MacKenzie Hill's Blog: Running through pain

posted by Moving Down the Right Track
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 9:12am EST

An inspirational daily journal by a professional track & field athlete dedicated to her dream.

Hey guys,

I know this is a late one, but my day kind of got away from me. It started with rolling out of bed and hitting the track. Today’s workout will help me through the crucial ROUNDS! Man, last year was my 1sttime running 3 rounds and boy was I in for a surprise. Going into my last round I thought I was going to die, my little legs were shot, my body was hurting, and I had never gone through anything quite like that before. This year I have been better preparing myself to handle it. Rounds are nothing you can really understand until you have been there and since I hadn’t I didn’t know what to expect. Walking away from the rounds I was thinking, next time I will be ready I know what to expect and I will not be paralyzed by the lactic acid in my legs. Today, during my warm up I felt that my legs were dead, and Coach Kennedy surely had me out there running on them lol. I was forced to pick them up and sprint through Monday’s practice. Although, I was hurting and felt like bricks were weighing me down I know it will make that last day at USA Nationals easier. However, after lunch, I was at LONG BEACH WILSON with my training partner jumping in the ICE BATH. Man, my body needed that it had 2 tough workouts back to back and like in the rounds I needed to ice it down.

Tomorrow I will see Rachel so she will be able to workout some of the damage I have done. I can’t wait to get to her so she can get me ready for Thursday practice, then after her I am going to hit that weight room again. This time we will be with put weight Coach Rob so we will probably be working on some technical stuff. But before I get to that point I have to finish my homework, that’s what I have been working on since I took my nap. Yes I said nap, that workout wore me out and I needed rest before I could finish my work otherwise I would have just been looking at words on a page wasting time. Well I will talk to you soon.

xoxo MacKenzie

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MacKenzie Hill's Blog: Running through pain

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