Oldest Sweetie Mack ran a personal best 3K at the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships for Region 3 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, yesterday, competing against boys born in 1999 and 2000 from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Mack didn’t place, but every time you set a new personal record you’re a winner.
A couple of nine-year-olds got the 2.1 miles done in about 11 minutes. Lots of over-achievers in this crowd.
(Mack and his Daddy got to visit the UNC and Duke campuses on their way home to Virginia, even attending a volley ball game in Cameron Indoor at Duke — and getting to touch the famous floor. I think Mack, who won’t be nine until next month, has already been on more college campuses than I have.)