The Accidental Boilermaker

 Evelyn’s cross country team is the reigning city champions! City finals were last night and the girls dominated. Evelyn had a good run. She ran her normal speed. Feels like she peaked at state. But she was just happy to hold her spot on the city final roster. The girls have won city finals 4 years in a row. Got to get those coaches in there.  A few of Evelyn’s 7th grade friends. Boys did great too and took 2nd. The whole team went out for pizza afterward which was chaotic but fun. The family of a boy on the team owns a pizza place so the runners got to eat for free! Jameson also qualified for elementary XC city finals which happened a few weeks back. He ran a personal best of 6:49 for the mile and took 10th place for 5th grade boys. 

 Last weekend we took a little tour of the state to attend a cross country meet and two soccer games. We woke up early on Saturday to head to Terre Haute for the middle school cross country state meet. Evelyn’s coach could enter up to 10 girls, so he invited the top 10 runners. Evelyn certainly isn’t one of the fastest runners in the state but she held her own and ran her fastest time of the season, 14:05. Team photo! All the boys and girls who came down to run.  The girls lined up in their block before the start.  We left Terre Haute and headed to South Bend where Jameson had two soccer games on Sunday. We original thought we’d split up; Nate and Evelyn would drive to Terre Haute and back on Saturday and Jameson and I would go to South Bend on Sunday. But the more we thought about it, we realized we could get a hotel, save us a little driving and avoid another super early morning.   Jameson was asked to play goalie for the other under 11 team since their goalie was ...