Jr High cross country

And the season is off - with a bang. He's already been to 3 meets and one invitational. The invitational was on Saturday - and amazingly enough, there was some slight cloud cover and it wasn't quite as hot as it could have been. As a 7th grader, he's been doing pretty well in his races - coming in 22nd, 17th, and 19th in his meets (out of about 70 boys each time). At this invitational though, they divided the kids up into A team and B teams depending on their abilties. Well, Philip's team does exceptionally well at these meets - in fact they've won them all so far, so he wasn't in the top 5 kids made the A race. But, he got to run in the B race and it was very exciting. He was ahead the whole time. At the last corner, someone passed him, but he still managed to come in second. He was pretty excited about his 2nd place finish. In fact we all were and went out to lunch to celebrate! At church today, the manager of his team was there and had Philip's medal for him - it said he came in 1st place! The kid ahead of him wasn't in the race - he was missing the number and must have just fallen in somewhere along the course. Philip was quite excited to find this out!

And, as side note, the coach was kind of kicking himself for not letting Philip run in the A race. He was about 20 sec faster than the slowest kid on our team and that would have made our team come in 1st instead of 2nd. But, who knew how it would turn out?