Nothing for me today. Got back from Provo not too long ago where Smo competed in her first USATF sanctioned event this year. She has amazed me with the way she has juggled 3 basketball teams and track. She has not been able to compete this year much secondary to ball tournaments. Since next weekend is the USATF Utah State Championship she really wanted to compete to gauge her level of readiness. She did AWESOME!! Here are her results: Sophia (13), 13-14 division 1500 meters - 5:26.xx, 1st place * A new personal record by a fraction of a second. She finished with far too much gas in the tank, running her first two laps much slower than she likely should have. I wish they would have run the younger division with them since Tate Beasely is in the younger division and ran a 5:24.xx. They could have pushed each other and gone for broke! :-) 800 meters - 2:33.xx, 1st place * This was a break through race for Smo! A personal best by 7 seconds. Regretting having too much left in the tank on her 1500 she decided to give it everything. They ran the boys with the girls for this event. Smo decided to try and stay close to to the leading guys which proved very effective. Her last 150 meters were AMAZING!! She finished neck and neck with the third leading guy and within a handful of seconds of the number one and two (official results show Smo actually beating the 3rd place guy by 1/100th of a second). It was AWESOME! And because I have zero shame when it comes to bragging up my kiddos here is the footage. She is in the bright yellow singlet. :-) http://youtu.be/DWX-27BxSeA Hope that link works (since I am doing this on an ipad you will likely have to copy and paste it if you'd like to take a look). For all of you who ran or raced today, I hope you loved it!!! :-) | 
