On Saturday November 8th 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 56th, despite coming into
the race with the ~85th 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:
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