I have had a really great training week back at school this week, including numerous swimming, cycling and running sessions. When it came to Friday, I started to feel a bit rough, I woke up with a blocked nose and had a sore throat, so I tried to relax and try and recover asap. Saturday morning came and well... I didn't feel great! Nonetheless I prepared for my race the same as normal but with a difference, because I was obviously at school. I walked into breakfast hoping there would be a bagel to accompany my porridge, but no there wasn't -_-. In the end I had my porridge with granola, then a waffle (instead of my bagel) with chocolate spread and then finished off with a hard boiled egg, just for a quick protein hit! Oh I forgot to mention the two actimels too ;) to sum it up school breakfast is pretty good! After we arrived, we all sort of went off in different directions because we were all starting at different times, because of depending on what leg we were running. I was third so I didn't start warming up until the first runner started. It was a 4x 4km course, the course was half around fields and then the other half was up in some woods, where there were some nasty hills. I did my usual warm up of about a 2km jog and then some drills like high knees, then to finish off I did some strides to wake my legs up to some speed. Soon enough I found myself on the change over line, waiting for Phoebe to run in. Sabrina had started the race off and did a great first leg, then Phoebe carried us through the second leg and by the time it came to me we were in the lead. This did put a lot of pressure on me because I had to make sure I kept us in a good position. I was on a mission, however the slight issue of me feeling like my wind pipe was slowly closing on me didn't fill me with much confidence, but I wanted to do my team proud and not let them down. The run started off nice and flat and then the climb up into the woods was the tough part. The run all together went pretty quickly but I didn't manage to quite hold my position, I got over taken by a Blackheath and Bromley girl, who came flying past me, so I tried holding onto her for a bit but soon realised this was not a sustainable pace for me so I quickly got back into my rhythm. The last 600m I tried to just push as much as I could because I could feel another runner coming up behind me, who was in fact a girl from Tonbridge AC (my club however I was competing for my school in this race), afterwards I found out she was actually a girl in my training group and who I am good friends with! After a fab 4th leg from Carlotta, we finished in third *whoop* We were pretty happy with this result as it was just the beginning of the season and we have lots more races to come. I was meant to have a triathlon tomorrow but I had to sadly withdraw this evening. I took a long time to decide whether to or not but in the end I didn't want to risk get even more ill and then risk missing some training and school work next week. I am spending tomorrow recuperating before I go back to school in the evening.
Love G x
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9/11/2016 12:24:49 am
Well done! Sounds like you did really well despite having a cold. They are so annoying! xxx
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8/23/2017 05:56:04 am
Now girls are also participate in outdoor activities like the men. Running is good activity and it is little tough but many girls participle as a profession. Here the race of girls and all of them are looking happy.
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