tell me your troubles and doubts
Fraser:
definately a lOONG drive with some gurlies that were being everything but quiet. we arrived late :fashionably of course: and apparently didnt even get to warm up as fraser began warming up w/out letting us stretch pssh. AND WHO MAKES THE AWAY TEAM WARM UP ON VAULT AND FX? like theyre easy to follow each other... anyway i only pulled like 2-3 fulls in warmup and no front passes...2 vaults and i was like dying. i chilled on the side of the floor watching the rest finish. then there was bars/BB which i totally bailed on competing the first and stuck to Beam, while i warmed up basically all alone...for like 5 min till Kelly, Kate, and Amanda joined me.
ok i stuck every single one in warm up every effing one. and then it came to beam competition, and i suppose since my valentines day was going crappy already i shouldve expected to undercut the backhandspring, in mid air i was like uhmm this is NOT going to work...so i got my hands on and tried to ease the pain of falling off but when my first foot came down it was too excruciating to even think about anything else but falling on the floor. i grabbed my shin and began like crying bc ive never hurt that bad all effing season. 10 seconds...i composed myself as cleanly wiped my faced was. and got back on the beam to finish...which i did. after dismounting i like ran to the bare floor and like fell on my back...
i missed kellys routine bc i was too busy explaining to the Fraser trainer that i had a stress fracture while i was trying to take the tape off which i had put on only a few minutes before competing beam.
Chris came over and he was like "im pulling u from FX." im thinking uve got to be kidding me. thats the only reason i wanted to compete anything, so i could finish strong on Floor. pssh after a few threats and arguments, i finally got my way.
i iced my shins till the were numb, got in like 2 touch passes and then sat down to ice them again. i wanted to make sure that if there was any pain, i didnt feel it. and yeah. as i was icing, leannas trying to comfort me telling me that when she went to the doctor he told her that he shins could break in half basically telling me that she thought mine were going to bc she thought i was pushing it too hard. pssh i ended up doing it fine. coming out with the low score of 8.1 [sadly one of our highest] but at least my last regional qualifier. which is what i came there to get. so yeah broken shins and all...
"april, dont push ureself too hard."
"im finishing the season, thats pushing my self too hard"
LOL^Chris's sweet quote of the night.
pssh
gymnastics isnt a sport...its a death wish.