Redemption

We did our warm up, then ran over to the church, where we did 3*400's @ 5k pace, 3*200's at probably mile pace. Then we ran the stake center loop (about 2.5 miles) and did our cool down laps on the track. My legs felt good, and fresh, and fast, I'm looking forward to regions tomorrow, my goals are to run sub 15:45, and get top 6, so we will see what happens tomorrow, hopefully I don't get nervous, and end up running sub 5 my first mile, I've got to just keep it under control. First mile mile be feeling good, second mile be feeling ok (ok in cross country meaning, which means you feel like crap, but you're not ready to puke yet), and the third mile give it my all, I've got to make sure I am at least in the top ten by the end of mile 2, before I make my move, and hopefully move up from there. So we'll see what happens!

Region 9 championships: Great race!!! I'm not sure what my time is exactly, so I just kind of guessed, but I'll get the official time later. Well, I was really worried about this race, and 2 hours before my knee started to for some reason hurt really bad, so I said a prayer and it went away, so I'm really thankful for that :) And during the race I got really nervous, with about a mile left I was in 15th place, and I didn't know if I had it in me to move up to that top 10 position (You have to get top ten to qualify for state), and the pain came, and bad. When I say this, I am not joking, and I don't mean to be cheesy, but that last probably 800m I legitimately had no physical body strength or will left in me, I ran on pure heart! (cheesy I know) The only drive I had left in my body was my need for success. It was like this out of body experience that was just really foreign to me. I couldn't really think the pain was almost unbearable, but my body wouldn't stop or slow, and somehow I found it in me to sprint at the end where I caught and passed Ben Powell from Desert Hills. I have always been good at pushing myself hard, but that was just strangely a-whole-'nother level. I may not have gotten quite the place or time I wanted, but I gave really close to my absolute all, honestly I ran as hard as I could today, and I wouldn't change a thing. Plus I'M GOING TO STATE!!! Yes! Hahaha, I'm really glad I pulled it off, I was really worried about that for a while :) I am really proud of my team, everyone ran a great race, and I just love everyone on my team, I'm so sad the season is going to end soon :( And I'm going to miss all of the seniors from my team, or other teams, that are going to graduate this year. I have made some great friends this year in cross country, and it's sad to know this was it with them in cross country. But great race, it was so much fun, I loved it!

We did our annual Cross Country Halloween run today, I dressed up as a boxer, lets just say it got really hot, and I got really sweaty :) Then I did some sprints on the track. So today was an interesting day.

Lets just say I'm an idiot, and I might not be able to run at state, because I might of messed up my hip pretty bad :(

Well I got my hip checked out, and I guess I over rotated my hip bone? And I sprained it, so he told me I shouldn't run on it for 2 weeks, but then I told him about state and he said I can race, but it's going to hurt really bad, it just shouldn't affect it long term. So I don't know, I just know this sucks!

Still can't run :( Have to get the swelling down, it's really swollen, It's really swollen, I have to ice a ton.