Ah, much better.

Today was my second track practice. My legs finally lost that icky jelly feeling they had, along with the painful, dull ache. Now they hurt just a bit, which is good enough for me.
Of course we stretched first. Then we did ab work as a warm-up--25 short, 25 long crunches in these three forms: legs flat on the floor, legs straight up in the air, and legs at a 90-degree angle. That's...wait, I'm thinking...150 crunches. Wow.
Then we did a warm-up run, ten minutes around the school. It was funny, because I was expecting it to be kind of painful, but I fell into a routine. I walked about an eighth of each lap and ran the rest (I walked from the corner of one building to a signpost about ten feet away). It was nice to turn the corner and go, "Oh, my God! We're done already?" when I saw about half the team getting ready for our daily sprints/form work/ab work stuff. It was actually really, really cool. Then we did all that daily stuff. I was so proud of myself for actually being able to complete a ladder today--and we had to run farther! Ten minutes of sprinting and jogging up a hill.
After that, we split up to do long-distance and sprinting. It felt so good to sprint, even though my time was kind of screwed up because I tripped. 9 seconds, 3...whatever comes after the seconds. I'm not sure how far we had to go, though, so it makes it kind of pointless to even try to deliniate it. And then we got to stretch and go home! Yay!
I have to say, I really hope I make the team. I've made some friends on the team already and I would hate to have to say good-bye after only two practices.
Anyway, I'd better go. It's getting late (for me, anyway--we have to wake up really early tomorrow morning!) and a good runner gets plenty of rest. Yeah, right.
Love,
Caiti