Saturday, March 3, 2007

new p.r.!

so my alarm goes off, 5:00am, bright and early! by the way, why do they say bright and early? there was nothing bright about this morning, it was actually quite dark out still when i was so rudely interupted from my slumber....anyway moving on. i figured if i put my cell phone alarm on and then put my phone across the room so i'd be forced to get up, since i had to get up to turn it off. ummm ya, that didn't work too well because after a turned it off i turned right around and hopped right back in my warm bed. which caused me to be running slightly late, but oh well i still made it to school before 6:15. even though i was walking (more running) to the bus as coach rinks is calling my name to take role as i get on the bus.... slightly embarrassing and ironic.
so after the hour and a half bus ride we arrived at oaks christian around 8:00. i also got sunburned on my shoulders and back (not too bad though) because it took us like 45 min. to put up the little tent thing, during which i was almost hit in the head twice by the bars falling out of the slots, and i forgot sunscreen. anywho, so finally the meet began and girls high jump was first. yeah! as we were waiting to start mrs. hogan comes over and give me a hug....awkward. and if receiving a hug from her isn't awkward enough she then doesn't completely let go of me as she starts giving her you-can-do-this-i believe-in-you-pep talk and ends up sort of holding my stomach....super awkward! and it wasn't like i was the only one who noticed either. i mean i love hugs from most people but when mrs. hogan holds your abs, that's defiantly strange.
anyways. i set a new personal record today of 4' 7". yep yep! the way they ran high jump was strange. the lady running it asked us if we wanted to increase by one inch or two inches and everybody was like two, since that's normally the way we do it. but then once we got to 4' 4" she was like "were going to start going up by one inch now". weird. so i jumped 4'4", 4'5", 4'6" then 4'7" and missed on 4'8". but that's okay, my 4'7" got me 2nd place and the 1st place girl jumped 5'4". can you believe that 5'4"! that's only an inch shorter than me! she wasn't super tall either. taller than me but not but too much. that's like crazy good man! she was from st. bonaventure (sp?) whom i hold a lasting grudge against, not the girl the school, but that's beside the point. but all in all it was a good way to start off the season.

i'm going to bed soon and will NOT be getting up before 7:00 tomorrow.
have a wonderful sunday! sorry that was a really long post.
adios mi amigos! :)

5 comments:

August Herrema said...

good job 4'7" is great!!! was today a real meet or was it a "practice"

Grace said...

that's great! i've never high jumped before... but if i tried, i'd probably run into the bar... and if there was just the mat, i probably wouldn't even make it on the mat.
how can she "hold your stomach/abs"?!?! that just sounds creepy.. oh and don't demonstrate on me at school on monday... i don't want to know what it's like that badly. =P but wow... that sounds more awkward than your hugs!! *gasp* is that even possible? =P j/k...

kinda

Bethany said...

CONGRATS ON THE PR!!!

If I high jumped... it would be scary. I think I would be confused about the running on the mat thing. I would end up running the opposite direction of the bar and I'd be like "Hey... where do I jump?". Eventually, I would find myself lost on the track, where I would be stampeded by the 4 x 4 runners. Thus, resulting in my death. Many will be sad, but I think more would find it funny.

rebekah said...

HOORAY! And technically you can say that you PRed three times... that is so cool.

I am excited for tomorrow; I get to jump too!

KtC said...

wow