Cross Country

Hello peoples. Today I am talking about cross country. Here it goes.

So in the second week of school I started cross country for Spring Mills high school. I am the only eighth grader on the team. After school during bus call one of my teachers drives me there. As soon I I get there I get in line with my other teammates and we start running around the school for warmups. When we are done coach Bennett or coach Sedlar tells us what we are going to do today.

First we stretch. On my first day we did a tempo run. The coach sets up a big square with a traffic cone at each corner and we run around it. It lasts twenty minutes and after four minutes of jogging you sprint for a minute so you end of sprinting for four minutes. It was my first day so I was a noob, the noobs jog the whole time and don't sprint. It wasn't to hard but it was hot.

When we were done we stretched again before practice was over. The next day everybody ran the actual cross country course with coach Bennett. That day it was still hot but we got to run in the rain and that felt good. It is not marked yet but we looped it twice and it was around 3.5 miles. During the rain one of my teammates picked up a turtle. We suggested it should be our mascot, "Speedy".

The hardest thing I have done so far was a course coach Sedlar put together. It was a day that coach bennett was not here. First you run up a hill to coach Sedlar and then run behind her all the way to the bathrooms in the middle of a field. From there you run back and down the hill. You do this twice before you get a break. Due to it's infamy among my teammates we have named it " the Sedlar circuit. "

Bye


By Ashton