The kids had a meet in Jacksonville. Elianna was the only one of our kids running. My son liked track but he wasn’t up for cross country. Honestly I don’t blame him. I feel like three miles is too long of a distance to run unless you’re really wanting to do it. This course is a tenth of a mile shorter, so 2.9. I don’t know why some of these courses are like this. It wouldn’t be that hard to add the extra .1 to round it out.

I love cross country meets. For whatever reason they never get old. They had a lot more schools there this time and a ton more cars and filled up parking spots in the grass. It was never like that before. The lead runners for both the boys and the girls were both way out in front of everyone else. It fills me with so much awe. He was coming in to finish while much of the pack was still coming up for their final mile and thus was running through the pack to lap them.

I don’t know what the purpose of having the gift of running is. One of the boys was with me and I told him that it is amazing seeing the different gifts God has given people. He asked if the point of having running or sports gifts was basically just to show them off. Like was that part of the reason of why people started getting together to play sports? I honestly didn’t know. We walked and talked and saw Sycamore trees.