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Loved it!! I did apalling, but it was the fact we travelled up overnight and stayed in a hotel and then raced the next morning which was really exciting. I really hope i can go next year... and hopefully i won't have injury and will do better!! Last year of u15 next year!!
Well... thankfully i didn't embarrass myself and come last in any of the races! On the Saturday, i still had sore thighs from the last minute training sessions which i did (stupidly). I am came 3rd in a poor time of around 5:20 when i should be breaking 5:10. But supposing I've been off for 2 months, it was OK. Then on the Sunday i did 800m came 4th in 2:33. It was OK i guess, but i pulled my Achilles and they ached so when it came to the 300m, i just ran in the heat and then we went home. I got sun burnt and watched some amusing and some excellent races. It was enjoyable but also sad because it was my last chance at u15, i go up to u17 next year so it will be a lot more challenging, but hopefully i rise to the challenge! :-) Alice xx
Shins are just the same, i mean i haven't been running for two months solid, no training, just been going round the block on my bike, badminton & tennis at school, but even though I'm not running, from time to time if i just do a bit of tennis, i can feel it, and it is driving me crazy. Nobody cares, they just go "ah what a shame" or say "the best thing is rest" i mean what the hell? Can you ELABORATE a bit? Because i have been "RESTING" on and off these past three years, and not once did that rest do much good, and the pain just reappeared once again! Fabulous. If only i didn't have this stupid shin problem, i think I've got the natural "runner ability" it's just the actual training which always pulls me back. My PB'S aren't up to what everyone reckoned they should be, i let everyone down at the UK inter counties. I let myself down. I wonder why on all the websites for "shin splints" which the doctors diagnosed me with, why they all say rest, surely i don't have shin splints? Do they not see the connection? Obviously people with "shin splints" got better when they rested their shins, or else they wouldn't have put that on their websites, would they now? I can feel my shins slightly now, if you know what i mean. I mean, the pain which is there when i run, that irritating throbbing, isn't their, but i can sense them, feel them somehow itching for me to run and for them to scream out, burn like fire and make me stop. I love running. But all this pain is making it not lovable. I can handle the pain and exhaustion whilst running, feeling like your going to be physically sick, your whole body shaking, your words slurred. But the pain i can't stand is not being able to run, the pain of my shins. I'm putting on weight too, i suppose it may be also to do with the fact I'm 14, but i don't like it. All my muscle is turning into fat and the little "fitness" i managed to gain in between resting and trying to get in decent shape, has gone. The county championships are this time next week- and what am i doing? Sat here lazying around. I should be running, to hell with the shins! Lets hope i get a fracture, then somebody might realise that it's a bit more than just "common shin splints". I'm going to embarrass myself next weekend. It'll be awful. It's so unfair that all the other runners are out there now, training, they can eat all they like, they just go out run, no pain. I bet they don't have joints that constantly click and ache like an old mans? I wonder why mine do it? At least i can probably some time in the future look back and feel lucky that i have it no more. I wonder what the future holds. My shins have ruined the chances of me ever going to a national championship, but maybe, with my injury experience and knowledge, i could do physiotherapy for Athletes? I'd love to, but i don't reckon i am intelligent enough, it's such a competitive job, but I'm gonna try because i believe i could be really good. I would understand exactly what they're going through, both physically & mentally. 
Its meeeeeee (:
