Congrats Payton!...

Payton competed in the AAU Regional Meet this weekend in Joplin, MO. Athletes had qualified for this meet by competing in their state meets in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. He qualified to compete in the Junior Olympics in August. Go Payton!!!!!

Here are his stats:
1oom dash 2nd place 13.71 (Personal Record)
High Jump 4th place 4'6"

And he managed to do all of this with a pulled muscle in his leg. He could barely even walk after the 100m. Poor guy!

We are so proud of you Payton!!!!!!!!

4th of July Weekend...

We are off to Joplin for the 4th of July weekend. We plan on doing a little bit of this...

and to watch some of these...

Payton has his AAU Regional Meet this weekend as well. He will be competing against the top finishers from Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. Good luck Payton!!!

Hope you all have a wonderful 4th! Be safe and have lots of fun!

High Jumper...

Payton's track team went to a meet in Little Rock yesterday. We drove down on Friday night and stayed at Tamara's house. Thanks Tamara! We also went out to lunch at Arkansas Burger Company with Tamara, Cayden, Becky and the Penne family. It was delicious! The meet started bright and early at 8:00 and lasted until 4:00. It was a long, HOT day! Payton did the high jump for the first time:

This was his last jump 0f 4'2''...everyone else was out by then and he decided to stop jumping because he had already....

1. kneed himself in the eye when he landed between the two mats they had pushed together (he has a large black lump next to his right eye)

2. gashed his leg open with his spikes as he made one of his jumps (eewww...it looks pretty gross!)

He decided that since he had already won the event, he might as well quit while he was ahead and before he injured himself any further since he still had his two running events to complete.

Here are his stats from the track meet:

High jump 1st place 4'2''

100m 1st place 14.00 sec

200m 1st place 30.68 sec

Way to go Payton!!!!!

Run Payton Run!

Today Payton had his first AAU track meet of the season. The weather was beautiful and it couldn't have been a better day to be outside. Unfortunately, Elyse was not feeling well so she stayed home with Ryan. She would have loved to cheer him on..."Faster PP!" For this meet he decided to do 3 running events: 100m, 200m, and 400m...ugh, makes me tired just thinking about it! Of course, he did great and had a blast!

Here are his times:
1st place 100m 13.37 sec.
1st place 200m 28.6 sec.
2nd place 400m 1.19 sec.

Here's a video of him running the 100m. (Please excuse the poor camera work...it's hard to shoot a video, watch the race, and cheer all at the same time!) He's in the lane closest to me...in the white shirt and black shorts.

Here's Payton running the 200m...

Next weekend we're off to Little Rock for another meet. This time he plans to try the high jump for the first time. Go Payton Go!