I'd have to say that our most recent meet was my favorite to date. The weather made it fun, the historical significance of the race site make the course meaningful and we performed well! To quote some of our sixth grade girls,"Our team is dynamite...tick...tick...tick...BOOM!" The girls finished first with many individuals medaling. The boys finished second and also had many individuals medal. Very exciting!
I calculated that I spent 13 hours with the team that day. The first 12 hours were awesome. I would give those hours an A+ letter grade. However, the bus ride from Alpine back to Jackson was disappointing. As KL, one of the bus cleaners, described the condition of the bus,"It looked like the candy gods threw up candy all over the bus." Sad, but true.
Since a significant number of the runners spent the last hour of the bus ride leaving the bus in poor shape, I decided that we should spend an hour making the school grounds a better place. Consequently, we had a trash picking up contest for practice on Friday. I really enjoyed watching runners get really excited about his/her particularly nasty finding. The clean-up went very well and the seating chart will only influence the ride to the meet on Tuesday.
The seating chart may sound a bit harsh, but I feel it's necessary to make sure that the bus is a safe and respectful place.
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