SOL Does Yoga

At practice last night in Zorn, I have come to the realization that Mariah Dorner has improved tremendously. That girl catches everything and anything. She is really coming into her own, and it is not overlooked at all. She is making ridiculous grabs left and right, coming down with things like you wouldn't believe.

Second, SOL has taken up a new endeavor: we go to yoga as a team on Tuesday/Thursday mornings when we do not have 6 am practice. Our newest, and super tall, addition to the team, Brooke Fahrenkrog, is a certified yoga instructor and happens to teach free classes at the YMCA. After doing a few sprints on the Olson track at 6:30 am, we headed to the Y to experience our first class as a team.

See my SOLmates bright and early on Thursday morning!

-Robyn

5:17 AM Car Fiasco

It was 12 am and once again, my neighbors parked me into my driveway. I frantically text Martha asking for a ride in the morning. She responded at 5:04 am, saying she will pick me up at 5:45. I hit the snooze until 5:20 and decided it was time to wake up. As of 5:17 am, Martha could not find her car keys and instructed me to devise a backup plan. At about 5:30 am, we started to frantically call our SOLmates. If we could not find rides, I would have had to leave by 5:15 in order to walk there and get there on time, due to the lack of public transportation in Eau Claire before 7 am. Moira came to our rescue. We had a ride. All was well.

This 6 am practice was awesome. Great bids, hustles, and hucks all around with our drills. We spent a vast majority of the time scrimmaging, as the newly renovated McPhee gym is the best indoor facility Eau Claire has to offer us (unfortunately we only get it early in the AM). We welcomed back Adele Christensen who was studying abroad in Spain in fall. "Bonjour Adele!" (Adele is a linguist of all sorts...Spanish, French, English)

Conditioning tonight = intense. That's the way we like it.

Good week of SOLtimate.

-Robyn

Skyfest Twenty-Ten

It's been a while, and I bet you are all saddened by the hiatus of the SOL blog. Fear not avid fanatic, the dry spell has ended...as I now have internet, and a job that needs time to be filled from time to time.

Highlights from SOL's winter break included....
-Marfie's 22 birfday @ 80's night at the Shout House in the Cities
-Squared's 22nd birthday
-Whit going on a cruise
-Anna deciding where she is going to get married
-Me (Robyn) getting trapped behind (one of these) while trying to rearrange Gapstur's room
-Brit commentating her little brother's basketball game
-An epic trip to Ames, Iowa (ISU)
-George getting extremely sick on a bus at 2 am
-Estelle losing her blonde-ness on MLK
-Kathleen serving on jury duty
-Jess getting lost in Door County
-Dace heading out west to San Fran and San Diego
-Emy raiding a burned down building
-Mariah's crazy grandma
All these, among other things.

With that being said and done, in addition to the plethora of items listed above, SOL worked hard over break to jump start our spring 2010 season. Last night, we officially kicked off twenty-ten with a great practice in Zorn Arena, followed by 6,048 stairs ran last night (that's 504 per person). You can double that number if you count going down too.

We're working hard to get some bank this season.

Bomb-tastic.
-Robyn

SPRING SCHEDULE IS HERE!

Our spring semester starts in a little over one month. Our practice schedule is posted on our Google calendar (found below), as well as our conditioning schedule. We will be adding early morning agility on either Tuesday or Wednesday mornings at the indoor track.

Tournament Schedule:
Feb 20--Iowa State Scrimmage w/ ISU and Wisconsin (Ames, IA)
Mar 13-14--Philly Classic (Philadelphia, PA)
Mar 20-21--Chicago Invite (Naperville, IL)
Mar 27-28--Womens College Centex (Austin, TX)
UPA Lake Superior Sectionals (TBA)
UPA Central Regionals (TBA)

SOLmates...make sure you are checking in with your accountability partner(s) over break. Push each other hard! If you are looking for workout ideas, send a Facebook message to Robyn Fennig, and she will get you set up with our Facebook group :) (Or you can always search "SOL Conditioning")

<3 your captains!

SOL gets groovy

Well, after meeting up at the track and warming up, the few who showed up to the correct gym location in the snow storm for conditioning decided to get creative. Jess Haller suggested that the Zumba class (taught by former SOLmate, Kristi Finco) going on over at the other side of the track would be fun. Needless to say, Jess, Heather, George, and I attempted to do this. We got a great workout in...but I think I can speak for both George and myself when I say we do not have the greatest dance moves in the world. Unlike the one girl in the front row, us trying this new class was humorous to say the least. I definitely had some fun...and I'm sure Brit and Whit had fun laughing at us, as they could not participate.

We ended up taking advantage of the excess gym space (due to the intramural tournament of champions running through tonight) and enjoyed extra room to throw and what not.

Heather and I went to dodgeball and made some new friends too. I only got hit once in the face, but let's be honest, some girl already chipped my tooth yesterday at intramural finals, so no big deal.

Heading into finals with our gift exchange and SOLunch on Sunday afternoon before finals. Final stretch. Woo hoo.

{P.S. A special shout out to my new inspiration, Melissa Brown, for being the first SOL mate of the season to throw up at conditioning yesterday. She did her thing, and pushed through a hella tough workout in Zorn. We're working hard. SOL team stair count from conditioning practices only, thus far: 13,860 and yes this is an accurate number, I have been keeping track}

Go out and make a snow angel please. I know I will in the morning.