For cross country, we spend a decent amount of time on the track, for warm-ups and stretches and such, and then afterward, cool downs and more stretching. Normally, it's pretty nice. There's a few random people doing laps and the boys team (who doesn't really leave the track...), but all in all it's pretty quiet.

Color guard and marching band practice started today. The band was indoors, thank god, but the fucking metronome the color guard had was loud as fuck (they were 2 parking lots away), and completely messed my 400m's because I spaced out and ran to the metronome (I saw that happening with a lot of people, actually...and it wasn't slow enough that I could run double time, so every time it clicked my left foot hit the ground). More than that, it was just flat out annoying.

I mean, we have a HUGE campus. There is no practice near the middle school right now. They could practice there. Or in the huge as fuck 11/12 gym (trust me, there's room). They have practice 9-5, while we're there 8:30-11:30 (done by 11 though, and the boys are usually out by 10:30ish). Is it that hard to be QUIET for two hours? Seriously!

Granted, I have a hatred of color guard anyway. The only person who I talk to who does it is constantly spinning things and hitting me with them (the spinning is annoying, the hitting is enough to make me avoid her). She doesn't talk about ANYTHING but color guard (I'm not allowed to talk about cross country, though, or anything else for that matter), and she's convinced that color guard is more a sport that cross country, and is always trying to make it sound like we don't do anything and they have this intense grueling work. I'm sure it's not easy, but I'd like to see her survive a cross country practice when she can't even run the mile at school without walking.

Sorry, very rantish, but I'm a little irked, and Aunt Flow is visiting right now, so I'm crankier than normal.

Anyway, anyone else experience people like my friend, or irritating scheduling conflicts that?

I'm not in either of those
things, but when I do play
sports or am doing anything
for that matter, if there is
a loud noise I get off balance
and mess up what I'm doing.

Originally Posted by AkumaCiri

I'm not in either of those
things, but when I do play
sports or am doing anything
for that matter, if there is
a loud noise I get off balance
and mess up what I'm doing.

Exactly, same here. I play basketball too, and I like scream whenever the buzzer goes off.

Actually, at one time I was in Marching band and cross country at the same time. Now I wasn't in color guard, but it's still a bit related with the marching and all.
I suppose it could be annoying.
My cross country team always went to forest perserves and ran for hours for practice.
I know the importance of a metronome. So maybe I see it from both points of view.

We dont have a Color Guard at our school. But I pretty much quit sports and anything music related. I suck at both. This is the last year, if I dont like tennis and I cant sing, then I wont be doing sports or music. But anyway. Noise really irritates me when I'm ding something and I need quiet or anything like that. My family says that I say "Shut up!" more than anything else. Mainly because no one will shut up. But I know how you feel.

Originally Posted by Celes

Actually, at one time I was in Marching band and cross country at the same time. Now I wasn't in color guard, but it's still a bit related with the marching and all.
I suppose it could be annoying.
My cross country team always went to forest perserves and ran for hours for practice.
I know the importance of a metronome. So maybe I see it from both points of view.

Our marching band is like 15th out of the 430 public schools in the state. and our (girls) XC team is top 5 (we don't know what place) while (girls) track is 1st, so we have pretty lengthy practices for everything...band and sports do not work in my school. Well, spring sports and band do, but not fall or winter.

Yeah, we alternate. Some days we do track stuff, some days trails. Our trails are a mess, though. Our hill isn't a hill. It's a cliff.