Far overdue...

Ok, so I suck at blogging now. I have seriously been ridiculously busy & never had a semester like this before. Here are some big things that have happened since my last post.

1. Assistant Sports Editor for the UVU Review.

I have written for the Review for the last year & I absolutely love every minute of it. It is definitely the best educational decision I have ever made. I started last fall as a writer for the sports section & worked my A off this last year to show that I was serious & my hard work payed off this September when I was asked to be the Assistant Sports Editor. This semester I was put in charge of covering the UVU Women's Volleyball matches. I have fallen in love with college volleyball. They are sooooooo good!!! Seriously I could not believe how intense the matches get. I have also been able to interview a few of the players and write feature's on them for the paper. They are very talented athletes & really cool girls! I have also been put in charge of covering UVU Women's Basketball this semester which will begin in a few weeks & I can't wait! Check out my current article for the UVU Review which features Senior Outside Hitter Camie Manwill here: http://www.uvureview.com/2009/10/26/camie-manwill-bounces-back-for-her-senior-season/

2. St. George Marathon

Most of you know that I took the entire summer to train for the St. George Marathon. On September 19th I did my final long run (18 miles) in preparation for the marathon & I was stoked to go run in St. George. Conference weekend I headed to St. George & my entire family (minus my bro, cuz he thought he needed to go hunting) came with me to cheer me on & I was so grateful for the support. Sadly I was not able to finish the race due to a knee problem that occurred while I was running the marathon. Here's what happened.... The marathon began & I was excited & absolutely loving the entire atmosphere of the race & the cool people that I had met that morning. I was feeling amazing, it was definitely the best run I had ever had thus far. I got to around 12 miles and my right knee started to hurt, a pain I had never had before when I was running. So at mile 13 I stopped at an aid station and had them put some IcyHot on it. By the time I got to mile 15 I could barely put any pressure on it while trying to run, so I walked to mile 16 where there was EMTs & talked to them... they looked at it, said it looked a little swollen, was definitely enflamed so they gave me two choices... 1. they could wrap it & allow me to walk the remainder of the race - 10 more miles (which at that point would have taken me close to 4 hours) or 2. I could pull out of the race & the shuttle would take me down to the medical tent at the finish. I was completely devastated as I rode down to the finish in the shuttle. I felt like a failure. But after a few weeks of replaying it in my head, I feel like I got hurt for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, but I'm sure I will figure it out. I went to the doctor & they told me that it wasn't a major problem, probably just a bad strain, & gave me some instructions on how to heal it. So from here on out I will only participate in half-marathon distance and under because I know I can handle that distance because I have done it without any problems.