BYU Triple Crown

Last week, BYU Track and Field sponsored their annual one mile elementary race,  a competition between schools with the schools earning points in a complicated system of finishing place and time of the runners schools which I don't really understand.


Lee came home with he flyer declaring she wanted to help Westridge win the trophy this year. And since Spence is the energizer bunny, we encouraged him to run as well. Al wasn't interested. 

So over the course of a few Saturdays, I took Lee and Spence out to train and the Saturday before we timed them on the Provo High track: Spence clocked in the fastest at 9:16, Al at 9:50-ish (we told her she had to do a fifth lap if Spence beat her--I know, we're such encouraging parents, huh), Nat finished in 14:15, and Lee petered out after 3/4 of a mile.


So going into this, we knew Spence would do good, and Lee would do okay.  And after the fact, let me just say I think my kids are awesome!

A little pre-race warm-up

They started every five minutes by grade and gender
and here comes our 1st grade boy!
(somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of a mile)

And now our 3rd grade girl!

Spencer came in at 8:41--eleventh place overall in his division (78 runners) and second of the boys from his school which in that complicated scoring system earned his school points!  

He missed a spot on the stand by one and we won't go into the two boys who cut across the field, made the top ten, and didn't actually run a whole mile.  But my boy has a competitive streak in him--he wouldn't let anyone pass him by kicking into gear when he heard somebody behind him.


And Lee came in with an awesome 10:07--21st overall (52 runners) and fifth for the 3rd grade girls in her school!


If you're as interested as we were, here are the results with the individual school results at the bottom as well.

And now it's time to take a break and wait for the final results.

And in the end, their school won several divisions, including First Grade boys--Yay!!!

And all those individual division wins culminated in the overall win for Westridge Elementary!

*This is not all the runners from our school, just those that stuck around.  The only reason we stuck around was because after the snafu regarding Spence's race, the director said Spence would get a ribbon (awarded to the top ten), only to have the director change his mind after all was said and done.  At least we were there for this in the end!