And With a Small Leap of Embarassment...

Much to my surprise on Sunday we received a phone call from the coach of the Ken-Ton town summer track program that my boys had been doing this summer. Apparently last week we left the meet too soon, because Rascal captured the fourth place spot in long jump in his division, which means that he qualifies for the big county invitational today.

Doh! I feel bad now because we should have been there for him to get his award. As it is I'll have to see if I can get his 4th-place ribbon from last week.

So for the last couple days he's been practicing his jumps in earnest, which is much easier now because he doesn't have to wait in line with 100 other kids to get a turn to jump. With some suggestions and practice he's already improved his best jump by over a foot. (from 4'11" at last week's meet to 6'2" today). It's not really enough to be competitive, but you never know, he could surprise. In any case I'm proud of him for working so hard on it.