Getting Down and Dirty on the Sporting Front.

 Sophia has had a great couple of days with sport. On Saturday we traveled 50 miles to do a North Wales club cross country race in Banger. The ground is somewhat different here. Because it seems to rain at some stage in every day, the ground is totally water logged. Well it was where Sophia was doing the race anyway. I wished I had warn gumboots. Heres a before picture. It was a mile long but because of the swamp like conditions it seemed further.

By the time she had finished she looked like this.

The good news is that she ran well and came in second. 

On Sunday she had to travel 80 miles each way to play in a qualifying tournament for Hockey. It is a mixed U11 competition and there are 6 Northern Wales tournaments where the top two teams qualify for the national tournament later next year. They had 6 games, winning three and drew two so they are off to a great start. It is 7 aside and Sophia seems to be well regarded placed in mid field. Its a boys comp but teams are allowed to play three girls. There another girl in her team who is also superb.