Sunday, September 23, 2012

Cross Country

 Genevieve is in middle so she was excited to try out for a team.  She can't do everything yet but was excited to try Cross Country!
 She is learning a lot about controlling her breathing and pacing and endurance.
 She is also having a lot of fun.
 She has done so well in her first few races.  So far she has come in right around the 17:50 to 18:50 mark.
 Her best friend Hallie is on the team too.  She is quite the little speed racer. She comes in around 14:30ish. WOW!!!
Genevieve was so excited when Daddy suprised her and came to one of her meet's.  They are at 4:15 on the week days so not an easy time for him to come but he couldn't miss it.  

Genevieve has a lot on her plate right now.  She practices every day after school for cross country until 4pm. Then on wednesdays and fridays she has soccer practice from 6-7pm.  Games on Saturday and an occassional meet as well. Like she had this past saturday. She ran in an invitational and came in 52nd place..13 schools were there.  Than went straight from there to her soccer game where she scored 2 goals.  She decided she needs to run 2 miles before every game.
She will start piano in the middle of October on thursday nights. Luckily soccer and cross country will be winding down.  Though she did tell me she also wants to play basketball and be on the math team at school and she was also invited to a robotics class...wow! She is one busy girl!!

1 comment:

Karrot Soup said...

Isn't it weird that we're getting to that "age" where the kids' activities become even more all-consuming? It still surprises me over here too...so, cross country is basically a 5K, or what? Because I am so slow, I can't believe her time if it is! Good job to both of you.