Today was a pretty long day. It was meet day. First I helped Davis set up his equipment (his camera, desk area, printer and things of that nature). When I was done aiding him, Camille and I led the pre-meet routine for the team. Davis printed out a chain of exercises and stretches that each athlete will do prior to the start of the meet. It took about 15 minutes for them to complete. It is basically a shake out and getting your muscles going. After that we waited for the met to start. Once everything was put together, the meet had begun. The meet started off with the 4x800 meter relay. We did not have anyone in this event as one of our athletes got hurt and was not able to run the event. The first event that my sprinters took apart of was the 4x100 meter relay. The girls did not do so bad. They got 2nd overall. Their time was not as fast as I ( or Davis) would have liked it to be but it was acceptable. After the race was over, I went to the girls and asked them how each of them felt and what they felt that they could have done better. Then I instructed them to cool down. The next event was the 400 meter dash. I encouraged each athlete to warm up as their race time became closer. The girls and the boys both did an okay job. The guys ran respectable times overall but the some of the girls did and some of them did not. Davis told me to go talk to the girl that did not do so well. He said that I had to approach her differently because of the type of athlete/person that she is. I just asked her how she felt. She elaborated on her race and I told her what I thought she could have done differently. Being that she just came off an injury, I think she was playing it safe and not going all out. She felt bad but I just told her not to worry about this race (leave it behind you) and to just focus on her next race. The next event was the 200. We had a couple of guys and girls in this race. Overall they ran decent. I got ice and I stretched a couple of athletes out afterwards as they needed it. After that, we had the relays (the 4x400), my favorite race. They did not do too bad. We had 2 relays, and A team and a B team. Our B team beat our A team and they took the meet overall (the won). Even though the times were not the best, we know who will run on the official relay based on the times that they put down this weekend. Overall, it was a good meet and a good day even though it was cold.
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