Derek is doing the long jump, high jump and triple jump this year in track.
Last week there was an invitational track meet with 8 schools participating. Derek won the long jump event with the longest individual jump of 19′ 7″. Not bad to be the best out of 8 schools!
There is an asterisk, however. This was a “minor” invitational, and a couple of the more competitive schools were saving their best for the major invitationals. Nevertheless, it was still an excellent performance.
Wow! That’s a tremendous jump. I assume there were some athletes in Gisele’s family somewere? I know this did not come from the Lafferty side.
Comment by Richard — April 11, 2006 @ 6:37 am
I’m trying to picture in my mind just how far 19′ 7″ is. It boggles. Let’s see, that’s longer than the length of Dad’s first Masonite trailer. Farther than 2 Intel cubes side by side. Wider than the width of my driveway. Almost 4 line markers on a football field. More than twice the viewing distance of Richard’s chair to TV. Almost the NCAA 3 point line to the basket.
Whew! That’s a long jump.
Comment by Donna — April 11, 2006 @ 9:11 am
All good comparisons, except not sure about the football field “line markers” — aren’t they 5 *yards* apart? A 20-yard jump would truly be tremendous!
Comment by Daryl — April 11, 2006 @ 9:24 am
Oops. I guess I can’t even claim that I meant the small one yard markers, can I? How about I switch it to “Over 6 small markers on a football field!”
Comment by Donna — April 11, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
Don’t you all realize that he is just like his grandmother. I am not only a long jumper, but you know how fast I can run these days. Nothing has yet been invented to measure my speed and agility!
Good going, Derek!
Comment by Mom — April 12, 2006 @ 7:42 pm