**If you don't risk anything, you risk even more**

Ran with Nate today! It was super fun and my IT band didn't hurt too bad till the very end. (:

I had a great run today! I was able to run with my little sister and I think we're gonna have some serious fun racing together! My leg didn't even hurt till after I finished running, and I got a runners high. && IT RAINED!!! (: when all is said and done it's days like these that help remind me why I run. (:

Evening run was good. super hot though! I think my sweat could have filled 7 gallon buckets! yeah.. that's gross. && We did weights afterwards (:  loovee weights (:  hopefully I'm sore tomorrow.

I ran with Mia, Megan, Nikki, and Liz Lunt today. for some reason, every time I run with Megan we barely miss the sprinklers! They'll be up and going and right when we get to them before we can even touch the water they turn off! Ticks me off... but it seems like the girls are starting to bond better. I'm thinkin we need to have a girls team party soon! (:
Oh! and we did a mile of striders today. I love striders!

I ran 2 miles on the grass and finished off 2 more with Nate then at least another mile with my little team. I love those kids! today we had a breakfast party. They have sooo much energy and I don't think the sugar cereal helped that out at all. We played freeze tag and holy cow! those kids are fast! I want to keep them (:

Friday run so we left base! We ran from Vernin Worthin park, and out by the freeway. It was a great run. Kaylee and I were feeling good today so we ran ahead. I hadn't seen her for like a week so we had our wonderful story time! My IT band hardly hurt at all, and I didn't even feel my shin splints. My muscles are all really tight so I'm thinkin an ice bath is in order :/ Hopefully I survive.
We had a captains meeting after practice and lets just say that Camp is gonna be AWESOME this year! (: be excited!

I have to work today so I won't have time for an afternoon run, but I think I might try to throw in a midnight run!

Thought of the day: "Don't give up on the impossible before you try it."
                                                -Biggie Munn, MSU football

My muscles are still super sore today so I hit up the gym and lifted weights for a little while then ran an easy 2 miles to loosen up my muscles. Tight muscles are always the beggining of injuries for me so hopefully this weekend will be enough to get rid of them.

Thought of the day: "If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."
                                                -Wid Matthews, Chicago Cubs

I ran 5 miles out into coral canyon today. We had to go over Coral Canyon hill and it almost killed me off. I'm usually really good at hills but that hill is murder! Anyway, I ran really hard with Coach, Kaylee, and Josh on the way there, and once we got to the top of the hill I stopped and waited for the rest of the girls team so we could all run back together. It was kinda slow but it was good for all of us to bond as a team. Megan is such an incredible person to run with. She would drop back and then come right back with us when I asked her to. She wants it more than anyone, so she's sure to get it. Once we got back from our run we did a mile of striders. I loveee striders! (: My legs were feeling fine today. they're still sore but that's just cause I've been packing on a lot of mileage lately. I just gotta keep icing, stretching, and rolling. (:

MORNING RUN: I had a pretty good run today. We ran 6 miles with a mile of tempo at about the 4th mile. I forgot my IT band strap so I ran without it today and it hardly hurt at all! I'M HEALINGG!!! (: (: (: I've been icing, stretching, and rolling a TON and I can feel it helping me. Anyway, we had a team run today so I ran with the team until we hit the tempo part, then I broke off with Kaylee, Nikki, and Zack. We hit 3 sections of sprinklers today!!! It was great cause I prolly woulda died of heat stroke otherwise.

Kay, coach Roberts was disappointed in me for not putting up a thought of the day yesterday so I have to put up two today.

#1- "You don't get to choose when opportunity is going to knock, so you better be prepared for it when it does."
                                                -Ted Anderson, U of Nebraska Omaha

#2-"Be like a horse; don't think, just run." -Kaylee quoted it today when we were trying to convince Nicole that she needed to stop thinking... I don't know who the real person who said it is.

We ran hills today out in hells hole today. My shins hurt a little bit, but other then that everything was great. We had a hill work out and did 2x1min and 2x30sec. It was super easy and fun.

Thought of the day: "It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse."
                                                           - Ann Trason

^^^That's my favoritest quote EVAA!!! (:

Today's run was GREATT!!! You know that huge mountain type thing out in Bloomington that you want to die just looking at (Web Hill)??? yeah.. well we ran up and over that thing than back up again! WHAT UPP!?! Anyway, I ran with coach roberts on the way there and once we started heading back down the hill the last time he dared me to run with Devin back up the hill for a little ways. So I headed back up. We freakin owned that hill! Then we waited at the top for coach and Curls. (:  it was super fun running with the guys, and it was good to push myself. Nothing hurt and I felt great! This run made me realize all over again that you only get out of it what you put into it. I've always known that, but this run just proved it big time. This year's gonna be great!

Thought of the day: "The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top."
                                            -Herb Elliott

AM- Today's run was super chill. I ran with Mia and we just talked the whole time. We talked about different racing techniques and such.
XC CAMP IN T-3 HOURS!!!! (:

PM- just got up to camp. Easy 3. I ran it with Kaylee, and I felt great.

AM- I ran with Mia again. We were only supposed to go 7 miles but we didn't know where the turn around was so we went about 8.5. It hurt pretty darn bad.

PM- Easy 3. I ran with Zak Lusk. It was hard and my muscles are all super tight, but Zak pushed me.

AM- I ran with Zak again. It was a route straight up this dreaded hill! It was horrible, and seemed so much longer than it really was! thankfully it was down hill the whole way back (: my butt hurts.

PM- easy 3. lets just say it wasn't so easy. Zak and I had just pigged out on oreos and it they weren't agreeing with our tummys. We jumped in the lake on the way back (:

I wasn't planning on running today. I was just gonna chill and let my body heal up, but this kid from DH started talking to me and was bragging it up about how good dh is getting. so... I went running (: I ran 7.5 without my IT band strap on and it felt great. it was super hot but it felt great!