Last race

Well there it went the last race before the marathon 18mile friendship run well it was suppose to be 18 it was a little short. I never really liked this race so i didn't begin to care about my time as long as I beat 4:50 I was fine with it. Like a previous race I decided to help some of my teammates out with their goals i helped my friends JB and Michelle since they were both struggling JB was feeling sick because the heat and Michelle didn't think she was running so she ran in someone else shoes which were a size to big a no socks for 9 miles (i advise people not to try that)along the course we passed some teammates walking and I asked if they were okay and the kids were so rude i hate when kids on my team are rude to me but I didn't let me bug me and i kept going and I'll probably never tell them good job again until the can be nicer but anyways JB Michelle and i all finished in the time limit so we were happy with that. when we finished we got our medals and headed to get our shirts and neon shoe laces Nike was giving us for the marathon. I think the course was a little better this year because of Nike having them at the top of the hill before the damn got us pumped and having them at the finish made us all happy and the water stops actually didn't run out of water this year so it was nice but the absolute best thing about running 18miles on Superbowl Sunday is eating whatever you want and I'm proud to say i downed hot wings like no other. i also noticed that I'm never sore anymore i don't know if it's a gift or I don't run hard enough for my legs but I love it!!

For this weekend we have a easy 10miles on Saturday then uniform pick up for the marathon on Sunday and the following weekend is our annual 22mile practice which I'm hopefully ready for.

Another great weekend it sure was it started Friday when I went to my old high school to visit my friends I haven't seen in a while and boy was it amazing to see them and to hang out with others I always see. Then along came Saturday with 11miles for practice which is nothing in my mind the first half I ran it really hard and took it easy on the way back and I felt good about it and feel ready for the 18mile race we have this weekend hopefully I PR I've been looking for one all year. After practice I went home and fell in love with how quite my house is (cause my step family moved in and are way to noisy) but that only lasted a while until they came home. The next morning my dad, 2 step uncle, step aunt, step cousin, and I woke up to go on a hike at Malibu creek and did I love that morning pay back is amazing when you are up before the noisy people :) but anyways this hike was amazing we did a 2 mile trail then found more trails to go on I found this one with such a steep incline you could touch the dirt as you were walking up it, then we found this little lake with a whole bunch of huge rocks I wanted to climb but didn't have a chance to cause it started to rain way to hard so we headed back home all together the hike was 8and half mile and I loved how I wasn't even tired a little from putting 19 miles on my legs the past two days and I think I'll do it more often.

Wow I haven't blogged in such a long time and so much has happened since the last time I blogged but lets just start with everything happening since the new year started. With out a doubt I'm running LA again and this training season has been another tough one for me between getting a stress fracture in my foot, having knee problems again, and my asthma acting up I was having my doubts on running the marathon this year but at the Irvine half marathon in early January I remembered why I push through all these injuries and hard running times. It was my 20th half marathon which I was so excited about I couldn't believe only 19 and already racing my 20th half marathon but I knew I wouldn't PR so I had another goal in mind to me time doesn't matter anymore so I wanted to help one of our runners out getting to his goal all he wanted to do was break 3hours since 2and a half was out of the question when I caught up to him so we set out on his second goal and sure enough he barely did it by a few seconds the smile on his face was priceless and I couldn't of been happier to help it also had me realize something about myself how much I care about my team mates and I hope I can help him reach his goal of 2:30 next half marathon. Since that race I've been running pretty bad until last Saturday when we had a choice between 15-18.5 miles I knew right when I started I wanted a taste of that 18.5 and I sure did attack it I haven't felt that great running in such a long time it felt like the old me and let me tell you the course wasn't easy it was 3 loops in our town one loop had 3 major hills in it to add to the 15 miles I love getting to our 2nd water stop every time around because it was the water stop with some of my favorite adults Tony and Bob who encouraged and boosted our confidence. I hope the rest of my running season is like last Saturdays practice if it is I'll for sure PR at the marathon this year less then 2months away!!