Nicoles running blog

Michigans today! I felt really good, and pushed pretty hard. I was exactly 1 minute off of A standard time, so next time i'll get it! about 200 meters behind Liz(:

Easy 3 in the morning with the girls

Todays race was the best!! It was the first time I got a PR since Freshman year, and I pushed so hard the entire time! I feel great, my hip and shins both don't hurt, and I'm ready to kick butt in region!

Mile warm up, cool down, and 2 thousands as hard as I could go. I got a 3:52 for my first one, and a 4:05 for my 2nd one. My fastest time for these have been 4:05, so they were both pretty good, I should've gone faster for the 2nd one, but I still got better times then I thought I would.

2 second PR this race! Wanted to break 20, but I'm glad I at least got a pr. Lead the pack for the first 2 miles, on the hill I almost lost it. But that was my turning point. After I made it up that hill I just held on as long as I could. But over all I feel pretty good about this race!

Easy 3 to Green Springs

1 mile warm-up on our way to Arctic Circle, hit up 1.5 miles of tempo and felt pretty great. Then for the first time I did the 200 meter sprint things. They hurt a lot more than I thought they would, but felt super great afterwards. Still bruised up around the hips from the last race, but I don't think it's slowing me down very much. I'm feeling pretty great, and excited for Region!

Region today! Did a 2 mile warm-up, and a mile cool-down. Felt super great about my race today!! Our team really came together and showed what we could do. I came in 2nd on our team, and felt like I really pushed hard the whole time. The last 400 meters or so, I let 2 Cedar girls pass me, but that's my only regret this race. Let's be honest, it was a great day(:

1.5 warm-up and cool-down. One 1000 as hard as we could go. I got a 3:41, the fastest I've done it.

1.5 warm-up and cool-down. and then a bunch of different distances that we just pushed as hard as we could. I think we had a 1200, 1000, 800, 600, and 400. As a team we had a super good pack the whole time, and took turns leading the way.

1.5 warm & cool with four 400's in-between. Hit the times 1:21, 1:23, 1:27, and 1:22. This was my first run with my hip back in place so it hurt pretty bad, but I was able to hit ok times.

Got off the bus and went on an easy 3 miles around the mall.

Easy 3 in the morning around the mall again, and then went over to the State course for our run that afternoon. Did about a 2 mile warm-up, and then raced 3 miles. I feel like I did ok with my race, but I could've pushed a lot harder going around the pond both times. Other than that I think I did a pretty good job of not settling, and making sure I was always passing people. I had a super strong finish, and got a pr for this course. Came in 3rd on the team, and then did about 1 mile cool-down.

Ultimate Frisbee today! Figured out that I have no talent in that area whatsoever..but it was still fun, and we ended up bonding as a team really well!

Scavenger Hunt today. Pretty sure we would've won, but we didn't know we were supposed to turn in our paper with our results...so that kinda sucked. But we totally won.