Day one at Training camp. Hell.

This morning when I woke up at 5:50 i had no idea what was waiting for me on the football field but I wish I did know, today was one of the toughest days I have ever experienced. 6:15-arrive at the locker room, 6:20-weigh in at the trainer and at 6:40when we started the streches, I was very excited. After training in the weight room for all of winter and half of summer, Football season was finally starting. After streching we move on to walking streches, we start with lunges, then high kicks, then knee pull ups, then a 30 yard back peddle, which leads to 30 yard karaokes and we end with four thirty yard sprints. I have to admit, I havent been training stamina much this summer and after finishing those 30 yarders I was already tired, I had no clue what was in store for me. After finishing streches we broke off into individual groups based on position. D-Linemen went to the dummys, Defensive backs went to the middle of the field and linebackers went to the footwork drills. Since my position is Quarterback I didnt really know where to go today, so I drifted to the Dummys with the lineman. After about 45 minutes of explosion drills off the ball and rip moves around dummies and driving the dummies we started team practice. Let me clue you in on something, in high school football you have to practice 3 days with just a helmet, then 2 days with helmet and shoulder pads than you can do full pads and contact. Since today was the fourth day of practice and only my 1st day with a helmet,(it was lack of a physical examination form that held me back)everyone else had helmet and shoulder pads except for me and a few others. And because of this I had to watch the defense do plays without going in once since they were doing semi contact. After about an hour of sitting around with about ten other people watching the drill our first practice was over... At least that's what I thought, in actuality every day after the first of our practices we do sprints. These are no ordinary sprints though these are what we call the thousands. They start easy enough, first,ten ten yard sprints, then we do eight twenty yarders, then we had to go back to ten because of failure to cooperate, so we start over, ten ten yard sprints, then we go to eight 20 yard sprints, then we skip 30 and do 6 40 yard sprints. then we do 4 50 yard sprints, then 2 60 yarders and we finish with one 75 yard sprint. Running full speed toward the coach 75 yards away one thought kept running through my mind, I should just lie down on the grass and die. But I didnt, and thats a good thing because we just finished our first practice of the day. Now back to the locker room where we get half an hour to eat and get back onto the field ready for the second practice. This next practice was easy compared to the first, no sprints and half as long. And now were on offense. Again we split into individual groups, I of course went with the Quarterbacks to warm up. After about 20 minutes of individual work the Qbs and the wide recievers combined and started passing. Then, after another half hour we started plays. Unfortunately I only got to run one play in which I fumbled with the snap, and after that play the coaches didnt let JV run anymore plays because there was too much talking and messing around going on. So after watching varsity run plays against imaginary players and dummies for 45 minutes second practice was over, this time for real. But that doesnt mean we can go home just yet, we still have to weigh out with the trainer, then we split into two groups. One goes into the wieght room to work out, while the other goes to the class room to learn strategy and plays, then they switch. So after 30 minutes in the class and 30 minutes in the weight room I could finally go home. Only to shower, and fall asleep dreading tomorrows thousand.