Thoughts of a Dumb Blonde

     I competed in Warren yesterday. I had a pretty good meet. I got an 8.9 on both floor and vault, a 8.8 on bars, and a 8.85 on beam. I managed to get all of my skills and not fall. This gave me an all around of 36.45. I beat the girl on my team by about 1 point. Usually she is my main competition so it seemed as though I was in the lead. What I didn’t know was that Corey had added an excel silver to their team; bumping the total of excel silvers up to seven. The new girl, who I had never competed against, was good and got first place on everything except beam. I walked away with solid second places and first on beam. I was kind of blindsided by having a new girl there, but I’m excited for the new competition. It looks like I’ll have to step up my game.

     Yesterday I competed at my gyms home Christmas Invitational. It was terrible. I had been at the YMCA for 14 hours on Saturday watching my friends compete and helping work different parts of the meet. When I got their early Sunday, I felt sick. My head was pounding and I was sick to my stomach feeling as if I were going to throw up. The worst part was I didn’t have to compete until 5 and it was still before noon. I could barely get myself to eat even a little sandwich. I went most of the day with only the sandwich and a couple Excederine Migraines. Every time I competed it made me feel more nauseous. Then at the last event the messed up the setting on my vault. Between the altered setting and me being sick I competed horribly and dropped about a whole point off of my score. By the time I was done competing I felt so terrible I was in tears; which is something I really try to avoid at gymnastics competitions. But, even with all of this, I still got second place al...

Yesterday was the first meet of the 2017/18 gymnastics competition season. We always starts off the season with a tri-meet (a meet where three teams compete at the same time) at our local YMCA. This year I had to be there at 8:00 a.m. to warm up. The first session was for levels 4 and up. We started competing around 8:30 a.m. and did not start awards until about 1:00 pm. My team started competing at vault. There I got first place with a score of 9.1 out of a possible 10. We then moved to bars where I got second with a score of 8.4. Next we went to beam, which is my personal favorite. Here, I got another 9.1 and received first place. Finally we competed at floor and I did my round off back tuck for the first time during a meet. I missed my connection on my front pass so I started at a 9.5 start value. Because of this I got a 7.8 and received second place. For All-Around (a combination of all four scores) I got a 34.4. I got first place all around and I qualified to compete at nationals....