on tuesday, i only had an afternoon soccer practice (which i skipped for the swim meet) the swim meet, and supposedly easy swim practice. right after swim practice, i got some swim girls together to go to Wasabi's. they were, Hannah Becker, Hannah Giacalone, Lizzy Gibson, Kelli Phillips, Rachel and Janelle Graves, Kelsey Kah, and Lauren Meek. it was cool to go, becuase it was just us, no parental supervision. at movies and stuff, that is normal, but not out to eat! it was relly odd to get the check, and pay, as well as tip. after that, some of the girls came back to my place. we played spoons with trey for a long time, (it was amazing!) then, when trey went to basketball, we just hung out. then, we went to see my puppy, and hung out a bit more. less than an hour later, we all saw each other again at the swim meet. we had to be there at 5, and we got home around 11. that is a lot of swimming!
more on the meet....
we got killed on all the IM's, so at first it was looking bleak. however, we soon found out that they just had a few superstars. like there 2 IM'ers in my age group! and the girl in the first leg of the free relay on the jewish teams A team (both teams have A and B teams). so, whenever i swam in those events, i was like "wow, whats wrong with me?!?!" but, i still had a convincing win in fly, and we pulled out the win in both relays.
you can not understand how intense this meet was. for almost every event (particularlly the IM's and relays which are worth the most points) every person there is screaming as loud as they can to their respective team. mormon...or jewish??? it was literally deafening at a few key points in the race. for example....
tyler's fly which he barely pulled out a first in
all relays
dustins breast and fly
breanne and leslie's fly and breast
i think my breast and IM and relays, but its hard to tell while you swim
jared's IM
sydneys IM
dustins IM all IMs
all meet long
i mean, ears ringing, voice cracking, jumping up and down, hoarseness, all out plea in your scream as loud as you can becuase you dont think that they understand how close it is.... when they do.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
soccer
in more soccer news....
Monday, we had practice. we did the average, though torturous dribbling drills, and passing as well. then, our first real assignment was to get in two groups. someone would take corners into the goal, and someone had to get a head on it. if no one did, we all ran a lap. we did this for a while, then changed it up a bit. we all huddled together while our server punted it as high as they could. someone would get under it and head it. if no one did, we all ran a lap. and these punts were not coming right to us. you had to run, jump, dive, push, and shove to get at it. and trust me, you didn't want to get at it. we have the hardest balls ever, and when it comes down at you from 50 yards up, or is kicked as hard as possible in the general direction of your head, it will not feel good. whenever we had to run, you could see everyone holding their heads.... the bouncing made the throbbing get worse.
then, we did chipping. our reward for doing it correctly is that we don't hit our teammate in the head! we did it by getting in groups of 3. your group of 3 gets in a line about 15 yards apart. the person in the middle will role it to someone on the outside, and then they chip it to the other side, over the middle persons head. then, the other person returns it. don't be in the middle.... coach watches to make sure you don't shy away from getting hit. it does not feel good. and don't mess up either... i was in a group with some upper class man, and they will yell at you if you mess up. especially if it means they have to run!!!
then, the last hard thing we did was you got in pairs (once again an upper class man chose me) and kicked the ball as hard as you could at each other. they trap it, and do it back. any height, and it didn't always go right to you. this is so you get used to handling bad passes, and stopping clears and goal kicks, and converting.
a weird thing we did was we would dribble around, and coach would blow the whistle. when he did, about every 15 seconds, you had to stop and so a somersault. then get to your ball and start dribbling again. this worked your starts, made you look like an idiot so he could insult you, and getting back to the ball fast.
thankfully, we got to skip Tuesday for swimming, i heard we did diving headers again!!!
today at weights, we changed ti up a bit. well, we added more stuff at least..... after all of our average speed stuff, we got out these sleds that had 50 pounds attached to them. who knows how much the sleds weighed.... anyway, we had to attach them to our waists and sprint. it was sooo hard! after that, we got with partners, and had to push them in it! i had Hannah, and she is about 130 pounds, plus about 25 i would say from the metal sled!!!! it was a major workout!!! we didn't really do anything else new though.
Monday, we had practice. we did the average, though torturous dribbling drills, and passing as well. then, our first real assignment was to get in two groups. someone would take corners into the goal, and someone had to get a head on it. if no one did, we all ran a lap. we did this for a while, then changed it up a bit. we all huddled together while our server punted it as high as they could. someone would get under it and head it. if no one did, we all ran a lap. and these punts were not coming right to us. you had to run, jump, dive, push, and shove to get at it. and trust me, you didn't want to get at it. we have the hardest balls ever, and when it comes down at you from 50 yards up, or is kicked as hard as possible in the general direction of your head, it will not feel good. whenever we had to run, you could see everyone holding their heads.... the bouncing made the throbbing get worse.
then, we did chipping. our reward for doing it correctly is that we don't hit our teammate in the head! we did it by getting in groups of 3. your group of 3 gets in a line about 15 yards apart. the person in the middle will role it to someone on the outside, and then they chip it to the other side, over the middle persons head. then, the other person returns it. don't be in the middle.... coach watches to make sure you don't shy away from getting hit. it does not feel good. and don't mess up either... i was in a group with some upper class man, and they will yell at you if you mess up. especially if it means they have to run!!!
then, the last hard thing we did was you got in pairs (once again an upper class man chose me) and kicked the ball as hard as you could at each other. they trap it, and do it back. any height, and it didn't always go right to you. this is so you get used to handling bad passes, and stopping clears and goal kicks, and converting.
a weird thing we did was we would dribble around, and coach would blow the whistle. when he did, about every 15 seconds, you had to stop and so a somersault. then get to your ball and start dribbling again. this worked your starts, made you look like an idiot so he could insult you, and getting back to the ball fast.
thankfully, we got to skip Tuesday for swimming, i heard we did diving headers again!!!
today at weights, we changed ti up a bit. well, we added more stuff at least..... after all of our average speed stuff, we got out these sleds that had 50 pounds attached to them. who knows how much the sleds weighed.... anyway, we had to attach them to our waists and sprint. it was sooo hard! after that, we got with partners, and had to push them in it! i had Hannah, and she is about 130 pounds, plus about 25 i would say from the metal sled!!!! it was a major workout!!! we didn't really do anything else new though.
swim meet
last night, we had our first swim meet. it was against the jewish community center, and we bet them 380-304. i got first in the medley relay (team A of heat 1, i swam breast) as wel as the free relay (team A of heat 1 as well. i led off) and the 50 breast. i got 4th in the IM. ugh.... not a good race. in both the IM and the medley relay, my goggles fell off. in the IM, i had to slow down/stop at walls, ect. in my attempt to fix my goggles. becuase, you cant swim a 200 without goggles when you have contacts in! in the medley, i just finished pulling them all the way off. in both the relays, Gabby helped to pull out the win, and in the free, hannah held the lead to barely pull out another win. we all celebrated afterwards for quite awhile, pushing in both of our coahces in the process!!!
Monday, June 8, 2009
swimming
guess what events i got stuck with in our swim meet? ..... again.... 200 IM, 50 breast, 50 fly (most likely), medley relay (swimming fly or breast) and of coarse free relay. fun fun!!! i am excited about it all except for the 200 IM, but what can you do. thankfully this year, i am not the only one swimming it from our team. Hannah Becker is too. hopefully, we will have no repeats of last year when i got stuck swimming with Tyler and Cory because they combined age groups to save time. ie... a barely 13 year old girl against 2 sixteen year old stud swimmers. oddly enough, i set my pr that day. i guess competition helps me. what am i talking about, i already new that!!!
this week
this week, my FHS soccer practices are monday, tuesday and thursday from 6:30 to 8:30. i have soccer workouts on monday wednesday and fridays straight after swimming which is every day. to make it worse, i have a swim meet on tuesday, starting at 6 so we have to be there at 5. that means i will have to skip soccer, but if the next meet and practice are at the same time, i will have to go with soccer.
in other soccer news, the days finally got changed so they are not on wednesday nights anymore! i already had to skip church once, and was going to have to for the next 2 weeks (1 camp certification, 1 joint activity with boys). this was not going to be fun, i am pretty pumped!
in other church and soccer news, i am not going to be going to EFY....... again. this time for sure. it is just too hard to plan it around soccer, swim meets, (which we achieved) and then find plane tickets for under 700 bucks when you include fees for changing it. so, it is once more a no go. so sad....
and finally, we are still the wimpiest bunch of worthless ground slugs coach lindsey has ever seen. he reminds us of that frequently, as well as some players that they are worthless groundslugs for messing up a speed drill, ect pretty regularly. aahhh.... i love how laid back high school is! hahahaha
in other soccer news, the days finally got changed so they are not on wednesday nights anymore! i already had to skip church once, and was going to have to for the next 2 weeks (1 camp certification, 1 joint activity with boys). this was not going to be fun, i am pretty pumped!
in other church and soccer news, i am not going to be going to EFY....... again. this time for sure. it is just too hard to plan it around soccer, swim meets, (which we achieved) and then find plane tickets for under 700 bucks when you include fees for changing it. so, it is once more a no go. so sad....
and finally, we are still the wimpiest bunch of worthless ground slugs coach lindsey has ever seen. he reminds us of that frequently, as well as some players that they are worthless groundslugs for messing up a speed drill, ect pretty regularly. aahhh.... i love how laid back high school is! hahahaha
Thursday, June 4, 2009
water park
today, i sone how weasled out of both swim team and soccer workouts to go to an indoor waterpark with the langfords, emma, mom, dad, trey, and syd. we had a blast, and there are only very short lines there. i watched people do the flow rider for quite a while (i was too sore), and did the storm chaser. its a ton scarier backwards, you feel like you are about to elip over backwards, and the person opposite you is about to fall onto you. we did the wave pool and the lazy river, played bball outside where i donimated carter in horse, and played with claire on the squishey, wiggley snake that could fit like 10 people sitting on it in the pool. we did the tube rides of course, and the hot tub, and all the average stuff. good times. after that, i went straight to see Koa. i stayed for about three and a half hours, he is becoming really attached to me. also, he was scared of the storm that came through. he was really good though, just laying at my feet with his sad puppy face, occasionally whining or trying to jump up in my lap like he does. i just sat and petted him til it blew over. he also chewed up another bed, i think he is just too young. he chews everything, my hair, nose, ears, and shoes, clothes, towels, rugs, table and chair legs, grass, trees, anything he can get his mouth around. including cups and food bowls. silly dog!! but i love him!!!!!
killer workouts
i think coach lindsey just wants all the freshman dead. for two hours at practice, do you know what we did? first, we ran. then, we did a sprinting dribbling drill. if you werent fast enough, you whole group had to do it again. and again. and again. and only the freshman messed up becuase we are not used to raking backwards left footed, believe it or not. i mean, we dont even have experiance in regular dribbling backwards....who does that in a game situation??? so, after that we practiced headers and diving headers for a while in groups. then, he put us to the test in mutiple ways. exhibit A, get in groups of 3. one person get in groups on three. one person gets on hands and knees. one person dives over them and heads the ball. the other throws it. dont be on the bottom. they land on you. they dont dive far enough and they end up clocking you upside the head. not enjoyable. Exhibit B, get in 2 groups. pick your starting goalie and your server. servers for each team get on either side of the goal, with their teammates diagonally across from them, around the outer box. person 1. will run across the goal towards the box, . when they are about 10 yards away from the gal and centered, the server serves them the ball, and they dive for it, heading it towards the goal. hopefully, the goalie does not save it. then, person 1. gets in the goal, as the other tam does the same thing, in the opposite direction. repeat. loser does leg lifts. painful, physically (DIVING headers. you hit the ground hard) and mentally. the seniors give you a terrible time. then, he decided we werent tough enough again. we got in a line, and one at a time, we would sprint towards the goal while he threw balls at us. head, shoulders, abs, he had no target. you trap each ball and convert it without hesitating. you have a tendancy to hesitate a little when you see him about to chuck a ball at you that you kinow will knock your breath away.
soccer is so crazy, i sure hope it is worth it! i already have my share of horror stories, coach is trying to scare people off by making it really hard becuase we have os many trying out. and he says the freshman are the wimpiest group of girls he has ever seen. so not true!
soccer is so crazy, i sure hope it is worth it! i already have my share of horror stories, coach is trying to scare people off by making it really hard becuase we have os many trying out. and he says the freshman are the wimpiest group of girls he has ever seen. so not true!
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