Annual Invitational Oregon Relays at Hayward Field at U of O in Eugene.
Noah ran in 3 races. The 4x400m varsity relay 800m varsity, and the 4x800 mixed relay.
Look at the size of this screen
Here are the 3 races
I had picked up these knives for the boys and one for me from one of my favorite small online businesses - Thunder Crow/Creek Stewart.
A little rainy/snowy/cold today so PJ, Noah and I built our knives today. (Hunter will have to do his when he comes home at some point:).
Here is what comes in the kit:
We started by carving and sanding the handle.
We then uses the resin the fix the blade in the notch, did some burning on the handle to decorate, put some oil on the handles and did the final twine wrap to keep the blade in.
The Caldera boys and girls varsity teams made the Oregon state championships this year. Noah had a great race. Their team finished 8th in the state! He finished 3rd on his team (teams consist of 7 runners) 51st out of the top 94 runners in the state! A great finish for the season. We are so proud of him!!
Noah had a great districts race today and it was great that Lulu and Papa were there to see him race. Their team (caldera high school) made the state championships (2 top teams from the district make it to state). The other lady in the one photo is their teams head coach.
Noah wanted to do a backpacking trip with some friends for his birthday. Unfortunately, one of them broke his foot, so it was just 4 of us this year. A few years ago we did the same on his 13th birthday.
This trip we went to another one of the cascade volcanoes. Mt. Thielsen in southern Oregon.
There is a massive rope swing at one section on the Deschutes river near an area called the big eddy. Noah and some friends went out to try it out. Here is a video of Noah. Some serious hang time when you let go
Today Noah did his first state race in Beaverton OR. It was a 4km race so his longest so far. In middle school they do 3km. There were 54 boys in his age bracket. Noah came in 13th! With a time of 16:08. 2 members of his team came in 2nd and 5th - Mason and Kaden pictured below.
