Alice and Lily's first track meet

Thanks to the New Denver Sufferfest, our two girls started to enjoy running a few summers ago, but up until last week they had only run "long" distances of 5K, 10K or cross-country.

Three weeks ago, they decided to register for the Montreal regional athletics competition of May 23-24 at Centre Claude-Robillard and proceeded to join their school's track team for 3-4 training sessions under coaches Ibrahim and Jonathan to prepare for it.  They were total rookies at shorter distances but ended up doing quite well, earning six medals between the two of them: Alice 1st at 800m, 2nd at 1200m and Lily 3rd at 800m, 2nd at 400m and both members of the gold-winning 4x400m relay team !  Harris blood strikes again, I guess ;)

For detailed results, click here:
http://www.rseqmontreal.com/fichiersUpload/fichiers/20190529084830-athleoetisme-exteoerieur-championnat-reoegional-reoesultats-par-eoepreuves.pdf

Lily getting ready for her 800 meter race (15-16-17 year-olds)

Alice sprinting to the finish of her 800 meter race (13-14 year-olds)
with coach Ibrahim cheering her on (in red shorts)

With teammate Aglaé after the 800m races

In this video of the 4x400m relay, we see Lily (1st runner) hand the baton to her teammate for the 2nd lap.  The Mont-St-Louis team was in good standing at this point, ahead of the other teams.

But here we see Alice (3rd runner) take the baton with her team trailing behind the Regina Assunta runner, and then catching up with her in time for the final lap — with MSL winning by a slim margin.