Saturday welcomed me at about 5:45am. Caleb (& the rest of the cross country team) had a meet at Nash Farms (where I had my region meet senior year) and they had to arrive before 8:00. Whew. I got a pretty good amount of sleep so I wasn't too upset about getting up so early, though I wouldn't have done it if I didn't have to. We arrived at the course and there were lots of other teams there. Caleb's varsity boys meet consisted of about 200 people. That's a lot for one race. The top runner in the state was running, along with lots of other really good teams that normally don't race against Caleb's team. The number one guy finished at 16:00 on the dot...now keep in mind this is a 5K - 3.1 miles. He ran the race super fast - running each mile in about 5.16 minutes. Caleb finished in 39th place with a time of 18:07. Nearly 40 people finished in a 2 minute time span. Caleb wasn't happy with his time or place. He wanted to make the top 20 and break 18 minutes (like he's done before) but we were all extremely proud of his great run. The second guy to finish on his team came in around 100th place so Caleb did do really awesome. We stayed and watched the varsity girl's race...our number one girl placed in the top 10! And she's just a freshman! Caleb is a sophomore, too, so he's got lots of time to keep improving and eventually win a race as big as this one was. The #1 guy was a senior! After the girl's race, Mom, Dad, & I went home. We all took wonderful naps. Once I woke up, Mom and Dad had gone to the grocery store for a quick trip to get stuff for dinner and had picked Caleb up from the high school. Supper that night was a delicious low country boil - full of corn on the cob, fresh shrimp, sausage, and mini potatoes. :) Yummm.
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