One of the first things that people in the area told me to try for a good workout was to run the Huff ‘n’ Puff Trail near the high school. I tried it out, but I think I

didn’t pick the best day to do it.

I have been get-ting more and more into run-ning the last few w e e k s and have felt that a treadmill is pretty constrict-ing. So, when I

was told that the trail would take me through the woods on Shelton Springs Road, I wanted to try a change of scenery from the typical gym.

When I started running on the trail it was a little soggy with recent rain, but it was still usable since there was mulch placed on the trail. But, because there were some parts without mulch and pooled with wa-ter and mud, I could not run the entire course.

This is an ideal trail to run because it is away from the crowds that take up 90 percent of the machines (or it seems someone is always using the one machine that you really want to use that day).

I love being able to run in a natural setting with all the trees around. But I have one concern about the trail – too many loops. There is one map at the front when you first enter the path, but there are only a few little signs that tell you where you are. They are about two or three feet tall and I al-most did not see one of them when I was trying to figure out where I was exactly.

So, imagine a man like me running around the woods, not exactly sure which turn to take. I should note that I did not get lost in the woods. I am not that helpless. But I had no idea which loop I was on exactly. The course has five loops. Running the entirety equals just under two miles.

So I had a challenge for myself, to run or jog the entire course without walk-ing or stopping. But with

the difficulty of not running down the wrong turn, in ad-dition to the rain causing mud, I may have to revisit this in the summer.

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Shelton High School’s wrestling team held an end-of-the-year banquet last night to honor individ-ual efforts in the 2009-2010 season.

Senior Damion Shehan took several awards, in-cluding boys wrestler of the year and team captain with sophomore Ty Mc-Cullough. Shehan led the team in points (177.5), wins (22), two-point near falls (19), three-point near falls (18), points scored per match (6.75), shutouts (15),

fewest points allowed per match (2.31) and technical falls (3).

McCullough, the lone Highclimber grappler that went to state, was honored for having the most major decisions with five, as well as winning his first letter award.

Sophomore Colby Bar-ber was named most inspi-rational, leading the team with 39 takedowns and 16 reversals. Most improved went to sophomore Nathan Morgan.

Junior Taylor Gettle earned his third letter award, leading the team by wrestling 34 total matches and earning 14 pinfall vic-tories.

The honor of girls wres-tler of the year went to Kala Shivers.

Second-year letter win-ners included Josh Ack-ley, Michael Tratnick and Wade Wyatt.

First-year letters were given to Adam Coffman, Skylar Core, Jonathen Dennis and Sun Ly.

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CoachThe team will actually

have a meeting this week to discuss team discipline rules, which will be in ad-dition to what the WIAA and Shelton School District mandates. Goldsby said this would be for such actions as being late or disrespectful.

“You have to find some other avenue of discipline,” Goldsby said.

Goldsby said that she once punished a player at SPSCC for missing practice due to sleeping in after drinking the night before. Instead of giving the player a suspen-sion, Goldsby took the play-er, who was noted for being shy, to a youth practice for middle-school children.

“She had to speak to all those middle-school kids about the evils of drinking,” Goldsby said.

While, Goldsby said, this may be a challenge, the ex-

pectations and goals for the team will be to reach an even .500 win-loss record and possibly make it to post-season play. But she has goals for outside the field.

“My goal is to have the top grade-point average at the school for a team, and then eventually we want to be on the state’s all-academ-ic team,” Goldsby said.

On the Huff n’ Puff

By DEANSIEMON

Dean onthe sportsscene

New SHS fastpitch softball coach Kim Goldsby teaching the players dur-ing the team's first practice of the year on Monday.

Journal photo by Dean Siemon

SHS honors wrestlers