It was quite a race

The weather was perfect yesterday for a track meet. It looks like we are in for similar weather today.

Jess got 2nd at the state meet yesterday in the 400. She ran her fastest time of the year, 56.98 seconds. The girl that beat her ran 56.87. It was very, very close. She was very happy because the best time she ran this year was 58.10 so even though she didn't get the gold, she had a great time.

They will meet again in the Sprint Medley relay. Both Jess and this girl are the anchor legs and they are seeded #1 and we are seeded #2. We have a shot at getting a gold in that event.

Today she runs in the 4x400 relay. It is a preliminary round so they just have to be in the top 8 teams to advance to the finals on Saturday afternoon.

Drew has a field trip today. They are going to a park and playing games but also helping clean up the park. The weather will be really good for this. He is looking forward to it. He also is going to a play tonight. It is the stage version of the book "Holes". I think there are 30 or 40 kids going. It is a school thing.

I played my first round of golf last night and really sucked. I shot a 54 but had most of my strokes in the first three holes. I hit two balls in the pond on hole number 2 and one ball in the pond on hold number 3. I did pull it together at the end a parred the last three holes. I did drink a little beer and we ended up getting three out of four points.

I got a little sun burned yesterday so the sun screen definitely has to go on today. The parking at the track meet is a mess and it cost $8 to get in. Between the cost of gas, admission and food, this is costing a small fortune. Well worth it to watch the Goose run though.

Overall we had 5 runners from Perry run yesterday. Daphney Baumgartner got 23rd in the 3000 meter run. Abby Sohn got 23rd in the 200. Christina Cole ran the 400 with Jess and I think got 18th or somewhere around that and our one boy qualifier James Collingsworth got 9th in the boys 400 meter dash.

We will see how the day goes.