My Week

            I've had a pretty good week. On Saturday I went to the rec center for five and a half hours. It was soooo much fun. I love going to the rec center to play basketball. Since I have been going there a lot since we moved to Brighton, I have kind of gotten to know some of the other kids that are there often. On Sunday I went to an ice cream thing at someones house in my neighborhood. It was really fun. I got to play ping pong and eat a lot of ice cream. They had all kinds of toppings like fudge, marshmellows, gummie bears, mini oreos, cherries, sprinkles, and strawberries. It was soooo good. I love to eat ice cream and play ping pong. Before my brother left on his church mission, we used to play ping pong all of the time.
            On monday, I was supposed to have a track meet, but it was rescedualed because the high school track team runs the meet, but there wasn't enough of them there. They rescedualed it for next monday, but we were supposed to run wirh eaton and platte valley. Eaton said that they couldn't come for some reason. That meant that it was just going to be us and platte valley. Then yesterday they said that they couldn't come either. So, in the end they just cancled it all together. Because of that, I only have two more meets this season. The next on is in Turner next Thursday, and the last one is in Eaton on May fifth. The last meet is the big one. It is the League meet with all of the teams from our league there.
            On Tuesday it was justa normal day for me. Wednesday, for track practice we played Ultimate Frisbee. It was really fun. I scored twice. Dylan Hyberg and I were on the same team. There was one point where he threw a fifty yard pass to me. It was boss. Then we passed the frisbee around a little. Dylan got it agoin and threw a thirty yard pass to me in the in zone.  It was awesome.

Track

         Today I have another track meet in Highland. The last two meets were in highland also. This meet is different though. It is a relays meet. This means that there is no individual events. They take only the relays. They also added a relay called the 4x800 meter relay. This is were one person runs two laps and then hands the baton to another teammate and they run two laps. You do this two more times. I am our fastest eight hundred meter runner, so I am doing it. I don't think that the school has ever had this many eight hundred runners for boys before. This means that no boys have ever ran the relay before. Also, for high jump, they will combine all of the jumpers from their team and so it is team high jump instead of individual.
           At the meet, I did okay. The thing that I don't like about relays is that even if i do good, then if my team does bad, then we lose. I am first in both of the relays that I run. In both of them i was in the top three when I handed it off and in one we took fourth and in the other we took fifth. For the high jump we have Derek, Bernardo, and me. Bernardo and I both jumped four foot four. I don't know what Derek got because he was still going when we left. He was at four foot eight when we left.
           Kinley Pippen is our teams best long jumper by far!(including boys) Last meet she got beat by a Highland girl and she really wanted to beat her. The school record for the girls is fifteen feet exact. For long jump, you get three tries to jump as far as you can. On her first jump, she tied the record at fifteen feet. The next jump she broke the record with a jump of fifteen feet and seven inches. On her last jump, she broke her own record with a jump of fifteen feet and nine inches. It was insane. I cannot believe that she can do that.
            After almost all of my meets, on the way home, my dad talks to me about track. He usually brings up my brother. My brothers senior year, he really liked baseball and track. The rule for baseball though, was that if you missed a practice, you couldn't start the next game. So that meant that he couldn't go to track practice. In baseball practice they didn't run a lot though. He finally convinced the track coach to let him run in one meet. The coach said that he could run only two events. My brother chose to run the four hundred and the eight hundred. He took first and second at the meet. After that, the coach allowed him to run in every race even though he didn't train.
            In high school, you can do up to four events I think. My brother would run the four and the eight every time, but then ran stuff like the one, two, and relays. He placed in the top three in almost all of his events, even in the big meets. That year some kids made it to state in two events, some even made it in three, but my brother made it in seven. He was the best runner by far, and didn't even train. It was amazing. He made it in the one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, eight hundred, 4x100, 4x200, and the 4x400.
             You are only allowed to do a certain amount of events, so he had to choose. He did the 400, 800, and 4x400. It was sooooo cool to go and watch him run. It was such a big meet that it took two days for them to finish. For the 4x400, I think they took like fifth in the ALL of Colorado. They were really good. He did pretty good in the 400 and the 800. My oldest sister Amber also made it to state, but I can't remember what she ran. I will have to ask my parents. Till my next post, Bye.