Milestone

In Clark's never ending quest to push himself, he ran a personal best in the mile yesterday.

5:45 was the time. That's 17 seconds faster than last week.

He lives for Wednesday.

Next Wednesday's goal: improve his time.

He figures if he can shave off 12 more seconds, he can land a spot in Poston History.

One of the top 10 mile times for 7th grade boys.

Wish him luck!

Mesa City Track Meet

Oh, how I wish I was a photographer, or even tech savvy enough to know how to put the video of this race on my blog...but since I am neither, these pictures will have to tell the story.

Clark qualified to participate in the Mesa City Boys Track Meet last week.
It was for just 7th and 8th grade boys.
Clark chose to run the 400 (once around the track)

Here he is walking to the starting blocks. He refuses to look at me!
Here he is in the middle of the pack...(Clark is 3rd from the left)

Coming up on the guy in the lead...

Blowing past everyone and finishing all alone...and in 1st Place!

With his blue ribbon and a time of 1:03, yes that's one minute, three seconds!

(First place in his heat and also overall!)

It was such a great race and Clark was smart enough to know to just run his own pace.

He wasn't distracted by the guys that sprinted the first 100 yards, only to burn out.

He kept a steady pace and was able to kick it in high gear the last 100 yards.

I keep reminding Curt that he could have possibly inherited his quickness from me!

Clark also ran the 200 and finished 1st. Sorry, no pictures!

He is new goal is to break 6 minutes in the mile. Yesterday he ran a 6:02 mile.

You're almost there, Clark!

The Agony and the Ecstasy!

This is the agony... Haley had two huge bags of ice taped to her knees the other day when I picked her up from tennis. She has been having a lot of pain in her knees. One doctor thinks she might have Osgood Schlatter's Disease. She is taking Glucosamine Chondroitin (joint stuff) and Aleve for the inflamation. We are happy though, that she made the Mt. View Tennis Team and look forward to watching her play! (hopefully without too much pain!)


The ecstasy...

Clark loves to run and is actually pretty good at it. He got "Miler of the Month" for the 7th grade boys at Poston. His time was 6:09, which to me is very impressive! He says it's not that great and he is now motivated to beat his cousin Caleb who ran the mile at his school in 5:58.

Run Clark, run!