Camping - Tuesdy

Monday the team arrived to very hot, 88, and muggy weather in Bemidji State Park.  Everyone was postive going into our hardest workout of the trip, the infamous "Bemidji Ballbusters."  The killer workout is over a wooded half mile trail that includes two long steep hills.  The runners break up into equal abliity groups and run a continuous cycle of two minutes hard and two minutes easy over the course.  To reach the coveted "Ball Buster" status you must complete 12 hard runs.  Our young group of 7th grade boys posted a great total of 5 hard runs. Several individuals broke into the top level of 12 two minute runs, but two boys, Swanny and Richie made 16!  The top girls showed that they are ready for the upcoming season as 5 of them went the max level of 16 also.  That amount covers about 7 miles easy/hard running on that trails!

Monday night we had our first camp fire talk and the topics were "what does team mean to you?" and "what made you start running cross country?"  It was a great discussion and everyone shared some great thoughts.

The rain that started Monday night and continued into Tuesday causing the team to alter it's plans.  We moved our lip sync contest to Tuesday.  After drying out a few wet tents, the lip sync contest was a huge sucess with Ieveryone having a blast. The two teams, that performed "Dude Looks Like a Lady" and "Beat it" were the big winners and earned a dozen doughnuts as their prize.

Tomorrow is supposed to be dry and a little cooler so everyone is gearing up for the big volleyball tournament down by the lake!