I've just spent a glorious week doing everything!
Yes, I'll say that again... EVERYTHING!!!
I've had cross country practice all this week and let me tell you, it's pretty brutal. And not just for lazy bums like me. Daniel said it's supposed to be pretty bad. We're supposed to hurt because we're supposed to be pushing ourselves to the max... I do and I have.
The first day was insane. After an hour worth of warmups, Coach told us we were going to take a nice easy run down to the airport (this is a country airport which means it's on the edge of town, just outside the burrow, and surrounded by corn fields) and back. EASY??? It's a six mile run from the track. Two and a half of those miles are downhill. Another two and a half are uphill and only one mile is flat. Unfortunately, that flat mile is through town which means obnoxious, scary people watching you the entire time.
Needless to say, I barely made it. I walked quite a bit and was the last person to return, even after I fell behind and was told by the coach (who came by in his car to check on us along the way) to cut my run down to 5 miles.
Tuesday was worse. It was muggy and rainy and it made me so sick. We stayed on the track, but ended up running most of the two hour practice. All of our practices are fricken two hours of nonstop running. Unless, of course, we go and lift weights in the stinky weight room, which we did on Tuesday and Thursday.
Wednesday and Thursday were better. Wednesday's run was long (I forget how many miles it was) but easy. I made it and managed to come in with someone. That felt good. The girl I came in with exhausted herself too early and fell way behind. And Thursday were just ran to the riverfront park and around it for half and hour or so and ran back. That alone was maybe four and a half miles. And then we went to the weight room.
Today was okay-ish. It rained cold rain on us... really cold. But we basically just did a mile warmup and ran for 45min. around town. That was nice. But we do have a frekking scrimmage on Monday so I'll have to run all weekend for that.
So far cross country has taught me something: There is no shame in coming in last. Of course, I'm really not a competitive but those first two days were pretty embarrassing. But now, I kind of like it. The whole team is really nice and supportive and I think maybe cross country won't be the hell that I thought it was going to be.
On top of cross country, I've had band camp the past three days. The new band director is a twenty-year retiree from the airforce so I guess I just naturally assumed we'd be getting some sort of drill sergeant. Hah... wrong again! Why are my assumptions always wrong?
This guy is soooo layed back it's not even funny. The first day, we took a break right after we got there. Mr. W talked for about fifteen minutes and gave us a fourty-five minute break. We only worked on stuff for fourty-five minutes at a time... and then we'd break for fifteen.
Yeah, that drove me insane. I was really dissapointed.. it makes me look foward to college marching band even more.
But he did get alittle better. I still think that we should have spent all of Wednesday and Thursday outside but atleast we got something done. It's too bad I'll miss band camp on Monday, but with the way this guys moves, I won't miss much.
Geez, just the thought of missing band camp makes me irritable... but what can I do?
Oooh, I ordered a new mouthpiece as soon as I got home last night. I hope it comes by Wednesday's band camp because none of the schools clarinets are fully functional so I'd have to just take one of their mouthpieces and put it on my clarinet. But that won't work either because none of them fit. So if it doesn't come by then, I'm screwed.
Anyway, for those of you who care, that's how my week has been. Waking up at 7am to go to cross country at 8am. Get home at 10:30ish. Take a shower and eat lunch. Then off to band camp at 2pm. and home at 8pm....... and off to bed.
Speaking of bed, I think I'll go take a catnap now. I don't have any band camp to worry about today, so why not?
My pride hurts, my legs burn, my heart aches, my chest is too tight, and I think I'll have to postpone that nap because a blister on my foot just broke open domokun ...
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