Sports

We had our first track meet on Thursday! It was lots of fun but so nerve racking also, when you walk up to the blocks and get ready. the wait for the gun to go off seems like it lasts 20 years. I put in a lot of hard work trying to get my form down for the hurdles, the very first time you try to jump one it seems like trying to hump 20 feet tall walls. But after a couple try’s, and a couple scraped knees it seems easy.

Anyways at the track meet it was time for my heat with two other people from west ridge and three from Hill country. I set up my blocks just right, and when the gun with off I shot off like a rocket. I held the lead for the first 105 meters clearing every single hurdle perfectly, until the very last one where I lost my steps and the guy behind me, he just nearly beat me to the line, I was so disappointed, I wanted first so bad, and it was swept away just like that. I did ok in the 100 and 200 meter dash, but I’ll always remember my first 110 hurdles.

I can’t wait for the next meet and with more hard work and dedication I’m sure I’ll get better first place in anything seems like a long way away but to secceed you need to fail sometime.

Yes the Winter Olympics are finally here. I’ve been dying to see the snowboarders and downhill skiers go flying through the air. I thought it would be cool to go to Sochi- but now it seems like a weird thing to do. This is why Russia has been interesting.

One people in the hotels have reported strange things like they can’t wash there face, because the water has dangerous chemicals in it. Also just this morning yellow tap water came right out of the sink faucet- ya just a little bit. Weird. Another strange thing that has happened was Russia destroyed tons of houses to make the massive Olympic stadium. The opening sermonizes were rather funny when 5 stars were supposed to expand into the 5 Olympic Rings, but only 4 expanded with just one sitting there.

But the actual Olympics have been amazing, with a new sport the snowboard slope style. Slope style is where snowboarders go off the rails and then go flying over huge jumps where they do flips and other mind-boggling tricks. U.S.A got gold in both male and female which is pretty awesome. While the woman’s downhill was very scary when Czech snowboarder Sharka Pankachova cracked her helmet open when she nailed the ground off a large jump.

Another cool things is that the gold meddles have small chunks of the asteroid that hit Russia a year ago. Personally I’d rather have just a plain gold medal, but I guess it’s pretty cool. So anyways the Olympics have been rather interesting this year and hopefully U.S.A will win gold in most category’s.

Off season is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my entire life. Fall has come and the weather is getting colder and colder. Yesterday was very difficult, It was below 40 degrees, and of course I forgot my jacket. First we did 200 yards of bear crawls, every time Coach Graeber blew the whistle we had to do ten push ups. He blew his whistle a lot. By the end of that I couldn’t feel my hands. We then did 100 yards of crab walks and every time coach blew his whistle we had to do 10 sit-ups. After that I knew we were almost done but to top it off the last thing we did was 50 yards of duck walks.

I almost felt like giving up but I knew this would make me way better next year for football season. I needed to help my team are last season the A-team, which I was on didn’t win a single game. doing all this conditioning would make me stronger, faster, and tougher. Since we did well this week, coach Culver said that he had a fun activity planned for tomorrow. somebody then said “guys maybe we will only have to do a couple sprints tomorrow!” we all burst out laughing.

The best part is going into the warm showers and it feels amazing, but some days the waters freezing and it feels terrible. but all day long you’re exhausted, and you’re always thinking how many more minutes till lunch.

Texas Longhorns

My favorite college football team is the Texas Longhorns. They just beat there biggest rivals Oklahoma University in the Red River Rivalry. The longhorns did not start there season off they wanted to but, they fired there defensive coordinator Manny Diaz and have been doing better. The longhorns are now 5-2 after beating TCU. Some of there big players are Case McCoy, Jonathan Grey, and Mike Davis.