Roughrider Invitational

Yesterday for cross country we drove up to Fresno for the Roughrider Invitational in Woodward Park (sponsored by McDonald's, oh joy). I rode in Coach Watkins' van with a group of sophomore boys: Matthew Shonman, Leif Swenson, Alec Guertin, and Peter Sujan, as well as Casey Reeves from my grade. The car ride lasted about three hours, and pretty much all we did was listen to assorted music brought by Alec and Leif. The first thing we listened to was a CD called Shake It Up! With Fruits and Veggies, an album recorded by some LA teachers about eating fruit and vegetables. It was completely absurd and funny in a sick way, with songs such as I Wanna Eggplant and Bananas for Bananas. After finishing that album, we moved onto more sane music such as the Beatles.

When we arrived, we had a couple of hours to walk around and watch the middle school races. The course was only 2.2 miles, but the fact that it was about 90 degrees made it a lot harder. The frosh/soph girls went first, and Isabella got a medal for 17^th place. My race was next, and I got somewhere around 16 minutes. Alex Shramm got 2^nd place.

Once we had time to rest, we drove back down to Los Baños where we ate dinner at a Basque restaurant called Wool Grower's. After dinner we played tag in the park across the street and then drove back to PG, getting back around 8:00.