Sorry I haven't written in a while

Hey everyone, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while I have just been so busy. A couple days ago my mom and I went on a mile and a half run.

Today was my last day of Tennis camp for the summer and in the doubles competition my partner and I made it to the semi finals. However, we unfortunately lost in the tie breaker.

School starts on Thursday next week. I am actually pretty excited to go back so I can see all of my friends. Gotta go BYE!!

Backpacking/Camping in Utah for Three days

Day 1- The First Day of camping Grandpa, Jackson, my dad, and I did a six mile hike to our campsite. We were extra tired because most of the hike was up hill and it was really steep and high. Here's a picture of Grandpa Bob, Jackson and I on the hike back home. My dad's not in the picture because he took the picture. When we got to the campsite we set up camp and just read and took naps. After about an hour of doing that we made dinner. We had dehydrated "Mountain House" Lasagna. It was really really good. Then we made hot chocolate and went to bed.

Day 2- After we all woke up we made breakfast. We had Apple flavored granola. That wasn't really good. After breakfast we made hot chocolate. Then we got our fishing poles and hiked up to Amethyst lake and did some fishing. All I caught was seaweed. Below is a picture of roughly where we fished.

Day 3- Hiked back to the car went and got a burger then went home.

Day 6 (This is today yay)

Day 6- Grandpa, Jackson, my dad, and I are going backpacking today and we are about to leave soon so I gotta go BYE! Oh and I won't be able to write a post for a few days because of the camping trip so expect one by Wednesday or Thursday most likely Thursday. BYE!

Day 5- (really day six but didn't write for day 5 yet)

Day 5- Today in the morning Annie, Jackson, Grandpa, my dad, and I watched the Olympic basketball game. It was China against U.S.A. U.S.A won and the score was around 101 to 70. After the game Annie and I went out and practiced some of our basketball plays that we made. We are getting better.

Tonight I saw Iris Dement perform with her husband and daughter. I had a nice time while I was there. It seemed like each person had there own style of performing. Anyway I'm going camping tomorrow. BYE!

Day 4- (only posting days that involve sports this is yesterdays post forgot to write it. I will do today's post later.)

Day 4- Today I did a lot of fun stuff in Utah. I played a basketball game with Annie, Jackson, and grandpa Bob. Annie and I were partners and Jackson and grandpa Bob were partners. At first we were just sort of shooting around but when we started to run out of time we decided the first team to get three points would win. My team (Annie as partner) got two points. Then Jackson's team (Grandpa Bob as partner) got two points then ended the game with a third point.

Later that night we went to a semi pro baseball game and it was the Salt Lake City Bees against the Fresno Grizzlies. Naturally we all wanted the Bees to win. Unfortunately they did not. The final score was 13-3. We lost really badly.

Yesterday we (Grandpa Bob, Grandma Linda, Annie, Jackson, my dad, and me watched the Olympic opening ceremonies. Tomorrow we will watch the Olympic basketball game the U.S.A against China. I predict that U.S.A will win by at least 30 points. (already saw it look at title for details.) Bye!

Utah Day 1:

Day 1: Today my dad and I did a lot of Activities. We found a couple of bike in my grandparent's garage and we went on a nice 1 hour and 50 minute bike ride. an hour and a half of that bike ride was riding up hill. The last 20 minutes were going down hill. That Bike ride was a lot of fun.

When My dad and I were done our bike ride we had some lunch. Then when we were done lunch I beat him in a game of H-O-R-S-E. That was a lot I mean a lot of fun. when we were done playing H-O-R-S-E we made some gatorade out gatorade mix. We set that in the fridge to cool because we were about to go for a run. We did a two and a half mile run but my dad continued and did a five mile run. I used my nike plus for the first time but it was saying everything wrong. It said I did a 3.32 mile run when I really did a 2.5. It also said I was going at a 7 minute and 49 second pace when I was really going at like a 10 minute pace. I'm going to try and fix that. Even though it's incorrect I'll post it below for you.

Utah

I'm leaving to the Airport to go to Utah in 20 minutes. Yay! While in Utah my dad and I are going to do a lot of running. I get to try out my Nike+!

Nike+

My dad had an extra Nike+ and I bought it off him so I now have my own Nike+ and I can keep track of my running!
I'M GOING TO UTAH TOMORROW!!!!!!!

Swimming/Biking/Running with dad

Yesterday
I found this old Trek Road bike in the basement. I started to ride it around philly with my dad and I really liked it. The problem with was the brakes. I had to lean really far to even reach the brakes and they were very hard to push. So my father a I decided when we come back from Utah (were leaving tomorrow!) were going to fix up the bike and buy brakes that will be put on the part of the handle bars that are closer to me like a mountain bike. Once we have the bike all fixed up were going to these 12 mile rides around this loop.

Yesterday
I went swimming with my dad and that was a lot of fun. I decided that I wanted to start working on laps. So I swam 18 laps which is 900 yards and a little over half a mile. That was a lot of fun. When we were done swimming my father and I went home and changed, and took a nice run. we ran about a mile and a half.

Running With Dad

Earlier Today my dad and I took a nice run. We ran 2.51 miles. I have these really nice running shoes that I are pretty new and haven't been used very much, and I really like them. There really really comfortable. My goal for is to increase my distance by a mile each week. For example this week I'm going to run 2.5 miles each day and next week I will run 3.5 miles each day for that week and etc.

My Running time was:



As you can see that isn't really fast but as I increase my distance each week I will try to also increase my speed. My goal is to get my time down to 8 minutes.

Next week: camping with Grandpa Bob

Next week I will be camping with my Grandpa Bob in Utah. Thats going to be a lot of fun. I love camping. Like last summer I went on a camping trip with my dad that was a lot of fun and a couple years ago I went camping with my Grandpa Mike, Aunt Hallie, and Uncle Clinton in The Seven Devils in Idaho. That was a lot of fun. We did a lot of geocaching and that was really really fun. I think and hope my camping trip next week will be just as fun as my trip to the seven devils.

Recent Sport Activities

Hey Everybody! A lot of sports activities have happened lately. I guess I will start with Baseball. My sports team the centaurs Just ended a great season a couple months ago. We won the Championship. I now have this huge championship trophy which I love so much. The positions I play are Catcher, second base, and Left field. My favorite Position is Catcher. As you know it is Summer and I did this baseball camp for one week and that was a lot of fun. I also did this all sports camp where we played a little baseball. Now let's talk about Tennis. I have been playing a lot of Tennis lately and I even have my own instructor. I have been doing this Tennis camp for about a month now and I'm going to do another couple of weeks in late August.