Savannah did swimming again in the fall - August through November. She got to participate in a couple of meets. One of them had a fun "pumpkin push" at the end of the meet, where they got to swim while pushing a pumpkin. She got personal bests in all of the races in her first meet, where she did 50m breaststroke, backstroke, and freestyle. On her 2nd meet, she got personal bests on 3 of her 4 races. She got 37.43 on the 50m freestyle, 44.22 on the 50m backstroke, and 1:25 on the 100m freestyle. She didn't quite PR on the 50m breaststroke but swam a 54.78 (with a 53.34 PR). She is doing really well.
Weston surprised us and ran on the school cross country team in the fall. He literally had a pretty slow start, running a 28:33 for 3 miles on his first race. It also was 95 degrees for that race. He improved throughout the season, running in 7 races. He had times of 25:30, 26:06, 24:13, 26:15, 23:28. and a personal best of 22:20 in his last race. He ran a 7:26 pace for that last race, so he made a lot of progress through the season (dropping over 6 minutes from his first race time).
I had fun with his video montage. When it came time to choose some music, I was cracking up at the fun easy-going music that somehow was pretty fitting. I did make a second video, which shows the difference that music can make in his perceived running style.
Weston did something funny this season. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, he went straight from CC practice to jazz band. One day he got really hungry in band and asked his band director if he could run home and get something to eat. He wasn't allowed to leave that day. The next time, during the middle of his CC run, Weston stopped by home, made a sandwich, and ran out the door with it! We tried to tell him he should just make a sandwich in the morning and take it with him. He chose to just run by our house a few times during his run and grab a sandwich. Funny guy!
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