Sunday, 11 April, 2010

Get Hot and Get Medals

Swarthmore

Has been my saying for the past season. It's a way of motivating myself (and my squad) to train and get to the gym. And it paid off! These are my two medals from the South Atlantic Conference 3 weeks ago (gold squad medal and bronze individual medal), and I just got 7th place for the individual round at nationals yesterday.

Our squad should have done a lot better. We had a pretty high seed, but we were upset in the second round of pools. Oh well. There is always next year. None of the girls are graduating, so we'll do better when I get back from Copenhagen!

And I made the individual round, which was pretty epic. All the other girls were INSANELY good. I got wrecked by some of them. But I had my fair share of nice touches and lucky touches (including a really nice one I made to someone's foot!). Basically my entire team was there cheering me on, which is the best feeling in the world. My friends made a pyramid for me.

I also get really bad nerves on the fencing strip, but I am finally getting hold of my mental game. One of my coaches always told me to get on the strip, to take all the negative energy balled up in my stomach, and to let it explode. I never understood what he meant till this weekend.

Ahhhh season's finally over. I have so much time now! It feels amazing. What a good way to go out. I am in so much pain right now but it was all so so worth it. Plus I went out right afterwards and had a huge omelette and a side of bacon. :)

-Jing

"All Knotted Up"

Rungsted Kyst, Denmark

-Darell

-june.