TRACK/FIELD IS AWESOME AND AWFUL PT.2

I'm not going to be talking about hurdling or relays because those things don't take part in. I might do a relay in the future but for now I don't. Remember I'm a freshman in high school so I have a while in track to figure out if I want to do a relay or hurdles.

So right now I am a sprinter who does the 100 meter dash. I also do the long jump and the high jump.

The first meet I went to this season was in Tooele which is a good hour or more from Park City. The meet was very late and Track meets take a long time because there are a lot of events that need to happen on the same place so they're right after each other with almost no break in between. This first Track meet was a cool experience and I learned a lot of things: No phones on the track/field, BLOCKS ARE A PAIN IN THE A**, and that you should always bring snacks and a blanket. The snacks are because you WILL get hungry and the blanket is if it gets cold.

For my first race.... it was pretty awful. I was inexperienced with blocks and stood straight up as the gun went off. You don't want to stand straight up when accelerating in a sprint because it makes you less quick which determines the race in a 100 meter dash. In a race like the 3200 meter, which is the high school version of the 3000 meter at the Olympics, you don't need to have a lot of acceleration. You just need to be able to run for a long time. Anyway getting back to my first meet it was pretty uneven full with nothing particularly interesting happening. I only did the one event of 100m of which I got put in a heat with all seniors and one junior. Needless to say I came in last by a very noticeable margin. I got back to my house after the meet around 9:40.

My second meet was one of the best days of my year so far. We got out of school at 12:20 because the meet was in Union which 2+ hours away so that was awesome. The classes I missed that day are Math, which is my favorite academical subject but I hate the class since most of the people hat me for a reason I don't know and I like the teacher as a person but she's not the best teacher. And the second class I missed was Stage Tech which is a class supposed to be one semester long and I took it both semesters so I already knew all the stuff. Continued...

Here's a picture of some Running Blocks for those of you who don't know from here