Umbrellas - Victorious

Originally I planned to take Fox up to Caro myself, but about a half hour before we needed to leave he said he'd like it if Dad and I were there for his last meet. This meant Ben and Ethan had to come to because Alex was at the school for a play workday. So, we all loaded up and headed out to Caro on a dark, rainy late morning. The high school runners got lucky and the rain stopped for their race. During the JV run it started up again. The team was huddling together under an umbrella one of the team moms had while they waited for their race to start. They had it on the schedule that middle school boys and girls would run separately but thankfully they let them run together. It was windy and cold. The kids were waiting until the very last minute to take off their layers. As you looked out over the crowd it was just a sea of umbrellas. The schools all have a canopy they set up too and people were hanging under those. Ben and Ethan occupied themselves by wrestling around and creating games from sticks and pinecones.

Finally middle school ran. Fox got off to a good start since NB had the side block and they all could get a good hustle to the center of the pack. He kept up a good pace, there were a couple minor hills but most of the route was relatively flat (Caro Golf Course). When I picked him up from practice yesterday he said he felt a lot stronger out running the 1.9 miles during practice even after two days off, Wednesday the team had a pizza party, Thursday he had some teeth extracted after school. Today he seemed ready to go if nothing other than to get it over with, get home, get warm, and play some Dungeons & Dragons with his brothers and dad. We didn't get his official time but from what coach clocked he was just under 17 minutes somewhere. Wow, talk about an improvement, his first race he did the 2 miles in a little over 23 minutes. Knocked it down 6 minutes! I'm impressed. Well done.

FRIDAY FILL-IN(one day late)
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1. So are we going to get this party started!?
2. A crazy month of NaNoWriMo is what's up ahead.
3. I love to sing in the choir.
4. I need a witty catchphrase of some sort.
5. I walk a mile in my shoes everyday.
6. Dark chocolate is the true elixir of life!
7. And as for the weekend, tomorrow I'm heading down to Utica to the Fisherman's Net church to see some friends of mine that are in from Kansas City and ministering during the 10am service.