ARC 2011

For those of you out there who do not know me on a personal level, I'm just going to throw it out there that I can be pretty man-ish sometimes. No, pretty bro. I like that term better. This afternoon (after an extensive trip to Mardin's) I returned from running camp #1, the Acadian Running Camp, in which the campers stayed at Smuggler's Den (it was pretty in-tents, ha ha!), a campground on the island. All but about three of the 85 some-odd campers are from Maine schools, which makes it pretty unique (FOC shall be fun). Back to my reasoning on being pretty bro. I am not the least bit ashamed to admit that I only took 1 (yes, one) shower during the whole time, and it was on the eve before we all departed. Not to say I wasn't clean(ish), because I went swimming in the pool, lake and ocean every day. And I reapplied deodorant at least 10 times there. After winning the rock throwing game and being a bit more, eherm, skilled at frisbee than several anonymous male folks (Jay Lesser and Alex Coffin), I was taken in and kind of became one of the guys. So now onto the actual running part of running camp..
The first afternoon I ran to Echo Lake with a group of Falmouth girls, which was about three miles. I tend to forget that Echo Lake doesn't get deep for a while, and always end up awkwardly running in and semi-diving into the knee-deep water. On the second day, the group was bussed to the wonderful carriage trails, and I ran around one of the many water resources on the island (that you are not allowed to swim in, what a tease) with Mallory Evans of York. Nina Boutin (also York) ran with us for a portion of the six mile run. We went into Bar Harbor for ice cream, and I also ended up in a knife/ gun/ binoculars/ ass-less chaps/ jewelry store.. quite an interesting place. On the third day, the camp did a 2 mile prediction run, in which the boys could not run faster than 16 minutes, and the girls 18. I predicted 20 minutes for myself, as I thought I could easily settle into what I assumed to be a 10 minute mile pace. I ended up 7th overall, with a 19:49.. 11 seconds fast. And finally, on the last morning (yes, it was waaaay too short of a camp), all I did was take down tents and play more frisbee because of a blood blister I got on my toe as a result of the dance the previous night. I'm most definitely looking forward to next year already, because the camp allots incoming freshmen in college to attend as well, so I will still be eligible. Also, anyone reading this should come to the Summerfest 5k in downtown Farmington Friday night!
KKNW, Addie



My yummy blister, excuse my dirty summer toes..