This week has been a crazy week so far. On Monday our coach planned out for us a tough workout. He had us running on the track doing 3x600's and 6x300's. I was doing pretty good and was keeping a very good pace, and on our 5th 300 my coach looks at me and he says i want you to be in the lead when you hit 200 meters. So we began. In the lead for the first 100 was my friend jamie, and then we came up on the 200 mark. When we passed the pole, i don't know what came over me. All i knew was all of a sudden i was in front of the entire team, speeding ahead, and hardly out of breath. My coach was screaming, "Go, Go, Go!" and my friends sydneys dad was telling me to get my butt up there. In the last 10 meters claire started catching up to me and just barely passed me, but i wasn't too upset because what i had just done, i had never pictured myself to be able to do, and i have to admit i was pretty proud of myself. Then on Tuesday we were supposed to run 5 miles but i had become sick that morning and was not able to run that day, but i see it as a well deserved break! Then on Wednesday we had a 6 mile run, what we did was we ran a steady pace for 10 minutes and then did 90 seconds of all out sprint, and then we slowed back to our normal pace for about a minute, then did 60 seconds all out sprint, and then normal pace for a minute, and then we did 30 seconds all out sprint and then normal pace for another ten minutes. We did this twice and finished our 6 miles in about 45 minutes, which is pretty good. Oh and i forgot to mention that the entire time we ran this, it was raining. On Thursday we did another 6 miles with our coach, and this run was a CP run, which means coach's pace so our run wasn't so easy. But it was definitely an interesting run, our coach was feeling a little adventerous, which he does quite a bit, and he took us running into a area that had a cluster of medical buildings in it. He suddenly stops at one of the buildings and goes, yall come in here with me, i have an apppointment i need to go to real quick, and we all just kind of stand there like,"are you serious?" so we follow him and he goes to the water fountain, gets a drink, turns around and goes just kidding, and starts cracking up, so we follow him out and he takes us up this steep hill and once we get over the hill we see a graveyard right below, and of course, he wants to run through it. So for about 15 minutes we run around in a graveyard, and it was creepy because it was dark and raining. We eventually finish and come back to the school to do some 8 minutes abs, not my favorite, and then he lets us go home. This Saturday we have our first indoor track meet, of which i will be running the 800 and the 4x800 but its going to be one long day. We leave at 6:45 in the morning, we drive 3 hours to Lexington to go to the UK meet, then my race doesn't start till 3:42 and my last race is at 7:45, and we have to go eat afterwards, so i wont be getting home till real late, but oh well. Just another life in the day of what my friends call me, "a running freak."