Its MONDAY!!!

Mondays, oh how we all love Mondays. Its the very beginning of the week, and a whole 5 more days until the weekend. Now that I am at home and have a chance to rest my legs, figured I'd share today's schedule with you.

11am Women's Studies: Sex, Power, and Politics
I am so grateful that my 1st class isn't until 11am, waking up at 10 is great. This teacher on the other hand makes me want to go right back to sleep. What we talk about is interesting, but I swear she is so dull, that it makes it boring. We talked about the stereotypes of different races. And the topic came up about a professor who said, "Blacks are known for their physical parts below the waist, whites are known for their intellectuality, and Asians are somewhere in between". I couldn't believe my ears. You would think that as time passes, people would open up their minds just a little bit, but maybe ignorance cannot be Untaught.

12 to 1
go up to the basketball office and pick up my workout schedule for the following day, visit with coaches, eat my homemade lunch (which is saving me A LOT of money), get taped, and make my way to the gym.

1 to 2
Me and a few of my teammates pull out the shooting gun and get some extra shots up. That gun will get you sweating.

2 to 3
Open gym with the team. I swear everyone felt like we were running in slow motion. This is when it really starts to feel like Monday. All that laying around over the weekend is starting to catch up to me. We played about 6 games, competitive and good games.

330 to 5
This is where the real work starts. This is the part we dread but appreciate the most. Strength & Conditioning with Coach Rich. He starts us off with some stretches, and some ladder exercises. You know where you have to move your feet in and out of that ladder super fast, yeah that. Followed by a little warm up run, just to get our blood going. And then to the field. Yep field, as in football field, as in hot hot turf. I swear that field gets so much bigger every time we run on it. Ill do my best to describe this run. We line up on the sideline of the football field, jog to the hash mark (about 15 yards, and when I say jog, its an uptempo jog), sprint to the far hash mark(about 10 yards), jog to the other end, and do the same thing on the way back. We did that 16 times. I swear it felt like my hamstrings and thighs were about to fall off. But as a team, our pace was good, the hardest part was sprinting like crazy from hash to hash. You could probably see it in our eyes that we were tired, but we kept those sprints up and finished strong.
After that, we run back into the weight room, to get stronger. Did some hang clings, bench press, and some other random exercises and some abs, broke it down, and walked real slow back into the locker room. We knew it was a real effective day. That hour and a half can go by so slow sometimes, but we know that these workouts are going to help us win a championship. The 1st person Pat Summit thanked after winning her national championship last year, was their strength and conditioning coach. You can be as talented as you want, but at this level, you will get nowhere without strength and endurance. We know how important our trainer is, and how much time and effort he puts into us, we couldn't go home knowing we gave him anything less than all we have. There are some days when we have to dig deep to give it to him. Because what our best may seem like to us, is only half of what he KNOWS we can give. He always talks about potential, and how we have yet to reach our potential. We can and will be great, because of the hours we put into it.

So today I'm going to wrap it up with some studying, reading, and some Monday night football. Resting to wake up to another day to get better. Another day of school and workouts. My personal goal for tomorrow is to be mentally locked in to what my coach is saying, and go my hardest with no mistakes. I mean no little mistakes. I feel like I haven't really played basketball for years, and especially coming fresh off of a red shirt year, where I had to sit out, I have to get my mind and body back into the swing of things. Get back to doing things right, smart, and how I know how to do them. Focus is key in this business.

TaTa for now...