I could lie to you and say the fact that I have had an extremely tight hamstring for the last week has not bothered me. But it has.
Am I nervous as @#$%^&*&%$?
Yes.
Could it be a strained muscle?
Yes.
Could it be a torn muscle?
Yes, but not likely.
Could it all be in my head..
Aren’t many of the problems we face today?
This will be my lowest milage week in quite some time (which also makes me nervous), but all in good healing my friends. Or at least positive Hollie has won out today. I know pushing miles is stupid right now.
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Anyways, today’s blog will mostly be about my scrimmage yesterday.
Yesterday we had a 3 Mile scrimmage against our rival school (full of hella finneee boys…yes). (If you know me well you can picture me saying that in my dayumm that boy is fineee voice…maybe I’ll vlog it one day) Don’t get me wrong-it isn’t the fact, that me and their five top girls go about the same pace. Or the fact that I have often ran with them in training runs because runners in Upstate are far and few around let alone people that run your pace. Oh wait yes, it’s completely that fact and I’m pretty competitive.
But I don’t like to lose. At all. To them. True story…I wasn’t really going for a PR this race (sad to say) more or less a win. I told you I only state the facts.
And I did. I believe I went a 20:5X, but I’m not entirely sure, nor do I care that much because my goal was achieved and it was just a tempo run, plus a scrimmage to prepare for our championship race next weekend.
Oh and incase you wondered, it was a whopping 21 degrees when we ran today.
But all in all, I had a great time as I always do running. The course was pretty frozen (with frost) and covered over by leaves. If you know anything about cross country skiing, this trail is a ski trail that is used as a run trail until it gets too cold/frozen over. (which is soon I presume).
There were even awards given out (lolz). I got first place overall for females today and got an index card that says:
Simply the best, you da woman (with a snickers bar). I love their coach…I want to be best friends.
But enough of that scrimmage. Since I was just whining about my hamstring, it started to hurt at the very tail end of the race. It’s better than when it hurt me so much I couldn’t finish my run at the beginning of the week.
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I’m heading into a somewhat taper of this season. I think I’ll do a cross country season recap next weekend sometime followed by a collegiate sports recap. This has been such a ridiculous season for me filled with emotions of sadness led to joy, led to fun, led to ouchies led to now. Yeah I just said ouchies. I told you I’m socially awkward.
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Question for you:
- 1. Tell me about your sports rival. I know you have one.
- 2. What’s a humerous award you have received?
Well it’s not so much a rivalry, but yesterday I did a 10K, and the race oragnizers posted a pic of the awards (which were glasses) on their facebook. The 2nd place age group glass was orange, which is the color of my college football team’s biggest (and most hated) rival. So my coworker and I joked that it would push us to run harder because neither of us wanted an ugly orange glass in our homes (unfortunately she wound up with one, tho).
I think it’s really neat that you guys had a little competition between the schools and got that candy bar as a prize
. I know it’s not much but the candy and note are pretty sweet! Plus you ran an awesome time, I wish I could run a 20 minute 5k!
Hahahah. That’s an awesome prize. Way to go. I don’t even think I could get down to a 20 minute 5k in the next three years. Yikes.
I always have to stretch more often in the winter, and my muscles always feel tighter during cold runs (even with lotsa bundling). Good job running in 21 degrees! It was around 40 this morning for my run, which was much nicer than 20s. The best award I won was in 8th grade – most gullible for the yearbook.
You are da best woman.
In high school, we had a rival school that we were always against because this one girl was super fast. We are beating them this year I think. I don’t know. I don’t pay attention to high school anymore.
But yeah. Okay.
I received an award for being the nicest. If only people knew the real me and how much of a bitch I am.
In high school our rival was the high school across town, on the West side of the river. I don’t remember any humorous awards
I love that index card and snickers bar, perfect prize!
Awesome job.
Congrats of getting first female
In High School my sports rivals were 2 of my friends. Most of my group of friends were made up of overly competitive girls…sometimes could get bitchy but we were close at the same time.
I also have had a super tight hamstring that has me convinced that I have like a broken pelvis. Because that makes sense.
Maybe we are both just crazy and uninjured.
Great Job!! I’d say my sports rival was a girl I ran against in hs. I never beat her. It was totally a mind thing as 90% of running is. Well, we went to diff colleges. I beat her at Regionals!! I mean crushed her. Our team made it to Nationals (in california and we got to go to Hollywood!!!!) and her team got 3rd and didn’t. I’d say that was my biggest sccomplishment in my running career.
I am so competitive. That’s why yesterday was so hard. If I had run, the rival school wouldn’t have run. Their number one girl and I went head to head at so many races. Ugh it makes me so mad but I’ll just have to get over it. It’s not like I would’ve gotten a prize as cool as yours – I’ll take a snickers bar with a cool message over some crappy medal anyday! Hopefully the taper will help your hamstring get it’s act together!
Ummm I love the Snickers pic. It reminds me of that “you’re not you when you’re hungry” commercial
And a funny award I’ve received is “Most Likely To Be Drunk At A Social Function” hahahaha. What can I say? I like to have fun 
I think everyone that makes me feel undertrained is my sports rival! I won some weird award in highschool about being most likely to compete. Or something like that!!!
Haha you’re a hoot Hollie! Way to go on the race though! I heard I almost got “Best to take home to parents” in high school, but didn’t thank goodness.
I think I did one of my highest mileage weeks of the year thanks to the race this week- give or take 45 miles woop! Now to enjoy a few days of chilllll….. Do you think that would be alright?
Congrats on the sweet award…that is awesome! Candy is definitely my kind of award. I once got an award for most easily bruised…? Silly swimmers made that one up. I had a huge rival throughout high school swimming named Kasey from one of the local high schools. We went back in forth in the 100 fly each time we swam but she quit senior year! I do believe I was the last one to win though