Track

Sammie signed up for track so that she could qualify to earn her school letter.  I have to be honest.  Our track programs is a little overwhelming.  The meets are gigantic with so so many kids from different school districts.  Saturday was a little overwhelming and then Sammie realized that the track was much larger than the one they had been running on at the middle school and so she had never actually practiced an entire 100m run.  It was a little intimidating, but she ended up having a good experience in the end.  I was proud of her and her efforts.
In her long jump she really did well.  Her longest jump was 7'9".  She was mostly concerned with not fouling on her jumps.  Sammie is a details person and the jump was successful for her if she did it right.  It can be hard and intimidating to try new things like this, even for me as a parent.  But she did well and will have one more meet in a couple of weeks and now she has some goals for herself to see if she can do better than last Saturday.  I find track to be so exciting.  I remember getting butterflies in my stomach before my races when I was in middle school.  I loved it!