No running today, will do my long run tomorrow in order to watch the cross country meet held at Holloway Park in Lakeland.
This was a larger meet with more than just a regular set of varsity and junior varsity races.
Thomas and the Mitchell High School team were running in the "Race of Champions". It started a little bit earlier than usual (7:20). Race started and Thomas held back with plan for even pacing, which initially put him toward the back during the first couple hundred meters as they headed up the hill. Saw him at the 1 mile marker, coming through in about 5:28 and was now much farther up than at the start. Jarod came through first, maybe about 10 seconds faster. Next went over to the 2.2ish area, Tom came through looking strong. Jarod was now ahead by about 20 seconds. Only had a short time to get to the finish line. Saw Tom come down the stretch and finished with a time of 17:32 - 20 seconds faster than last week and 25 seconds faster than the last meet held on this course (so also a course record). Jarod had come through in just under 17:00.
Jacob's race was at 8:30, running in the "unseeded" boys varsity. Everyone was lined up but Jacob and another teammate were missing. Gun was about to go off and Jacob finally appeared, we were yelling at him to hurry up. Gun went off and he was still just away from the start line, maybe about 4 seconds away. We run up to the 1 mile point, he comes through at 6:22 (a new record for first miles for him). He did slow down a bit later (threw up some point around mile 2), but came through with a personal course record of 21:11. Tom and Jenny had also stuck around to watch Jacob finish before they had to get going.
Glad we had another chance to all be at the same meet.
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