University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
From the Trail
9/22/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
From the Trail
This is what we have done for the last couple of weeks:
Monday, September 9 - We ran hills for 30 minutes.
Tuesday - we ran around campus for 45 minutes and lifted weights at our new athletic facility .
Wednesday - we went to Van Hook Golf Course and did 4x1-mile repeats. We were getting ready for our home meet.
Thursday - we ran around campus for 30 minutes and lifted weights. We ran 30 minutes, because we had a meet the next day.
Friday - we had our home meet at Vann Hook Golf Course. We performed well. Our team agrees we have the hardest course, which is a good thing, because it is our training ground; therefore, we have an advantage over all of the other teams. We came in fifth overall. I did pretty well. I thought I was going to die, but I serve an awesome God! He gave me strength to finish up the race hard. My time was pretty good. I thought our team did well. Jessica and Keri came in the top 10, which was great!
Saturday and Sunday - we rested or ran on our own.
Monday, 16 September - we went to Van Hook and ran 4x1-mile repeats.
Tuesday - we ran on campus for 45 minutes and lifted weights.
Wednesday - we went to Tateum Park and did a fartlek. We jogged 10 minutes, ran one minute hard, two minutes easy, two minutes hard, two minutes easy, three minutes hard, two min easy, and repeated the 1-3 minutes hard again and jogged for 10 minutes for a cool down.
Thursday - we ran around campus for 30 min and lifted weights.
Friday - we went to Tuscaloosa for the Alabama Crimson Classic Invitational. We came in sixth-place, overall. Jessica and Keri came in the top 15. Once again, our team did performed well. Most of the our runners beat their times from our home meet. Unfortunately, I did not beat my time, but that is okay. I have the next meet to do that! Although, I know I could have ran better, I think I still ran well.
Our next meet is on October 12 at Mississippi College in Clinton, MS. The Jackson State meet on September 28 (my birthday!) was cancelled. A few of our meets have been cancelled, so we could rest in between. I am so proud of our team and confident in our team this year. I know we have the talent and the determination to continue to soar. I think we will have a pretty good year! Go Cross Country!!!!!!! Go Eagles!!!!!!!!!
