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8.03.2008
Edmonton again
We went to beat Alberta's butts, but they beat ours.On 28th of March 26 Miles Mac athletes, two student coaches, 3 teachers and 1 parent guardian got on a bus and headed towards Edmonton. Yeah, another 15 hours, but yeah ... again with our cool track coach :) We watched lots of movies and played a funny mime game. Another task was to murmour a given song and the others had to recognize it. The girls are amazingly good at it.
The plan was to go to the West Edmonton Mall on Friday, then race on Saturday and Sunday and come back on Monday morning.
8 hours at the biggest mall in the world? Exhausting! I think I wouldn't survive there any longer. Almost everybody shopped like crazy (they've got oil, so you do not have to pay provincial tax). We went to Dollarama and bought five plastic guns (i know, sounds like grade 5, eh?) and Irish hats for the competition. We also went to play laser tag, but it turned out that playing with the plastic guns is a lot better. Especially when we were shooting at Matt when he just went out from the bathroom wearing only towel round his waist. The bullets made so funny noise when they hit his skin.
On Saturday morning we left for the competition. Did you know that in Edmonton they use only numbers for streets and avenues? Moreover, the streets are in 90 degree angles, so streets in one direction are called "avenues" and in the other direction ... ehm "streets". However, our bus driver switched street and avenue when he was typing in our destination into the GPS navigation. So we ended up in a different part of the city. Fortunately, we arrived in time for the meet. It was held in a big yellow rounded building called "The Butter Dome" or so which is located in the university area.
I signed up for 3000m, 1500m and 800m. However, the times were slow – 10:07, 4:43 and 2:18 respectively. It looks like it's not a good idea to go skiing the week before the competition and also the ride on the bus probably isn't the best thing to do. Anyways, there is more motivation to practice harder for the next meet.
It turned out that we were the only high school team there – all the others were regular track teams. However, it was a great experience to race against them. We were also the only team who was cheering a lot. And guess what ... got invited for the next year!
We were supposed to leave early on Monday morning. However, the bus driver came on Sunday and told us he heard a strange noise while driving and he suggested the bus should be checked before we go. Thus, we left late. (For Czech orienteering runners: Yes, even Canadian buses can get fucked up and yes, even Canadian bus drivers can behave like crazy – this one was really nice, though, (i mean bus drivers we had in Fernie)).
I dunno why, but it's such a difference whether you eat a sub or a burger. After a sub (like half foot sandwhich) from Subway I wasn't hungry anymore whereas after a burger I still felt like eating something. Must be because of the meat. And the point? Well, there isn't any just the sub was cheaper than the burger.
We arrived around one at Winnipeg. It was pretty funny to see the tired track people the next day at school.
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