The past week of practice has been quite hectic. The gym we use for practice is three basketball courts with a track on the outside. During the week, we only get the middle basketball court.. for all 21 of us. It's a tight squeeze to get all our hitting in, do some agility work, and let our pitcher throw, but some how we manage to do it!
Well, this year the gym is even tighter because we have to share our practice time with 1 or 2 other teams. So yesterday, for instance, we had to share the gym with the baseball team and track. We were considered the "other" practice team yesterday so we got a little creative. We did our agility work way off in the corner out of everyones way. Then in another corner we hit. Pitchers threw under a broken basketball hoop that no one could use anyways. And after an hour of that we all put on our bathing suits and went for a swim!
We have a 'trainer' (I don't know if he is just a lifeguard or an actual trainer here at the school) that tells us what to do in the water. So we walked back and forth from the shallow end to the deep end, Then we ran. We created whirlpools then switched direction. We used water weights for an upper body workout too! Overall, its a nice workout and it makes all of us laugh at how silly we look. Especially when all the other sports teams walk by the windows and watch us float there kicking out tails off for minutes at a time! Oh well, it's a good workout :)
The team has also been plaigued with the 24 hour stomach virus and head colds. Lucky me got the stomach virus twice in the past week... No head cold though :) But now I'm feeling much better! Hopefully the rest of the the team gets better too once the medicines provided by health services kicks in!!
