In the past few weeks I've been spending a fair amount of time driving to the Young Relative's "away" track meets at middle schools all the way from Oxford to Downingtown.
The meets start just as school is letting out in the afternoon, so it's a hectic time to be navigating an unfamiliar school campus: there's a long line of buses loading up kids, teachers are heading home, all the nearby streets have flashing speed limit signs, and crossing guards are periodically stopping traffic to let kids cross. Some of these mega-campuses house multiple schools and acres of athletic fields, so you have to drive around and around the often-one-way internal roads looking for the correct field. Sometimes there are signs.
So what a pleasant surprise it was to pull into Peirce Middle School in Exton on Tuesday (it's part of the West Chester Area School District) and find three pleasant gentlemen greeting visitors!
"Baseball or track?" one asked, and when I said "track" they pointed me in the right direction for both parking and the field.
I was amazed.
Early in the season we spectators enjoyed a couple of warm afternoons, but the past few weeks have been wretchedly cold and damp (yes, I know, apparently runners like chilly weather. So what?). One well-prepared mother told me she keeps in her car jackets of three weights, rain boots, gloves and a fleece wrap.
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