Boys and Girls Club

Hello everyone,
I do not have much to write about on the training side of things as Ive been injured since my last blog post! But good news is I have run for three consecutive days going 4, 5 and 6 miles. Its the best I've felt for 3 consecutive days since I hurt my heel three weeks ago. I still have pain and discomfort in my left leg when I walk around so we are going to shy away from working out for a couple more days. Unfortunately my indoor season did not amount to much but as coach reminded me today, our first out door meet is only 6 weeks away!

As you know from reading david's blog that we stared our work with the boys and girls club this past week! Things started off great! On Thursday the team and I went to the boys and girls club in Ventura and worked with kids from first grade to 8th grade. I got the pleasure of working in the teen center where my duties consisted of cooking hot dogs and listening to three 7th grade girls complain about how 7th grade is the hardest grade and whether Justin beaver (or however you spell his last name)  is hot or not. after the designated snack time Sam (Staff member) took the kids outside to play some dodge ball. After dodge ball everyone wanted to race me in a 50m sprint. I tried getting across to them that I was more of a 400m and up guy and that the 50 wasn't my forte but they still insisted on racing me. With my injury I had to decline but promised that this week I would race them so im interested to see how many will remember to bring there running shoes!

Now Friday is the big day! We work from 1-6 with kids from Oak view and another club in Ventura. From 1-3 we were in Oak View and it was basically a field day! The kids get an early release from school and come to the club gearing up for fun as there is no homework on Fridays!! We played sharks and minnows as well as capture the flag and even had a kickball game going. Needless to say we might of been having more fun than the kids were! After oak view we headed down to Ventura were me and Ben took on the entire club in Connect four! Connect Four is the hardest game to lose with out blatantly messing up. It ended being a tie and we moved on to the XBox Kinect.It was the first time I had played on the Kinect. It is Xbox's version of the wii except it is completely controller less... your body is the controller. Unfortunately the sports game was not working so we played Dance revolution and it is definitely a lot harder than it looks! 

I am very excited for tomorrow as I will be running for 40mins then going to see Dianna Palmer (Best Physical Therapist in the US!) to help kick this injury and then will be heading back into Ventura to work with the Boys and Girls Club. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! it was definitely a lot quieter without football!

Gags