Today was the Literacy Test for the grade 10 students and for any other students who did not pass it the first time. Luckily for me, I passed it the first time. English has always been one of my best subjects. Grade nine- 98% Grade ten- 77% Grade eleven- 87% and I am currently taking English this semester and am sitting at a 99%. I'm a very opinionated and descriptive person so it helps a lot when answering questions to stories or writing essays.
Anyways, I got to sleep in this morning! The Literacy Test was only occurring in the morning so I was supposed to attend my fourth and fifth period classes. However, as the time went on, I did not want to move from my bed. So I decided to stay home for the whole day. We weren't doing anything productive in my classes anyways seeing as half of the students wouldn't even be there due to the fact that their school buses come to pick them up in the morning.
So because I stayed home today, I missed Track practice as well. I don't think it would have made a difference if I was there anyways seeing as I can barely walk! My calfs and ankles are so sore, it makes it very difficult to walk properly. When coming to a standing position from sitting, I move so slowly it's ridiculous. I have never felt this way before after doing any sort of physical activity.
Even though I am unbelievably sore, Track is going good for me so far! I've been to two practices so far and I'm slowly getting back into shape! My first practice, we warmed up by running laps of the school. I ran the basement, then first floor, second floor, third floor, then back down to second floor, first floor and basement. Embarrassingly, I was the last one to finish my laps. However this did not bother me! I am in it to get back in shape and loose my tummy-chub. After running our laps, we did exercises that will help us improve on our events. Then to wrap up our practice, we ran the stairs. I do not like the stairs. The stairs are not my friend. My legs were so numb and weak by this point, that I thought I was going to fall down or up the stairs. It was brutal! But just what I needed to start me off!
My second practice involved a lot of running. We did our warm-up; a run of the school and then headed outside to the Track. Myself being opposed to cold weather, sadly had no say in this decision seeing as the whole Track team thought it was a good idea to run outside. I'm very sensitive to cold weather and can not stand it. Also my joints tend to act up in the cold weather causing myself to move slower than usual. Despite the coldness, I tried my hardest. We did our usual exercises and then began running. We ran three laps of the track and five 100 meter sprints. If this were me last year, I would have found a way to get out of it. However this year it's a different story. I must say I'm quite proud of myself for completing all of the required running. Even if it has caused me all of this pain!
Hopefully from here on, it will only get better! :)
Hopefully from here on, it will only get better! :)
TD Waterhouse.
This is where TVRAA is held. :)
In this meet, you must place top 8 to move on.
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