 5k.

I felt really good the first mile and hit pace at the mile that coach wanted. (6:45 and I hit it at 6:43)

After that I felt like I just straight ate it, but I actually didn’t. I maintained a 6:45 pace for the whole race.

My finish time was 17:20, which is 6:58 pace or so, however the course was long.

So if you want to get technical my 4k time was more around 16:50 or a bit under.

But since it’s a 4k and not a 5k anyway, it doesn’t matter.

I ran a pretty good race in my opinion. Kept a consistent pace and passed girls.

At the mile marker I was 48th I believe and at the finish I was 33rd. Apparently this was out of 147ish girls.

So overall I had a good race and can’t wait to actually run a 5k to see what my time will be!

It’s possible I could be sub 21 minutes which is a HUGE PR for me considering my 5k time is 22:33.

How exciting?!

Here are some photos of me during the race. Not so pretty haha. The spandex definitely will not be worn again because they rode up insanely! I’m pretty sure the whole park saw my butt.

My dad took all these pictures!!

After the race

He also took these pictures 😀

This picture was from the day before. We went to a high school race to support some of our high school friends. Our bff Brad won the varsity boys! Heck yes!!