Holy Crap.... It's AIDAN!!!

Today was the city-wide cross country meet for our little corner of the world.  Aidan is now old enough to join his school's running club, so he's been going to school early 3 days a week to practise.

Last week he ran in an 'optional' meet, and came 7th.  Pretty damn awesome we thought.

Well today was the big-daddy.  The meet where kids from all the public schools in the city came out and hit the dirt.  It turned out to be perfect weather for the meet: sunny, and slightly cool - about 18 degrees.  Great weather to run in.

Aidan and his buds did a walk through of the course - which is more than what they got to do at the previous meet. 

The Cathcart Cooooooo-ggaaaarrrssss before the race:

Holy Crap that's a lot of U9 boys (86 to be exact)

Right before the race started, my heart started racing.  I felt like I was going to throw-up.  I was so nervous for Aidan.  The gun went off and the boys took off.  Aidan ran by in the lead pack.  I quickly ran across the field so I could see him round the bend towards the finish line.

I was standing along side the tape which marked the route chatting with a couple teachers from our school.  All of a sudden I looked over and said: "Look! There's the first runner!"

Then I paused.

And then I SCREAMED: "HOLY CRAP----- IT'S AIDAN!!!!!!"

 
And then I went nuts.  I was screaming: "GO Aidan! GO!!!" His teacher was screaming: "Vas-y Aidan, Vas-y!!!"  And as you can see from this shot, I was jumping up and down so much, I couldn't even get a clear shot of the child!

And he did it.  He turned on the jets and finished first in the freakin' city!!!

 And his time?  6 minutes 4 seconds, for 1.8kms!!!

After hugs were given, we had two very proud paernts:

And one super happy, supper tired boy.

Next week he runs in the county meet.  I think I'll have to take some valium before that race.