A Team, A Family

You should always be able to consider a teammate a second family member in the perspective of the sport.  I for example can think of multiple individuals on each one of my teams who I can consider my brother or sister.  A moment like this shined today as we had our first indoor track pasta party of the year.  This is the true reason why West Allegheny track and field and cross country continue to be dominant sports every year.  Our team has a special bond with each other where all love each other and consider each other family.  

Today at school around 5th period I just started thinking about this pasta party.  It was all I could think about and I was beyond excited for the evening ahead of me.  I really missed track.  It is so much different from wrestling just based on the individuals on the team.  The attitude is like completely different and I must say I act more like a track kid than a wrestler.  I feel as though wrestling is a certain addiction of mine I'll never be able to drop unless forced to.  I'm getting off subject though so back to the dinner.  I wasn't sure who was going to be there.  All I knew was Sammy and Lauren Costa, R.J, and I would be in attendance.  To my surprise, we had a fairly large and diverse turn out.  Usually at these bonding events held by alumni members, it would consist of the whole distance team and myself.  This time we had sprinters, distance, jumpers, just pretty much everything.  It was a nice change.  I believe this team blends together very well and won't be separated by the divider of distance and sprints.  We will be one big happy family.

The generous Costa family gave us their home for 5 hours straingt (7-12) and allowed us to eat all their food pretty much.  Pasta, garlic bread, salad, sweets, and pop.  We ate (I said grace), chatted, and had a ton of laughs around the dinner table.  It literally felt like a family dinner that happens every single night.  Truthfully, I wouldn't mind eating with these kids every day.  The food was delicious and after a long talk session among the table, we finally made our way downstairs to watch our pump up movie "Warrior."  This is truly a great flick that anyone can see and I will leave it at that.  

The movie ended and we were on our way to leave with it almost being midnight.  Honestly, I should be asleep right now.  I have an early wake up ahead of me but I felt the urge to blog about another great day.  It feels really good to get my thoughts out there even if two or three people read.  This is all I have today everybody.  I need to get to bed because I have a whole day to spend with my running family.  Have a wonderful night every one. God Bless.