State Cross-Country Championships

On Saturday November 8^th we all went to Pasco to watch Joseph and Interlake High School compete in the State Cross Country Championships. It was a huge event with about a thousand runners across all the boys and girls categories (each race is run with schools of similar sizes – Class 1, 2, 3, and 4; 1&2 are run together so there are six races in all, about 150 runners in each race). Interlake competed in the Class 3 Boys race – along with the top 20 teams in the state from their class, plus the top ~20 runners who haven’t qualified with their teams run as well.

Joseph ran a great race – he beat his personal best yet again with a time of 16:41, and finished about 56^th, despite coming into the race with the ~85^th best ‘personal best’ time of any runner. But one of his teammates had a badly hurt foot and finished two minutes behind his usual time. Despite strong runs from others this was too much to overcome. But four of Interlake’s top five runners are juniors, including Joseph, so we hope to be back here again next year!

Here’s a video of the start of the race:

Halloween 2014

Halloween brought the usual range of tricks and treats. Joseph manned the house, handing out candy, while Jack went trick-or-treating with a group of friends, and Mom and Dad took Henry around the neighborhood.

Both Jack and Henry wore very scary costumes.

Jack

Henry

Interlake X-Country Wins District; Comes in Second in a Muddy Metro-Regional

The Interlake Cross Country team won their district with an impressive win at Lake Sammamish State Park on Thursday, October 23. Joseph finished sixth overall in the entire district with a time of 17:01 in 5K, tying his personal best. It was very cold and wet.

Interlake then went on to race in the Metro Regional meet in Seattle the following Thursday, October 30. It was a rainy day and the conditions were very muddy. The race was held at Woodland Park in north Seattle. Of the twelve schools competing Interlake finished second, with Bishop Blanchet winning the meet. Joseph finished at 16:55, his new personal best, and was 28th out of approximately 100 runners.

With the second-place finish Interlake qualifies for the State Finals, to be held Saturday November 8 in Pasco Washington. The team set a goal at the start of the year to finish in the top four in State - stay tuned for details on how it turns out!

Joseph approaching the finish line !

It was a little muddy

The Interlake Varsity Cross-Country Team