Track Camp....Alison’s Blog Entry 7-9-10
Ah day 2. The soreness from yesterday’s core work has set in and 5:45 seemed to come much earlier than usual.
We got up and went for a 20 minute run, much of which was spent running many laps around the student union searching for Addison. Who knows what he was doing. Breakfast was alright, nothing like some good cafeteria food. Actually, the fruit was pretty good :) Next was a leadership lecture, which was really good, specially for those of us upper classmen looking to lead our team to the next title.
After that we did some more stretching with those nifty ropes. Thankfully that took long enough to use up all of our core work time so we got to go right to lunch. Mmmmm stale food :P
After lunch the girls and in my hall and I spent our rest time napping (a scary story kept us up last night), which was quite nice.
Arts and crafts was next. Just kidding, it was some activity to make us see the point of communication between teammates but to me, it was arts and crafts. Three people were on a team, and each member was assigned to make one part of a ring (the band, the crown and the diamond). For some reason all of our rings were hugely oversized, with the band big enough to fit over someone’s head. My team’s ring looked like a sailboat, it was pretty sweet :) I think I get the metaphor.
After that was even more stretching (I’m starting to think this is a stretching camp with some running on the side) and a loooooooong run. Well, really it was only about 60 minutes and the weather was perfect! Overcast sky, wonderful temperature and a
slight sprinkle the whole time. Mmmm! It was like heaven.
When we finally got back it was time for some drills and form analysis. Well, the filming for it.(We watched them later and had our form broken down--the good, the bad, the ugly).
All i really wanted was to go get a drink of water after 60 minutes of running, but no, we had to do drills. So I put up with the drills for a while. During form filming, the kickball game the music camp kids were playing got a little little out of hand and I almost got hit by an errant kick ball. I got in trouble later when we were watching playback for flailing my arms around until we figured out what was happening.
Next some of the girls showered up, me being one of them and went to dinner. Little did we realize that we still had a game of capture the flag to play later that night, but it was kinda lame anyway so it ended up ok.
Dinner was fun, my table exchanged stories about everything from running to prom to freaky teachers. Then we came back, played a game of capture the flag, which consisted of us standing around looking at each other a lot. It was hard to play with only 5 people on each team. Nicole fell down and hurt herself during the first game (chasing me) so that was bad. As Jesse would say “Sad Face”.
We wrapped up the evening watching and analyzing form, and of course listening to stories. Todd had some pretty great ones, as usual. Tonight involved being pulled over by cops for no good reason and getting the car searched. The best part was the line, with his Texas accent, “There was nothin’ in that car except for some pe-cans!” It was great.
I can’t wait for the next 6 days of camp, I love it here. All the people are great, super nice and pretty funny and of course, the running is fun too :D
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