Call Me Captain!

Cherish here!

Or should I say, Captain Cherish! I've been a busy bee and I'm sure you're quite irate with me for not posting more often. I would be too. Mostly I'll tell you about the cool things. I'm a Youth Action Volunteer Team Captain. It's an offshoot of Volunteers of America, and basically we have leadership training and volunteer activities once a month as a big group, and we're encouraged to go out and do other volunteering in smaller groups. It's pretty cool.
This last Saturday was our first meeting, kind of an orientation and then a big volunteer project. The team is sponsored by a bunch of baseball teams, so we were doing a school supply drive for underprivileged children at an Everett Aquasox game. It was actually a great time and for a great cause. They bought tickets for all of us to stay for the game, but I'm not a baseball fan, so I left pretty early. On the other hand, that's not the only thing I'm captain of now! Wait for it...

I am also captain of my high school's dive team!! I'm sure you're thinking, so what? Well, it's really great. I always wanted to be able to say, yeah I was a team captain, there's only one or two of them every year. It's an honor and a responsibility. And I'm proud of myself. It's been a lot of work, and we're only two weeks into the season. My goal is to make it to state, and that's not going to be easy. I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
The hardest part of diving though, is the mental part. Diving is terrifying. You stand on that board and know that what you're doing could seriously injure you. It's categorized as a high risk sport. If you're like me it's twice as bad. You walk up to the board bravely and then your mind kicks in. You over analyze the situation until you're suddenly terrified of it and all the bad things that could happen are replaying themselves in your head. You see the possible smack, you relive bad experiences, and you remember seeing people hit the board and hurt themselves all at once. Before you know it you're paralyzed with fear. So what I'm working on now is getting past that. And it's hard. But it led me to a great website!
Nerd Fitness is a great fitness website, and definitely left me inspired! I love the guy who writes it so much that probably I could marry him (don't tell Riley)! The way he describes everything and relates it to nerdy things makes me happy and inspired. I'm trying a few of the things I've read about. I'll get back to you on how it goes. I read a great article on getting over fear that I'm trying very hard to relate to diving. You should check it out! Join the Nerd Fitness Rebellion!
Since dive has started I don't have a choice but to keep up with the rigorous core work out we do and the several million lunges. (That's an exaggeration, but I really don't like them!) Anyway, this website inspired me to do more on my own time. Maybe it will help you too! We can level up together! Be well everybody!

Cherish out!