The Runner

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Levi just finished up his amazing Cross Country season. He continued to improve his times with every race he ran. About half way through the season at the Bob Firman race, a huge invitational run with schools coming from all over the western US to compete, he finally beat the one freshman who was on his school’s varsity team, putting him not only onto Varsity but winning 10th place out of 270 kids!

This is my favorite picture of the season-When the Varsity team surrounded him to congratulate him on his awesome race-and for making it onto varsity. Glad it turned out, my eyes were pretty blurry when I took it.

At districts he got another PR-Personal Record, with 17:22. Varsity placed 4th and qualified for State.

Reagan showed up to this race in what he described as his “Birthday Suit”. Needless to say, he got a lot of stares.

And then it was on to the state competition in Lewiston Idaho, 5 hours away. Rock drove there to watch the race and texted me live updates. Centennial did Awesome! They were one point away from the 4th place trophy. Levi PR’d again with the sub 17 minute time of 16:55. He is the 2nd fastest freshman in Centennial High School history, behind the fastest by only 1 second. Rock was a cross country runner as well, but he wasn’t this fast, so I keep telling him that, obviously, it is MY genes that have made Levi this fast. 😉

He sent us this picture the morning of the race in his new State X Country sweatshirt. He was obviously feelin pretty good.
After the race

Levi absolutely loved being a part of this team. It takes a special kind of kid to run Cross Country. They push themselves harder than many athletes, mentally and physically. I’m so proud of Levi for working hard enough to make it to state with this team. And I’m so glad he has a good group of kids who push him to do the hard things. He is a great example to our family and to his peers, and not just in sports; he just finished reading Les Miserables. I don’t know ANY 14 year olds who have read that book, do you?! When he was done, he asked Rock if he should read War and Peace next. LOL!!! Rock recommended he wait on that one. 🙂

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  1. What a fun, exciting, inspiring post!!!! Way to go Levi, and have you ever considered writing a book? I always love reading your posts, and not just because they are about people I love! But Levi, dang! Such an awesome kid. I had fun reading back through your older posts, which at my stage of life, is almost as good as reading them for the first time, haha. Love to you all! It’s past time to do a call. Nancy

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