Long time no post

It's been a while since I've made a post, so I figured I'd throw a short one out there while I have a few minutes between classes. I'll put up something more extensive within the next couple of days.

I was sick for all of last week, which is a lot of the reason why I didn't make any posts. I was pretty much in bed during that entire period, coming out only to lead practices. Let me tell you: it sucks to get through an entire workout, but it sucks Much More to have to tell other people to get through a tough workout while I stand off to the side. It was a miserable week. I'm still not feeling completely better, but at least I can participate in all of our drills and sprints now, so that's good.

Plyos last Sunday wasn't the best, but I think that had a lot to do with some of our team's more experienced members having to sit it out due to illness. The young guys work hard, but it's difficult for them to push themselves without an older teammate working beside them to show them how hard they can go. People were definitely lagging during that plyometric workout. However, there were some good parts, including Branden's heroic sprint at the end of practice to ensure that the team wouldn't have to run another set of suicides (more on that in my more extensive post). It was, by far, the most inspirational thing to happen to our team this year. I'm just sad that I wasn't a part of it.

We've been working on getting our uniform orders together, but there seems to be some sort of complication in our correspondence with Patagonia. I don't know what's taking them so long to send the proper forms in to the school so that we can get that shit rolling, but this whole process has been very frustrating. We are considering going with another manufacturer if Patagonia can't get it together soon.

We also had a meeting with Greg, our adviser. We talked about possible dates for our home tournament, sent in our final tournament fee (for Roll Call), discussed the process for paying for gas and reserving hotels, talked about buying parachutes and resistance bands to help with speed training, and a variety of other things. I think Babbitt and I are going to go in there on Friday to pay for everybody's UPA membership, and we're going to work on the hotel reservations sometime in the next couple of days as well.

I'd never met Greg before today. He seems like a fairly cool dude, and he was most helpful. I'm glad that we have somebody like Greg working on our side. It makes me believe that things will go the way that we've been hoping.

Anyway, that's all the time that I have right now. I have to go get changed for practice and then go to American Philosophy, so that I can run down to practice as soon as class gets out. I'll try to write a more detailed overview of the last two weeks whenever I have the time.