ST Junior Championships, 2009

The last race meet for the kids this winter season was held 21-22 February, in Budapest.

Peter was not in a good form before the races. He looked tired, he moved out of sync a lot of times on practices. It may have been the long winter, the day-to-day school work or something else, maybe the touch of flu halving his class, though he did not catch that until lately.

Anyway we 4 + Marci arrived to Budapest quite early on Friday, had much time before the practice. Then next day the races began.
Peter's age category had the most contenders, 14. So it meant he had to run quarterfinals, semifinals and finals at each distance. An it proved a little bit too demanding.
Saturday he had the 400m quarter/semi/final, then the 222m quarter/semi/final, and even the 333m quarters. No wonder he was damn tired by the end of the day.
And interestingly, Sunday he was more impressive. He did not fight the corners at last, got in nice low position, pushed nice long. Where was all of that before? Who knows... Too bad it came only on Sunday, I wish it was a day before that.
He finished 10. on 400m, 11. on 222m and 13. on 333m. Not an impressive result at all, but I keep telling myself he still has 2 years in this age category, so no need to hurry at all.

Detailed results are here and I will post some photos as soon as I get to it...