Alright! So this blog has pretty much been sitting here on the internet for over a month with NO POSTS! But I was waiting for it to get closer to school time!
It's my, and a whole lot of other people's, freshman year!! The most highschool related thing that I've done so far was tryout for the freshman soccer team. For tryouts, there a two sessions daily for a week. So from last Monday to yesterday, [Friday], I had to be to oakwood by 8:00 a.m. and got to leave around 10:00 a.m. Then you had to come back to the same place at 1:00 p.m. and stay there until 3:00 p.m.
The first day of tryouts, they gave you a number that went alphabetically. I was #80. After that, the Freshman had to pair up with a Senior for running a bit less than 2 miles. Most of the Seniors ran first and an assistant coach timed them while we [the freshman ] told our partner how many laps they had left. **If you have ever been to Oakwood, then you have seen the soccer fields. We had to run around those 6 and a half times. Just so you get an idea of how far it actually was. ** After the Seniors had finished up, it was our turn! And let me tell ya, I'm NOT...i repeat NOT...a long distance runner. So this was probably the most brutalizing part out of all the tryout testing. I forgot what my time was but it was over 12 minutes but under 13 minutes. Somewhere in that general area. It was awful.
The rest of tryouts for the morning was for agility. One test we had to do was be timed while running around these poles. [Check diagram below]. You start at the first purple pole and sprint to the next. From that you side shuffle to the next. Then you back pedal to the next, sprint back the previous one, back pedal to the same one, then side shuffle to the last purple pole. You then weave your way through the blue poles, run through the first white gate, and out the last.
[[Pretty cool picture huh?(: ]]
Another test that we had to do after finishing that was the basic agility test that you should have taken in middle school for gym class! Remember? The one where you had to run down, grab a block, run back, drop it, run grab the last block and sprint over the finish line? Well if you don't remember then that sucks because I didn't make a drawing for that one! Sorry! But if you do remember...then we had to do that same test but with 3 block things instead of 2. mhm(:
Other tests after this one were more speed than agility. There were cones set up 20 yards from eachother. You had to sit down at the first cone and the timer was at the last cone. To start, you had to sit with your legs straight out infront of you with your heels on the starting line and your hands on top of your head. The timer started whenever you did. All you had to do was get up and sprint to the finish line! I got.. like 4.3 seconds.
The last test you had to do for the morning session was sprint a 50 yard. The only rule for that was that you had to start standing up instead of getting low like in a regular track race. I got 6.01 seconds.
Finally done for the morning!! ... until 1:00 p.m.
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