Championship

3000m and 1500m regional champ!

Urban Adventure Race!

Way too much fun! Race report and pics coming!

AT&T Crit

Just a few pictures from the AT&T crit in downtown Austin... many more will be posted early next week so check back... and yes that's who you think it is in the last pic!

Slow road home....

Kiersten got second, but it was a slooooooooooooooooooooooooow race for her... sometimes you don't have the legs...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop at stop signs and red lights!!!

Saturday morning's group ride... another stop sign ran... another accident!

PLEASE don't run stop signs or red lights!!!

Hard-earned third!

Kees missed amost two weeks of practice and also missed one meet, so with only one week of throwing and one meet under his belt (on the advice of his coach he did not throw between the Junior Olympics last summer and summer track this year) he was way behind the others practice-wise and knew this meet was going to be tough.

In the first round he had the farthest throw by far but by the third round he was bumped down to third by two kids he regularly outthrew last year. In the last round only needed about 11 inches to beat them... normally not a problem... but with as long as he'd been away from the discus he knew it would be tough...

His form looked good... as did his release... but in discus everything has to work together perfectly and if it doesn't you don't get the distance.

Considering his time off he did extremely well... with no throwing or practice in-between, he outhrew his distance from the first meet and finished a close third in this meet... third, however, is also the worst he's ever done in a meet!

Unfortunately he'll miss practice this week as well, so qualifying for the Junior Olympics next weekend is going to be tough, if not impossible, for him!

Holland wins... again!

Even with the star players on the bench, Nederland beats Romania 2-0... and talk about a balanced offense: 9 goals in the tournament by 7 different players!

Netherlands beats France 4-1 !!!

France's worst defeat in 26 years!

I'm picking Holland to win it all!!!

Euro 2008: Netherlands stuns the world champs 3-0 !!!

Euro 2008... Netherlands leads Italy 2-0 at the half!!!

10 minutes to go... Netherlands leads 3-0!!!!!!!!

FINAL: Netherlands stuns the world champs... Netherlands 3... Italy 0 !!!!!!!!!!!

1st and 2nd!

The wind was howling... a 25 mph headwind down the back straight... which wasn't favorable for Kiersten, but she won her 3,000 and placed second in the 1,500.

Kees wins gold!

Even though he hadn't touched his discus since the Junior Olympics in August, Kees wins gold again!

Summer Track

It's here already! The kids are doubling up doing two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon... they're setting a goal to make it to the Junior Olympics again!