They say that you must endure the pain to see the success. My theory is that success can be pain. Last week on Sunday at 9:30am 9 Rowmark girls loaded the slowest, grossest bus known to man (or at least the Rowmark Ski Academy) and headed up Parley’s pass to get to The Center of Excellence.
Originally we weren’t going to go up that day because we were scheduled to go to Loveland Colorado for a four-day camp. But snow at Loveland was not on our side and so we did physical testing instead.
If any of you have ever done physical testing (which most of you should have) you will know that with each test you are pushed to your limits and then further. Beep Test (or shuttle run), run until you die. Box jump, Jump back and fourth over a box until you are incapable of jumping the height of the box and so you trip over it over, and over again. You get the idea.
The unfortunate thing is that I already did physical testing earlier this fall. Though I increased my scores in almost everything even though we were at altitude it was not the most fun experience of my life. Next time I will take camp!
Dryland this fall has been pretty great. We have been doing some new stuff because we have a new dryland assistant coach, Pat Purcel, who is just getting all of his ideas out. Slack lining, lateral squats, circle dodge ball and lots of other things have been added on to our normal weight lifting, running and jumping trend. I am exited for our upcoming Camp in Loveland in November and am hoping to see some of you there!
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Breezy Johnson
