Running out of time
Summer seems to be just around the corner, and everyone is anticipating the end of their classes. But not only is the school year coming to an end, so are all the sports!
This Friday is both soccer girls sectionals as well as girls track sectionals. As this time of year approaches within sports I always start to get nervous!
After running to Urbana High School on Monday for practice, everyone on the track team circled up and began their stretching, all the girls anticipating easier workouts throughout the entire week. When we were done with stretching, the boys and girls split up to do our drills when our sprinter coaches, Karl Knox and Katrina Watry, decided to call a mini-meeting.
That was when Karl basically said, “All right, this is it.”
They told us that this week we would have easier workouts and to focus on our drills.
They told us to make sure we stretched a lot and got the most amount of sleep that we possibly could.
They told us to make sure that we were eating a lot of carbs throughout the week as well, and most definitely not to pull, sprain, twist, or in any way hurt any part of our body.
That’s when I promised myself that I would definitely get to sleep early every night. And that I would definitely eat very healthy foods all week night.
And unfortunately I broke my own promise that night when I didn’t get to sleep until fairly late, and yet again this afternoon when I decided to have ice cream for dinner. Which began to get me worried about sectionals and my performance in general.
I think it’s a natural thing, that when something big arises we all start to second-guess ourselves. What if I accidentally stay up too late to study for that chemistry test? What if I forget to replace those missing spikes? But there’s always those “what ifs.”
To get everyone excited, though, the track team has decided to start planning our “bombardment” of the coaches’ houses, and after practice today we all got beautiful pins with beautiful gargoyles on them.
Personally I should probably lighten up — hey, at least no matter what, I won’t have to run the 5k. And in reality I have confidence in everyone on our team (and in the soccer players, too, whom I’d like to wish good luck).
— Lizzy Warner