One to go!

Down to my last exam, cant wait till tomorrow at 11 haha.

My outdoors racing schedule:
May 3rd New Balance 800m
May 16th and 17th Spring Classic 1500m 800m
May 24th New Balance 1500m
June 10th Victoria International 800m*
June 12th Kajaks International 800m
June 16th Abbotsford 1500m
June 26th Nationals 800m*
July 11th and 12th CSG trials 400m 800m 1500m
August CSG (fingers crossed)

(* Dependent on times in previous races, for Nationals I need to break 1:55)


To say im stoked would be an understatement. Last year my only chances to race were at foothills in calgary twice so I'm going to take full advantage of fast races like the west coast series at sea level. I really want to go to Nationals to get the experience of racing at that level against the best Canada has to offer and a bonus is that I'll get to be with my girlfriend for her birthday.

I'm feeling faster than I ever have and cant wait to debut on the 3rd, I'll be very dissapointed if I don't PR as I feel my recent training shows I am capable of much much more than I have achieved on paper.

New Ten second epic video from their album HOMETOWN

Ready to Roll.

2 more exams left I'm running out of gas for studying. I just want to be done and focus on running. I'm Feelin faster than ever, Tyler and I came pretty close to pbing in a 600m yesterday with a 1:23 then followed it up with a 27 200m and a 12second 100m right after. Cant wait to bust out an 800m come May 3rd.

Here are a few of the things that have been distracting me from my studies haha

Mt Sac

Fam's 5k


Puma Mile


Christiano Ronaldo's Amazing goal in champions league this week:

I'm so sick of studying. Just no motivation...

Today I did my workout which was stairs and hills, it felt good but was nothing like yesterday's long run as it was pretty chilly out. I keep reading Eric Gillis' and Dylan Wykes' blog posts about Flagstaff and want nothing more than to be living like that just training and relaxing totally focused.

This living with lions song reminded me of the Beermile next friday which should be alot of fun.

sunday long run...

Jamie, Sean, and I went for a 90min great run today. Started a bit cold but the sun came out and baked us. I felt a bit tight but well rested and am excited to see what workouts the week brings. The more sunday runs I do the fitter I feel and I cant wait to run 1500m, a large PR is definatly coming.

I've been studying for my soil mechanics final and it's one class I hated alot this term, but I'm starting to enjoy it now that there arent any rediculous labs or long homework assignments.

Heres a song Marcus from the team showed me that I have had stuck in my head for a while now:

Boy brushed by red, living in black and white

My name is Rory Carroll and Im a third year Civil Engineering student at the university of Alberta. This is the day to day, successes, tribulations, and thoughts in my life.

Today like most other days of late I'm studying with no motivation. I cant wait to just finish and focus on training hard. My ankle has been bothering me lately as I have been fighting posterior tibial tendonitis for approximatly the last year. I will probably go back to physio this week and get it checked out even though its frustrating as it has rarely helped.

This week a few comments and observations made me realize how much you really do have to trust your coach. I think that if you want success you need to believe in what your doing.

I recieved my racing contract wednesday from Glen my coach and found out that I will be competing at the West Coast Series for the first time this June. Im excited to say the least and cant wait to get a chance to finally run the 800m to full potential in a good field at sea level. here are a few of the goals i have long and short term.

Summer goals:
- 1:52 800m
- sub 4:00 1500m
- Qualify to race at the National Championships
- Make Canada summer games in the 400m, 800m, 1500m, or 5000m... whatever it takes.

Next years goals:
- get a great base in xc and go to cis
- qualify for cis in the 600m or 1000m and also as a team in the 4x800m
- run sub 1:50 and give everything i have trying to qualify for my first national team. NACAC U-23

Future goals:
- Get carded
- Make a Fisu Universiade team before I am ineligible
- take a year off after school and get everything I can out of running
- win a CIS Gold Medal for Da Bears.


thanks for reading!

cheers,
Rory