The last few weeks have included a few end-of-the-year track meets down at our high school. Our daughter's meet was first.
She ran the 50m, the 100m and the 4X100m relay.
She was quite annoyed when during the 100m, a girl next to her ran into her lane, but she just slowed down, let the other girl go ahead and then kept running! Always the kind one, I definitely have much to learn from her!
The funnest part for me to watch was the relay. She was the third leg and patiently waited for the baton hand-off....
and then she was off!! She ran a fast turn and then as she approached the last leg....she slowed down a bit for the hand-off to the anchor leg, but there was no one there!! Apparently the girl wandered off for a moment and missed the race....
so what did she do??? She just kept running!! Running the anchor leg too! It was funny to watch, but I was proud of her poise and her ability to go with the flow!
She did have plenty of time between events to hang out with her friends,
pose for a few glamour shots,
and practice a cheerleading pyramid!
Our youngest came with me to the meets. While I ran the long jump with some other moms, he found opportunity to flirt with a few cute girls and eat their food.
The funnest part of his day was the lollipop race! He looked forward to it all day!
It just happened to be his birthday so he knew that all the cheers from the stands were for him!!
The lollipop was pretty yummy too.
Our sixth-grader's meet was a fun one to be at...although it was cold and rainy! This year he tried the 400m and did really well taking 2nd in his heat.
This year he also improved in the sprints, making it to the semifinals in the 100m. He finished 2nd in his heat.
The icing on his cake was the 4X100m relay. He was the lead leg and got his team off to a fantastic start...which they continued all the way to the end!
They won their heat by quite a ways!! The high fives and celebration at the end was really cute...what a speedy bunch!
Not to be outdone, the junior high held a competition of their own, a 5k that started at the school, made a loop around town, and then finished back behind the school.
It was another rainy day (of course), but when you're running with a friend you don't notice as much!
It was a fun run and it's exciting to realize that school is out in just three more days!!
