Well Linc is in Kasper for regionals and they had the 110m hurdles and the triple jump today and will have the high jump tomorrow. Well before I go on I must tell you that Linc has been fighting injury and snow this whole track season. If he wasn't snowed out he was injured. Well he convinced the coach to let him compete in the 110m hurdles and was in the preliminaries today. His best non-injured, non-snowed on time in the hurdles was 17.2 seconds. Today he ran and got a 20.5. If he was able and injury free he could have easily qualified for state where the eights place spot went to a kid that ran 18.1. He did his run throughs for the triple and wasn't doing so good when his jumping coach (the coach wasn't actually jumping, he coaches the jumping events) told him that he probably shouldn't participate in the triple and they decided to scratch from the triple jump. Tomorrow is another day but I don't think Linc will be able to do much good in the high jump because of his traitorous left leg.
Just to let you know how much he wants to compete Linc was told to ice his leg. This is accomplished by preparing a tub of cold water and then putting ice cubes in it. He (Linc) then sits in this for twenty minutes gets out for twenty minutes and then sits in the tub an additional twenty minutes. He did this at practice on Tuesday and sat in our tub for twenty minutes Wednesday night and I'm only guessing but may have done it in the motel last night and perhaps did it again tonight.
I would post a picture of Linc doing his track thing but I haven't been able to attend any of his meets this year.
We are getting a new Football coach (one from Library Ninja's stomping grounds) and a new basketball coach (to be named later) so things are very much in a dither what with moving up a division and all. I'm just about fed up with high school sports politics.
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Hope Linc get to feeling better.
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