State

So, yesterday morning I got up at 5am, showered and hopped in the car to cruise over to my parents' house and pick up my son for the drive up to Columbus and the State Cross Country Meet.

JR is perhaps the most unorganized child in the world. I had asked him the night before (when he was preparing to go over to my parents house) if he had all of his running stuff together and was ready for the meet. Of course he said yes. So, I made him pull out his uniform once in the car Sunday morning. Yeah, he was missing his black shorts, so we headed back home to hunt down a clean pair for the day. Do you know how pissed I would have been had we gotten all the way to Columbus if he couldn't run because he was missing half of his uniform?

We got up there at 9:30ish and he was going to jog the course at 10:30 and had the meet at 1PM, so I just had to hang out all day.

JR came over to visit me at about 10:15 and had already torn his t shirt. gah! Because I am an awesome Mom, I told him to shut his pie hole when he tried to give me an explanation for how that happened. So now I'm pissed and sitting in the sun with jeans on... it was supposed to be cool and posibly rainy, so I dressed for the weather, instead Indian Summer decides to descent upon Columbus Ohio. Thanks for that one, God. You're awesome :-/

1Pm and the kids line up.... always on the end of the line... always. Except this time it bit them in the ass. They had 100 yards to the sharp right hand turn, so it bottle necked and our kids got stuck. JR lost at least 10 seconds there. All of our kids did.

He looked strong during the race and finished with a nice kick. 12:48. His PR was 12:35 on a much flatter course. He was disappointed. Mom was proud. I'm giving him a couple days off and he starts training for Track season on Wed. :-)