Summer had her first cross country meet today. She's been having three practices a week, building up for the meet that's a mile long, but most of those practices were full of long walks socializing with friends. Rhett and I were nervous to see how today would go. We can see a natural running ability in her, and we want to see her recognize it in herself as well.
The first grade girls went first. Then the first grade boys. Then the second grade girls went. Summer was up. She's in a purple jersey on the left. She has white shorts underneath her pink shorts. You see her wave at 10 seconds. The race doesn't actually start until about 58 seconds into the clip.
Of course, when we got there and I started snapping pictures, my camera said the card was full. But I had just deleted all the pictures before we got there! So I was stressed trying to get the camera figured out. We did not want to miss this! Rhett got the beginning of the race on his phone, and while she was out running her mile, we googled how to get my card to work.
They did the loop twice to make a mile and as the girls first started coming around the loop, Claire said, "There's Summer!" There were only about five girls there, way ahead of the rest of the group. We were like, "No, that's not Summer." But then we saw the white shorts under the pink shorts and I knew it was her! I couldn't believe it! I about passed out! I was so excited. We all started yelling and cheering her on. Then waited anxiously for them to come around the loop again (which we couldn't see them doing because of all the people.)
We finally got my camera fixed and just in time, because here they came again. The girl in first place was so fast! Wow. And then another small clump of girls--and Summer was still in third! We cheered and cheered.
I caught a few after-the-race pictures. She doesn't even look tired!
And as we were walking out to the car, she ran another huge loop in another field! I think she was so excited she just had a ton of energy afterward.
Here's the list of girls and their times. Summer's time is 8.19.9. Because she was under 8.30, she qualifies to race in the all city meet as well.
