2 blondes on a scooter with 3 rugs

so we are still trying to furnish our house, this weekend me and gen went searching for some dining chairs and a coffee table and a rug. we came back with 3 rugs, a dining table centre piece, which i have to say is very creative, and some place mats. We bought the rugs, one which was huge, and then realised that we have a scooter to take them home on. I think we managed to roll them pretty well, was only a few miles home. apart from the rug we sat on being awfully bristly, it went well.

The raccooons

mountain dew invitational

FIRST GATOR MEET OF THE YEAR-THE HOME MEET

Our first meet of the year was last friday. It happened to be the hottest weekend of the summer. We were racing on the friday evening because of the football game the saturday. It didnt cool down much and humidity must have been about 99.9% as i lost about a gallon of water just on the warmup. We were all looking in good shape. Stacey and Bec wearnt able to race because of injury and transcript problems. So that left the majority of us to still run. We all ran together for the first mile. hit 5.20, was a little quick, so people started dropping off. But I felt pretty good so just slowly started to move away. I felt bad for not running as a team the whole way. But I didnt feel like i was really pushing it that much, the last mile was tough but the golt course has some big hills down the far side that we go up, so that was probs why. I ended up finishing in 17.25. averaged about 5.30's. but ran on my own the last two miles. The team did great. Apart from ali falling on her face at the start all went really well.

Looking forward to the next- Notre Dame on the 3rd oct.

NEW HOUSE AND RACCOONS

So I moved into a new house right by the track. I am living with team mates gen and julie, and stacey who has just joined the team from england. We had been here a few days, finally got some seating and a bit of furniture and the house is looking great. Lovely real fire place and wooden bench swing outside. Plus a good driveway to get cars parked and make some money on gameday. After a few weeks we kept being waken up at night by some noises in the roof. There are squirrels everywhere but it sounded a lot larger than a squirrel. It actually sounded like a human could be in our attic, and every night it would make so much noise and drag a dead body around our loft. We were a little worried. We knew it couldnt be a rat or anything of that size. We googled it and came up with the theory of it being a raccoon. Well for the first week out landlord didnt believe us. Said it was just squirrels on the roof. We finally got the courage to take a quick look in the attic. when I say we, i dont mean me. There was no way I was going up there. We came face to face with two cute little faces. It was two baby raccoons about the size of kittens. We took photos and informed our landlord who was meant to deal with the problem. This didnt happen very soon. Our views went from wanted to capture the mother and her babies and release them into woods to wanting to go up there and shoot them ourselves. as 4 nights leading up to our first meet of the year with only a few hours a night of sleep was not fun. Eventually traps were set outside. The next morning we woke up to find a disgusting stinky possom. If people dont know what a possom is then please google it. They are diseased rat type things that are awfully ugly. FINALLY we caught the mother raccoon and another male. But no sign of the babies. A few days later we found them swinging from a tree in our garden, so they were caught and our landlord who is almost definently an animal rights activist drove them an hour to get goats milk???? not sure either??? On the friday we had the first meet of the year.

THE FIRST POST...

So ive started blogging in an attempt to keep in touch with everyone a little better. Just to let you all know what I'm up to and how uni and all my races and training are going. Hopefully I'll get some good photos from each of my races up also.

As you all know I was stuck in the 99% humidity and 100' heat all summer. I had to take two summer classes, as because I transferred it meant I was behind in terms of school work, as not all my credits transferred. At least I got some good training in. I had to rehab for my foot also, as have haglunds deformity in my left heel, and its still causing me some problems. Started back at uni at the end of august. so since then I have just been training very hard and studying very hard. Its still around 30-35' each day, but seems to be cooling down. Hopefully in time for my birthday (october 8th for all who forgot!!) I'm not going to be religious about it, but il just post on here after races and when I have time, or if something very exciting happens!!