First Track Meet of '07

Today was the Basin Relays, a low key kind of kick off to the track season. In addition to some "regular" events, a number of coed novelty races are run, such as a hurdles relay where three boys run hurdles in one direction on the track, say in lanes 2, 4 and 6 and as soon as they cross the finish line, three female teammates run the hurdles back the other direction in lates 3, 5 and 7.

The meet started off with the 3000 meter race and I was excited when Jordan came off the start line in good position and was in 10th place after the first lap. He continued to remain in the top ten throughout the race, alongside his teammate Corey Collins. With two laps to go, someone at the finish line yelled that they were in the final lap, so Corey and Jordan really kicked it in. As they neared the finish line again, they heard their coach yelling that they had one lap left!

In any case, they managed to pass several runners and Jordan finished 6th in 11 minutes, 5 seconds. For the first meet of the year and Jordan's first ever experience at the 3000, I thought that was a pretty decent time.


In a real surprise move, Phillip decided two weeks ago that he wanted to try track and field, too. He's going to be running distance events as well but he didn't participate today. His first meet will probably be in about two and a half weeks. Today he dressed down but his role was limited to helping Coach Zach keep track of where people needed to be on the field.

Jordan also ran in a distance medley. If I remember right, it started with Maggie running a 1200, followed by Corey doing 800 meters, then a new girl at Hosanna doing one lap (400 meters) and then Jordan ran the final leg, which was 1600 meters. Jordan was in a pretty deep hole by the time he got the baton. It was hard to tell how well he ran and we didn't get a stopwatch on him, but considering that he had run two miles just an hour earlier, he seemed to do okay.