Trackmeets

This week was only a 4 school day week, which was quite nice. We had Friday off since it was good Friday.

The week was rather uneventful except for the two track meets I was able to attend.

On Tuesday we had a dual meet in Huntington itself. It was my very first track meet so I was as excited as nervous about it.

All in all I can say it went somewhat well for me and I'm glad that I know now how those things work.

Participating in 4 events, so I had quite a lot going on. 

Before my first race I already got two long jumps in. Then I was running in a 4x800m race. My 800m took me 2:29 so I was really unhappy about that. But at least there is room for improvement.

Then I took another two jumps into the sand and ended up having as my longest jump 16feet 9inches. I guess considering the amount of preparation I had for this event, almost none, that is acceptable but it did not make me happy.

Then the only good race for me for the day came. It was the 400m race.

Starting in the JV section I was able to win the race with a time of 59.2s therefore achieving my goal of breaking the 60s mark.

Followed by a longer waiting period, during which all of us were freezing, I participated in the 4x400m.

I ran a 62s split leaving me really unhappy with my own finish of the race. But I knew all I can change is doing better next time so I just went with it.

Here are two pictures taken during my first race, the 4x800m 

After this meet I was really tired and sore for the next few days, which made practice the following days not so much fun.

On Saturday I was able to run in another race. We went to Fort Wayne to North Side High School.

It was a bigger meet and there were around 16 teams there.

I only ran one race, the 400m in the DMR, which is a race split up into a 1200m, 400m 800m and 1600m ran by a group of 4 runners.

It was a really long day since we drove a total of almost 2 hours, stayed there for about 6h and all I did was warming up and cooling down for a total of 30minutes, stretching for 15minutes and actually racing for only 57.6 seconds. This time isn't official, since it's only a split but for me it is setting my PR over the 400m two times in one week which made me quite happy.

Today, Sunday we went to church in the morning and then had lunch.

We ate in McAllisters and I got a sandwich with "swiss cheese" and beef. I am pretty sure the "swiss cheese" is actually Emmentaler by the taste but I always have to laugh when I think about how many cheeses are swiss and what is considered a general swiss cheese here in the US. The Sandwich was followed by one of the biggest cookies I ever had which was great :)

And this concludes my week.

I hope everybody had a happy easter and a wonderful time