As you may remember me telling you in previous posts, Anthony is running Cross-Country with school. Last week he ran his first meet of the season, a 2-mile run, in what is officially 14:57. Not bad at all. His BEST last year (the last race) was 14:22 and that was the EASIEST course of the year. The rest of them he was over 16 minutes in each.
OK, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Today, Anthony had a meet in Elm Springs, and had to be at the bus by 7:30am. Ann, my wife, worked from 7am until noon. The NW Arkansas Naturals played in Game 4 of the best of 5 series of the Texas League Championship. Game started at 1pm in Springdale. The Arkansas Razorbacks are playing their SEC opener at home against Georgia tonight, and the game started at 6:45pm, nationally televised (thank you!) So here's the plan. Drive Ann to work at 7, come home, pick up Anthony, get gas for the car, get him to the bus for 7:30am. Went to Wal-Mart and walked around for a little bit. Then went home, watched the last episode of Season 3 of Heroes (now I'm ready for Season 4 on Monday), then go to Elm Springs to watch Anthony run.
OK, so Anthony ran. The course is very hilly. Still 2 miles, but decent hills. Going down is easy, going up is a bitch! I didn't time him, and then found there was no "official" clock at the finish line! How in the hell are they supposed to know their time?? So, I will not know how he did until Monday, but I can say he did better than last week, which is exactly what I ask of him. Just improve each week. So far so good. When they were done, they did their cool down thing, he got his stuff, I checked him out and we came home. It's now 11:45am, he goes in the shower, and I relax a few before going to get Ann at work.
I get to her job, and she can't leave. Her coworker is late (naturally!) so she didn't come out until 12:15pm. And, it's drizzling. Great! Get her home, we do a quick "get ready" and head out to Springdale to watch the Naturals play. They are down 2-1 going into this game, they win today and we go back tomorrow. Long story short (12 innings) and we lost 4-2. CRAP! We had a 2-0 lead in the 9th, an error by the pitcher, next hitter 2-run homer. Tied! Twelfth inning, another 2-run homer, we lose, wait until April 8th, 2010 for the start of the next season.
Got home at 6:10, 35 minutes until the football game. Right now we are winning 21-17, 3:14 to go in the first half. We look really good!
When do I get my nap???
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