Wow, finally I have found the time to get back to what I love... blogging. Ever since starting school on the 1st September, I have been overwhelmed by work. I currently have about five course works on the go and it has just been a little bit stressful these last few weeks. So with the finish line in sight with all my course work and having raced on Sunday, I have at last made it to my laptop to get a blog post out. Last Sunday, I had southern road relays. This was my first experience of road relays and also racing as a senior so there were lots of new things for me to experience this weekend. But I have to admit my lead up to this race was far from ideal, after getting a pretty rough cold on Wednesday, I spent the rest of the week desperately trying to get rid of it and drinking my own body weight in lemon and honey tea, to try and help with the recovery. It came to Sunday and the cold was on its way out but I still wasn't feeling quite 100%. This really annoyed me because I haven't raced in over two months and so I was pretty keen to get racing again after such a long break and especially because I knew I couldn't let my team down. I was the second leg of the relay, which I was happy with because I just needed to go out there and give it my best shot. As Phoebe was running in, to finish the first leg of the relay, the excitement started to kick in and I was eager and ready to go off and race. The course was said to be 4.5k so I knew it would be essential not to go off too quickly, especially because I knew I was around some strong senior women, compared to me as a first year u20. The race started off fast, and the first km was all uphill. Struggling to hang onto the person in front, I settled into racing my own race. The pace stayed fast and I was worrying perhaps I had gone off too quickly but at about halfway I formed a small group of three, and this dragged me around for about a km. When the finish line was insight, with about 500m to go, by legs started to go and so did my breathing. It felt like my wind pipe was really tight. I was determined just to push it and give it my all and get to the line. The last 300m was around the track and this was my hardest part of the race and I really really struggled. I crossed the line and was happy with how I had done, but I was not feeling good. The course turned out to in fact be only 3.6km though. After sitting on the floor for quite a while, I finally got myself up and felt pretty dizzy. I think this was down to a mixture of my cold and just giving it my all. I had such a fun day and our seriously young senior women team came away with 11th. It was a great day out and a great way to kick off my racing for the season. I hope to be a bit more active on my blog in the coming months, especially as I have half term coming up in two weeks. Even though I will have lots of work, I should have some free time too.
Have a good weekend, G x
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This week I have a very exciting workout video to share with you which I filmed with Ellen (teen runner blog, check out her blog as she is a great friend and has a running blog too) the other day. This blog post I'll also give you a bit of an over view of what I've been up to this week, but the main thing I have had this week was school... yes sadly I started school on Friday and its been pretty full on ever since then really. Fortunately I have had a chance to edit this video for you, which I have really enjoyed making and I hope you will all enjoy it. The music to the video is not the best but it's pretty hard finding good youtube legal musi so I hope you don't mind it too much ;) So here is my WORKOUT VIDEO which I'm really pleased with so let me know what you think! Here is also a written plan of the workout in the video: 1 minute plank 20x toe touches 20x alternate elbow knee 12x renegade row 15x half sits 20x single leg extensions 12x commandos And repeat Take 10 seconds rest between exercises and 30 seconds rest between sets! ENJOY!!! Other than filming a this workout video I have also been doing a lot of training this week as I continue to build towards cross country season, which I am really excited for. I have been trying to particularly work on areas which are my weaknesses so hopefully by the time I get to my first proper cross country in October I should have strengthened these weaknesses. This week has been tough I have found, after some solid training which I have enjoyed, I am a bit tired and school on Friday didn't help this much. On Monday though I feel like I will be back into the swing of school and happy to be back into the routine. For me I am a huge routine person and helps me almost stay focused so as much as I am not a fan of going back to school, secretly I quite like it.
I hope you have all had a great week, Love G x |
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