Monday, April 11, 2011

Arcadia Invitational 2011

The girls enjoying the long drive!

This weekend Montana and I made a quick trip to California with the Harpers for the Arcadia Invitational. Hawk pulled some strings and got Montana in to the meet last minute. This meet was huge! There were high school runners from as far away as New York and Oklahoma.

We drove to Vegas Thursday, stayed the night and then headed in to Arcadia Friday afternoon. We had kind of a scare when Summer got a phone call from one of their track coaches mentioning that, when they went to sign Montana up, they never heard anything back. So we were prepared to do some last-minute wrangling to get her in. But everything worked out when we picked up their race packet and her name was on the list! The best part for the girls was having their names actually printed on their numbers!

Montana ran the 1600 m on Saturday morning. She was feeling good-no shin pain. There was one other girl from Utah in her group. Though she didn't place well, she had a PR-5:33:95 and she was very happy with how she raced. It was a good learning experience and good preparation for the kind of competition she will be facing next year at UVU.

Summer ran the 3200 m. She didn't place that well either but she also got a PR of 10:50. It was a fun day of track. These high school kids are amazing!

It was a quick, fun trip. I even got in a really fun run with the Harpers and we got to miss all the snowy weather here at home.

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