i know exactly how you feel…
Have you asked your track coach to pull you out of Field Hockey?
If so I think that is a VERY bad idea. Puts both coaches and you in a bad position and could possibly strain relationships with all sides.
It’s about priorities. If you think FH is going to jeopardize your track career and education get off the team. Are you on an academic or an athletic scholarship?
It’s similar to doing drugs or drinking all the time. You stop (or choose not to do it because it is bad for your track career and education) this is EXACTLY the same thing.
Cheers,
Chris
i had a meeting with my coach who asked me if i was enjoying field hockey, and i frankly told him no. he feels bad because he encouraged me to do it in the first place, and he told me that he was thinking of pulling me once the season starts since field hockey overlaps. he also likes the fall athletes to take a week off in between season, and if i stay in field hockey i will miss an entire month of track training.
a MONTH! that is ridiculous. i will not get any playing time in the tournament, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for me to sit around on the bench during that time when I could be doing real training. nothing stops me from doing track training on the side in theory, but in reality there is NO time and it would be irregular at best. the FH coach knows that I am a track recruit and they have talked, so it might not be a big deal… i just don’t really know.
It being a D3 school I can’t officially be on an athletic scholarship, but I was given all kinds of mysterious grants and shcolarship money so that I am paying less than $3,000 out of a tuition of $38,000. It is very important that i perform in track, and it is very important to my coach that i perform in school.
it is very important to ME not to have a nervous breakdown :eek:
You need to step up and quit field hockey. It’s not like you are a star player or even second string from the sound of it. Missing a month of track training is LUNACY.
You need to (pardon the expression) grow some balls and do what is right for you!
You AREN’T being a quitter you are doing what is best for your track career and education.
Wouldn’t you feel bad if you twisted or broke an ankle at FH practice or lost a bunch of technical or fitness work by missing that first months training in your FIRST year at University? Varsity track is a whole different ball game 
It’s a NO brainer.
Imagine how stressed you’ll be when the track team is training and you are warming the bench at field hockey?
Come on Kras you are smarter than that
Cheers,
Chris
I second what Chris says. Quitting hockey, having more time for a GPP and studying makes sense. Warming the bench in a sport you don’t like makes no sense.
I had a similar situation in my senior year of high school (like a decade ago in 2000 ), I was in the basketball and baseball teams but what I really liked was baseball. But I was in the basketball team because I was a staple there from previous years. A new coach had come in who had this theory that power forwards and centers HAD to be tall. I had been the team’s leading rebounder and shot blocker every year I had been on the team at 5’9" (in Venezuela people aren’t that tall so the opposing forwards and centers were mostly around 6’1" or 6’2" and because of my huge vertical I could outjump any of them). This moron insisted on keeping me in the bench despite the fact I was kicking his “big men” around in the boards during practice, and virtually all the team backed me. So this situation further eroded my waning interest in basketball, in the biggest tournament of the season I quit after the first game when I sat the whole game. Sure that idiot coach didn’t care, but I felt much better and put into focus how I had been wasting my time, when I could have been concentrating fully on what I really loved to play at that moment, baseball. Despite the fact I knew I was better then the guys who were playing and I was sticking around because I wanted to prove that, I threw my ego out the window and ended up happier then I thought I could be. It was really getting rid of a big lag.
Third that. This is shaping up into an online intervention. 
thanks guys… this makes me feel better about it. this week is the last week of the regular season, and next week is the start of track. If my track coach doesn’t feel that he can negotiate my exit with some kind of honor, then i will quit dishonorably and that will be the end of it. i am still torn over it because sometimes field hockey really is fun, but then i realize that my best days here so far have been the days that we have off and I get to do my track workouts and get my work done. i guess even smart girls can be really dumb when it comes to certain things :rolleyes:
practice today was actually really fun, i played more like i used to- much quicker, much more confident, and more aggressive. maybe visiting home quieted my mind to let me focus more, who knows. in any event, lots of running and competitive drills, so the practice played to my strengths… reminds me that i really did like field hockey a lot in high school.
tommorow is a game so i’d love to do a workout, but that involves getting up early and doing it before class. normally this would be no question, but my reading load hurts tonight… a lot, so i’ll have to see how much sleep i am working with.
Well i guess you not as smart as you think, I tricked you before! Remember Evan, hahaha
beat skidmore 2-1. Tommorow we have off, so i’ll be able to do a workout and hopefully lift. today was PACKED and i couldn’t drag myself out of bed this morning after only a few hours of sleep.
there is a field hockey party tonight, but i think my best bet is to do work for my one class tommorow, take a run, and get a full night’s rest. we’ll see if it happens!
did end up going out last night, but not to drink.
went for 25-30 min. run at night as well, between 3 and 3.5 miles.
as for today, im pretty psyched because I got a scholarship notification in the mail, bringing the cost of school for me this year down to about $1,500. it does remind me why i’m here though- i need to prioritize my running. talked in passing with my track coach, who asked about field hockey but didn’t mention making the switch.
about to go model for 3 hours… hopefully I will not have to stand the whole time so that I can have some legs left for a workout after. :rolleyes:
I had to stand the whole time modeling for this art class, which sucked. But I decided to gut it out and do my full workout anyway:
-full WU
-5x300 w/3 min walking rest between- these hurt a lot. ranged from 49-58s, with the 5th faster than the 4th at 57. I got a little distressed because i am used to getting down to 46 in training and being able to do 49’s for repeats, but being in field hockey shape is different from being in track shape, and I guess I need to start somewhere to get back where I should be.
-hurdle drills, CD jog
QUICK lift because of time constraints, so I just did a couple essentials:
-bench 4x6
-squats 4x6
-shoulder press 3x8
-isolated sets of cable row and glute/ham raises
I was on the weird aparatus for the glute/hams, which has a component which is supposed to hold your feet steady so that you don’t fall, but it was loose so i had to clench my ankles really hard to keep myself from falling, and it tweaked the ankle that is fragile from this summer… so that hurts.
had a 2-hour meeting tonight, so I gave myself a lower leg/shin/ankle massage while I was there.
will be up all night tonight studying for a midterm… yay 
I’m glad i got some lifting in, little as it was, because tommorow and probably the next day I will be FRIED just from school.
BE PROUD!!
i had a traumatic meeting with my track coach for an hour and half, during which I almost broke down in tears about 8 different times, and he GRILLED me about things he’s been hearing about me and my reputation, etc etc. It was really hard but I was up front with him and he was nice about it and wanting to help, but also really clear that I need to make sure I get my act together for track.
soooo he pulled me from field hockey, I met with my field hockey coach who completely understands, and from now on track has started!!
i seem to be coming in with a bad reputation already though which is hard… going to a small school can be so tough.
Glad to hear you quit FH!!
By the way what did you do to earn this “reputation” ?
That’s great to hear it’s over.
haHA! field hockey loses.
I didn’t QUIT, it was more like… my track coach stepped in and cut me.
as for my reputation… wow. I always pull myself together during track and in truth i transform in a lot of ways, and when i am not in season it’s like I am missing my soul… so i go out and do stupid things like drink too much and get naughty with the football team and flirt with the guy at the dining hall who smokes pot.
add in that i have my tongue pierced, im a nude model, i stay up all night and give myself nervous breakdowns… there are other things i won’t even mention. but pretty much that is the state of things right now, it makes me look bad on a campus where EVERYONE seems to know my business, and people i don’t even know and who aren’t even athletes have mentioned me to my coach- “oh yeah, there’s this girl…!”
it’s really embarrassing because once track starts i always settle down, stop drinking (im not a big drinker at all anyway) get my work done, get healthier, and just generally improve. i am comfortable staying in more than i go out, and now that my coach is kicking me hard in the ass i have extra motivation. i’m just kind of scared, because if i am in the wrong place at the wrong time and he hears about it, that would be death. if i couldn’t do track here i don’ think i could bring myself to stay… i don’t know how i would live at all, actually.
on a happier note, I went for a long run with some track people since I caught them on an easy day. spoke for a bit with the strength coach because he does some things differently than I am used to and I want to understand the rationale.
otherwise, flooded with work, tension from home… business as usual. :o
Great to hear you quit hockey! You can finally start to focus on what matters.
Well done Kras we can all relax now 
Hahahaha
last night I had to write a 24-hour midterm paper, soooo I had vast quantities of caffeine, went to bed at 3 and lay there with my eyes closed until my alarm went of at 6, got out of bed feeling totally awake, and went about my day.
I am not crashing yet, but I was running around all day and couldn’t find a time to do a workout.
I instead went to a track meeting with the strength coach, who gave us lifting packets and described what we’re going to be doing in terms of lifting for the next couple weeks until official practices start on the 15th.
the program looks to be very very difficult, I will hurting very badly next week. I don’t have it in front of me, but the basic theme is super sets with no rest. for example: 3x6 front squats, straight to 3x8 weighted lunges, straight to 3x5 front squats, then rest, then do the entire thing 3 times. And then move on to the next set. should be intense, but of course I will love it.