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Winter Training

I’m officially back at college for winter training and my week of practices can be summed up in the following statement:

I’m cold.

In my defense I’ve never run in the winter before. We’ve been running on the roads for the past couple days because the track is still snowy and the only reason I’m still hanging in there is because I bring a box of tissues to practice with me. I can’t feel my legs and my nose runs constantly because I breathe through my nose when I run.

That doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying training though. The only day  struggled was with 800m repeats (and I always struggle with those). Yesterday we ran 150m (my favorite distance) and I was the only person on the team happy to be out there. I know tomorrow will be another hard distance day, but I’m staying strong.

In other news, my roommate from last semester is moving to a new hall to be closer to her friends, and I will be rooming with the best runner on the team next semester. I really respect her a lot and I think we have a lot in common, so maybe rooming with her will help motivate me even more.

I remember when I got my first real running shoes- my Asics. Now they're retired and I've moved on, but getting a new pair of shoes never loses its magic <3 #running #gcu #trackandfield

New PR- 400m

On days where everything seems to suck, it’s nice to have something good to push you forward. I broke my previous PR (2min 42sec) today while doing 400m repeats- my new PR is 2min 37sec.

I know that’s not a crazy improvement, but its what I needed today <3