By Ted Nelson, 11, Weybridge School, Weybridge, Vermont The tent flew up in a flurry of movement. I hurled my sleeping bag and cooler to the ground and watched the rain making patterns on the pool's surface. My mind kept flitting forward to the race, and I kept reminding myself where I was. "O.K. Ted," I would say, "you're here, at the race, the valley championships.