First week over

The first official week of Cross Country is over. It's actually a lot more fun than I would have expected it to be. I think it helps a lot that I have a lot of friends on the team who run with me and we mess around after practice. My favorite was getting lost in the woods with my two friends Heather and Lisa. We were trying to find the DeSales course, veering off the Course at the Park, and we got lost somehow. I do not blame myself for this mishap in the least! Heather and Lisa have run CC for 3 years, me only 1. Well, anyway, we ended up in the middle of nowhere, and found a deer path, thinking it might lead us to the outside world. WRONG! No, it lead us into someone's backyard, completely closed in with fence on the other three sides. OK, that's not good, so we turn back into the woods, and we're running again trying to find a way out, and then I notice all these pretty little orange signs nailed to the trees. What does this mean, I wonder? NO TRESPASSING in big bold letters. GULP! We shouldn't be here! Long story short, about 5 minutes later, we hear voices and a whistle. We run towards it, and crash through the trees, to land ourselves in the middle of a conversation between some soccer coach and a soccer mom. Who stop and give us these funny looks, then look at the woods and back at us. The three of us looked at each other and burst out laughing and ran back to the rest of the Cross Country group who was already stretching after stopping at the bathroom, which was part of the reason we got discombobulated in the first place.