I have to share a funny story about what happened to Brittany the other day. She said that right before school dismissed, an announcement was made that if you had parked your car in the gravel parking lot in front of the school, you needed to move it as soon as school let out. That's where the marching band has practice on Tuesdays. Well, sure enough, that's where Brittany parks, but when the dismissal bell rang, she had to go see a sports trainer down by the football fields to get her foot taped before cross country practice. She's been having some issues when she runs.Well, that took several minutes and she, finally, made it up to the parking lot. Brittany said her car was the only car in the lot and it was surrounded by about 100 band members who were practicing! She said one of the school's security officers asked if the car was hers and she said it was...he told her to move it immediately! She said as soon as she unlocked her car door, all the band member started "booing" her! She said, "Mom...I was SO embarrassed!" Of course, I was dying laughing! Then, as she started it up and pulled away, they started yelling and cheering! I didn't know band members could be so brutal! LOL! I think she learned her lesson to move her car right after school before doing anything else!
On another note, I had to take her in to see the doctor yesterday because, for the past 3 or 4 days, she's been experiencing some pain on the top of her foot. My immediate concern was a stress fracture. She had one on her leg when she was a freshman. This summer, she put in 406 miles from the end of May until the first week of August. They've been having some relentless practices ever since school started. Well, they took an x-ray of her foot and couldn't see anything on the films. However, stress fractures often won't show up on x-ray. The doctor told her it's probably just the strain of all the running she's been doing. I really hope the coach begins to lighten up on the girls some because so many of them are getting injured or they're becoming burned out. Too much of a good thing is never a good thing.
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