Run

Cross Country season is winding down.

I am still amazed that Austin has embraced this sport. Running is hard. He claims it’s all mental.

Austin is 6′ now, the kid next to him is 6’4. They are 14.

I saw a t-shirt on a kid this past summer that said

Running cross country is like banging your head against the wall.
It only feels good when you stop.
It’s a mental sport, and we are all INSANE.

I thought that was pretty accurate.

There was a big invitational this weekend at home so we walked over to watch him run.

Lots of schools were there. It was a perfect day.

Austin is 12 seconds away from beating his schools record. When you are running, 12 seconds is forever. He has one more meet, I don’t know if he will beat it, but either way we are very proud.

It’s been a good season. He beat his personal record at this meet.

Most of the kids were puking as they came through the finish line. I felt so bad for the people working there- you can see this guy tell the kid about to puke to keep moving!

I wanted to stay to see the rest of the team run but Austin got his smoothie and wanted to go home.

it’s been a good season.