What Was That?
Ryan won the track meet today bringing her medal count for the four track meets this season to 3 Golds and 1 Silver. Today was a strange one, though.
Crowley ISD has two high schools (Crowley and North Crowley) and each year they alternate hosting Malachi Relays. This year was at North Crowley and I was shocked at the condition of their equipment!! (Both schools have VERY nice facilities with brand new turf football fields) The high jump mats were torn to shreds and the standards couldn't get close enough to the mats to keep the jumpers from falling between them.
Ryan's steps are carefully measured and stepped out but for some reason today she was just taking off wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy out in front of the bar. (See the pic below) They opened at 4' 8" but she passed and then entered at 4' 10" and had no misses until 5' 4" It was cold and windy and all the girls looked miserable. She missed all three attempts at 5' 4" after falling but luckily the other two girls still in it at that point missed, too. So they lowered the bar to 5' 3" and Ryan and another girl cleared it on the first try, the other girl didn't clear at all. So they went back to 5' 4" and Ryan was the only one who cleared it, taking home the gold.
Look how far away she is (out in front of the bar) and she is WAY over the bar, but her head just wasn't in it today.
She has the district meet on Thursday but we leave early Friday morning heading to Austin so she can compete in Texas Relays at UT. I forgot all about this meet until today because she's the only girl from her team going. It's a combined high school/college meet with competitors coming from all over the nation by having the top times or top jumps. I hope I can go!!! She went last year and didn't do so great (6th I think... it wasn't good).