Chillin

        Hey, blogettes! It's Smiles here. I am done with science early, so I get to do some fun things for the next couple of days, and I decided that I would make a post for you ladies to enjoy. Anyways, conference track is today, and I am super nervous for that because I am running against my best friends from honor choir. I also messed up my knee and this is the first time back on the track after that which I thought would end my season. Everyone was like why did you finish if you knew your knee was messed up? I always said that I wanted to know that I finished this race for me and if this was the season ending race I wanted to know that I finished and finished as strong as I could with a knee that was on fire and that I could not straighten or really put a normal amount of weight on it. I honestly thought that my knee would be worse than it was but thank god it isn't and sure I will need knee surgery but you know what that is okay. I can take that because it is coming in the off season and I should be back in action for cross country next year which is all that really matters for me. Cross country is my sport and the one thing that I care about the most.
        I also like band and choir and acting in the school's musical and getting to be with my friends and stuff like that but cross country is like the one time where I am really free to be me and be open and shine the real light. Any other time I feel like sometimes I have to hide things for fear that people will not like it because it is too different and it would make them look weird and uncool hanging out with me. Know what though, I may be bad at some things and totally crazy and weird with my actions but I like that and it makes me me and I find myself to be a good person who belongs on this earth. I love cross country because we go to a school in the town next to ours because there isn't enough kids interested in the sport. When we come together it's like we are big family, and we get along well and have a good time. I'm really looking forward to this season and some new news is that we have 20 kids from our school in both seventh and eighth grade and I will be running as an eighth grader compared to the eight people in both seventh and eighth grade that we had last year, and both of these times I included girls and boys together. Last year there was only three girls and we were all in seventh grade.
        Cross country may be hard but it is fun and you learn life skills and become a better runner and see new things. In my school's case it also allows us to compete at a higher level and a larger scale than we would if we had our own cross country program like some people do want but I feel like we won't get it because twenty kids in seventh and eighth grade with only like six being eighth graders won't get us a program no offense or anything and we are all cool with the other school and they are cool and treat us well so there is really no reason for us to split. I mean that would bump both schools down a level and we have high regard at the three a level right now and we don't want to change that. We like that heat and we like the pressure. We are also so flexible because some meets we are highly regarded 2A groups or a 3A group that may have some high regards but not as much as we do when we compete as 2A groups.
        I also like cross country because everyone supports everyone. I mean it doesn't matter what school you are from after the start of the race because when you are out of the chute and throughout the race you are combined together and having a steady pace or finding your pace and sticking to it. Everyone that passes you usually says that you are doing a good job and to keep it up and that you are almost done. The crowd also is nuts for everyone and calls out names of schools that are running past and looking down as we all are about halfway through and near the race because we are pushing through and digging deep trying to find the energy that may not be there. The support that we also get from other cross country runners is amazing but then again they know what we are going through and how hard things may be for us, and that we are tired and running low on energy and we get down thinking about how we may not finish because there is nothing really left.
         Anyways, that is my take on some random things right now that have impacted my life and are on my mind greatly right now. I hope that you enjoyed seeing a snapshot of my mind but this is just a little piece. I don't do these posts very often because I know readers probably don't like that because it really doesn't relate to them and it could get very boring about reading about someone else's life and hearing them talk about a sport that most people care less about. I have already talked a lot about cross country already but that is like my life, and I have no clue where I would be without it or where I would be if we got our own program because we wouldn't have the kids from the other school to have fun even though the kids from our school that do it are very fun, nice, caring, supportive, and down to earth, which is another reason why I like them because they are laid back and they aren't bratty like some of the other girls are.