Courtney ran in the varsity track meet - the Snow Canyon Invitational. She ran the 100-meter sprint (I kept calling it a "dash" and she was not having any of that). She did well in her first race of the season and the first race since last March before Covid shut down the 2020 track season. She held her own and looked great running. Courtney does have "soccer arms" when she runs, i.e. her elbows are out when she runs instead of having them next to her body because she is trying to push people around while playing soccer. They have tried to help her get rid of them but since this is the first race, she didn't have enough time to really correct them.
Courtney is in lane 2 and practicing her start:
Courtney is in the green in the second lane (2nd from left):
Sammie ran in Heat 1 and Courtney was in Heat 3. They are great to support each other and this picture is after Courtney finished racing. You can see Sammie putting her hand up to give Courtney a high 5.
We have a picture like this for every soccer season and now we have one for track. These girls are tight and support each other. It's awesome!
Bryan volunteered to help with this track meet. He says he was "this year's sucker" because he didn't know what he was getting into when he volunteered. He ran the discus for the 2 days of the track meet. It was a total of around 9 hours. They told him when he volunteered that someone would relieve him so he could watch Courtney run but that didn't happen so he missed her race. He didn't have his expectations managed very well. Oh well, he did his duty and now he doesn't have to help at any of the other races. This was the only one that Snow Canyon hosts.
On a side note: Courtney has to be Covid tested every 2 weeks to stay on the track team. If they get a positive test, they can't run or practice for 10 days until they finish their quarantine. Luckily, all the track athletes tested negative for Covid so the track meet was able to go ahead. And at the track meet, very few people were wearing masks. It felt like it was before Covid hit. Parents were sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in the stands to cheer on the athletes and kids were walking around with huge smiles on their faces. It was nice to have a reprieve from the crazy world and let the kids compete.
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