Week 1

All right, So I have been in LP for a little over a week now, although it feels more like a month. I have been doing some kind of work out every day except Friday and Sunday. Because I have races every Friday and Sunday the gym isn’t open.

I got pretty beat up this week. Banged my elbow so hard into a wall that it took some time to get it to bend properly afterwards. I got more bruises on my hips from the saddle of the sled banging into my side as I skid into walls. Ripped a hole in the knee of my spandex. I don’t remember how I got it but I have a bruise there as well. I got my final set of bruises during my race on Friday, on the bottom of my chin from catching air out of a turn and landing with my chin bouncing on the ice.

The race this Friday was more of just a practice race for me because Its not really helpful for me to try to win my first race after having my first full week sliding from the top… for 2 reasons. 1. I was on a school sled so I’m going to go slower than those on there own sleds. And 2. Because everyone here has slid for longer than I have, so if I were to worry about times a lot right now it will only worry me and hurt my ego haha.

As far as times go I didn’t come in last! I got 7th. But my push time was the fastest out of all the girls that were there. Which is awesome for how little time I have had to learn the right technique. The girl who normally gets the fastest times wasn’t there so I would rather think that I have second fastest.

Yesterday I found a new sled to rent for 300. It’s a 99 Davenport. I have to find Davenport runners to put on it, which will cost me another 400 at least. A pair of new Davenport runners cost between 700 and 800 dollars. Goodbye graduation money.

Socially, I feel as though I am back in High School. There is a cool kids table, which I like to call the winners circle, and then everyone else. No I don’t get to sit at the cool table. Haha. There is also more drama than I thought adults were capable of. Rumors, gossip, ect. In a place as small as this I guess it is inevitable.

Being the youngest here has positive and negative effect. Positive: its ok that I have no idea what im doing, as far as how to put the sled together, put in my rock, and how to do a power clean correctly. Negative: I feel like a child a lot haha, and all the guys are..about 24 or older so…I feel out of the age range haha. Which can be a good thing. Don’t worry dad, there’s no potential dudes.