Friday, January 31, 2020

How to make this camp possible

How could I make this camp possible? I need to learn a lot about how camps are ran, how to keep the kids busy, and how to make it possible for me to run it without exhausting myself. One of my ideas I already mentioned is to have the seniors help me run it, but I will also have assistants to help me out with this. I mentioned it would be held at Lake Wilson so I would have to rent out cabins for the kids and my team to stay in. I would put tape on the kids doors and windows at night to make sure they don't run free at night. 

I would also offer a list of ideas to my team and have them help me expand and improve the list for the week of camp. Of course there will be running. Gladly I've already ran and walked at Lake Wilson before and know the trails. They are long, hilly, and fun if you're not forced at a fast pace. The view is nice especially with the nature being so full and bright in the summer. I would hold competitions and also possibly a triathlon race just for the fun of it. I will have a dodgeball tournament, rope climbing, and rope swinging into the lake and see who can climb the fastest and swing the farthest. Having small prizes for all. I could also have a dance on the last day.

One idea that would work is to have a frisbee golf tournament and after you throw it you run to your frisbee as fast as you can and try to make it as fast as you can and still in as few shots as you can. Putting those two aspects together and somehow get a scoring system set up for that.

I will teach them the daily aspects of being a runner and the dedication, nutrition, motivation, discipline, hard work, and toughness it takes to be a runner. 

Just hopefully I can keep them busy because right now I may fall short of the schedule and run out of things to do.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Why I want to make a xc summer camp

Why I want to start a XC camp


With the addition of cross country in middle school our running program for Hoisington is bound to take a jump and that is what it did last year. From a team that is usually a joke and not taken seriously to dang near making state. Just missing due to an injury of one of our athletes. I have a passion for running but it was burnt out my junior year. I regained it my Senior year having a serious team with serious goals. It made it so much more enjoyable for my team and I. It pushed me everyday to harder limits because I knew I wasn't only running for myself anymore, I was running for the people beside me.

With that being said the middle schoolers are also having great success and I want to make running more enjoyable for them and help them find the true joy in running. I was actually driving home the other day and I saw one of the middle school girls running and it made me smile to think of what this town can actually achieve in this sport. Just imagine if she wasn't running alone, if she had a running buddy or buddies. It makes it easier to run when you have someone with you.

Putting all my thoughts together and Mrs.Feist giving me the idea I am gonna create a schedule and list of things for a summer cross country camp. This is a great idea because if you're not running in the summer before cross country you missed out. We have no summer camp or even summer practice. I would make myself go run but find it hard because it just gets boring alone. It would be easier to run with your friends while you go out and do other things too! Just for a week or two I could have everyone interested in cross country  from fifth or sixth grade all the way to the upcoming seniors. I could also have the seniors kind of be assistants to me and help me run the camp. 

I would take them to Lake Wilson because there is a lot of mountainous trails up there and a great view and atmosphere to run while also being a great place to do other things. I could take them swimming, go on hikes, climb the biggest mountain, hold competitions and anything I can think of as I get my idea sorted out.