State Championships

Photos from the Mass middle school state championship race this weekend... results here.

Fine weather-- cool but sunny, a wonderful day to watch the race.

They rejiggered the course this time around to create a larger starting, line, which I thought was a big improvement. This is the start of one of the boys races (huge line of runners) -- less crowding, meaning less jostling and fewer runners falling:

Before Lydia's race:

Coach OB, the grand master of middle school cross-country coaches...

Leaders in the girls championship race, early on (note the three Diamond runners);

Lydia running in the girls championship race:

Lydia finished 35th overall in the girls championship race, with a time of 12:58 and pace of 6:58 (yikes! I have never even come close to that).  The diamond girls team won handily, boys team won as well -- yay!

Hurray-- great way to end the season...