Hey, blogettes! How many of you are doing sports this fall? I am doing cross country, and so far so good. I have learned to push my body through the pain and just think about the rewards instead of thinking about why I am putting my body through it. I think about how much better my body is going to be and how much easier the mile is going to be. I picture my team winning a meet, and then winning the big meet at the end of the season where we are against all of the middle schools in our division. We are competing at the 3A level. These first few practices have been a little rough for me because I have never ran in the place where we are running before. I am not used to their hazards, and terrain. Plus, I haven't ran in like the past month due to injuries. I still have a back muscle injury so I really shouldn't be doing this, but I am because it is too late to quit now.
I love cross country because it is the only sport where nothing matters really. As long as you are trying, and you push yourself, and you finish then you are good. I ran 1.7 miles up hill today and back in 20 minutes, even, which isn't bad if you think about the hills, and then traffic. It was painful, and trust me, in that last leg I was crying because I hurt, and I was so tired, I also fell, and hit my knee on something metal and heard a pop. I almost thought about quitting, but then I said that I didn't finish last and I could do anything that I put my mind to and sat out to do. Our first meet is September 10, at a place where there is a huge hill. I'm not looking forward to that, but hopefully it is going down hill on our run. I have never ran hills before, but now I am going to go into school early to practice them. I need to be able to run up them with ease. I have no issues controlling the down hill type of thing. I have that down pat.
Since we get to the school where cross country is held like thirty minutes before cross country is held, we just chill out in their lunch room, which is way better than ours, or at least I think so. We get to do homework or just work on something on our laptops. Sometimes, I prefer to just listen to music, or sit and observe what that school is like because it is way different than ours. This year, we have two mangers for a team of 45 people, and two coaches, who are super pumped and enjoy pushing us, and they believe in us.
I also have a part in Hello Dolley which is our school's Fall musical so I am going to be super busy. I don't know how I landed the part, but I was told to sign up and I did, and I got an email saying that I was automatically in. I was excited, yet I am going to be stressed out because I am not going to be home a lot and there may be some days where I go right from cross country to play practice after a quick shower, and be a little bit gross. Hopefully the locker rooms will be open at school so that I can take a quick shower at school so that doesn't have to be the case.
I hope I don't have meets on the days of my performances, but so far that is not the case, and I hope it won't be, because I am not going to miss the chance for me to shine in front of people that I know. I have a feeling that seventh grade is going to be memorable, fun and easy if I don't fall behind on school work. I am going to be super busy so there might be quite a few late nights, but you know oh well, I guess that is the price that I have to pay if I want to do like everything that pops up.
No, I am not trying to be a show off or one of those people who poses like they have a life when really they are just doing random things because they want to make a life. Believe me, I am not doing cross country to show off, or have a life. I mean you don't want to see/smell me after my run. It's just bad and I look and smell awful, and I feel awful because I need food and water, and preferably something cold that I can pat onto my forehead with my bandana so that after I run, and it is time for our cool down I don't have sweat coming into my mouth because sweat tastes awful, as I learned today during cool down time. I'm still desensitizing my mouth from the taste. It's waste that the body is trying to get rid of and therefore it is not meant to go back into our bodies.
We are learning about the human body in science and that is how I know part of this stuff. I don't know what part I have in Hello Dolley just yet, but I will make a post on this blog when I know. The show is sometime in November I think it is that first weekend and I am so pumped to be able to work with the high schoolers again on stage. My older sister is going to audition and who knows if she gets a part then we will both be in it, and our parents will be super proud sitting in the audience. The high schoolers at our school are so talented when it comes to putting on shows, like they run smoothly, and they are just amazing. I was amazed just being in the audience and in fifth grade I got a silent role, and in sixth grade I helped backstage, and this time I have a for sure speaking part for a girl, or at least I am hoping because my guy voice is awful.
I think I am going to have a ton of memories to share from this year, and a few scars. 2013 has treated me amazingly to those types of things, and I will make sure that the memories and legacies made in this year live on. I really want them to because they are amazing. I wish that this year could last forever because it was my year of luck both good and bad. It was also the year that I learned a lot of things that will be great for later on in life.
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