Waverly Improves at Brenham Hillacious Invitational

She started out last going down the hill at Brenham State School earlier today, but she didn't finish last in a race that included seventh and eighth grade girls combined! She might have been third or fourth from the bottom (knowing that she at least had a girl from Brenham and Bryan and one of her school's eighth graders behind her).

Waverly covered a much more challenging course in 23:43.47, about nine (9) seconds faster than last Friday. She went through mile 1 in 11:34, but she still had three quarters of a little more than a half mile incline to go through. (One of their eighth graders ran the first mile in 8:01 before posting a 7:50 on the back half.)

Aside from the steep hill at the end of the HARRA Cross Country Relay, this course had much more change of terrain than that one does.

There was another bus adventure, but it didn't cause Waverly to be rushing for her race like she had been the Friday before last. Their bus showed up five (5) minutes before the scheduled start time, which was 8:00 a.m. for the junior high boys event. (Dad, while being able to move faster in my pickup, was at the school grounds at 7:15 a.m.)

With all of the running around, I probably got in three miles (but to be able to get her back so she could support her volleyball team at a "B" tournament in Conroe I wasn't able to do the Open race at 12 noon.)