Cross Country

Caleb has been running cross country this year. I'll admit I've had to give myself frequent pep talks so I could allow him to be gone so much--they started in June with 3 days a week but by the end of the summer they had practice twice daily. (I've missed him!) However, after I started going to races, my song changed a little. . .I became very impressed that his coach could take a kid who had no background in running and bad legs (his feet are overly pronated and one leg is shorter than the other--so an unusual running motion) and helped him become as good as he has become this year. I was impressed all year, but in his last race--regionals--he took 12th out of about 100 runners in the JV race (he's a freshman). Not too bad! In the race pictured here, AF's JV team took 2nd amongst about 15 other school's Varsity teams. (The coach was giving the varsity runners too hard of work outs in preparation for Regionals to let them run that race.) But more important than all of that, I've seen Caleb grow in mental toughness, discipline and experience success in something so difficult. This is so good for him!