So yea, I've decided to make a blog non-gamemaker related. I'm not aware of how many of you here actually do sports but, whatever… Today I had a cross country meet and I was running a 5k race. (For those of you who don't know, 5k=3.1miles) To my surprise I finished 8th place out of 201 runners. I'm not the best runner, (running for my High Schools Junior Varsity team) but I finished the race in 22 minutes and 57 seconds. That's currently my best time for a 3.1mile race. It averages to about 7 and a half minutes for each mile. For me that's a great time because this is the first time I've ever joined a team that does long distance running. I'm used to football and sprinting on the track team. I'm used to doing 1-2 laps around a track or a dozen 50 yard sprints down a field and my coaches were pleased. But with cross country…. HAH! My first practice went something like this….
I'm joining cross country 4 weeks later than everyone else and I show up to practice. I ask the captain what we were going to do and he says we're going to run a mile. I'm thinking, okay, this is long distance running, I guess a mile isn't so bad. And so we run it. I'm exhausted and breathing hard when we finish. After I take a break and start breathing normal again I ask again what we were going to do and if that was all…….. uhm, no. "That was our warm up, after you finish stretching we're going for a light 5 mile jog and when we're done we'll be doing a 1mile cool down"…… I was stunned. My first impression was, "Holy **** what have I gotten myself into? I couldn't walk for two days after that practice, lol…Now I look forward to my 5 mile runs because if you don't do them then you feel like crap when it comes to race day. So far I'm looking at a 1 minute decrease in my time each race. I've been running for 5 weeks now. It gets addicting. But you know what? Despite all the hard work and dedication involved in joining a sports team, the benefits are amazing. I can run 3.1 miles without stopping. Can you run for 20 minutes without stopping at all and maintain the same speed throughout the distance? I never thought I could. And I still feel like I'm going to puke my brains out every time I finish a race. Sports…. The things we do to get in shape. heh… Do any of you do a sport? Are you good at something in particular?
I ran a 5k cross country race today too.
Couldn't walk for two days because of a 5 mile jog. You're hilarious.yea man, the first practice was like a wake up call. I never ran so much. I'm glad I'm doing it now though. I feel so much better and not so lazy. What was your time btw?
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You guys are hilarious.It ain't 5k, it's 5Km. Cycling is way better than running.
Wow nice time, I did track and field throughout middle school, because of that, I average about a 7min every year in gym when we have physical fitness testing at school.
Currently I just play soccer and sharpshoot on the rifle team.@TangoSquadron- Your school has a sharpshoot program? I've never heard of a school with that kind of program in it. Sounds like fun.
@Sinistrade- talk to any runner about a 5 kilometer race and they will call it a 5k race. Don't try to correct me. And cycling has its benefits, but cycling being better than running is completely your opinion. I cross train sometimes and cycle on the weekends when I don't feel like running.Its a rifle team, you know target shooting and stuff. We only use small caliber rifles like high powered pellet guns of .22's. I guess the whole reason my high school has a rifle team is because my area is hugely interested (not me) in hunting. So much that we get days off from school just so people can shoot at animals.
Where you from?