Cross Country has begun. It's a new sport for our family, but one I have to say that I really like. Jacob is officially middle school this year and running for Easton. There is no more township sports he's officially an Easton Athlete. The middle school cross country coach is the high school wrestling coach, so it was an easy recruit. Because of that, Alex has been allowed to practice with the team. That's exciting for him, but on meet days, he's a little bummed.
Our first meet was at Parkland High School against 5 other teams. It was pouring. I was starting to think I attracted the rain to all running events. It rained for my half marathon, marathon relay and now Jacob's first meet. In spite of the rain and a slippery course, he took 3rd overall.
Today the team participated in the Northern Lehigh Invitational. There were 23 schools participating. Under normal circumstances, girls run together and then the boys run together. But because this event included both middle school and highschool for time purposes, all middle school kids ran at the same time. It was a ton of kids, the coach estimated about 200 running for the middle school event. Jacob took 5th overall.
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