Cross Country is a Killer!

Cross Country season has begun and our family is begining to feel the crunch. I always look forward to back to school, largely because it means the start of another XC season. Our family is very involved in XC largely because, Sarah and I first met each other (in the post-mission era any way....before I left on my mission she was too young) at a University XC race in our first year of University.

Since we no longer compete ourselves in XC we are both involved in coaching, myself at my school (Glebe CI) and Sarah with the Ottawa Lions Fall Camps. This year, Sarah has hooked me into the camps as well so that I can take over the group Saturday mornings after I finish coaching my school kids, so she can train with the Lions groups herself. She has the itch to get back into racing, although I think those days are long gone for me.

Both Adara and Darion are also involved in the camps so it's a whole family affair. Geran loves coming to Mooney's Bay aka "the track" to play on the "track-tor" (the fourwheeler used by the City employees at the track to haul equipment around...they all know us very well and think Geran is pretty cute) or playing in the park by the beach. Tonight I brought Koko with us and she spent 40 minutes chasing the ducks and playing in the water, so it really is something the whole family gets involved in.

I hosted my Glebe Open XC meet this past week at Mooney's Bay and we had good results. Our school won the meet, defeating Renfrew CI by a single point in the overall aggregate. My midget boys won their second meet of the season, after having won the Trinity Invite the previous week in Port Hope. What really excites me about this group, is that unlike all my XC teams from the past, this one is comprised of kids who like to run! Not simply soccer or basketball players looking for some other school sport to get them out of more classes. The meet does take a lot out of me though and I was pretty tired by the time it was over. The week leading up to the meet I hardly slept at all (I'm a bit of a worry wart and a perfectionist and if I think something has the chance of going wrong.....I worry). I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking about things I had to do and then not being able to fall back to sleep. I imagine this is only going to get worse as my children grow older and I start worrying about them.