Home, Home on the Range I was supposed to have a track meet this morning. I got up around 10am and jumped online and read my normal blogs. After my fill of reading, I jumped in the shower. Now that I was nice and refreshed I threw my track uniform on. This entire time I was preping myself for my races. I was to run the 4X800 relaty, 1600 m run, and the 800 m run. So I jumped in the truck and headed over to the school. I hit the locker room and put on my running spikes. Jogged out to the track, talked to coach for a few. Ran 2 muscle awakening laps. Stretched a little then did 4 more warmup laps and stretched with the rest of the team. Ran back over to coach to get some final instructions before my first race. Jogged over to the start/finish line. They had the "AccuTrack" setup (a photographic timing system) and saw that all the coaches had been standing around the athletic director. I didn't think too much of this since he always does this before meets. But when I listened in on the conversation I learned that a large storm was headed our way. It was raining at a steady pace by then but usually track will go unless it's like snowing. But after all the coaches talked it over they decided, for the safety of the runners that they would call off the meet with no resceduling. By this time it was 1:30 and I was pumped and ready to run.

I went and talked to my friend Ryan and we decided that since we had already put all this effort into it that we would at least run a mile before we headed home. Needless to say I was a little ticked about the whole thing. But, such is life. Posted by chris at 04:10 PM CC/Track •