Restoration of What Little Hope I Had

I'm not sure what everyone has been doing since Thursday, but they all took "don't suck" pills or something because they were on fire (almost) all night long.

We exercised at the very beginning for a long while. By the time summit comes, we are going to be in SUCH good shape. Last night, I thought "Man, I am realllly out of shape". As it turns out, I'm not that out of shape. It was all do to the fact that I hadn't had anything to eat all day and all I had to drink was a bottle of water and a sonic slush. I felt like throwing up, only there wasn't anything in there so my body went for the next best thing. I could have sworn that my stomach was going to come out my throat. But I exercised on after a brief trip to the bathroom in case said event did happen, just so it wouldn't get on the carpet.

We moved on to basketball relay. At the beginning, we weren't doing so hot. People were dropping passes, throwing bad throws, not putting power behind it, not moving when they were supposed to be, it was really bad. Midway through, everyone started to hit his/ her stride, except for, of course, me, who was completely worn out. I didn't know it was possible, butI was sweating harder than I've sweated in a LONG time, and all I was doing was standing there throwing a ball. But, after over 200 reps,you would get tired too, I'm sure. Brian took over in the center and his best time was 21.1. I got back in and got somewhere along the line of 23 or 24 seconds Some other people got in the center so they could get more practice. No one else broke 24. I took over again for one last run through. By this time, I'd actually had time to rest, so I was better. I got 20.4. I was pretty stinkin' excited.

Dropping the ball and leaving we were hot, we went to balloon and, from what I saw, the girls did really well. When we had one or two miscues, they actually beat us. They guys were doing REALLY well. We were relatively close to the record for our first couple runs, then Everett saw where our time was coming from. One person was taking forever to get to the front. Everett said the person had the balloon in his hands before the girl did, and the girl still beat him to the front. So we put this person in the back where he couldconcentrate on nothing but grabbing the balloon and running. I am in the front and I am grabbing the person running up at the very beginning. I am used to it being a small guy because that is how we had been running it. Along comes this guy and he is two or three times as big and I was completely off. The next couple of times, I new what was coming so I was ready for it, only "it" never came because the next four tries, he dropped the second pass of the event. I hated it. We were doing REALLY well with what we had, but when Brian and Everett thought it would be better if we switched, I went with that. I'm captain, so ultimately, its my choice, but if the coach thinks it will work better like that, I'm not going to argue. My first option would be to take that person out and put in our sixth player (who wasn't there that night). He needs to work on his running up to the front too, but at least he can hold on to the ball.

We stopped there. I was REALLY frustrated at this point. We exercised again, then stretched. Then I wanted to practice agility because I've been DQing a lot lately. I ran it by myself three times: I was good on the first one, and DQ'd on the next two. The I actually ran against someone. I ran against Brian and Jeff. Brian dove out and won, but I didn't dive and was still only a split second behind him, not to mention that Brian DQ'd twice. Jeff DQ'd once but he wasn't all that close, which surprised me a lot. No one wanted to keep running it so I ran it on my own. I DQ'd the next time, and I was only running it by myself. I ran if four more times and never DQ'd. I think it was because I was tired and going slower, but we'll see. I'm going to keep running it until I have it perfect. Just like I am going to do with EVERY game.

I've also decided that I am going to run the marathon race every time I see an AWANA games circle. I'm just going to run around the circle 8 times, go in, and then continue what I was doing. I haven't practiced it a whole lot, which I should because for some reason, I can't not DQ on THAT game either. But I'll be good.