Philippians 4:4-9
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. and the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A State Re-cap!!!

More pictures of Drew's big day at the Oregon State Cross Country Championships!!!


Oregon runs all of their cross country championships on the same day at the same place, so on Saturday they started in the morning with the 1A, 2A, 3A combined race (girls then boys), then they moved on to the 4A races and the 5A races. So by the time Drew ran, there had been 7 races on the same course. It had been raining a lot last week and the course was fairly squishy to start with, we were very thankful that morning to see clear skies!! Actually it stayed dry till the start of the girls 6A race, when is started drizzling......then when the boys were getting ready the skies opened up with a deluge and a very cold wind!!!


With the conditions being such, there was a large pack of 15-20 runners in the front for 2 miles. Especially on the back stretch where no one wanted to take the lead and break all the very cold wind for everyone. At about 2 1/4 miles the pack broke up with Drew running in 5th when he got out of our view. When we were again able to see him with 600m to go he was tied for 4th and turning on an amazing kick! He passed the last guys and raced the last 400 meters all on guts, as you can see in the picture....it hurt!!!

Drew was excited to see his friend from across town make the podium in 10th place.
And yes, it was still freezing and raining and they took the space blankets from these guys and had them stand up for their pictures!!! Notice Drew's clenched fists!!!

The other exciting part of the day was that their boys team took 4th place!!!!!
Nick, Nick, David, Drew, Ammon, John, Blake, Stetson
North Medford Black Tornado

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Hilltrain said...

Those first 2 pix...the look on Drew's face...boy, doesn't that look fun?! Ha! :)

Congrats though; that's awesome!

November 10, 2009 at 10:06 PM

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