7.25 miles, AP 8:35 5.25 miles with Rachel and 2 by my lonesome. It is so nice having someone to run with in the mornings! I don't have a patient until 9 this morning and so my goal is to catch up my blog here! Like everything else right now, it has fallen quite behind! :-) Houston was a FANTASTIC experience for the kiddos! It was so so so stinkin' HOT and HUMID though! I have no idea how people train and race in those conditions. We spent roughly six hours a day at the track to watch our kids as well as the rest of the Quick Feet runners. Most of the hours were in the sun (roughly 95-100 degrees) and humidity in the 70s and 80s! CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY!!! Sherm and Smo did AMAZING! It was quite the experience for Sherm to race all these crazy fast runners. In Utah he has become accustomed to being among the very fastest! At Nationals, not so much! In fact, even though he PR's on his 200 he was definitely towards the slow end of the runners there!! ********* Sherm's results (11 y.o.) 200 meters, 27.92 seconds 100 meters, 13.84 seconds Neither of these times were fast enough to get him past the preliminaries. I'm telling you though, some of these 11 and 12 year old boys look like they are 16!!! I'm not exaggerating even in the slightest. It is CRAZY!!!! The cool thing was that instead of moping or feeling discouraged by his results Sherm was instead motivated to get even better and faster!! I LOVE IT!!! (He is even considering trying to figure out a way to grow a mustache because he said some of those boys his age had them!!!!!!) ********* Sophia's results (12 y.o.) 800 meters, 2:41.6 Not her best, but crazy good considering she threw up 7 times within the hour of her race, including once while walking to the starting line. In fact, the officials asked her if she was okay and needed to sit out. She gave them the stink eye and said, "No, I'm fine!" She is one tough cookie!!! 1500 meters, 5:26.73 A new personal record and 36th in the Nation :-) She definitely got a taste of what it is like to compete with the best of the best and it has lit a fire inside of her that I believe will never go out! She has already made a two year plan to become an All American (meaning you have to place in the top 8). :-) Her splits for the 1500 meters were: 300 m 1:00.66 700 m 1:29.5 1100 m 1:31.55 1500 m 1:25.02 Anyway, that's the update!!!! Gotta get to work!!! Hope everyone is having a GREAT week!!! :-) | 
