With the first month of school under our belts, the fall sports season is well underway. Starting in late August, preseason athletes from all different teams- football, volleyball, horseback riding, tennis- came back to Thacher for a week of rigorous training before the new year. For me, this meant coming back for cross country- one […]
Wow! I can’t believe that fall is almost over!! Looking back, I wonder exactly what I was doing. FIrst, the cross country team had its last league meet several weeks back at Cate School. As expected, we won the league, and I got a personal record of 20:10. I actually ran that race faster than […]
“FOR THE THRILL OF IT, THRILL OF IT! ALWAYS PUSHING UP THE HILL SEARCHING FOR THE THRILL OF IT. OHOHOHOH! 1,2,3 THACHER!” The girls cross country team sings at the top of our lungs before the race. You could call it a pre-race ritual. It’s my senior year, I can’t believe it, my final season. […]
This summer, I spent many hours running and preparing for the upcoming cross country season. This included lots of push-ups and sit-ups when running was not an option (camping trips). I ran in some really cool places including: Sanlúcar, Spain; Southwest harbor, Maine; Northern Maine on the border of Canada, and Newburyport, Massachusetts. Many days […]
Wow! A lot has been going on, including the first Condor League Cross Country race (right here at Thacher), the first Coffee House of the year, and a personal flashback to the Spring EDTs of the previous year. Last Wednesday, the cross-country team had its first meet, with 7 other schools joining us in the […]
Late on a Saturday morning after the Cross Country State Championship races, Isobel and I were driving back from Fresno and talking over the season. After examining and evaluating our training, looking at the mistakes I made as well as those avoided, Isobel said: “I remember my first day of Cross Country in September. You […]
Every week that I am at Thacher, a special event, specific to that week, occurs. Some of these events may remain in my mind as lasting memories, such as Gymkhana, the musical, or an especially interesting conversation. This week, that special event is particularly important to me. It is 6 am, on a mid-November Saturday, […]
As perspectives go, during the winter of last year, I was in musical rehearsals every night. I had an amazing time from beginning to end, and had a lot of fun. It was the first time I had ever been in a musical, and I met many others who shared my passion. During my freshman […]