Here we go again

Another week of football practices and another weekend of football and racing.  Last race of the season and we needed two good races, one to just stay where we were and one to pass a driver a head of us.  But let's not get too far ahead shall we?

I had another week of 3 runs.  I got 2.4 and then three post GOTR, a 3 post football practice, and a 7 mile longish run.  This week was one of my most favorite lessons, the I FEEL lesson.  I love that we teach our kids that you can have comfortable or uncomfortable emotions and that is OKAY and it is SUPER OKAY to express them and not bottle them up inside.  I also had to be the head coach for this one since two of our coaches had a training in a different part of the state, which was super fun with 30 girls all needing to tell me things every run.  We made it work, they got their lap goals plus some, and we had fun cheering GIRLS ON THE RUN IS SO MUCH FUN!

Football was rough this week.  I think the boys are getting tired of 2 hour practices and are getting a bit punchy.  We have two of our biggest opponents coming up, the ONLY team to beat us last year and the team that is tied with us for league champ this year (whom we beat last year).  Andrew got hurt not once but twice, and we had to have a long talk about trying your best even when you are a little banged up.  Thankfully he is just bruised and nothing more.  A cleat to the hand and two tacklers to the outstretched leg aren't fun, but they are part of football.   

The football game was a nail biter.  We had lost to this team at their stadium previously.  We were hungry for a win at home, yet we have so many new people including our quarterback who haven't dealt with these kids previously.  I knew going in that the starters would probably be in the entire game. I was okay with it because I want to win and Andrew still has a long way to go skill wise to lock horns with a team like this.  After a back and forth battle and then a tied score, we finally scored and held them.  Talk about wanting to puke several times!  At one point the team was down by 2 scores but rallied back and WON!  26-20 was the final score and I am SO proud of them for keeping their heads up.  

Post football we did a quick change and headed to the race track for the last race of the season.  We had high hopes going in for Andrew as here of late we have seen a completely different driver. We needed a good solid finish in his Honda class to solidify his 7th place finish in points and we needed a better than average finish in the Animal class to move up above his buddy for 4th place.   Long story short, he raced his butt off in Honda and got a solid 2nd place and got his first podium in 4 years.  Animal was a last place finish, but lots of good things and still a very fast time, just not fast enough.  We ended the season on a big high and honestly I could skip the last two fun races and end now on this cloud he is currently on.  

 

There were several things that happened during the race and post race that I am not proud of.  I really wish that people would watch their videos, listen to their language, and read their comments again and realize how they come off to their kids.  We are starting to see kids model their parent's bad behaviors pretty regularly now and it's very sad.  They are good kids.  There is a chance they can change and be better.  We all can change and be better.  There is NO money being handed out.  There are no contacts in the balance.  I am not sure why anyone acts the way they do at this track.  I have seen some of the worst behaviors in our four years here.  Honestly, if my kid didn't love it so much, we would have left a year ago.  While therapy is helping me deal with other's actions and my reactions to them, I can't change them or their actions and it makes me sad.  Just be good people please?  It's just youth sports in general I think.  Everyone is going to be the next big super star at 10 years old.  Sigh.

Sunday Funday was all about the Renaissance Festival.  We had never been but I have seen pictures and had an idea of what we might encounter.  It was dusty, crowded, expensive and FUN!  The boys got in costume, I bought some garland for my hair, we had amazing food and drink and we will be back next year.  

Have a great week y'all!