Track Season

Aaron Berry, Sean, Clay Scott, and Cy Kinkead ready for the 4X400 at Crooksville, OH.

We have been into the track season now for over a month and I haven't posted anything about it, so let me do that now. Sean is running well, but he wishes he was running a tiny bit faster! Our weather has been absolutely horrible for track season. I don't think we have had more than two dry days in the last month and a half. It makes it a little hard to be excited about practicing or performing (or sitting in the rainy, windy, cold watching)! Regardless, we do love to watch Sean run. Several of his meets have been cancelled because of storms.

He has had three 'relay' meets which I think are nearly worthless. One is fun -- three, well that is just way over-done! It means, for example, that four hurdlers from our school have their hurdle times all added up to come up with a final time. Well, we don't have any real hurdlers except Sean, so they don't end up with a very good time! He wishes Nic, Matt, and Tanner could be on his team! (They would be all of the great hurdlers of the last decade at West Muskingum High School!)

Last Thursday night he had a meet at Muskingum College. There were 24 teams at the meet! He decided that instead of running the 110 Hurdles he wanted to Triple Jump. Most meets don't have a triple jump event. [A few weeks ago at the Circleville Relay Invitational, which is huge, there was a triple jump and he had the individual longest jump. Our other jumpers didn't do well, so as a team I don't think they even placed. But without ever practicing or competing in the event he jumped a 37'. He loved it.] Back to Muskingum College Invitational..... he ran in the 4X200 relay with Aaron Berry, Cy Kinkead, and Clay Scott. They placed 8th! In the 300 Hurdles against 39 other hurdlers, Sean placed 7th! Then his 4X400 team with Aaron, Cy, and Clay placed 5th. As Sean was running his leg of the 400 at 11:45 p.m. they called for all of the boy triple jumpers to report to the long jump area! He decided that he was tired and spent; it was cold and slippery; he didn't want to injure himself, and everyone (including the coach) wanted to get on the bus and go home, so he did not triple jump.

In the meet against Crooksville and New Lexington he placed 1st in both the 110 (16.4 secs.) and 300 (43.2 secs.) Hurdles, the 4X200 team placed 1st, and then the same guys again in the 4X400 placed 1st. So he, and we, were pretty happy.

One more thing that we are going to miss..... sitting at track meets watching our kids!

DOESN'T HE MAKE THIS LOOK EASY? 110 High Hurdles

300 Hurdles