This weekend, Nathan ran at the Olympia Invite. In order to qualify for the invite, the coaches decided that you had to run 150 miles over the summer (for freshman) and 200 miles for everyone else. Nathan ended up running around 189 miles for the summer. I think there was a qualification like this so they didn't need to bring everyone because it would cost a lot for rooms and busses.
The Olympia Invite was a little different format. Instead of running a typical JV and Varsity race, they ran by grade level. 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Nathan's team sent over four 9th graders who had run their 150 miles over the summer. I think there are around 9 freshman on the team.
This week, smoke has decided to settle in the area. Luckily, the air was around yellow/orange rating during the run so it wasn't terrible. I'm writing this on Sunday at home and our rating is now red and the air is very bad. I do not want the kids running in this all week if it continues to be this way. We thought we'd gotten through the summer with NO smoke at all. It had been wonderful. But here we go again. Every year now it seems when the first 37 years of my life, we never had an ongoing problem like this.
Here are the pictures.
The 4 freshman warming up.
More warm ups
Here's the beginning where they all sprint out fast.
You can usually find Nathan as he's usually the only one wearing sunglasses. I guess he takes after me like that with very sensitive eyes. You can see he sprinted out to the very front of the pack here. The coach wanted to make sure they got as far in front as they could because at one point, they ran into the woods single file and wouldn't be able to pass.
Coming around his first mile lap.
Into the chute for the finish.
Post race talk with the coach.
Nathan placed 28th of 111 freshmen. His time for the 2 mile race was 12:42. He beat his time last week by 8 seconds!
His biggest fan Auntie Laura was not there, but you can see he picked up a new fan...
22 Hanford runners went to Olympia. Here are the official results for them. The other 22 boys (who didn't run the 150-200 miles over the summer went to a different meet).
Nathan had some new fans show up to cheer him on! Leon and kids came (Zynab had to work). Also, Tammy was in town visiting from Richland!! That was a fun coincidence.
Elizabeth ziplining.
Leon, Elizabeth, and Aria ziplining. Elizabeth was very nice and played with Aria a lot to keep her busy on the toys. Then, Leon only had to deal with the baby.
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