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!!