Natalie joined her school's track team. She had practice every day after school. She likes sprints and can't stand running anything more then 400 meters and really she is not a fan of it. I didn't get to see her first meet but I did get to go to all of the rest of them. She ran the 200 meter dash, the 4x2 relay and the 4x4 relay (a 4x2 is 4 runners running 200 meters each so the 4x4 is 4 runners running 400 meters each). Her next meet she ran the 1600 meter and 800 meter runs. Which she hated and did not do as well at. She had just gotten back from Boston the day before so the coach didn't want her to run any relay's because she hadn't been running for a week.
That was her last meet unless she qualified for city finals. She had heard that she did qualify but, she didn't see her name on the list so she didn't go to practice the next day. Which was really too bad because since she didn't show up and she had tied with someone else on her relay run, she forfeited her place on the two relay teams she could of been running on. She was chosen to be an alternate. She was asked to play The Star Spangled Banner for the opening of the last meet. Nate and I went to the meet to watch her play and crossed our fingers that she would get to run. We weren't really hoping that someone would get hurt so she could run it was more like hoping someone would get hurt so she could run hoping someone got ill or something like that. The meet was very, very cold and it was very, very long. Especially since she would be running in the one of the last events. We watched the whole thing until we were sure that she wasn't going to be running then left. I think that Natalie learned a lot during track. I was so happy to see her excited about participating in something. She did really love it and wants to do it again next year on the high school team.
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