Today was such a good day! I met with Ms. Bullard this morning (more on that to follow) but I got a lot of great advice, I got into my top school, I got a prom dress that fits- finally! and I'm going to see Taylor Swift in 2 days! Plus it's now officially spring break for me, because I'll be on a college visit tomorrow. So, needless to say I'm happy happy happy!
The main thing I took away from my interview with Ms. Bullard was how much she emphasized that I should do the Buffalo half. I have officially made that decision, and I think it will be good! I will have more time to train and she said from what she knows it's a really good race. Plus, she said especially for my first time, it'll be nice that I know someone there because it can be kind of overwhelming and everything. Also, I learned that you can split up the longer runs into, for example, 4 miles at one time, 4 miles at another. Or even 4 miles one day, 4 miles the next if it is hard to find the time to do it all in one chunk. That was very helpful to learn!
So today after talking to Ms. Maddren about all of this I knew I was planning on going for my 8 mile run before practice. Then I got all of this news all at once and it was so hard for me to go out into the cold (which I actually did, and right as it did it started snowing like crazy. I stook in my driveway for about 2 minutes and said nu-uhhh). I took what I learned from Ms. Bullard and Ms. DeBoer to heart and thought about how they said sometimes there are the days when you just can't convince yourself to go out. Running should be fun, and that would not have been. Now I know it would have been the right thing for me to do, especially with all this positive energy from today, but I couldn't bring myself to do that when I really just wanted to celebrate in other ways.
That being said, I will get back to my training schedule over spring break which I am feeling better about now that I realize my cross training (rowing) is significant and I will have more time over break, and more time because I am doing the later race. YAY!
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