Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore

Hey Everyone!

So it's been less than 3 months since my last collegiate season, but I miss it already. like whoah. Just the other day, I was looking for a roomate, and let me tell you it is so sad not to have 10 teammates to choose from! LOL. Though I will say, it is the wierdest thing... there are girls EVERYWHERE here! It's so strange not being a precious commodity anymore! LOLOL I have to open my own doors! How rude! And all the guys have girlfriends it seems! haha not that i'm looking ;)

Anyways, let's see what's going on in my life... I am just strarting to get back into shape after taking most of july off to recover from a long 4 years (err, 7, technically). I went to the UF triathlon club practice a few days ago, and i am thinking about joining if i can't keep my plantar's under control. (yes, still battling). Also, i'm working in a structures lab doing things like shooting roof shingles at glass and building structures to test roofs in the hurricane simulator. It's very cool, but very labor intensive and dangerous hahah. I'm also in the process of finalizing a lease for a 1br apartment, and i'm looking forward to making it home :)

But enough about me! I'm sooo excited for you girls and this season. It's going to be different, that's for sure, but I'm sure it will be wonderful. Oh! Have a blast at camp! My advice: keep your ankles untwisted, and soak up every memory, because soon that's all it will be... aww how sad. okay now something happy. Guess what! If all goes as planned, I'll be in shape to run with you all at UF and the home meet (working on getting an alumni team!). This past week has gone pretty well, so if the trend continues, I'll be available for pacing/racing/cheering, whatever you guys need!

I love you all, even if you are new and i've never met you :) That's what it means to be an Eagle!
<3

Wishing you good luck

Hey ladies,

It's the 3rd of August already, where did summer go!? Despite being at boot camp and now at follow on training the summer has seemed to fly right past. 3 more days and you will all be reuniting in the basketball locker room- meeting the "new kids" for the first time, and for me it seems like I was them (yes you too Salinas!) just yesterday! I know they will be great additions to our team and adequate replacements for those whom we've said farewell to and have moved onto bigger and better things. I am sad to think I will miss all the great memory making moments of camp but am excited for the camp tradition to continue.
Getting back in shape after camp is going to be a job for me. I have to do PT every morning at 645 with the unit I'm attached to but we all know how well ARMY pt stacks up to a real workout! lol. My plan is to run in the evenings and do some core then too. Kentucky seems like good running grounds...some hills, yet flat and hot like FL. I hope it works out for me like planned.

Aside from that I look forward to returning to FL and running regularly. I get back the night of the 21st and school starts first thing the 24th... good bye summer <3

Run fast and hard, Look out for roots, be careful on the gravel and NO injuries at camp!

take care ladies. See you soon.

Kimber

just one more week!

hey chicas!
so i'm sitting here at work...freaking out over my presentation...trying to eat my lunch....when i come to the realization that in one week's time i'll be back on the east coast to see your lovely faces! yay! at the same time, i'm wondering where did the time go?

so an injury update...b/c you kno how difficult i can be...i saw the orthopedic last week and made him listen to my crackling knee. and the first thing out of his mouth was "eeeewwwwww. you poor thing". Thanks Dr. Huber, that makes me feel a whole lot better. So he played around w/ it a little bit, took some x-rays, gave me this sexy brace to wear and told me i'm not allowed to run hills and would be better off not running everyday. que fabuloso! i'm also supposed to do physical therapy for it (which is gonna be a whole lot easier when i don't have to work 10 hours a day) and make an appt to see him again in December when i come home for xmas. Nothing terrible, but the pool and elliptical will still be my friends for a while.

So that's about it. I hope you're all enjoying the last bit of summer. Safe travels!

salinas

revised roster

as of today's date, here is the updated women's team roster (i believe there is one new addition since last i posted it)

Samia Adan
Kira Ball
Karina Coelho
Emily Cook
Brittany Cross
Bea Enckell
Baleigh Hyatt
Kasey Kluge
Erika Langhauser
Beth McCubbin
Alex Salinas
Cassie Schultz
Flo Silva
Kimber Wille

mother of pearl! we have 14 girls...quite exciting if you ask me :)

work, work, work!

well sadly my life has been rather unexciting compared to miss kira (how's the head? got your new phone? when do you get to run?). its been nothing but work and training. don't get me wrong, i love what i do. but the boss is def keeping me busy w/ just two weeks left there. and sadly i too kno the feeling of not running lately; the knees are still making funny noises which is worrying both my parents and myself. so i've been hitting up the gym (bike, pool, elliptical, arctrainer-omg my favorite machine ever!) and i see the orthopedic this friday. so we'll see what happens :\

between that and dealing w/ the family i am so ready to be back in daytona...minus the weather. it's been absolutely gorgeous here!

and to answer kira's question about this year's roster: idk.
haha. that was the roster i received from coach as of the date i posted it. at that time he mentioned there was a possibility of signing a couple more girls before the season started, but nothing was for sure.

well i think that's all i got. hasta luego!

salinas

Two weeks to go!

So, in the past week (week and a half ish) I have had my car break down twice, my phone get wet and die, and had surgery on my head! Turns our I needed a new battery for the car, so it works now. Had to drive my mom's roadtrek (mini RV) around which at first I was totally embarrassed but LOVED it in the end.

Ordered a new phone, thankfully it's under warranty (because I break/lose phones so often!) so it will only cost shipping and then I have to send my wet one back when I get it. It's kind of annoying, well more than annoying without a phone. Plus I don't get to keep all my picture or videos that I didn't save to the website, BUMMER!

So my head.... I have had a bump on the top of my head for a while and over the last year it's gotten bigger so I decided, mostly because I had my parents worrying, to get it checked out and my doctor told me to get it removed the next day! So he did it, it only took like 30-40 min but that was only because he tried doing it with as little cutting as possible. (hopefully none of you are eating while reading this!).

I haven't run since then (Tuesday) because I am not allowed to do ANYTHING, even lifting or core until tomorrow and even then I should stick to stationary biking or walking at first. How frustrating! I tend to lose shape REALLY quickly... not so much in my legs butmy lungs.

I know Salinas gave us the roster earlier, is that for sure? I am hearing rumors of three or so other girls... this is coming from the guys team so I know not to take their word for it but yeah, just curious!

I am really excited to come back to DB, it is finally in the 80s here if we are lucky, so I'm thinking warm! I hope everyone has a fun last two weeks and stays completely injury free.


xo Kira

Loooong run

Arggg... I already wrote this and then it got deleted when i hit some magic button. You all know how much I love writing so here it goes again....

On Saturday I went my for a long run with the running club and the only problem is that there's a front group that takes off too fast for me at the start then a huge gap and everyone else. Guess where I fit in... that's right in the Hugh gap there's Beth! Well so far I've been lucky to find at least one other person to run with, though i had to push myself to keep up so that i wouldn't get lost (ran 7 minute pace for 10miles than die for the last 3). During this long run the guy i run with wasn't there and i was all by myself. At the first water stop I saw the front pack leaving just as I arrived, so i wasn't far behind them. After I got done with the water I started running in their direction and i though i knew how to at least get to mile 7, the second water stop. But i missed the first turn and was lost for a mile, when i found the right path there were lots of people running, but a lot slower than i was. I made it to the second water stop, but everyone that would have ran at my pace already left and so it was hard to also find someone who wanted to run more than 10 miles. Finally this old man said he'll do 13 miles, so i ran with him at a slow pace. after a mile or 2 we saw a couple of people going a different direction and the old man told me to catch up to them b/c they are running longer than 13. So I did, i left the old man and ran up to this couple. I asked them how far they were going and they told me 18 miles!!!!! Oh no i thought, i only wanted to run 14-15miles maybe 16. Now if it were possible they were running slower than the old man, and i could not survive running that long for that slow and they said it would take them around 3 hours to run this. When we reached the 3rd water stop a man popped out from another trail. Thank God he came, b/c he was running much much faster and only going 16.5 miles. So when i finally got done I ran over 17 miles! and it took me 2:19. so I'll defiantly be prepared the our 2 hour long runs and that 3.1 mile race is going to see like nothing!!

Ok the the computer was acting realllly weird when I was trying to type this...

Beth

Im running again!!

i started running last tuesday and it wasnt anything too exciting. coach rosolino gave me my own rehab schedule which consisted of running only 10 minutes a day sometimes. its so hard to stop after only 10 minutes when i finally get in my groove! lol
but my foot feels great!!! *knock on wood* and now the only thing slowing me down is the fact that im out of shape. lol...but i am glad i went to the gym about 6 times a week and biked so much. B/c we alll know how good i am on that bike. haha i have been going nice and slow but i feel like im starting to get into shape! it feels so good...so hopefully ill be ready in time for the season to start :)

Anyways....my best friend from germany came last week too and is staying with me until july 17th. I havent seen him in over 2 years and its sooooo nice to have him around again. About ten of my friends and i are heading down to Miami to stay w/ my good friend Quoman and go shopping, hang out on south beach, and clubbing :) i have never really seen it down there so im pretty excited!

Well i hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend...cant wait to hear about yalls summer adventures!
Love,
Bales :)

sitting, waiting, wishing

Hey there chicas,

So sadly it seems that I do nothing but run and work these days. My tan is slowly fading. lol. Sadder yet, I only have one month left in cali! It seems like I just got here! But then again, I get to return to Daytona and see all of your lovely faces again. Yay! Sorry. I’m kinda rambling on about nothing right now. I’m sitting at work right now with nothing else to do. Actually, I lied. It’s not that I have nothing else to do; it’s that I’ve already put in the maximum hours I’m allowed to work for the week, but since I carpool w/ my dad, I have to wait for him to be done before I can go home. Argh! But such is life. i'm listening to some Jack Johnson (can you not tell from the title of today's post?) and that always puts me in a good mood.

Tonight i'm off to downtown Hollywood w/ the siblings to see our cousin perform at the Knitting Factory. Strange name. but w/e. I haven’t seen him perform before, but according to the siblings he’s really good. So I’m pretty excited about that. more exciting is the fact that there is no work tomorrow. so i get to chill at the beach, read my book, go for a run, and do nothing that requires any thinking.

Hope you all have a fine and dandy 4th of July weekend! And if you must play w/ fireworks, be careful! (i think that was more for myself than anything. haha. ok. i seriously need to get out of here. i think i'm getting cabin fever. or rather, office fever. did i mention there are no windows into my office? that's a bummer.)

hasta luego

-salinas

My first post! :)

Hey everyone!!!
Sorry it's taken me a while to get on here, I'm keeping veryyy busy with my internship and online class. I'm absolutely LOVING Panama City Beach...I was so nervous before I started my internship that I would be bored and lonely all summer. But I made 2 really good friends that are are also interns, and actually grew up here. That helps, because they've introduced me to their friends and shown me everything there is to do around here :) We've also gotten to meet a bunch of the new hires that are just now starting to work on the navy base, or have been here just under a year...there are ALOT of cute, rich, eligible bachelors ladies! haha. I'm going to be sad when my internship is over, it's been a lot of fun and such a good experience...I've learned so much! At work I get to ride on Navy ships and "hunt" mines, meet sailors, run tests in the lab, and debug the navigation system that's on the Navy ship. I also play a lot of Mahjongg (the Chinese tile matching game) when I'm waiting to get help on a problem :) I almost broke 3 minutes the other day, new high score, woo! But anyway, it'll be nice to get back into the normal routine at school, I miss you all!
My first couple weeks here I was doing really well, going to the gym or running right after I got off of work around 4...but the weather is getting ridiculous! I slacked for a few days in there, but I'm getting back into it again :) Yesterday I ran the Hathaway Bridge, which connects the beach with the city, with this cute Navy guy I've been dating :) We're both signing up for a 5k road race on the 19th so I can see where I'm at. I'm sososooo jealous of all you girls and your nice running locations in Sweden, CA, Mass, & MD!!! The humidity here never goes away! But luckily I will be going to Idaho for a week after my internship ends. Idaho State University has the CRAZIEST cross-country course I have ever seen. I will hopefully run it a couple times while I'm there...I'll try to take a picture of the hill at the last 1/4 mile of the course, it's crazy! Hopefully the altitude doesn't kill me ;) I can't wait for camp. I have a feeling this is going to be a great season!
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer, it's hard to believe it's almost over! Enjoy your 4th of July weekend :)
-Erika

I don't quite call it a vacation

Hey Ladies,

This summer has flown by and as far as I could read everyone seems to be holding up fairly well! This next season has potential to be our best yet so stay on the workout wagon :) Good ole Florida throws quite a few curve balls with the weather we've had so I KNOW its been hard to stay consistent but "just do your best, and forget the rest!"
Chris and I have been doing a workout program called P90X. It's rather X-treme, but seems to be good so far. Some great food recipes and one heck of a workout! It wasn't until June or so that I got cleared to run so I am still building up but doing what I can while I strengthen muscles I haven't used in a while.
I leave this Friday, July 3rd, for boot camp with the ARMY to Ft Lewis, Washington. I am there for all of July and will sadly be more out of shape when I am complete with that then I think I'll have EVER been. At least that seems to be the norm for most people. However, I have two more weeks of training in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, where I should be able to resume a normal schedule and workout regiment. The two weeks in Kentucky will be during Cross Country Camp :( so I won't be attending Rocky Bottom Camp with everyone this year either. Missing so much time with the team is very discouraging on my part but I look forward to having a team full of motivation to get my big butt back in shape when I return!
I hope you all have a safe and wonderful 4th of July holiday! Run safe and hard :D

If the only one that knows you quit is you, then you gave up before you ever gave yourself a chance. Fight till the end, remember: 2 minutes later you'll feel just fine!

aloha!

Hi ladies!

I'm trying every day to get a ticket to US but it's expensive and it's cheaper to buy a round trip than one way, isn't that crazy???..anyway, how will i be able to know when i want to go back to sweden?! hallo!! that's no scence.. so i decided to stay over christmas in US and do a trip or something, we were talking about skiing in california, who wants o join?

my practice is going fine, i try to explore differnt kinds of sports and practice and it's a lot of fun.
This morning i was out on run bf job. It's soooo beautiful. No alex, i don't have an awesome beach to run on but im able to run next to the water all the way. Im looking out over the islands with the beautiful trees and flowers out in the ocean and the water is so calm and blue. After my run i jump from the bridge in the ocean! Then i go back to my house, in the garden, and eat breakfast with "fil" and strawberries (from our garden). I havn't found "fil" in US i don't think u have it there but it's really good. It reminds about youghut but much better.

This evening i was at the gym and did weights. Im sure im sore 2moro..lol

2moro morning i have planned doing hills, but i do have a question, when it says 40 min 20 hills on the schedule, is it first 40 min run and then 20 hills, or 20 hills including in the 40 min?!..

Hopefully i see u all in the beginning of aug, wish me good luck finding a cheap ticket!

Bea

Life in MD

The weather here is great compare to FL!!! I found a running club that meets every week to do a long run from anywhere b/w 7-20mi. I'm being pushed there b/c i'm in a small group that runs at my speed and if i lose them i'll get lost after 8mi. There are hills everywhere and my quad burns everyday b/c of those darn hills!! I'm doing a XC series where they host XC meets at different HS courses. My first one was last Friday and it was HARD, the grass was thick and the hills were long and steep. Sad news after my long run on saturday... i pulled my back and i'm in a lot of pain, but it has gotten better since :) I found a chiropractor, that i'll be going this monday!!

For thoses who want to keep reading i'll write about my work so far at APL. For those who don't know right now i'm studying meteorites in the upper atmosphere (~95km) and my supervisor wanted me to make a comparison with other data from my professor at school. Well b4 i wanted to do that i asked him to tell me exactly how the Radar works. After I found out how they retrieve and compute the meteorites velocities, i was very disappointed and now i'm going through their code and fixing how they are computing these velocity winds. Before i did this i was looking at high velocity winds and now after fixing their code, these winds disappear, which is good and bad. Bad b/c now i don't have any reason to compare high velocity data, and good since their program is almost fixed.

-McBeth

me duele mi nalga!

curse my gluteus! i might have slightly pulled my bum on this morning's run (had to outkick an old lady on the beach today. haha. jk. but seriously, lots of ppl running on the strand). should be fine by tomorrow, but i'll keep everyone posted. i'm off to the mall. yay!

salinas

SUMMER

HEY!
I am totally excited for this to be happening again, last year it kinda made me nervous listening to how much everyone ran but this year I am excited.

So, it's finally summer for me... finished summer A classes, took my finals early and twenty min after I was done got in the car with Od and drove to Virginia until 5 am. Thank god he was there or I would have fallen asleep or gotten pulled over numerous times.

Anyways,
Spent about five days at Henry's in Virginia. I love it, so not used to country style houses and land and all that. We spent three nights in a hotel with his family and such for his brother's wedding (which was so fun) and we were even good enough to go to the fitness room two of those days and run on the machines :) I ran once from his house, didn't get very far without my shins hurting so I was pretty annoyed about that, though I wasn't focusing on running while I was there so whatever! haha

Left for home yesterday morning and made the nine hour trip pretty easily, hit NY traffic pretty hard but it was uneventful otherwise.
Had a welcoming party of my parents and a foster kid, nine year old girl who is CRAZY and never stops talking. She is really really nice but a little much to handle, so it will take some getting used to.

Went on my first home run today, not too bad. My shins still hurt almost 24/7 so I try to stay on grass but even that isn't perfect. I can't do two a days so I am in the biking/swimming group for that too. :(

I can't wait to hear what everyone's doing!!
I'm excited for camp and the season already :)

Kira

back on the west coast

hey chicas!

so i left daytona on saturday night on a totally packed flight to atlanta, where we sat on the tarmac for almost 45 minutes! they finally just parked us out there and a bus had to come pick us up and take us to the gate b/c the airport was so packed. the flight to L.A. wasn't any better. jam packed w/ ppl and crying babies and some obnoxious drunks sitting in front of me. argh! but it was all worth it b/c it is so nice to be home. i kno i'm gonna be ready to leave in a couple weeks, but for now its fine and dandy.

work is going great too. ok, so i've only been there one day, but my boss is great, the other interns in my office are so nice; i'm a little apprehensive for what they're having me do, but its exciting nonetheless. the only problemo is trying to fit in working out and training the way i should be as opposed to just going through the motions. already i'm exhausted and its only been one day! i'm sure i'll get more in the swing of things as the weeks go on. especially since i can't wait to hit all the trails and runs i used to do. there's all sorts of fire and horse trails, and hills! yay for hills! and the weather has been perfect. i went for and hour run along the beach and it since it was sunday morning everything was so calm. the only other ppl out were the surfers and cyclists. it was one of those prefectly clear mornings and the only other sounds aside from my breathing were the crashing waves and seagulls overhead. omg. so nice!

anyways. i hope everyone is enjoying summer so far. keep up the running (and biking and swimming). hope to hear from you soon!

salinas

Yay I did it!

I'm able to sign in!!!!! Those darn passwords. lol I've got loads to share, but i'm tired now so i'll post tomorrow! i'm just excited i was able to post anything!!!

-bethie poo

roster

per baleigh's request, here's the roster for the '09 season:

Kira Ball
Karina Coelho
Emily Cook
Brittany Cross
Beatrice Enckell
Baleigh Hyatt
Kasey Kluge
Erika Langhauser
Beth McCubbin
Alex Salinas
Cassie Schultz
Flo Silva
Kimber Wille

sorry no numeros to go with them just yet. but that's what facebook is for. lol.


salinas

Hello Ladies!

Thanks to Alex for keepin up with the blog. I was hoping it was gonna be up again soon....i loved it last yr!
So maybe I am totally clueless but I have no idea who all is doing cross country this year.
I always check online for a list of ppl but i havent found anything. So if anyone wants to help me out i would appreciate it :)

So as alex said "biking and swimming" and well unfortuantely i still fall under that title. Summer time once again and i cant run. ugh....doc says i can try again june 30th....IF i touch my foot and it doesnt hurt. otherwise i have to wait longer. IDK what the deal is....not broken YET. its bipolar...some days i just wake up and it hurts and some days it ok. well i learned to deal and im in the gym more than i ever wanted to be and im biking. i have been doing it on this hill setting sometimes and wow...its a challenge. im grateful for no hills in FL! But other than that my life right now is no too exciting....titusville is a small town. I LOVE IT!
I hope every1 is enjoying the workouts. do them all as much as you can...but dont hurt yourself!!!!!! injuries suck.
I havent run cross country in 2 years now, so it will be interesting....but im soooo excited!

~Baleigh

Heeeeeeey!!!!

Haha...this is fun! I love "blogging". Okey.l im in Sweden now and the weather is not as good as in DB, it's cold, about 60 some days, but mostly the sun is up!
I've started to do the workout for cross country, ahhh im so nervous how i will manage keep it up to yall. I have a lot to work on!! Anyway, i have a meet on monday, and guess what?! Im gonna run the 800!! yey.!!

Tomorrow is a Swedish holiday, we call it Midsummer, and that's the day for doing the swedish frog song, ko-ack-ack-ack..ko-ack-ack, lol. Everyone is doing it and we are dancing around a "summer-tree",

Nice ha?!

Okey ladies that's all for now! Keep on practincing, i did two work-outs today, im so proud. Now i can eat choclate the entire week ;)

Miss yall
love
Bea!!

hey chicas!

hi everyone. first of all, sorry for sending the email out about the password reset. silly me i forgot my password and was trying to figure out how to get it and somehow it got sent out to all of you. anyways. i hope the summer is treating everyone well. i kno i've been able to work on my tan quite a bit. yay! haha. but i'll be leaving for cali this saturday and start my internship on monday. so its all work and no play for the next six weeks :(

as far as updates for the summer, i think it would be fun if we could keep this blog up kinda like we did last year. that way the freshman can get to kno the returners a bit and so everyone can keep in touch. happy running! (or biking or swimming. lol)

salinas