Freshman Orientation Was Today!

        Here we go again!  Today was the day all the freshmen got to meet their teachers and get to know the school.  So getting up earlier than normal and ridding a bus again was a little tough.  But everything was great and I love the school and my teachers are so nice.  Getting around the school wasn't as hard as I thought, but having classes on both levels where you keep going up and then down isn't the best of it!  Overall very nice first day and nice people all around.  Speaking of knowing people, it was really nice to have done cross country over the summer and to have got to know a nice group of people.  Sherwood= Awesome!

First Scrimmage At SSFS

        I had my first scrimmage today.  It went very well, better than I would have thought.  It was pretty much what I was expecting, but there were about 6 schools there instead of the 2 or 3 that I was thinking would be!  I beat my goal time of under 30 for my first race, and got 27.33.  Not great, but good for my first scrimmage I guess.  I was able to hold off two Magruter boys, that were right behind me the whole race.  Until the end, when I gave it everything I had and sprinted as fast as I could, one of them still had it in them and barely managed to beat me!  So a little upsetting.

Agricultural Farm Park Run

        This morning we had to met at the Agricultural Farm Park.  Today was incredible, we did everything!  Hills, pack running, sprints, striders, long cool down, stretching, and watermelon!  You may know that this park is where the MC Gregor Invitational is held, so we were lucky enough to practice the course!  So got to know it's tips and tricks, and am getting better every day.  Great practice, 6.5 miles total!  Sorry I'm not very good explaning the workout but I just wanted to write a quite update!

A 45 Mile Week!

        It's been a week now and a very long one with tons of practices.  Two a day and many runs, drills, stretches, games, and cool downs.  The 45 miles is including warmup and cool downs, along with each run, and adding it up equals a lot.  The team is keeping a log to keep track of it, and the coaches want to make sure we don't do too much, anything over 45 a week, so we don't get injuries or completely kill ourselves.  Also my ankle stared bothering me on Wednesday during our running.  It started on the day we were running on hills.  <
       
        This week has been a great start and the team is nicely shaping up, and I'm getting to know more people slowly.  So far it seems like the team is probably 80-100 people, both boys and girls, but not everyone is there 100% of the time.  Tomorrow morning we are doing another run and we have to meet at some park near the school.  Also sometime next week there will be a cook off, after practice.  So that should be fun, we should also be getting uniforms in the up coming weeks, and many of the upperclassmen have been trying to talk the coaches into something special, so it might be interesting!

Cross Country is Official!

        Yesterday morning @ 7:30 was the official first practice for cross country at SHS.  Met the coaches and lots of people.  The coaches are very funny and really nice!  Ran Sherwood's XC course 3.1 miles is the standard course.  Didn't have to get my time done though so it was just for practice!  We did a long warm-up to get started and had to go over all the special drills for form and such.  So hopefully so much time doesn't have to be used for drills all the time!  Anyway a lot of fun!

Asticou Terraces -The Garden of Wonders

        Another day with on and off rain. So a car trip was more than perfect.  Near Seal Cove there was a short little hike to a lovely garden.  Great more nature photos!  It was good but raining, I still got pictures.  The Northeast Harbor was visible from above and it was a great nature walk.  Just one flower picture I took (right) and just one of the many great garden angles (below).  More photos in the NATURE page above!!!