Okay, so this was our first track and field day. It was blue vs. orange. Nathan is on the orange team (please, no OSU jokes). We. were. not. prepared.
Practices last for 1-1/2 hours. I assumed that the meet would last about the same. Wrong! Warm up was at 8:30, meet started at 9:00. We didn't leave until 3:30!!!! They started out with 1600 meter races (4 laps). Well, Nathan wasn't going to run the 1600. No sense waiting around in the stands. So Eric and he came back home for an hour. I went with them back and we just hung around for another hour before any of his events started.
(Sorry, no audio) So the first video is his attempt at the standing longjump. We missed practice on Wednesday because he got braces on that day. So the vid is his very first attempt. Ironically, the technician that put the braces on him was at the event, smoothing out the sand. The 2nd vid is him running the 100 meter. Crappy visual (will be looking for new camera before Eric deploys). Anyway, Nathan is in the 1st lane, which is farthest from where I'm standing. But he'll be the last one, so you can't miss 'im.
Poor guy came in last in all three races, the 50, 100 and 200 meters. He might not have been dead last in the softball throw or the longjump, but he certainly didn't place. Eric and I can both see improvement in his stride, but he's definitely not in his element. We're thrilled that he's active, but we've got to find something that he can be good at. He was pretty accepting of the fact that he was last, but if he spends the next 2 months at the back of the pack, it's gonna be hard to keep him motivated.
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