Today I have another track meet in Highland. The last two meets were in highland also. This meet is different though. It is a relays meet. This means that there is no individual events. They take only the relays. They also added a relay called the 4x800 meter relay. This is were one person runs two laps and then hands the baton to another teammate and they run two laps. You do this two more times. I am our fastest eight hundred meter runner, so I am doing it. I don't think that the school has ever had this many eight hundred runners for boys before. This means that no boys have ever ran the relay before. Also, for high jump, they will combine all of the jumpers from their team and so it is team high jump instead of individual.
At the meet, I did okay. The thing that I don't like about relays is that even if i do good, then if my team does bad, then we lose. I am first in both of the relays that I run. In both of them i was in the top three when I handed it off and in one we took fourth and in the other we took fifth. For the high jump we have Derek, Bernardo, and me. Bernardo and I both jumped four foot four. I don't know what Derek got because he was still going when we left. He was at four foot eight when we left.
Kinley Pippen is our teams best long jumper by far!(including boys) Last meet she got beat by a Highland girl and she really wanted to beat her. The school record for the girls is fifteen feet exact. For long jump, you get three tries to jump as far as you can. On her first jump, she tied the record at fifteen feet. The next jump she broke the record with a jump of fifteen feet and seven inches. On her last jump, she broke her own record with a jump of fifteen feet and nine inches. It was insane. I cannot believe that she can do that.
After almost all of my meets, on the way home, my dad talks to me about track. He usually brings up my brother. My brothers senior year, he really liked baseball and track. The rule for baseball though, was that if you missed a practice, you couldn't start the next game. So that meant that he couldn't go to track practice. In baseball practice they didn't run a lot though. He finally convinced the track coach to let him run in one meet. The coach said that he could run only two events. My brother chose to run the four hundred and the eight hundred. He took first and second at the meet. After that, the coach allowed him to run in every race even though he didn't train.
In high school, you can do up to four events I think. My brother would run the four and the eight every time, but then ran stuff like the one, two, and relays. He placed in the top three in almost all of his events, even in the big meets. That year some kids made it to state in two events, some even made it in three, but my brother made it in seven. He was the best runner by far, and didn't even train. It was amazing. He made it in the one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, eight hundred, 4x100, 4x200, and the 4x400.
You are only allowed to do a certain amount of events, so he had to choose. He did the 400, 800, and 4x400. It was sooooo cool to go and watch him run. It was such a big meet that it took two days for them to finish. For the 4x400, I think they took like fifth in the ALL of Colorado. They were really good. He did pretty good in the 400 and the 800. My oldest sister Amber also made it to state, but I can't remember what she ran. I will have to ask my parents. Till my next post, Bye.
At the meet, I did okay. The thing that I don't like about relays is that even if i do good, then if my team does bad, then we lose. I am first in both of the relays that I run. In both of them i was in the top three when I handed it off and in one we took fourth and in the other we took fifth. For the high jump we have Derek, Bernardo, and me. Bernardo and I both jumped four foot four. I don't know what Derek got because he was still going when we left. He was at four foot eight when we left.
Kinley Pippen is our teams best long jumper by far!(including boys) Last meet she got beat by a Highland girl and she really wanted to beat her. The school record for the girls is fifteen feet exact. For long jump, you get three tries to jump as far as you can. On her first jump, she tied the record at fifteen feet. The next jump she broke the record with a jump of fifteen feet and seven inches. On her last jump, she broke her own record with a jump of fifteen feet and nine inches. It was insane. I cannot believe that she can do that.
After almost all of my meets, on the way home, my dad talks to me about track. He usually brings up my brother. My brothers senior year, he really liked baseball and track. The rule for baseball though, was that if you missed a practice, you couldn't start the next game. So that meant that he couldn't go to track practice. In baseball practice they didn't run a lot though. He finally convinced the track coach to let him run in one meet. The coach said that he could run only two events. My brother chose to run the four hundred and the eight hundred. He took first and second at the meet. After that, the coach allowed him to run in every race even though he didn't train.
In high school, you can do up to four events I think. My brother would run the four and the eight every time, but then ran stuff like the one, two, and relays. He placed in the top three in almost all of his events, even in the big meets. That year some kids made it to state in two events, some even made it in three, but my brother made it in seven. He was the best runner by far, and didn't even train. It was amazing. He made it in the one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, eight hundred, 4x100, 4x200, and the 4x400.
You are only allowed to do a certain amount of events, so he had to choose. He did the 400, 800, and 4x400. It was sooooo cool to go and watch him run. It was such a big meet that it took two days for them to finish. For the 4x400, I think they took like fifth in the ALL of Colorado. They were really good. He did pretty good in the 400 and the 800. My oldest sister Amber also made it to state, but I can't remember what she ran. I will have to ask my parents. Till my next post, Bye.
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