Track & XC Are Two Very Different Things

        Hey, blogettes! It's Smiles here with a little extra screen time from the day to make a post for you. I have learned now from personal encounters that distance on a track is way different than distance in cross country. For one thing it is the same surface and it seems longer and everyone is more close together without a change in scenery. It makes for a good shin splint creator even more than what cross country did to me. Every part of my body even hurts worse than it did with cross country. 

        I think what I will be doing next year is cross country, and basketball and then have this as my off season instead of going from shin splint injury to shin splint injury in pretty much two back to back seasons when you think about it. I am an okay basketball player once I get past the fact that the buzzer can be kind of scary when you aren't expecting it. I hate those things so much. I mean I like to be aware of things and have warnings, instead of it coming out of the blue. I hate loud surprises. 

        I have decided though for track that even though it hurts and is hard for me right now that I am sticking to distance. I am also doing discus and long jump even though I have got no clue how you even throw a discus just yet but I learn fast. I am hoping that the same happens in track. Everyone looks at me like I am crazy when I say long jump and discus but hey, I have just as many rights to do that than everyone else does. I am sick of people looking at me like I have four heads. I just want them to see that I can do it, and have fun doing it which is the real point of this is to get into shape, and have a lot of fun, not be really good at it or anything like that because right now that doesn't matter since you are just starting out. I mean it's middle school track. 

         I am also excited because I get out of school at 11 today to watch our high school jazz band represent class one a at state today, and we are going to kick some butt I hope. I have heard them and I think that we can go all the way and win again this year. I mean when people from bigger schools hear what all we have done they grow dead silent and really listen hard to what we have to offer and then their applause is just wild I have noticed like they are shocked that such sounds can come from small schools. What can I say, our school is pretty awesome when it comes to fine arts. Now we just need a place where we can keep that going and have a place that is good for us instead of a gym to do everything in we need like an auditorium because that is something that everyone deserves when they have a fine arts program like us and I hope that our schools sees that and sees the need for that place and invests in it within the next few years. 

          I think that we also need to have a track. I mean it stinks that we have to travel and do it every now and then and have a set time limit of when to be there and what we can and can't use when we should be able to learn and use everything. I mean we do track and we need to practice our things so we aren't lost when it comes to meets. We need to show people that we know what we are doing and that we are ready for things like this and without a track that can be pretty hard sometimes, but Lisbon still knows how to rock it, and we still appear in the field as a pretty strong team that everyone has heard nothing but warnings about. I mean their good warnings like about how we run and stuff and what they need to do to get themselves ready.