JT’s first race wearing a Springfield College jersey was on Saturday. I drove up to Fitchburg, Massachusetts to cheer him on. The race location was a wooded conservation area with rolling hills and plenty of shade. Race day was cool, the sort of conditions JT loves best.
College cross country races are an 8k. JT trained all summer and he was ready for the challenge.
He grabbed a stick and got after it.
He finished 38th in a field of 100 with a time of 30:06. The team placed 5th out of 9 teams in the contest. It’s a solid first outing.
Perhaps most important, he gave me a hug afterward and announced it was the most fun he’d ever had in a race. So we’ve found his brand of joy in his college and I am most pleased about that. Classes start on Tuesday, meaning he’ll now be a student as well as an athlete. It’s been a happy to start to his first year of college and I am so very grateful for these blessings.
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