I hate to be mean, but this was one track meet we could have missed. It was one of the most disorganized events we have been to, and to top it off, the boys were without their coach, so there was very little lie to them by the time we arrived. I am not being dismissive of Mijo's efforts, but he went home early on Thursday, and he was still feeling weak and with muscle soreness all over. I keep saying it can't be Covid because he just had it about two months ago, so I am assuming it is just a cold or allergies. He seems fine when not exerting himself, but when he tried stretching, he said his bones were popping and then when he threw, he regretted having gone, even if it was just the 4 throws for the shotput event.
Some of the things I did not like was that they separated the varsity from JV, so it was only half the boys and honestly, the younger boys bring a lot more energy and fun to all the waiting around, they aren't too cool to act the fool and be funny. They had their meet on Thursday, and today was only the varsity boys without their coach. The coach was at a doctor's visit, as I understood. She went skiing or something in snow and came back with a broken leg bone near her ankle. I guess she was getting it seen by a doctor today, either way, the boys and girls were out there on their own when we arrived. To make matters worse, none of our boys wanted to even throw warm-up throws on discus after seeing a couple of the kids throwing the discus twice as far as their best efforts. Baby A joked to Wife that she needed to step in as coach, and it didn't take her but a minute to start barking orders for the boys to cut the shit and get in there and throw some warm-up throws. Wife is considered an authority and the boys listen, sort of, because we told them she threw in high school.
Mijo does not throw discus, and only does shotput to give him a reason to be out there, but being sick, he really should have stayed home. Once the other boys got done throwing the discus, we went and sat down against one of the big buildings, out of the sun. The breeze was about perfect, especially in the shade, I could have fallen asleep at a certain point. After about an hour, the shotput for the boys started and honestly, it did not go any better. Their best thrower was not even listed, he just came over and said, "coach forgot to put me on the list, I can't participate." This left only Mijo and another kid to throw for our school. They were done fairly quick once they got going, and the improvements have stalled, Mijo is trying to incorporate the glide, but it is not worked out yet, so his distance is still around 31ft, which is very average.
While we were waiting, I did manage to go get the car and park right next to the field, so when they were done throwing, it was very easy to get in the car and leave. We took two of the boys and went to eat, they wanted buffet, so we headed to Damassi's and the other boy was taken away by his dad, so Crockett disappeared quickly and quietly. I guess the runners were still there, but the kids that do the field events don't seem to have much to do with the track kids, it's two different worlds.
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