track meeets

just an update on the wonderful week of dana and track
its been a pretty busy week.
monday: first day of track. i did in and outs (sprint corners, walk straights)
tuesday: did nothing and watched people jump and got uniforms, etc.
wednesday: tried long jump and triple jump for the first time ever.
thursday: first track meet. long jump i got 12' 4 1/2". triple jump i got 28'9". i placed third in high jump and possibly first in triple jump. i was asked to come to the varstiy track meet on saturday in san jose.
friday: ran through long and triple jump 6 or eight times and went home.
saturday: biggest track meet of the year. woke up at 445 got to the bus at 530 with my pillow and blankie. there were only 6 freshmen: me, jessica, ashley sill, erica mellendres, seth jacobs, and ciaran costa. i sat by myself :( but i liked it. we left at six because alex anderson never showed up and we finally got a hold of her at 6 but she said she was drving up herself. then we left on a four hour drive to san jose. when we finally got there we were an hour late to the track meet but we got set up and checked in right away. i hung out with emily perry, olivia's sister, the whole day cuz she does triple and long jump like me. so i did all my jumps and i was super happy to get 13'3"! then we watched a bunch of other competitions. the 4 by 100 relay we won but they had to redo becasue the people started then from the wrong place but the gay other team put in a different anchor and ended up barely beating us. umm for triple jump there was a school there called logan who had the best triple jump team in the country. emily and i talke to a girl who could jump 32 feet and she said that for her team, 32 wasnt a good jump. she said a girl on her team had jumped 41 feet!!!!so emily and i were screwedd but we didnt care. what sucked though was that the board was further away from the pit than the one at our school, so it psyched me out. then on my last run through for triple i rolled my ankle and it hurt like a bitch. so i dont really want to blame it on the ankle but it did double psych me out. my first jump i scratched because i reached for the board when i didnt have to. my next three i didnt even get to 28 and i got pretty frustrated with my final score of 27'7". after that was all done we went up to our spot and chilled. the biggest news of the day happened in the girls 4 by 400. so our team was in like fourth place by the third leg. the anchor was jessica (idk her last name.) she wanted to win. bad. she ran as hard and as fast as she possibly could and by the second curve she was in first place. our team was going insane cheering her on. but 20 yards from the finish, she blacked out. it looked like her body just could take it anymore and she ran herself into the ground. she said later that she was running and all the sudden she was on the ground. so she got up and picked up the baton and started running, only to fall for a second time. she got up again and finished in fourth. as soon as she crossed the finish she burst into tears. everyone just stood there with their jaws dropped. nobody knew what to say or do. we packed up and walked our stuff to the front and went and talked to her while she got her track burned bandaged up. i took her spikes of for her. the bus ride home was really fun. i made some new friends. i sat in front of briana vargo, a pole valuter who was really cool, and kylie walter. they played this game called the line game and i didnt get it but after a while i figured out that you have to say um i can make a line from here to here. but if you just say i can make a line.... then the other person just says no you can t make that line. it was pretty funny. we were all mad because the bus driver wasnt going to let us stop for food becasue she isnt allowed by law to be on the colck for more that 16 hours. so wwe had to be home by 9. but she ended up stopping for 10 minutes at a fast food place and i got a ton of taco bell, which i ate. i made more friends with nick papas and some kid with a speech impediment and some wierd girl. we ended up just telling random things weve done and it was really fun. i went to sleep and that was that.
suday: i woke up at 12 and watched tv until 630 and now im going to eat dinner.