Maren set a personal best 4K time of 18:31, finishing 25th out of 88 at the Big Rivers Conference JV Girls Championships. Both Carla and I were so proud and relieved she had such a great final performance.
She had no episodes during the race, just a lot of nervous energy prior to the start. Carla and I ran all over the course to make sure we would be there if she fainted again. In doing so, I finally got some great photos of her running.
This was her last cross country race of 2008, although she intends to keep practicing with the Varsity girls. Her cardiac holter monitor did not show any cardiac anomalies, so now she is wearing an cardiac event recorder for 30 days. They've already ruled out some of the more dangerous problems like Long QT syndrome and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopothy.
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In the lower picture you can see the passive chip on Maren's right shoe that they used to time the race. I've been wondering when one of the local timing services would give those a go. I'm still not seeing anyone use them to time cycling road races though, just mountain bike races. The results are timed to the tenth of a second, I'll bet they aren't sensitive enough to go the extra digit that you'd need to use them in road bike races.
Oh yeah, good result for Maren.
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