THOUGHTS OF A FIRST-TIME STEEPLER

Four days ago, I raced my first* steeplechase. It was exhilarating; it was exciting; it was. . . exhausting. I honestly didn’t know what to expect, so, to save you from also not knowing what you’re getting yourself into (if you ever decide to run it), I’ve compiled my thoughts from the day. 7:45 am

RUNNING (SHOULD BE) FUN

You know when you expect really great things out of yourself and then all of a sudden you can’t even muster up “okay” results because anything besides great is automatically bad?? Yeah, that sucks. And in the weeks following nationals (yay, whoot whoot, I qualified!), my running was exactly there. Any time I ran, I