I am sooooooooo tired! We had such a busy weekend! It was worth it.. but Man am I glad it is over.
Going into the season I didn't think Regions were an option so I wasn't worried when I found out that DD2's 1st dance compeition of the year was the same weekend as Regions. Then, of course Beetle shocked the pants off us all and qualified. Luckily, the Scheduling Gods were on my side. DD2 "Bug" danced 3 times on Saturday (in a city 2 1/2 hours away) So that left all us free to Be with Beetle on Sunday at Regions.
We drove down Friday night to the Dance competition. We got up early Saturday... hair & make up.. costumes for her solo. Let me tell you Dance competitions are more nuts than Gymnastics meets.. they can run EARLY..And this one did.. Bug's solo ran 1/2 hour early her dad and grandparents missed it. And Then we only had about 1.2 hour to do a quick change redo a new hairdo and costume change before her first group dance.. After that we were able to go back and relax at the hotel before going back for her second group dance that night.. it was after 10:00 before we got out of there.. She did great she got 3 high Silver medals.. (probably a 8.5 in gymnastics terms LOL). It was after 11:00 before we got to sleep that night
We had to be up and out of the hotel by 10:30 to get to the Wisconsin Dells for Beetle's Meet. We made it in time to have Beetle take a shower and get to the meet. But no relaxing.
The meet didnt go so well, She was tired... I think it was too much of a weekend.. She started on beam.. didnt get connection, big wobble after her full turn, big wobble after her switch leap.. but clean otherwise, 7.8 ARG terrible
Floor.. she was clean but just not as powerful as normal. 8.75.
Vault... typical 8.35...
Bars.. omg.. lets start by saying they didnt rotate the girls from one event to the other until everyone was done.. so of course beam and floor were holding everyone up.. Beetle went almost an hour between her vault and bar touch. Her first touch in warmups.. was UGLY.. she couldnt even pull off a kip much less cast her pirouette. I knew we were in for a rough one... she didnt turn any pirouettes in her warm up.. she did do it in her bar routine but dumped it over and tapped her feet on the ground.. score. 8.2.
Her all around was her second lowest of the year... she was really disappointed. Her coaches reminded her that she had a great year and it was a victory to even compete in regions... We told her how proud we are of her.. We do feel like she belonged in Level 8.
Although, I feel like I should have done something different with the weekend..I feel responsible for her being so worn out... maybe not let her stay at her sisters competition so late.. made her eat a little better on Sunday.. Could I have forced some energy in her? I dont know.. But we did the best we could.. it was an important weekend for both of my girls.. I needed to make it equal...
Hey! We do have a bright side... She placed on Floor!!! She got a 10th place medal.. it is a treasure to her..
We spent yesterday at one of the waterparks.. it was great fun! Now today it was the first day back to practice. Finally uptraining some skills.. she Tsuked by herself today!
And now.. her coach is talking L9... oh boy.. here we go again.
Going into the season I didn't think Regions were an option so I wasn't worried when I found out that DD2's 1st dance compeition of the year was the same weekend as Regions. Then, of course Beetle shocked the pants off us all and qualified. Luckily, the Scheduling Gods were on my side. DD2 "Bug" danced 3 times on Saturday (in a city 2 1/2 hours away) So that left all us free to Be with Beetle on Sunday at Regions.
We drove down Friday night to the Dance competition. We got up early Saturday... hair & make up.. costumes for her solo. Let me tell you Dance competitions are more nuts than Gymnastics meets.. they can run EARLY..And this one did.. Bug's solo ran 1/2 hour early her dad and grandparents missed it. And Then we only had about 1.2 hour to do a quick change redo a new hairdo and costume change before her first group dance.. After that we were able to go back and relax at the hotel before going back for her second group dance that night.. it was after 10:00 before we got out of there.. She did great she got 3 high Silver medals.. (probably a 8.5 in gymnastics terms LOL). It was after 11:00 before we got to sleep that night
We had to be up and out of the hotel by 10:30 to get to the Wisconsin Dells for Beetle's Meet. We made it in time to have Beetle take a shower and get to the meet. But no relaxing.
The meet didnt go so well, She was tired... I think it was too much of a weekend.. She started on beam.. didnt get connection, big wobble after her full turn, big wobble after her switch leap.. but clean otherwise, 7.8 ARG terrible
Floor.. she was clean but just not as powerful as normal. 8.75.
Vault... typical 8.35...
Bars.. omg.. lets start by saying they didnt rotate the girls from one event to the other until everyone was done.. so of course beam and floor were holding everyone up.. Beetle went almost an hour between her vault and bar touch. Her first touch in warmups.. was UGLY.. she couldnt even pull off a kip much less cast her pirouette. I knew we were in for a rough one... she didnt turn any pirouettes in her warm up.. she did do it in her bar routine but dumped it over and tapped her feet on the ground.. score. 8.2.
Her all around was her second lowest of the year... she was really disappointed. Her coaches reminded her that she had a great year and it was a victory to even compete in regions... We told her how proud we are of her.. We do feel like she belonged in Level 8.
Although, I feel like I should have done something different with the weekend..I feel responsible for her being so worn out... maybe not let her stay at her sisters competition so late.. made her eat a little better on Sunday.. Could I have forced some energy in her? I dont know.. But we did the best we could.. it was an important weekend for both of my girls.. I needed to make it equal...
Hey! We do have a bright side... She placed on Floor!!! She got a 10th place medal.. it is a treasure to her..
We spent yesterday at one of the waterparks.. it was great fun! Now today it was the first day back to practice. Finally uptraining some skills.. she Tsuked by herself today!
And now.. her coach is talking L9... oh boy.. here we go again.