Baby's First CC Meet!

Last week was Henry's first day of high school!!

The following day, he lined up for his first cross country meet! Because a few teammates were out, he was called up to run varsity. So coach told us pre-race that because of that, he was going to letter! His first day of high school, his first cross country meet, and lettering in his first sport all happened within 36 hours! (I had to explain to him what "lettering in a sport" meant. Ha!)

On the far right, doing some pre-race sprints with his teammates.


My wife and I both said that he's showing MY STRIDE in that photo! 100%!!


20 seconds after the mass start.

This race was at a big park, so the course didn't loop around multiple times - it was basically one big loop, so we could only see him again at the finish. We walked over to the finish and actually saw him coming in just in front of the 6th place runner for his team! Henry was 5th for his team, which meant he was the final "scoring" runner! Nice work Henry!!

Just passed his teammate, but couldn't catch the runner in front of him.






His coach (B-Dan) in the background giving final words of encouragement.


Post-race with the team (he's in there somewhere).

He finished 40th out of 70 overall, and ran a 23:02 5K on a hot and hilly day. He was content with that, and felt pretty good about his race! (And about his new spikes!)

We're curious what the season will hold for him because he ran relatively regularly over the summer (so he's "ahead of the curve" compared to many of his teammates and could fall behind after they start building more), but he also has never trained 5-6 days/week like he's been doing for the last 3 weeks (so he could really pick up some speed with some very regular coaching). Time will tell! Congrats on your first meet, Henry!!