First, there were about 150 kids participating from the ages of 5 up to 18. Second, they practice a lot in track. They had practice from 6:30 - 8:30pm Monday thru Thursday. Third, the coaches were great. They were all volunteers but they really worked with the kids and focused on finding a way for each kid to experience success. Fourth, track meets are long, hot and a lot of sitting and waiting. You end up waiting a couple of hours for your event, you run and in 15 seconds it is over. You then end up waiting another few hours for your next event to come up and that is how the day goes.
Some other things we discovered was Seth seemed to really enjoy it. He was pretty good and I think he liked the individual nature of the sport. But we also discovered that there are a lot of fast kids out there.
Seth participated in 3 meets and then the big Regional meet. In the 3 regular meets he participated in the 4x100 relay and the 100 m dash. In the big Regional meet they didn't have enough kids to make 2 relay teams so he ran the 100m dash and the 200 m dash. In the 100 he finished 34th out of 59 kids and in the 200 he finished 26 out of 52.
Following the meet Seth expressed a lot of disappointment for not qualifying to go to State because only the top 6 finishers in each event moved on to State. But, we told him he had worked hard and done great for it being his first year in track. This all was affirmed by what happened last night at the end of season party. Seth was awarded the Rookie of the Year award (see pic below). He was so excited and we were so happy for him.
Great job Seth!!
