RUNNING BUDDY

Today I’m sore. I always find that it’s harder to get yourself up and running when your sore. I mean, you feel so accomplished. You feel that there is a reason behind your pain, and that you worked so hard to reach the point of soreness your at, that your vindicated out of a day of running. That is how I feel today.
I recently found myself a highly motivating running partner. My roommate allison has become my number one training partner for all this marathon business. We are actually trying to run the Spirit of Saint Louis marathon in April as a team with all the field hockey girls, but Allison is the only other person as serious about this goal as i am. So far we've only been training seriously for a few days, but she's doing a great job of pushing me....actually, she is the one mostly responsible for the incredible amount of soreness i feel today. We ran a running and body weight circuit today with two of our freshman....i don't know if they still want to train with us anymore after what we did to them. Our workout was a circuit of two laps on the track followed by a body weight excercise and we did it 6 times. Each circuit started with jogging the curves of the track, and sprinting the straights. Next, we jogged a normal lap and then started our body weight excercise, then repeat the cycle.
After about the 4th cycle (we had just finished lunges), i felt like my legs were going to give out from under me during the sprints. If i had been blind i would have thought my legs were the size of treetrunks after that workout.....because that's how heavy they felt everytime i had to lift them up to walk.
Needless to say we were sore, but we also felt accomplished. I doubt we'll do a workout that intesnse everyday for training, but it was fun to mix up our training from the usual 4 mile loop.

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."

--Paulo Coelo