Henry's BIG Cross Country PR!

A week ago, Henry had his conference cross country meet. It was a looping 1-mile course, so we got to see him 9 times during the 5K! Here is is running in 6th for his team near the end of the first loop:

He has always finished in 4th, 5th, or 6th (on varsity) for his team, but he started a bit harder at this meet, and then kept moving up. Here he is near the end of the 2nd loop, and he's IN FRONT OF 2 of his teammates that he'd never beaten before:

Henry, Holden, and Aldegundo!

Henry was in SECOND for his team!! I ran with him for a moment as he started the final loop telling him to keep up the pace:

Still moving up half-way into the final loop!

He ended up just 2 places behind 1st place for his team!! (He was 30th overall, and his teammate August was 28th.) He took over TWO MINUTES off his PR to finish in 19:10!! He had mile splits of 6:16, 6:24, 6:18, and 0:25 to the line.

My wife joked that if we hadn't been there to see him 9 times throughout the race that we would have thought he cut the course. But it was legit! (The course was maybe 20 seconds short overall, but still a major PR run!)

Congrats Henry! What a break-through race!!