Well the track meet did not go as any of us had hoped. He was hoping to stay and finally PR in the 800M after nearly a year of college training. Instead his time was even slower than his best time junior year in his first year of high school track. This is pretty consistent with how things have gone this year, with some good and exciting moments, but overall just a lot of wondering on why things are not going better than they did.

Many other teammates met their goals. The one runner who’d tried to break the 5K school record during the last meet we were at ended up with another chance and set a new school record (now 14:39) by 3 seconds. That was very exciting. Ethan and another teammate also did the triple jump like they had done in high school as something fun and different for the end of the year. After the second jump his nose started bleeding and he ended up scratching the event. I was right there in the lower stands just acting like it was the most normal thing in the world. I eventually did bring him some water and tell him to stay sitting down. The more you move the more the heart pumps.

There were about three hours between the two events so after the triple jump my younger son and I went back to the hotel room. I needed to fall asleep for a while. We left here again a little after 8 to be there in plenty of time before the running event at 9. There was hardly anyone in the stands where we were because we sat on the opposite side of the main ones. We talked a little bit in the parking lot and said goodnight until morning.