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