Yet Another PR

Jordan ran the 13th Annual Northwest Cross Country Classic race at Lane Community College today. It was a great race day, with temperatures a little on the cool side at race time and a pretty fast course with a couple of little hills thrown in. Some of the runners struggled with the hills, both up and down, so they must have been tougher than they looked from 200 yards away.

It was the biggest field I'd seen Jordan race in. In the open division, there were 184 runners. Jordan finished 112th in a time of 20:22, which was another PR for him but slower than we had all hoped for. I thought he might break 20 minutes today, but on the other hand, he was sick one day this week, as were several others on the team. He finished 2nd for Hosanna, just ahead of John Shaw and about 40 seconds behind Corey Collins.

Great story: Corey ran a really strong race. He was well in front of John and Jordan the whole way. We found out afterwards that he thought he was way behind the two and so he kept running as fast as he could, trying to catch up to them. Well, that wasn't going to happen unless he lapped the field!

This year I've realized that I really enjoy watching Jordan's races. When he first went out for cross country, I thought it had to be the most boring spectator sport ever. What I didn't realize was that on most courses you get to see each runner at least three or four times if you just move around a little and, as Jeannette pointed out yesterday, the races only last 16 to 30 minutes, so it's not like football or baseball, where you may be sitting on the bleachers for two or three hours.

Jordan had a big cheering section today, with all of us in the family plus Grandma and Grandpa Muntz, Grammie Joyce, his cousin Alexia, Aunt Kathy and Uncle Scott, who delivered Jordan to Lane CC on his racing motorcycle this morning.