Athlete Training Blog

STATE Week- It’s definitely one of my favorite weeks of the year. Presents on presents on presents and lots of bonding time with my team. We were on fall break Thursday & Friday, so we headed down to Terradise Friday morning. Nothing beats Coach driving the mini bus. We stopped at Noodles & Company for [...]

  State 10-27-12 So to start off with I just want to tell everyone greatjob who competed in the State Finals. I’m glad to say that this was my third year competing in it. My sopmore year I ran a 17:29, junior year a 16:57, and this year cialis daily I went 16:45. Every year I [...]

  10-28-12 Well this past weekend was sure an eventful one! Congratulations to everyone who competed at the state meet, Anna and Conner, and to all the seniors who ran their last races. It was truly an experience being able to compete in the fastest girl’s race ever! State It was cheap viagra online my [...]

Hello everyone, I hope semi-state went well! These two weeks have been very exciting and a lot of fun to follow. My team and I competed in the Carmel Semi State this weekend which is always very tough. We knew we had a chance to get the sixth spot but it would be very close. [...]

10-23-12 I am very excited for this upcoming weekend; I can’t wait for the state meet! This is always one of the best weekends of the whole year. Congratulations to everyone who has qualified for the state meet! Unfortunately, my team will not be toeing the line with me this weekend, but we gave it [...]

Hello everyone, October is definitely the most exciting month of the year! It’s been great running in the races, and it has almost been just as exciting following how everyone else did. It’s awesome seeing good friends succeed and run fast. We competed in the Ben Davis Regional this weekend. We knew it would be [...]

  10-14-12 This past week sure has been order cheap cialis online a very exciting one! My team made it to semi-state for the first time since the 1998; it is such a great feeling to have all the hard work you’ve put in pay off. My teammates really deserve it! Congrats to everyone else, [...]

  Start of Post Season: I would first off like to congratulate all the runners on their regular season! I hope everyone one reached their goals they had set forth and planned. I feel like this has been one of the most competitive Cross Country seasons in Indiana in a long time. There have been [...]

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a great sectional race. Sorry this took so long, I had a college visit Sunday and Monday so I couldn’t get on to post. My post cialis without prescriptions season has started off kind of shaky. I finished fourth in my race, and just was never really in [...]

As the post season begins, I find myself more and more excited and sad at the same time. This is by far my favorite time of the year, but I can’t believe I only have twenty more days with EXC. As coach says, “We’re just keeping the dream alive”. We won our conference meet this [...]

  10-7-12 I am so excited that post season is right around the corner! It is always my favorite time of the year. The weather has been very enjoyable to run in these past few days. This past week was a harder one workout wise; as I am sure it was for everyone else around [...]

&nbs generic cialis online p; Sorry about the long wait! Training has been going really well. I was able to hit my peak mileage of the season two weeks ago. Now taper, taper, taper for semi-state! It’s always right about now in the season that I begin to realize how close the end of the [...]

Hello everyone! October is here, which means the post season is upon us. I hope everyone is excited and ready to run fast. I ran in the Hoosier Crossroads Conference this Saturday at Noblesville. I was seeded in the top ten, so that was definitely my goal. I love the Noblesville course, and I was [...]

  I apologize for the long time since our previous blog! It has been a CRAZY month to say the least. In the past three days, Brit and I have both PR’ed, went straight out to New York for our official visit to Columbia, and been through six different airports. Add homework to the mix [...]

Hello everyone! I hope you all had great races this weekend! This weekend I was at the Southport invitational after a hard week of training. Here is what my week looked like: Monday 9/17: A.M. 5 miles easy.. it was freezing out! P.M. 1 m w/u 10 x 1 min on 2 min off 2 [...]

9-24-12 I am so glad that fall weather is finally here! I apologize for taking so long to put up a new blog, I would have loved to do one, but I have been swamped with school work. It has been an amazing past two weeks being a part of some of the fastest girl’s [...]

Hey everyone! I hope everyone had a great race this weekend. This week was recovery to make sure we were fresh for Flashrock. I was really looking forward to this meet after last week’s performance. After the last meet my confidence was shaken for a few days, but it made me hungry and motivated for [...]

9-10-12 This past week, I had my first two big invites of the year! I am very excited for the New Prairie Invitational this weekend! I can’t wait! I really enjoy running at New Prairie, I love courses with woods. I feel like I can just go run without everyone watching me, and I always [...]

  First off, I would like to say I hope everyone’s cross country seasons are going smoothly thus far. It has been a real exciting season and we are only 3 weeks in. It has been real nice to see guys from other schools that we just don’t get to see very often (I’m talking [...]

Hey everyone! I hope all of you had a great race this weekend. This was a hard training week; we decided to train through this meet because it is very small and we usually have no trouble winning it. I went a little harder this week, and got some good training in. Here is what [...]

  Hey everyone! Sorry that I have been slow to put up my blog. I got caught up last weekend in studying and going to Indy with some friends. Last week was a decent week and this week I got sick Monday night and have been sick since then. Week 2, 8/27-9/2 Monday 8/27: First [...]

The cialis online Bizarre Meet Experience: It is Tuesday, which means Eastbrook (my school) is racing at Blackford. When we first get there they tell us that we will be running at 5:30 after the JV race- we could take our time. Then, at 4:45 they come and tell us that we are running at [...]

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a great race this weekend. There were some really fast times being thrown down! I had a great week of training, and was ready to run my first 5k. Here is how my week looked: Monday 8/27: AM – 4 miles easy PM – 8 miles moderate at 6:35 [...]

&nbs order cheap viagra p; Last weekend I was at a family reunion and I was asked several time what college I was going to go to. Being a junior, I simply told them I hadn’t decided yet but it got me thinking. I am fairly certain that I want to run at the next [...]

First actual training blog of the season! First off I’ll tell about my summer a little bit. I took 12 days of after my track season, and used June as build up. During June I did some up tempo runs, and moderate runs. During July, I ran 60 miles per week with an exception of one [...]

8/27/12     Well I have officially completed my first two weeks of school! Junior year has proven to be quite a homework overload. My family and I also are hosting a Swedish foreign exchange student this year! Which I really enjoy! She just so happens to be a runner too, so she decided to [...]

Week One 8/20-8/26 Monday 8/20: Today was our first meet, and it was our home opener. The competition at this meet is not honestly that great. There were a few kids that did well. I didn’t get a good night sleep the night before the race because i was up doing my Calculus homework that [...]

  Personal Bests: 800m – 1:57 1600m – 4:16 5000m – 15:44   Accomplishments: 2010 Junior Olympic Team National Champions (Hoosier Harriers), as well as individual All-American Indoor State Record Holder in DMR (10:11.67) in 2011 at Hoosier State Relays 2011 Individual State Qualifier in Cross Country Top 5 finish at University of Kentucky Invite [...]

PR’s  5k- 15:36 3200- 9:43 1600- 4:31 Accomplishments: Three time team state champion, All Conference Indiana, Honorable mention All-state Goals- To win a national championship at GV. Sub 25:00 8k, 30:00 10k (career goals) This season I hope to go sub 26:00 8k. Bio I am an alumni of Columbus North High School. Now a [...]

Personal Bests: Brit 200- 26.3 400- 57.02 800- 2:14.26 1600- 5:01.45 5k- 19:24 Beth 300 hurdles- 45.40 800- 2:11.58 1600- 4:52.92 5k- 18:34 Brit & I have decided to blog for IR our final cross season of high school. We also blog for a website called PrepGold, so the blogs on both websites will be [...]

Personal Bests: 5k: 16:27 3200: 9:48 Accomplishments: Cross Country – 2011 5th place Hendricks County Meet                            2011 4th place South Putnam Sectional                             2011 15th place Ben Davis regional Track – 2012 Hendricks County 3200 Runner Up             2012 Plainfield Section 3200 Runner Up             2012 All Hoosier Cross Roads Conference 3200 – 8th place Bio: Hey everyone! [...]

  My name is Sophie Seward and I’m a Junior at Eastbrook High School (near Marion, IN).  I moved to Indiana from Wisconsin as a 6th grader where I had primarily played soccer.  At the time Eastbrook didn’t offer soccer so I took up cross country along with club soccer and have been running ever [...]

Elena Lancioni – Jr. – LaPorte     Personal Bests 5k (XC) – 18:34 3200- 11:03 1600- 5:09 800- 2:22   2012 Track Accomplishments • DAC MVP 1600, 3200 • Chesterton Sectional- 2nd 1600, 1st 3200 • Chesterton Regional- 2nd 3200 • IHSAA Track State Meet- 15th 3200   2011 Cross Country Accomplishments • Harrison [...]

  Hey it’s Aaron, My personal best are: 1600- 4:35 3200- 9:57 5k- 16:27 Accomplishments: None really so far except team stuff like sectional and regional champs, but i feel this is not important. Goals: This year i have many goals, i want to help my team repeat conference, sectional, regional champs, then be the [...]

7/14/2012   Hello everyone! As you know, my name is Chanli Mundy and I’m a senior who runs for Terre Haute North. Some highlights of my season this year would have to be running a PR of 17:57, being sectional, regional, semi-state champion as an individual and my team, and placing 9th at the State [...]

Regionals/State/MMOC Regionals: If you read my last blog, you saw that there had been a stomach virus going around in my family before regionals. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts to avoid that virus, I started feeling sick the day before the meet. I couldn’t keep very much food down during that day, and although I [...]

  Two Month Check-Up This appointment was very basic. Actually, I wasn’t supposed to come back until the third month, but by then my second surgery (right hip) would be within a few weeks. And because I wanted to be aggressive with my recovery, it worked out well. So, my mom and I went to [...]

  Its been an priviledge to have the opportunity to blog for IR this past season. thanks for those who have been on the ride along with me! The team traveled to IU Friday morning to get a feel for the track. Post run meal was at Subway, where i had their breakfast for the first [...]

Wow…this past weekend was a blast! I am so fortunate to be able to have had the opportunity to run at the state meet. I had a wonderful time watching all the events on both Friday and Saturday and cheering on all my friends! AWESOME job to everyone who worked hard all year and competed [...]

  Week of 5/23/12(week before state) This past week I have dropped my miles down and been preparing for the state meet on Friday! At the beginning of the week my legs just were not feeling too great, I have been rolling them out and taking ice baths to make sure they feel better. Wednesday [...]

Tuesday 5/22 and Wednesday 5/23 Easy runs with plenty of exchanges and strides after. I partner stretched after tuesday which is something i need to do much more often Thursday 5/24 Lafayette Jeff Regional- Started the night out with the 4×8. Fishers made a good move, changing their order. We got 3rd with a 7:55. splits were all a tad [...]

  Week of 5/21/12 Well for this week’s blog, I was just going to reflect on Regionals. Last week was a very eventful week with Sectionals and we had our school prom! I ran about 37 miles last week. Good luck to all the boys at Regionals tomorrow and awesome job to everyone who qualified [...]

  Finally the state tournament is rolling around and so are my legs. Workouts and runs are starting to get shorter and faster and I feel more and more smooth during 400 repeats. Not much more strength work from here, but there’s a lot of sharpening left to be done. At the Sectional, I definitely [...]

  Another motivational video for those interested.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUEl5NKjF5c&feature=BFa&list=FLm38qlb-wl8VyZ6G7xR_Wvw Monday 5/14 My advice to those reading this is to not switch the type of shoes toward the end of the season. I train in the neutral brooks glycerin. I thought that i should try some more minimal shoes for workouts and such. I did a couple easy runs in them [...]

Monday  5/7 6 mile pre meet run then off to my church where we drove downtown to have buca di beppo and film our post high school plans. I ate entirely too much pasta.   Tuesday 5/8 Noblesville Relays- i was suprised to hear it was the 62nd annual running of it. We stacked our [...]

Another solid weekend of racing. This week was the SIAC Meet again at Central Stadium. Cool temps and low winds gave perfect conditions for some fast times in the distance events. The 3200 was again the highlight of Thursday night. Tyler and I opened fast in a 4:33 mile, then the race began. I surged [...]

    Week of 5/7/12 Monday –Easy 5 miles with strides. Other: Core Tuesday- DAC Conference Meet. 12 minute warm-up, stretches, & plyos. I ran the 1600 and the 3200. I was excited to run both races for the first time this year! I ran well and was happy with how I did. 12 minute [...]

Learning to walk again Week 4 This was by far the best week yet. Each day I got stronger and stronger and was beginning to learn how to get around and do things without using my left leg. I was impressed when I was able to get myself on the ground and lay flat on [...]

  Week of 4/30/12 Monday –Easy4 miles with strides. Other: Core Tuesday- DAC meet against Chesterton and Lake Central. I ran the 1600, 800, and 4×4 today. It was a very rainy meet. Normal 12 minute warm-up and cool down. Other:Plyos Wednesday- Medium/long day of 7ish miles. Other: Core, plyos Thursday- 2 sets of 400 [...]

monday 4/30 This was supposed to be the day of the zionsville fishers home meet, but in typical indiana weather, it stormed. Luckily i ran a little before the meet since i kinda thought it wouldget cancelled. The 4×8 guys did a 8x(2 minutes on 2 minutes off) to get a little something in. The [...]

This week was the first week I really feel that I have shown my fitness. My race-week began Monday with a regular dual against Evansville Central. The plan going in was to either go for the 4×800 school record or the 1600 record, depending on how my teammates were feeling. One of the other legs [...]

4/23 Pre meet run with hand offs and strides 4/24 Hendricks County Championship- Did a longer drawn out warmup since we thought the meet started at 5 but it was actually 5:15. Ran 2nd leg of the 4×8. We stacked it but didnt really run all out i guess you could say as We went [...]

  Week of 4/23/12 Monday –Easy 5 miles with strides. Other: Core Tuesday- DAC meet against Portage and Michigan City. I ran the 4×8, 1600, and 800 today. Normal 12 minute warm-up and cool down. Other:Plyos Wednesday- Medium/long day of 7ish miles again with strides afterwards. Other: Core, plyos Thursday- Easy day of 5 miles. [...]

  Just came off a big last 2 weeks of racing and training.  Went out and competed in the Mt. Sac Relays.  Ran a PR in the steeple of 9:05.6.  Not exactly what i wanted but it was still a decent race.  Came back the next day at Asuza Pacific University to run a 1500.  [...]

  I decided not to include last weeks logs because quite frankly I forgot to record them. I had my senior project presentation, prom, 2 major invitationals, the Academic Super Bowl area competition, and 2 lacrosse games so logging runs wasn’t in the front of my mind. I think I ended up with around 60 [...]

4/21 – 4/29 Last Saturday, April 21st, was a crazy day for me. I quadrupled, running the 4×1600, 4×800, and SMR at the West Lafayette Relays and finished out the day by going to prom. The day before the meet I had a bit of the sniffles but didn’t think much of it. 4×1600: I [...]

Week 2 continued  The rest of the weekend with Brittanie went pretty smoothly. I hadn’t thrown up and thought I was finally in the clear. Boy, was that a joke. Late on Sunday night I started throwing up again and this continued for several days. Later in the week we called the doctor in St. [...]