RoAd TrIp on AcTiViTy BuS!

Last weekend we took the cross country team out east on a lil' road trip!  The seniors were recognized at the football game Friday night so we hit the road AFTER that which ended up being about 8:30pm!  It definitely takes a LOT longer to get places when you are on a BUS.  The purpose of this road trip was for the team to practice on the state course in Kernsersville, NC and familiarize themselves with this course since the STATE MEET is coming up quickly on November 5th and of course for TEAM BONDING too.

We arrived at our hotel around 2 in the morning and wow, it was a DISASTER!  I'll spare you the details but I can honestly say the team REJOICED and really had great attitudes about this not so nice hotel :)

Some of the team :)

Such a great bus driver :)

Meet Maggie :)  Coach Knight's daughter!
She (and her sister) were the only ones allowed get DONUTS at Dunkin Donuts :) 

DD Coffee - so good!
I don't think I need to convince you from this picture about the LACK of sleep that took place Friday night :)

Strategizing on the course!

Lots of push-ups!

Rance is up in the air clapping :)

Crunches & lots of em!

A-long KILLED!

After practice we stopped at a truck stop and everyone changed clothes before we headed to SCAROWINDS!!! :)

Poor lil' Frank letting the girls do his hair!

Adorable HA!

Almost done...

At SCAROWINDS!

Scarowinds was open until 1am and you better believe we stayed until the last minute!  Thanks to Tacey's dad (Tacey ran XC for Rance in previous years and I basically LOVE her) - we crashed at their house in Charlotte about 3am and back up bright & early to hit the road Sunday morning!

Everyone obviously CRASHED on the bus ride back!

We made a pit stop in Asheville to buy Lindy some new running shoes!

YAY for new shoes! :)

We stopped to eat Chinese & well, Irvin likes lemons :) Enuff about that!

Thank you Jesus for this group of runners and for an incredibly fun weekend!  We are headed to Cherokee on Saturday for REGIONALS...