10 days...

... until the first competition.  We did three full run-throughs tonight, with music, and it's looking like we're not going to totally suck, so that's good.

I was away last week from practice (silly job!), and they changed a fair bit of the routine for me, because someone else has quit and so other places needed to be filled.  I think I've got it, but I wish it would stay the same two weeks in a row!  (They promised not to change it again before the competition.)

One more practice...

ready to go...

well, no, we're not.  But we know the entire routine that we'll use at the first competition in three weeks.  And it looks like I can do it all, so that's good....  

It's been a rough week at work, and having this release is great!  

At the beginning of the year, each of us were asked to name three goals we wanted to get by the first competition.  I said a solid double base, a dive roll and a round off (fairly modest goals, I admit, but I knew it was only a couple of months away...).  Tonight I got my round off, I think my double base will be solid enough by next week and my forward roll is solid enough that I'm ready to try the dive roll soon, too.  yay me!