Yesterday at Vaughn's Creek, JP won his fifth cross country race of the season, covering the two mile course in 10:40, another personal record for him. His MBA middle school team won the meet with a perfect score of 15 after sweeping the top 5 spots in the race.
USN was hosting a race at the River Campus - the site of next week's HVAC championship race - so the competition for JP and the team wasn't what it had been at previous races. Still, it was an impressive showing.
JP started strong and ran a blistering first mile. I timed him at 5:12 or so and was thinking he had a chance to break 10:30 for two miles, which is a goal I've had for him all year. Although it was a beautiful day to run with temperatures finally dropping a bit, he had a headwind on the back side of the course and slowed just a bit in the last mile. He was running alone, too, as his good friend and teammate, Abe, was over a minute back in second place.
It's interesting but I think JP expects to win the races at this point, not in an arrogant way but because he has put in the work and he has seen the competition in multiple races. It will be interesting to see how he does in the HVAC championship next week and in the regional cross country meet, when he will see runner he hasn't raced against before.
It's been a good and memorable cross country season for him - and Jude, Joe, and me, too, watching him compete.
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