Hello people!! This is my first ever post on Spacehey, just thought I'd do a little intro. I'm Grace, a 16-year-old high schooler from South Africa. I plan on using this blog to just talk about my life and random thoughts that come to my head. This is pretty much just intended as an outlet for me to talk and also for my friends if they're interested in reading the random shit I talk about. I migh... » Continue Reading
On Saturday, 27 September, I ran an event called Top 15, hosted by my school. It was a track event that lasted two days and consisted on 1500 athletes and more or less 50 schools. It was hectic. And keep in mind, I have NEVER ran a track race, I'm barely trained, I'm just overall slow and I don't have the strongest heart, so this race.. was hard. Really hard. I ran at 10:30am and it was really hot... » Continue Reading
I am EXHAUSTED to say the least. Monday and Tuesday was tough in terms of my training but thankfully Wednesday is a public holiday and also a rest day ! Mondays set was so hard that one of the twins on our team threw up twice. We had to do a tempo, then it was 3 sets of 300m fast, 50m jog and 150m all out sprint. I only did 2 of these because it was so damn hard. Then, the cherry on top was the do... » Continue Reading
OKAY. TOTALLY FREAKING OUT. I started cross country a year ago and I've been taking it pretty seriously.. well.. its over.. and athletics/track has officially started and I am HORRIFED. Everyone is so damn fast and I'm still really slow, I was even struggling during cross country how on EARTH am I meant to cope with this? I made the mistake of signing up to do a 3000m and 800m race THIS SATURDAY... » Continue Reading