By Dana
Hatton ‘18
Hi all,
I’m
Dana, a freshman coming from Cape Elizabeth, Maine and yes my name is the same
as the dining hall here on campus.
What’s even crazier is that my initials are DDH as in “Dana Dining
Hall”…mind=blown, yes. Now that we got
that out of the way, I can excitedly say that these first few weeks of captains
practices have gone really well. Everyone
seems to be excited and eager to work hard; it must be from all the valuable
training we’ve done this summer.
At the
end of June, my mom, sister and I went to Spain. We stayed in Madrid and visited Toledo and
Cercedilla as well. My junior year of
high school, my family hosted an exchange student named Claudia from Madrid and
the purpose of this trip was to visit her.
It was an excellent experience, but I had to make sure I was still
training too. We hiked in Cercedilla,
Spain and my sister, who skied for Bowdoin all four years, and I added some
running in and made it more of a workout.
The hike was rocky and challenging.
The
hike up, in Cercidilla, Spain
The
view from the hike in Cercedilla, Spain
When I
came back from Spain, I added more roller skiing in to my workouts.
Roller
skiing in my hometown
I did a
lot of running, hiking, and swimming and went to NH and NY, but Spain was the
big highlight for me this summer. It was
definitely a new challenge to keep up with the bigger amount of training I
needed to do and enjoy the summer, but I know that it’s all worth it.
As I’m getting
to know everyone and everything at SLU, the team has made the adjustment easier. We’ve gone to so many different places to
train, which has made working out that much more fun. Some of the highlights from this week
included, venturing to Seven Springs yesterday, an old downhill ski mountain
for Clarkson, and running on some very rolling hills. We played soccer for the first time as a team,
usually we add in some Frisbee to an easy day, but decided it was time to mix
it up. A few days ago we went to SUNY Canton and
did some fantastic skate intervals around their campus. I do have to say that the freshmen were
killing it. Despite the rain spitting on
us at the end, it was a great workout before eating a warm brunch at Dana....the dining hall.
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