Never shot cross country before, and honestly, I was nervous. It’s funny how no matter how many big sporting events or college games or spot news that something like cross country at a high school in the middle of rural Michigan can make you nervous, but it totally did.

I showed up and there was no schedule, no roster, no numbers, no map of the course. (was there a track? is this track and field? are there a few events? I don’t know.) So I was nervous and a bit up in arms.

But after I kinda milled around beating myself up and being nervous. I made a few pictures of the first race, and totally blew it. But I finally knew the way things worked. I talked to a few people, started to know the path of the run, etc. Each race got better after that.

I’m starting to like to shoot high school sports. It’s always different, and you have some freedom to risk it. It’s the content/action of sports with a bit of that weird small-town feature charm.

I’ll post again today with some non-sports. I just didn’t think this would fit in with other singles from the past two weeks.

Thanks for looking guys.

Grant