Saturday will be a big day for Kiara.

[Digital_photog ★]

She will be going to Jr. High cross country state meet.  She has beat the state qualifying  time at 5 meets this year.  Each school can have up to 10 qualify.  There are 6 going from their school.  State time is 14:15.  She has qualified at 14:05, 14:01, 13:51, 13:44 and this past Saturday at 13:15 on a very difficult course in a 30 team meet.  She is the team captain. They have never had so many qualify before.

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I just looked up the website.  The course record is 10:20.7

https://imsccc.org/

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Comparing her best time to the last year times if she runs the same as she did last Saturday it would have been 12th place last year.

[Airehead ★]

I hope she is excited without too much pressure. What grade is she in?

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5 minutes ago, Airehead said:

I hope she is excited without too much pressure. What grade is she in?

8th grade   I compared her time last Saturday to where it would have placed her last year.  If she would have went last year that time would have been 12th out of 107

She got blocked in on a narrow course Saturday and felt she could have done much better.  This will be a bigger open course so that shouldn't happen.

She has been doing 5 and 10K races and is having a hard time adjusting to the shorter 3K course used for middle schools.

 

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This summer she ran 2 5k races placing second in age at both.  Beat by the same girl both times.  She ran 3 large 10K races.  2 3rd place in age and her lowest finish was 12th at the Bridge run in SC  I don't know how many were in her age group there.  I'm guessing that was a large run.

 

 

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[Airehead ★]

It will be exciting. 

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the high school coach is a good friend of her dad.  He is excited about next year.  He thinks she will be one of the best he as ever had when she gets on the longer course.