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| Posted By: Nadine Gilmer on 2008-03-03 18:53:42 EST | Email Story | Flag As Spam | Comments (0) |
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This is my first blog post on the site. I'm just going to let out some pre-track season stress...
Practices start a week from today, I guess they'll be inside because it's riddiculously cold and snowy still. I hope i haven't lost too much of my muscle. I did two months at the local gym but then ran out of money so I contented myself with cross country skiing and long, frigid walks. But whenever I get the chance to run somewhere it makes me happy. As much as I dread track season, I'm starting to get excited for it. I need to run; my body isn't functioning properly without it. It's my junior year anyway. That'll be nice. I'm going to try as hard as i can to make sure no freshman surpass me. My plans are to bring my 400 time way down. As low as I can. I'm not sure what that is. I think i can at least get to 1:03. And as for my mile (my favorite), I'm hoping to bring it way under 6 minutes. I hope to at least be in the 5:30s. I'm sure that won't be too hard. My first mile splits in cross country were occasionally under 5. And I obviously wasnt going as fast as I would in a mile race. I don't know what evens I'm going to have to run. I'm sure there'll be a 4x4 unless that Lauren girl turns out not to be as fast as she says she is. So I'll run that, although it won't be the same without Marissa, and I'll run the mile. Otherwise I don't know what I'll run. I can't run the 3200 when it's so close to the 4x4 and I hate the 800. I'll most likely end up running the 800 or the open 400. Maybe Coach C will let me just do the mile and the relay. That would be nice...somewhat lazy, but then I can concentrate on them better.
I'm not as in shape as i wanted to be when this started. I wanted to have lost a lot of weight. I did loose 5-7 pounds since last year actually...or more. But it's not enough. I wanted to be 115 for this season. Maybe I'll make it down to that soon. I only have 5-7 pounds to loose. I lost a lot of weight in Mexico and I hope to loose some in Germany but I don't know how I'm going to make the change permanent with my eating habits in the US. I guess it'll be better when track starts because then I won't be able to snack. As far as summer goes I just hope I'll be out of the house enough that I won't be able to snack. That's my only problem. I don't ever eat huge meals. Hmm. I also hope to get a job at Running Fit this summer which will help because it'll keep me in a running mind set all summer and I'll run enough to keep in shape and hopefully do very well for my senior cross country year. That is suddenly a very sad realization. I really have to do well this year in track too. I'm planning on doing all I can this year in practice. I'm going to tell my coach to make me do a lot of 400s. Thats what Marissa used to do and I know it really helps me when we even do a few. I want to actually get good this year. I'll try the whole year now that I know I can be as good as or even better than almost everyone on the team. |
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| Tags: cross country, track, weight, reflections |
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| Posted in track and field, high school sports, women's athletics |
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