Well, we ran in the regional track meet last week and five of the kids made it to the state track championships. After missing a shot in the state 100M relay and the 200M relay by just hundreths of a second each, my daughter had to run a 400M [individual ]dash. She ran it immediately after the 100M relay. I was very concerned that the runners she was racing were rested and that she might miss a chance at state. She qualified easily at 58. 5 seconds and came in second. According to the OSU website, this time is better than their top 400M time for college runners. She ran even faster at state last year. The other kids were disapointed in the fact that they had enough speed to qualify in the other two events,but bad handoffs hurt the effort.
The 400M relay was our last chance to send our relay team to state, and the coaches told them to concentrate on the running more than the handoffs ,and it calmed them down a little. We were in sixth place at the last hand off and my daughter made up 25 meters on the pack at the 300 M mark. The other runners in 4th and 5th place were trying their best to defeat each other because the winner would advance to state. Katie really spooled it up at the final turn and started going wide. She got both of 'em by a good five yards at the end.
Her split time was 57 seconds flat. Not bad for running four races in one day. The local newspaper called it ''phenomenal''
Sorry boys ,we'll be in Columbus OH --not Muncie
The 400M relay was our last chance to send our relay team to state, and the coaches told them to concentrate on the running more than the handoffs ,and it calmed them down a little. We were in sixth place at the last hand off and my daughter made up 25 meters on the pack at the 300 M mark. The other runners in 4th and 5th place were trying their best to defeat each other because the winner would advance to state. Katie really spooled it up at the final turn and started going wide. She got both of 'em by a good five yards at the end.
Her split time was 57 seconds flat. Not bad for running four races in one day. The local newspaper called it ''phenomenal''
Sorry boys ,we'll be in Columbus OH --not Muncie
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