LDACISATAN

Hey everyone!

I hope your summer has been going well. Keep training hard and we will have an amazing season this year. I've been back in Daytona for a few days now but its time to play army for the month up in Ft. Lewis Washington.... so it should be interesting. I cant wait to get back and be with the team! Anyways just wanted to say hello and good luck for the rest of your summer training. :)

CARPE DIAM!!!

-Britt

Hi =D....finally

Hey guys! So, now that it's been forever, I finally actually sat down and join this awesome blog! I don't have much to say.....I surprised Rebecca at her grad party on Sunday! It was a blast meeting all her friends/family. Just a warning: Rebecca is beast as KANJAM! I getting super excited for the season!

Summer Excitement!!

Hey ladies!!

So, I think I told you all already... but I have an internship with a local police department in the major crimes division (aka detectives). Well, wednesday night I was on the front lines of big news! It was crazy! I love the internship, and although not getting paid sucks, the experience is so awesome!

Here is the actual link (http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?npt=NP1) to the event on CNN, you can see my overly pale self in a blue shirt walking around with a few detectives. It was pretty sad, a lady drowned in a public pool and was at the bottom for THREE days, during which hundreds of people were swimming in the same pool! Not only that, a little kid told TWO lifeguards that he saw a lady go down to the bottom and they both blew him off. It is sooo crazy! The whole state of MA is involved. I sat in on some interviews telling the friends and family that she had died, it was terrible. I don't know how people can do that on a regular basis!

Anyways, running has been going pretty well. I run at least twice a week with some girls I ran with in high school so it is a lot easier to stay motivated when we can keep on each other to keep going. Unfortunately my weight lifting in the arms is slacking, because I sprained my wrist! I was biking and was literally no more than 30 seconds from being home and done and I went over a curb, into the grass, and fell forwards and had to catch myself before I landed on my face! It's not too bad now, I just wear a yuckie brace but at least it wasn't my legs/feet!

I am going to florida next weekend, for my birthday and to visit Henry. I am NOT looking forward to the heat, I don't know how some of you do it in the summer! I try to run at night/early morning here to avoid MA heat, and that is nothing compared to Florida! If any of you will be around let me know and I'll join you for a run :)

Happy Canada Day by the way! Today is a bigger deal for my family than 4th of July haha. I can't believe it is July already! just over a month until we all have to be back for training, WOOHOO!

I miss you school a lot actually, I can't wait for the semester and training to start!

Hope you ladies have a good 4th of july!

xo

life in the real world

hey chicas!

So first off, big thanks to Kira for inviting us "oldies" to join you on the summer blog (i remember back when Jen and I first came up with it, so its great to see you are keeping it up). To the new women joining the Eagles, congrats and welcome! I can't say i have too many wise words of wisdom at this point, but as Jen mentioned, take advantage of the summertime to stay in shape and be ready to do work in the fall.

And now for all the glorious details of my life now that i am a graduate: i have started working at Northrop and have thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet new people and do "real" engineering. I joined our office flag football league and started playing soccer again...then i tore my ACL. Surgery was last Thursday last week, so i've been recuperating at home this week, prepping myself mentally for the long road of therapy ahead of me. But i'm staying positive and hoping to be ready (at least somewhat) for the home meet in october :)


best of luck to everyone this summer and coming fall season. take care of yourselves (eat, sleep, and ice!). i look forward to seeing records fall :)

hasta luego,

Alex Salinas

Nother Newbee

Hi. I'm Rebecca. I'm a newbee. I'm really nervous about this blog thing. Never know what to say. Well one thing I can say is that I'm still in track season and get super nervous when anything about XC is brought up.
I ran at States today. It was kinda hot. It was at Caledonia-Mumford. (Its only exciting because of the Mumford part- like Mumford and sons.) I'd love to take a break or just worry about mileage but I have Nationals next week and I'm trying the 1600m. (I run the 1500m) (and today I witnessed a girl run a 4:17 1500m!! Aslin Cuff was second at 4:19! I was amazed.)
Prob should say that I ran the 4by800 and we were trying for the section record but missed it by 6 seconds. We ran a 9:21. I was 4th for the first time for our group and ran a 2:19, which I was happy for and wanted to pass out afterward.
I will say more in the future but I'm pretty tired right now. Aleiyah's grad party was today so Yay! for her!

-Rebecca Love- Peace to all!

New Girl

Hello!

Thanks, Kira, for the blog invite; I'm excited to hear from everybody on the team!

So since I am one of the new girls, I guess I could just share a little about myself... I am Bailey K. Eaton and am from Whitefish, Montana. Whitefish is in the northwest corner, about 2 hours from the Canadian border and sits right on the edge of Glacier National Park. Besides running xc and track, I love to tap dance, hike, ski, snowboard, and I LOVE to eat ice cream! I am coming to ERAU to study AE and can't wait to come down to FL.

So far the first week of the training plan has gone great! It has been rainy almost every day but getting out and running on the trails near my house has been fun nonetheless! Starting on Monday, I will be at a running camp here in the valley through Thursday. I am so excited for it - we get to run on amazing trails and it is a super fun camp. Besides running, I am working at a small golf course restaurant in the next town over as a waitress and absolutely love it! For now I don't really know what else to say!

I hope everybody is enjoying summer and that your training is going well! I can't wait to meet you all and be a part of your team!

----Bailey K.

Once again... another adventurous summer...

Hey everyone!!!

I hope everyone is having an amazing summer so far. As most of you know i've been in Michigan with dylan and his family (unfortunately having to take physics 2... not my favorite subject! and not going to lie... its odd living with a family when i've been away from mine for so long haha) but overall it has been an interesting experience so far. There are hills... everywhere... which are my "favorite" but i know they help me so much so i shut my mouth and just keep running. There has been uber bipolar weather up here, one minute its like 98 and the next it's in the 50's again! Kinda annoying when i only packed a few long shirt things to run in.

Besides taking my physics class i've been stuck trying to cram in studying for the MCAT (which i'm sad to say i may need to leave camp early... only by one day... so that i can be back in Tampa to take my MCAT). So my brain is on super overload trying to remember everything and understand it without freaking out haha.

I'm pretty excited though because i finally can go to High School camp to help out this year, even if it is only the second week. I'm hoping it will be just the thing to put me on the edge when i have to take my APFT at LDAC this year. As most of you know i have Army training this summer and will be in Ft. Lewis, WA for LDAC (July 8th-August 5th) so i lose out on a month of xc summer training but i'll be back for our camp just in time thankfully. I'm not nervous for LDAC, just not looking forward to the constant "HOOAH's" and crawling around in the dirt while being yelled at, lets just hope i can hold my opinions inside haha. Anyways just wanted to fill you girls in! I miss you all and cant wait to hear what everyone is up to this summer!

Oh and btw, Thank you Kira for getting this all set up again! :)

-Brittany

Summer

Hey ladies!
Happy summer :) hope everyone is having a lovely day. Thanks for the invite Kira! I'm excited you guys are carrying on the summer blogging tradition lol. I think it is worthwhile. As an "oldie" I guess I'm supposed to offer some sort of advice or something, but I really don't have anything to say except take advantage of your summers and teammates while you still have them.
As for my life/training it's been going well. I'm healthy and aiming to average 65 mi/wk July through September with a (hopefully 19:00) 5k in October. Then I'll try to bump that up to 75 and run 1:30 for a half in January. Big goals, but why not? Other than that, I'm getting ready to launch gogorunning.com - but more on that in july!
Thats about it! Happy trails!

Love always (no matter where I coach)
Jennnn

First Post of Summer 2011!

Hey Ladies!

I hope you all get signed onto this alright so we can start catching up about training and life this summer!

I'm home in MASS for the summer, and we have had hail for the last two nights! It makes running rather difficult since I work at my internship at a police department in the major crimes unit in the mornings, and at a cafe in the afternoons!

I have kept up with it pretty well so far, just doing basic stuff. Now I have the official schedule from Roso I should be set. If any of you new girls didn't get the schedule let me know! I am healthy! (keep your fingers crossed!).

I am really excited for this season, for myself, and mostly for the girls team!



Hope to hear from you all soon.

- Kira.


p.s. be sure to put your name on all your posts so we know who it's from when we comment!

Pre-season!

Hey girls! I hope everyone is enjoying the last few weeks of summer and getting excited for pre-season :) I know I am!

I got back to Florida from Oregon on Sunday morning...it's nice to be home but the humidity is killing me! I really, really miss the Northwest weather. I ran hills in Daytona this morning and my legs didn't hurt too bad, but I just couldn't get enough air into my lungs! Hopefully I get acclimated to it soon enough.

I owe all of you girls a BIG apology now, and then again when I see you. I will be missing the first few days of pre-season & will be driving myself up to camp a day or two later than you all leave. My family planned a last minute family vacation while I was still in Oregon & they forgot to check camp dates with me. The tickets are non-refundable at this point in time, so there's no getting out of it. I leave this Sunday the 8th & will be back early Monday the 16th. So hopefully I'll be up at camp that night or by Tuesday. I'm kind of nervous about driving up there, especially since I'll have jet lag from being a few time zones away, and if I needed to call the coaches (or anyone for that matter) they won't even have reception! Once again, I'm really sorry, it's not fair to all of you...it's really not typical of me to skip out on things of such importance and shouldn't happen again.

Would you girls want to make shirts again this year? If so, and you have any suggestions, let me know so I can try to get some stuff together to bring up with me :) Or if you girls have any other fun things in mind to make or do, share your ideas! :)

one more week!!!

So only a little over a week til we are all back at school for xc! can't wait to see everyone.
i've been getting stuff ready to move into the apartment with Kira and Karina! YAY!
my training has not really gotten any better... especially since i am not allowed to run this week becuz i got hit by a car. not fun.
my parents didn't get any cereal for almost two weeks... i thought i was going to die... i had to resort to eating the 4 week old box of wheaties :(.. not so good. haha. :)
hope everyone is getting excited for camp though!!
see you all soon :)

~Holly