I know. I missed a day... Maybe I'll go back and write something - or maybe not. I didn't think it was possible to be too tired to blog. We have a crazy schedule here. It goes something like this:
6:40 Wake up
7:00 Eat breakfast - avoid anything that tastes good and go for the protein and potassium. Peanut butter on an apple, yogurt, orange juice and of course, coffee (some things never change).
7:30 Get ready for practice. That means go through the laundry bag and pull out the clothes that are the most dry. Lay everything else out so it will be dry for the afternoon practice. I could have done this when the laundry came back at 10:00pm last night, but let's be real - all I was thinking about was getting to bed.
8:00 Team meeting
8:45 Tape the blister on my right heal that formed (and tore off) during the second practice. Who buys new shoes before something like this?
9:15 Vans leave for practice.
9:30 Practice
12:30 Vans leave for the hotel
12:45 Shower quickly so I can get down to lunch before the fruit and salad are gone (is this really me typing right now?)
1:00 Lunch - Today we had chicken tacos with salad and fruit. I also ate a pickle because my hamstrings are like guitar strings right now. The trainer had to stretch me mid-practice because they were so tight. He wasn't gentle, but it felt good afterward and I could actually sprint again.
2:00 Free time - This is my best opportunity to keep you all updated because I am exhausted when we finally get another break at night.
2:45 Tape the blister
3:15 Vans leave
3:30 Practice
6:00 Vans head back to the hotel.
6:15 Shower quickly... (Do you see the pattern here?)
6:30 Dinner/Laundry drop-off
7:30 Classroom Session
8:30 Success period - this is a relaxing/meditation time where we lay on the floor in a giant flower pattern, hold hands and imagine something (lacing up our shoes, putting on our socks, girdles, pants, pads, helmets, walking out on the field in Sweden, scoring a touchdown, making a good play, receiving the gold medal, etc). We also think about what we might have done wrong and how we could work on it at the next practice. They have a different scenario to imagine each night.
9:30 Free Time
10:00 Laundry returns
10:30 Lights Out
I think I left my camera battery plugged in at home. Holly is going to check tonight, but that means no pictures until we get to Sweden. =( I wanted to share the poster that hange in our lunch room because it has messages from some of you who donated money to help me get here. Everyone wrote such nice and inspirational messages. Like Mom and Kenn. Thank you guys for your donation and for the kind words. And then there's Brian who writes, "Head, shoulders, knees, toes. Finland sucks and Sweden blows". Well, thanks for the cash, Brian...
We've gotten through 5 practices and have only 2 left. It sounds like my cousin, Amy and her kids Silas and Savannah are going to come watch our last practice tomorrow morning. I should be able to sneak away for lunch afterward, so hopefully that works out.
Wednesday afternoon will be spent packing for Sweden and I'm sure we'll have a meeting or two as well. I'm probably going to ship a box of stuff home because they gave us a lot of stuff. I'm not sure I can realistically lug it all around Sweden, so something has to go.
Well, I'm off to get taped...
