Training Log Archive: the kempster

lazy sort of day, but tough 15min!! my arms are like jello!!! :S

Biking to and from the ultimate tourni. mostly on the bike path which was nice and then a little bit on smyth which was... interesting... a crappy road, with lots of trucks and cars zooming past.

a little bit of warmup before the two races.

An exciting race for sure, and even a new pr!!!! everybody started out super duper fast and so a few girls died after the second lap but i was feeling surprisingly good and was even able to push it a little harder than usual on the last lap!! 2 places away from qualifying (top 4 move on) but still happy with my race. next year my goal is to get my time down to at least below 5:30 and hopefully closer to 5:20. i know i can run that fast, it's just fine-tuning the hurdling and water jumping!! :P

yet another pr!!! woohoo!!! what a great day!!! wasn't sure how well i was gonna do after running around all day playing ultimate. couldn't keep up with the lead pack, but i wasn't too far behind them either. ran practically a whole lap by myself before i caught a few girls falling back from the pack. on the very last lap, there was this one girl who was only bout 10m ahead of me. it would've been so easy to just fall in behind her and not try to pass her... but i thought 'alright, well i'm not gonna win this race, so i might as well pass this girl instead.' so the last 200m i turned on the jets, or emptied the tank, and gave it that last little kick and passed her!!! woohoo!!!! it was pretty exciting, though the girl wasn't very happy cause when i passed her she swore... hehe oopsy daisy!!! and what's even greater is that because i passed her, i came 8th and got a ribbon!!! yay!!!!!

After steeplechase, raced over to Hillcrest and got there in time to play 3 out of the 4 games. tons of fun though tiring since we only had 4 girls and it was bloody hot! oh and we even won 2 of our games which is a huge improvement from our first tourniment where we only won... none... :P

peddling as fast as my legs can peddle to tutoring, and then to pinney forest for junior o-training!

super duper fun and intense training for the juniors!! had 4 different maps and all of the controls were in the same vicinity. always had to be reading the map and running fast cause we had a little friendly competition going on! :P

C • SO LUCKY!!!!! 4

definitely could've chosen a better route choice for the first score-o of the year, and had a lot of trouble finding the really small controls.

Finally a relatively clean race. bobbled 3 and 17 a little bit, but everything else was just fantabulous! tough and slow running with the hills but gorgeous terrain all the same.

C • Congrats! 2

Red Y Long - Splits

Still, not my race. Almost spiked control 1... almost. I don't even know what i was thinking, but i turned around before i got to the control and spent bout 5min running around trying to figure out where i was... bummer. 3 didn't work out so well either, and then 8 was close to a disaster, but thank goodness for stone walls. i found that i just couldn't run in a straight line, so i'm blaming my compass. :P got through the rest of the course without any other problems although i did play it a little safer even though i didn't really have to.

RedY Middle - Splits