Going Out on a High Note

Tuesday was Jordan's very last high school cross country race, sectionals at Northrop High School. It was a perfect day for running. After Jordan had recorded a PR of 19:04 in his previous race, we were all hoping that he could finally break nineteen minutes.

The race began in usual fashion, with Jordan immediately drifting to the back of the pack, literally. Only one or two guys were behind him at that point. When he passed us about one mile into the race, though, I could tell that he was running much stronger than ever before; he had moved way up in the pack. He continued to run well, though he didn't really work his way up in the standings much as he pass the two-mile mark. He knew, but we didn't, that he had run the first two miles in just over twelve minutes, where he usually is around 12:30 at that point.

Unfortunately, even though this was sectionals, they didn't have a clock at the finish line so we really didn't know how he was doing for sure but when we found him after the race, he told us he had finished in 18:40, more than twenty seconds better than his previous PR! It was a great way for him to end his four years of high school running.

Believe it or not, I didn't get even one decent picture of his last race. These pictures came from an earlier race, taken by one of his teammates' parents with a much better camera than ours.