The Good , The Bad and The Ugly

Well lets just say we won't be going to the alisal invite again anytime soon. Here is what went down.

The Good:

Nikki Starting out the day with a PR in the SP (25-8.5)

Kenny With a PR in the LJ 17’11”

Lauren with the best jumps I have seen from her. All in the 15s, Finished 3nd Overall (15-9.5)

Jacob getting 2nd in the 400(53.9) and 3rd in the 200(27.31), very close to PRs

Jordan Hasay showing up in a helicopter (for stories sake, haha)

Liz with a PR in the 100 running for Erika (16.25)

Catherine came within .07 seconds of her PR in the 100

Jacob hooking us up with some Super Taq

Lauren’s Mom, Jacob’s Mom, Nikki’s Dad. Those 3 parents put in over 24 hours of sitting at a track meet, that is dedication.

Whoever ran the shot put at the beginning of the meet, only well run thing I saw.

The Bad:

Power outage that delayed the meet (I will put it in the ‘bad’ category because I assume this wasn’t their fault)

It being freezing the entire meet, windy and cold.

Used a metal tape measurer, no seriously, of course it had kinks in it and didn’t straighten out all the way. I guess that was good for performances. It also didn’t wind back up they had to roll it up.

Discus ring in the middle of the field, yet still allowing parents and athletes on the field. Leading to at least one person being hit by the discus and many near hits. (At least they made hundreds of announcements.

Randomly switching the FS girls and Varsity Girls discus, meaning Nikki had to wait from 10am (end of her shot put, until 6pm)

The Ugly:

The Boys Discus taking over 6 hours, how in the world does that happen?

I dislocated my thumb trying to pop the EZ-Up into place. (Can you really call it an EZ-Up when it has the ability to pop joints out of place)

The Ez-UP almost blowing away, causing us to have to put it away mid-day, which lead to….

A bird dropping a deuce on my leg (AWESOME!)

Using athletes as meet officials, they knew nothing about the rules:

o Randomly skipped Lauren so some people had finished their jumps before she had even got a second jump and then to fix the problem they made her take her jumps back to back.

o Would call clear scratches fair, but at the same time….

o Didn’t know what board jumpers were jumping from, causing fair marks to be called scratches

Running some heats with only 2 people, they ran a 2nd FS girls heat of the 4*100 with just ONE TEAM, I would maybe understand if the first heat was full, but it had empty lanes too.

Erika said she would go but had to leave at 2, so we signed up the 4*100, I told her ‘it is the first final of the day no way it starts after 2.’ Start time (2:15). I left the meet at 6:30pm and it still wasn’t over.

Courtney’s only event was the 4*100… so that was a nice trip

Finding out Lauren is a stalker who looks under bathroom stalls. (Actually her and Jacobs stalking of Jordan Hasay was pretty entertaining, especially after a long day)

The 30 Minute Lunch break that they changed to 10 in order to catch back up that ended up being over an hour.

Here are the Results:
http://www.dyestatcal.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2009/alislres.htm

As you can see the performances are coming on we are starting to hit that taper.