Jamestown
I have had a very very long weekend and I am just about ready to die. I have a new appreciate for sleep.
This weekend the whole Garden City cross country team hopped on the bus and travelled all the way to Jamestown, North Dakota for a big cross country race. We do this every year and it's always a good time. This weekend was the last Jamestown weekend of my life. It's a little bit sad because I have been going there since grade 6! This year is potentially the last cross country year of my life! Which is even sadder because I have been running cross country since I was in grade three.
There was the cutest little boy who ran the elementary cross country race which was 1500 meters. He was three years old! And he actually ran the whole thing! When they started everyone figured he was just someones kid who wanted to act like they were in the race too or something. But when he came through the finish line everyone was clapping so hard for him. I just could not believe it!
Our whole school did really well. I came in third in the Juniour Varsity race with a time of 17:29. I honestly cannot believe I finished 3rd. I walked about three times during the race but it was mostly up hills, which I think kind of helped in the long run (and it WAS a long run! 4000 meters!) but what do i know. Oh well. Jill came in 9th I believe and Roberta came 14th. Denis came in 21st, Peter came in 8th i think. Myron came in 5th... Kyle Burkett came in 13th or 14th I think. I can't remeber who finished in exactly what spot but mostly everyone did well. The girls team placed 2nd overall and the guys team placed 3rd overall. It was really close.
Jaclyn sprained her ankle on the course so we didnt go to the Eagles club for sloppy joes (
What a shame). We drove straight to Grand Forks where we stayed in the C'mon inn. Which is suppppeeeeerr nice by the way. We had a pretty good night. Most of us girls snuck out to the guys room at night and some of them were drinking but no one was really wasted. Jill and I gave Roberta black hickies. And we made friends with a security guard at the hotel whos name was David and he had red hair. He caught us sneaking back from the guys room. We took pictures with him and he was pretty nice to us but the guys said he was kind of mean. Whatever.
I think almost everyone had a pretty good time. Jamestown is always fun and I'm sad that we wont be going back again, but at least we got to go for our last year. I'm so glad Mr. Bamburak is back to coach us, he is a lovely coach.
Posted by emmadream3
at 11:13 PM CDT