L.A.Jets 24th Invitational Day 1

May 25, 2008

The day of Track and Field started out Horrible….Pouring down rain and you could see in many faces a little dampen spirits too (or was that just me??) Soon after we finished put up canopies and the like the rain stopped..

By 8am the “track gods” saw fit to clear the clouds and the rest of the day although reminiscent of Seattle , remained dry and cool.(Cold by California standards ) I am not sure of the total athlete count but based on the 100m semi’s alone there was over 700 athletes in the 100m … the estimate is around 2300 athletes in total participating this weekend.That’s a lot of teams and parents too.

The highlight sprint, 100m was great as promised and that was the good news ,the bad news was that from the time the 100m semi’s finished and results for the finals were in and the actual finals were run almost 10 hours later. OHHHH what a wait. It a big meet with lots and lots and lots of athletes it takes time. The relays and hurdles and 3,000,5000 races were in between.

I am going to cover more tomorrow and through out the week including results and commentary.

But a little heads up there were surprises and then again no surprises..this is the beauty of track and field.

As one coach told me after his favored athlete didn’t place place 1st but 2nd in the 100m . “Now I have my athletes full attention, this was good (for the athlete) they will remember this”… others finished as seeded and still others finished first or 5th unexpectedly….This meet is all about seeing where your at and as I said over and over last night leaving the stadium it ’s time to recalibrate…. finish the meet Sunday and get read for Association Regionals and JO’s…

A few high points… of the meet