Track and field is a time-swallower!

My name is Erin, and I love track. Track is my passion, the joy that the Spring brings me. I run 100m hurdles, 100m dash, and I jump long and high. For me, track is probably even better than sliced bread. It is fun, exercise-packed, motivational, and HARD! 3 or 4 days a week, I sprint down to the gym to change, sprint down to the track, and begin the 2 laps we must do before each practice. Then we do warm-ups. Warm ups are probably the worst and most uncomfortable things you could possible imagine. In rain, they stink. In sun, they REALLY stink. Imagine being tired from running two laps after sprinting, then having to sprint back and forth and back and forth with people yelling at you the whole time. Again and again until no matter what the mood you started with, has morphed into complete and utter hatred for everything. Now add your back burning and sweating a lot. This is how they feel. After that, you go off and practice your own element. By 4:30, you are completely and totally exhausted. All you want to do is go home and sleep. A lot. This is track, it is exhausting and very annoying sometimes, and I seriously love it. Track affects my procrastination and maybe lack of work-beautifulness (I'm aware that's not a word) because I put lots of my time into this particular branch of my life, going to my athletic club and running on the mini track, racing my sister anywhere and everywhere you could possibly walk to, and the meets. Oh, the meets. Probably the scariest things ever but they're so much fun after you realize it's not the end of the world. My first hurdle race, I cried. Then I raced, got third place (out of 3 people, yay me) and got 98 out of 99 overall. It was a lot of fun, though. Anyway, once you finish track practice, pretty much all your energy has drained out of you and has frolicked off to another happy soul. All you want to do is sleep and eat lots of food. But no, we have homework. It's hard for me to think when I'm tired, physically and mentally. I just want to get things done, so they can be out of my life. That spurs me on to do bad quality work, and by that I mean messy, sometimes incorrect or inaccurate, and incomprehensible. I really try to be better at budgeting my time and not working so hard in track that I can't complete my work. But I also believe that if you don't work hard, you won't get any better. As you might collect from that, it puts me in a bit of a problem. Academics before athletics, I know, but really? Usually before track I do good quality work, get things turned in on time, and occasionally do the extra credit assignment just because I can. I don't know if Revolutions intersects with tracks season, but if it does, or if it doesn't, I hope to improve on my time-budgeting skills....and high jump. Bye!