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Cross-Country

I have to admit that I am not a sports fan.  So I've really pushed music a lot more than sports.  Which is not to say we haven't done sports.  We did a lot of soccer with my oldest boys until I couldn't handle the craziness of soccer season any more (our worst season was 4 boys on 3 teams with our oldest doing soccer reffing).  We've also done swimming, a little football, basketball, and cross-country and track.  This fall, my two high-schoolers are on the cross-country team for Orem High.

At the beginning of the school year my daughter wasn't planning on doing cross country but her friend convinced her to sign up and so she bikes to the high school every day from the junior high to do the workouts.  She's really enjoying it although fitting in all her responsibilities and some free time has been challenging.  She's done well and has actually been on the varsity team as a freshman which we weren't expecting--that's brought its own challenges.

My son is a senior so this is his last year.  He was hoping to make varsity but didn't.  It's a lot more competitive for boys than it is for girls and he wasn't able to train as much as he planned this summer.

This last Saturday was Region.  About five or six different high schools showed up at the SCERA park in Orem to participate.  The weather was beautiful and Scott and I were able to go watch.

It's clear to me that running cross country is really hard work.  They both gave their all.  Each of them did well and set personal records for the 5K course.  Everett got 18:08 and Susanna got 20:44.








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