We just finished up another season of youth track. It was pretty dang good this year. The last two meets had some nice weather. Last night was just about perfect, weather-wise.
All three boys were sick at one point or another this week, so it was a little difficult to want to get out to the last track meet. Paden was sick Monday, Fischer on Tuesday and Gunnar on Wednesday. We're talking throwing-up-and-the-like kind of sick. So, not fun. The boys had perfect attendance for the year with one month left of school (like 20 school days), then they had to miss a day. Bummer.
Anyway, back to track. Gunnar wasn't feeling well, so he didn't do his best in any event, which is what I expected. It's just hard because he gets his bad attitude. The very first track meet of the season, we weren't sure what had happened to our kid. He tried hard, he had a good attitude and he was just not the same Gunnar we were expecting. He did awesome. So, luckily we were able to build on that for the season. I feel bad he was sick before the last meet since it didn't end well. But, I guess that is how the ball bounces sometimes.
I also didn't bring my good camera to any track meet this year. With Fischer out of the stroller age, it's hard to cart around drinks, sweatshirts and the camera. Most of the meets, my phone was almost dead as well. So, I really don't have a lot of pics of them this year. Bummer. Maybe someone else has some.
Gunnar's personal bests were:
- Shot Put - 16 feet 3 inches (I think)
- Javelin - 68 feet 10 inches (a little wind assisted, but we'll take it!)
- Long Jump - 10 feet 1 inch
- 100 m - 16.2 seconds
Last week's meet he got all first places. It's a little bit of a farce, since if other kids don't show up in your age group, you sometimes can get first by default. But, again, we'll take it.
Paden's personal bests were:
- Shot Put - 8 feet 7 inches
- Javelin - 28 feet 10 inches (I think that was the wind-assisted meet, also)
- Long Jump - 6 feet 1 inch
- 50 m - 9.6 seconds
Last night Paden's long jump and shot put were his best. He truly got better with most events each meet. Last night he needed to get first at least one event. Here's the story:
Earlier in the week, like Monday, the boys were fighting and got their Wii and Xbox taken away for a week. Paden was really struggling with this; then he got sick and threw up. Haha. Really, it was coincidental, not cause and effect. :) Tuesday night, he got his ribbons from the previous track meet. He got a 2nd, 4th and two participants. He competes with 7 and 8 year olds and I think he's the only 7 year old boy, so he's younger than all the kids in his category. He's not got one first place yet this year. So, he had a meltdown when he got his ribbons. This was the date he missed from school because he was puking the night before. So, he was having a rough day. Gunnar got all first places that night, so he was pretty happy. That was the first time he got all first places. This didn't help Paden's meltdown.
So, Wednesday morning somehow Paden got into making a bet with Papa that if he got a first place he could get the Xbox back early by a few days. We were trying to tell him that he could get first, he was really close in the 50 to get first and we were confident he could get first. We might have asked the coach, who loves our kids, if he could just make sure that Paden ended up with a blue ribbon at the last meet. Coach agreed. :) So, we were 100% certain Paden would get a blue ribbon. Paden was not. Long story short, he fought for 25 minutes with us, screaming and crying and ended up changing the bet to NOT getting a first would get it back. He was being SOOOOO stubborn. He was telling us that we weren't listening to him and we never listen to him and he didn't even want to do track, but we made him and on and on and on . . . I walked him into school to make sure he was going to get over this ordeal. He told me he was just going yell at Papa when he gets home and make him change the bet back. I advised that wasn't going to work wel and that maybe he should think about calmly admitting he was wrong, apologizing and politely asking if he could change the bet back. The first bell rings and he all but pushes me out the door so no one sees him talking to his mom and crying! :) Cutie. So, in the end we decided that the bet could go back to original stakes. He needed to get first to get his Xbox back early. He signed up for the 100, but it was 7:30pm and they were just finishing up relays and so I tried to get him to just run the 50, so we could leave sooner. I wasn't going to make Gunnar run since he wasn't feeling well. After some arguing about that he decided that getting to McDonald's faster would be good and he lined up to run the 50. I head down to the finish line; Paden is still kind of grumpy-pants while waiting in line. The gun goes off and I was messing with my phone to get it to record, so I didn't full see it. He stumbled and fell at the very start of the race. The coach was telling him to get up. He got up and kept running, but he was bawling!!! He ran it in like 12.3 seconds, obviously not his best. He then proceeded to have another meltdown becasue he lost and couldn't get his Xbox back. The coach tried to tell him to go back and run the 100; he refused. So after we got him to calm down, we were able to check his time and see what place he got. Well, by default he got first - he was the only runner in his age group. So, it all worked out in the end.
Gunnar had not really wanted to run the 100, then as we were getting ready to leave, he changed his mind and wanted to run. He just barely missed his age/gender heat. I told him to go run with the girls anyway, it doesn't matter. So, he ran with the oldest group of girls in the last heat; there were two girls. He smoked them, but it's not really about beating the people in your heat. He ran it in 17.16 seconds, pretty good for feeling sickly.
Overall, I am happy with their performance and their improvements from meet to meet. It was a pretty good season. Gunnar had a buddy, Jose, an older kid, during track that he bummed around with. Paden's friend Levi from his class participated as well, so it was nice to have them have some friends there as well.
I will see if I can track down some pictures. :-)
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Hard to believe this time last year we were walking the track and doing zumba :)
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