Connor's First Cross Country Season
Connor joined the Cross Country Team at school when he began as a Freshman. His inaugural season was a good one. He grew so much as a runner, and as a person as he learned that he could do extremely hard things. Here are some of the pictures I took throughout his first season.
Highland Invitational (2.9 mile course with some killer hills). This was Connor's first XC meet ever...
He finished with a time of 21 minutes, 43 seconds. Here he is with his friend Caden after the race...
The Freshman boys team and their coach, Jamie Alvizo...
Westlake Invitational (a 2 mile course with hay bale hurdles). Connor's team always says a quick prayer before beginning their race. I think it's awesome that they do this. The boys choose to do it themselves, and I absolutely love that they do it...
Connor did fantastic in this race! Ran it in 19 minutes, 17 seconds...smashing his old PR by over two minutes. And Grandpa Rick was in town to watch him do it...
Red Devil Invitational (a 3 mile course at Springville High School)...
Region 8 Championships (a 3 mile course at Scera Park)...
Connor did amazing in this race too. He got another PR of 19:03...
The Freshman team at the end of the regular season. They are such a great group of boys! They push each other to do better every single week...
Connor also had the opportunity to go on a couple away meets for XC as well. He went to the Bob Firman Nike 5k Invitational in Boise in September, and went to the Footlocker XC Championships in SoCal in December. I don't have any pictures of the Bob Firman Invitational, but I did get a few pictures from a mom that went to California for Footlocker. Here's Connor getting ready to leave for Footlocker...
With some of his team mates and his principal who also went down to California for the race...
This is a notoriously hard course with lots of hills. Connor still did really great with a time of 19 minutes, and 58 seconds...
After the race, the entire team went to the beach for the afternoon and evening. Connor sent us a selfie to make us jealous as we were freezing at home...
Connor ended up lettering in Cross Country as well! He acted like it was no big deal, but it is! Not everyone letters in Cross Country...especially their Freshman year...so we were very proud of him for that...
Connor had a great inaugural season of XC! Since I'm really behind on blogging, we're already in the throws of his Sophomore season and he has grown leaps and bounds from his Freshman season! Here's to many more miles ahead! --Lindsay
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