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<\/a><\/p>\nI wanted to stay to see the rest of the team run but Austin got his smoothie and wanted to go home.<\/p>\n
it’s been a good season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[72,186],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-austin","tag-cross-country"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6805copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18099,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions\/18099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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