Mt. Ararat. One of our longest drives. I always feel like the track was built in the middle of a marsh while I'm competing on it, but the team very much enjoys it there. One of the toilets near the track was majorly clogged so waiting in line took forever, and Gwen and I were near peeing in our spankies. We didn't realize they'd made final call for the mile until a teammate of ours hurried over to tell us. Whether it was the adrenaline or the (finally) empty bladders that helped us we're not entirely sure, but we both ended up qualifying automatically for states, running a 5:34 and 5:39 respectively- 5:40 is automatic. After, we went on a pathetic cool down with Molly Schassberger of Winslow (Molly and I went to Rhode Island for Regionals together last November, along with Riley Jones, who earlier that day had LPR'ed in the RW). I say pathetic because we managed a lap around the track in the time that the second heat of girls had finished racing their mile. I was having some cramping issues, and then Gwen's shins were bothering her, and finally Molly declared there was an issue with her foot. But goodness don't we love running :P Our recent addition to the team, the throwing part, has improved..er.. not leaps and bounds, but shall we say heaves and launches, with quite a few scoring positions :) Fr. Miranda Nicely ran a 2:32 leg in the 4x8, and our dear Louisa Stancioff (Jr, of the New England/School Record holding 2010 4x8 team) joins us again this year after playing the lead role in the school's Pride and Prejudice.
KKNW, Addie
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