After Meg, Tim and Mom left Ann and I headed back to the stadium for the 4x400m preliminaries. Sara runs the third leg of the race. Unfortunately two of her teammates have a bad knee. As the race began so did the rain although not too badly. The team ran about the same time as they did in Nashville. We will now have to see how they are slotted for the finals.
When Sara came back from the race we asked her if she would like to go to Cold Stone Creamery in the parking lot of the stadium for ice cream. She was more than willing as she is getting sick of Chinese food (aren't we all). Once the ice cream was done she was done with her parents and wanted to go back to her team. Trading Special Olympic pins is a big thing here. On the left is the pins Sara is willing to trade and on the right are the ones she has traded for. Ann is working the crowd hard to get Sara some unique ones. I think if you click the picture it will get bigger.
Tomorrow (our Monday) she will run the 400m final in the late afternoon. She has been slotted and I have attached the link, she is in group F14. If you check back you will be able to see her final time.
The long jump for her is on Tuesday but she has not been slotted yet. We did find out that she didn't walk off her distance to run in the prelims so the jump was short for her. She was red flagged on the first two and got the third one at 2.24m. Now that I am here to coach her I'm sure all will go well, although there may be some crying involved.
All of the kids are having a blast and where they finish doesn't seem to matter much. Since the track venue starts at 9:00am and they are staying an hour away it is in bed at 9:00pm and up at 5:30am.
It was wonderful having Meg, Tim and Mom here. I think Meg is overstating the death marches. I made sure that we took 5 when Mom looked like she was about ready to drop. We had a great time doing the tours and finally getting to see Sara. Their flight left a little late today, but they should be in LA before noon on Sunday.
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