Today Coach came up to me and told me that i would be doing whatever the middle distance girls were doing. I thought hey, okay it’s probably not just me, the other girls are probably just doing a longer workout. Instead, they all went out for an old town run? the first one i have missed in a very long time, and i can’t say i necessarily missed it. Coach said he wanted me to “work away from the group” to “get away for a little”. I didn’t really know what he was going for. He told me he wanted to get a good solid workout in.
I think all the middle distance girls hate me now. (notreally)
They were all like “wait your group left” “did you miss them or something?” “why are you the only distance girl here?” “why are you doing this?” “Oh great we have to run faster now, ahh!” To say just a few. So my group was me bri kristen fisch, hannah and maggie. Maggie dropped out after the second one for a back problem. The workout consisted of a “surge” workout, consisting of 8 400’s. Secret surger’s would be told a distance to go, and the other members of the group had to react whenever the surger went. I went anywhere from 69-76. The target pace was 76, so i was pretty on. By the end of the first set bri was finally loosening up and making it so i didnt ahve to run all of these myself, because surprisingly(kindof) i was the top of the first group with a meter or two meters to spare. The 2nd set we were together for most if not all of them, but i never let her get in front of me, i still refuse to let her beat me. It was beginning to seem more and more like the days where bri and i always ran together and she wasn’t acting rotten, she was actually working really hard. It got the the last one, and Bri was the surger, she was supposed to do the first and last 100. well, lets just say we got off the line and didn’t slow down in between the surges like we were supposed to. we finished yelling at eachother(not exactly serious) being like “wtf was that?!” “you picked up the pace!” “no you did!” “damnit!” “well i guess it felt good to work hard and we are done now.”
Then Bri and i had a full conversation, one that i have not had with her since last year. She told me about how she liked that I was here, but it also was kind of annoying cause she had to work harder. but she meant it as a completely good thing, we all feel that sense of relief when there is no one behind you to catch you, which is what bri has been used to this season since britt and maggie have been on and off. We talked about how I made her work so much harder because we are so competitive together, and how things have changed so much over the last year, and how i have evolved into a shorter distance runner. After our cool down burke was like how was working with sami? and the whole group was like aghhh she makes us go faster! and then bri was like “actually i liked it, because it gave me something to work off of” and burkes response was, “good cause you two are going to be spending a lot more time together now. Coach and i have decided to make you two work together more, so you can improve eachother.” All bri and i did was look at eachother and go “here comes last year!” with familiar old smiles of “damnit” and “sounds good”.
It was overall a good day. everyone seemed to be relatively happy. the team and the school. It was nice to get such a warm greeting from you today.=]
