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