After missing 2 races, Nathan ran in his next meet. The top 12 runners on the team went to Portland for the Nike Invite. If Nathan hadn't caught covid, there was a chance he could have gone as he was running right around 12th on the team. But covid knocked him down pretty good.
The rest of the team (including Nathan) went to the Connell Invite. They have changed the course from back when I used to run it 25+ years ago. We used to run up and around the water tower. Now, they run down by the high school. It was a very dusty, hilly course. The older runners said it is the worst one of the season.
Nathan did his best. He still feels like he can't quite catch his full breath while running and definitely can't run his full speed. He ran varsity today as they put the 7 fastest remaining kids on varsity.
His time was 21:30. He thinks if he hadn't been sick, he probably would have run about a minute faster than that. Let's just hope he continues to get better and gets back up to his normal speed.
The varsity of the day warming up.
Warm ups
More warm ups
Start line!
Nathan coming around a corner.
Just about to head up onto the last part which was a big hill. Nathan does well at hills and says he usually passes people. Even sick, he said he passed some people.
Sprinting down the hill to the finish line. There were a lot of end of the line races here with people just sprinting down this hill. It was very exciting!
No, this was NOT the only goldendoodle at the race. There were 2 others as well. We just find doods at every meet. Pippa was his new fan at this meet.
Grandparents came too!
Aunt Laura and Nathan
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