Last Track Meet

Sadly, this track and field season has come to an end, but not without the city meet, which took place on Thrusday.

The meet was for varsity runners only, so obivously I was extremely nervous (and I didn't really want to compete). However, I was feeling really confident about long jump, my best event, because I had recently changed my mark to 79 feet, which was producing much better results.

The city meet is so huge that there's time trials for the 100 meter and hurdles. I finished third in the preliminary round, and then came in third again in the finals. I improved my 100 meter time significantly, and I also jumped 13 feet, 5.5 inches in long jump, a new personal best. Long jump was by far my most successful event. I actually finished first!

I waited about an hour, and then came the 200. I finished third again, and unfortunately did not improve my time (I was .2 seconds from beating my record). Immediately after the 200 was the 4x100 relay. Our relay team is not the best, and we finished fifth. We weren't too disappointed though, because we improved our time by six seconds!

Also, Nathan smashed his 1600 time, and came .2 seconds from setting a new school record for the mile. Sadly, we won't have him next year. I have a feeling our cross country team is going to suffer.

After the meet, we went to Pizza Hut to celebrate a great season. Coach handed out ribbons and medals, and I filled up my corkboard greatly!

GO CRUSADERS!