My Last Cross Country Meet (the league finals)

I had my last cross country meet on 10/18. It was the same course as the first one. There are three different leagues there, north county, cascade, and some other one that I forgot what the league name was. We were in the cascade league race. There were only two races per league, boys and a girls race. When we started I actually paced myself because I had a hard time breathing previously while practicing a few days ago. I ended the race this time amazingly 14th! My goal for the season was to get 15th or under and I did it on my last race! Couch Jones told us that we were mainly against one other school, even though there are four other schools, it was just between us and another school for first place. That one other school was our arch enemy Kings. Get this, the girls beat kings by five points for the first place finish in the league final, and the guys totally dominated scoring 33 points against 2nd place Kings who got 51 points. We won the league finals and our school hasn't lost for now 6 years straight!

Another Cross Country Meet

I had another meet on 10/1, this one was at Snohomish against about 12 other schools. This time the 7th grade boys went first instead of the 7th grade girls. Then the 8th grade boys went and finally, the 8th grade girls. The race was about 1.4 miles long, so it was not as far compared to our other races. After the 7th grade girls had finished we started to get ready by stretching, and doing form runs. The next thing I heard was the whistle going off for us to start. I was in first place for the first hundred meters but then people started to catch up and pass me. I ended the race in 27th place. I may have gotten 25th place if my friend Will hadn't cheered me on. The guy I was trying to catch up heard Will and went even faster. Then another guy passed me right at the last second! It was a fun race and I hope to run it again sometime next year. Even though it alerted the other team's runner I appreciate Will's support. Jimmy, our #1 runner, got 8th place! We got 4th for every race and we got 4th overall as a team.

My First Cross Country Meet

My first cross country meet was on 9/20. Unfortunately, I twisted my ankle the day before the meet but luckily it felt slightly better after I iced it. My friend Will said that the race was about 1.5 miles long. So my goal was to run it in about 11 minutes. The only way I could do this was to start out a little fast but not so fast that I would burn all of my energy up front. I have never ran cross country before and this is my first year doing so, it was a very fun race for me. I ended the race 63rd which was better than I had expected out of 100 runners. I was the third runner for Langley in the 8th grade boys race when I finished. I had also had a picture in the newspaper!!

Rebuilding BMX Bike

I took my BMX bike apart because I want to repaint it. I was thinking about painting it either metallic black, red, blue, or green. I can't really decide. What I did was I took it apart then sanded the heck out of the frame and fork. Now, I have to buy the paint to paint it. My dad has a cleaning tub that cleans all of the grease off of the parts prior to painting. After the paint is dry I have to put it all back together, buy a new side pull brake system and then my bike will be as good as new! I can't wait to get back on my BMX bike and do all of the tricks that I know. Like nose manuals and bunny hops.

new blog

This is my new blog.