Gratitude Journal Day 36 - Outside at a Track Meet

Today, I am grateful for going to my daughter's track meet and being outside at the end of the day.

When I lived in South Dakota and taught middle school, I was also a high school boys basketball coach and middle school track coach.

Basketball is my favorite sport to play, coach and watch.

​Track is my favorite sport to coach because it was nice to be outside, weather permitting, and offer strategies and technical work for young people to think about as they are competing to help them perform better. 

Even though you are racing or jumping or throwing against other people at the track meet, the real competition is with yourself and improving what you can do. After you do that, you can see where you stand with the other people who did the event with you. It is a mindset to be in competition with yourself to do the best you can do and not judge your performance based on what everyone else did. Do not get me wrong, there is a meet at the end of the 

There was the organize chaos of the picture but having the athletes pay attention for the calls for their events and then having them show up and perform was cool. 

This time I was in the stands watching my daughter run the 400m. Probably the hardest race because it is suppose to be a sprint and 400m is a long time to sprint. She did awesome. Kayleah got a PR, personal record. 

I need to get outside more. I need to get active so that I can run a 400.