Let the Morning Runs Begin!!

Before I get to the bulk of this post, let us take a minute to note that our dear friend Mary Hobbs is turning 21 today!! Happy Birthday Mare, we love you!!!  On Monday night the Hobbs family took Mary out to Tango and she came back with the biggest cupcake ever, made by the best protege ever...Nat.  Here's a pic of it- it was delicious! We commemmorated her birthday last evening by going to bed at 11:00 because we had....Morning Runs!! Mary's first (and best) birthday present of the day.

So basically it was a normal morning run. Cory has a new minion named Kevin from Cabrini. He just stood there awkwardly.  We learned cheek to hip pocket AGAIN, but somehow avoided doing that thing where you stand up against the wall and essentially run into it, which I hate because my shirt always rides up while hopping about.  Also, the entire women's Ultimate team showed up. I felt really bad for them though because the website start time is 7:15 and it starts at 7 (and we didn't end until 8:37...) so they were late, which of course Cory disapproves of.  So he proceeded to ignore them throughout the day, but at least Coach went over and apologized for the time change.  Two of them had to drop out and I feel really bad because Cory is of course going to be a jerk to them, but I'm impressed that they are willing to show up and do it and think he should try to be nice as a result.  Also, I asked if we could do some sort of name game because I don't know who any of them are (or any of the soccer freshmen) and think it would be good to have some unity so everyone feels less awkward, but I'm not sure other people were into that...so we'll see. 

Went through the warmup, did some buildups, running technique and then a circuit.  So we weren't on teams we just all had to do 4 rounds of the circuit continuously.  And Cory was timing it.  It started with 10 pushups, but they were being sticklers about having your elbows really far in when they explained it, so we all did girl pushups.  Then 5 burpees, which apparently were supposed to include jumping up and a pushup while in the middle, and then a 5-10-5 down backwards,  and back forwards.  So it didn't sound that bad. Until you tried to do 10 good pushups the way they wanted us to.  After that, our arms didn't really work anymore.  So Coach yelled at us that soccer was going so much faster and we were just trying to do the form of the stupid things right.  In the end I think we all cheated on some pushups and burpees (props to anyone who didn't because I couldn't get anywhere near having my chest on the ground by the end) and Mary Ronnie and I all finished last except for some Sneetches.  Interestingly Mary Ronnie and I were all next to each other and taking our time trying to get through those pushups, so I was proud of us.

Then we went to lift and did 8 sets of everything.    Cory didn't quite get why I wanted to do things out of order (because the WHOLE team was lifting then and we had TRX stuff and I didn't want to stand around and wait forever) but he did let us and we ended up finishing in only an hour, which was impressive.

Power Yoga starts tonight, so I guess Mary and I will be playing the double shower game today.  Bringing my class time today to 1.5 hours and my field hockey time to 4 hours.  Interesting ratio, isn't it?

So now Mary's in class and I'm going to sit here and make her a card and watch the Bachelor.  And finish writing Dayna and Brooke's PAF recommendation letter. They gave me about 27 hours notice to do it (I think they had just decided to do it), but ended up deciding to do 2nd round apps, so that worked out nicely.

Snow was all washed away by rain and it's  a lovely windless 45 degree day!

Love from Haverford,
Courtney