A disappointing cross country season

This weekend is the league meet for cross country.  Honestly, it has been an incredibly disappointing season.  I'm not even entirely sure what has gone wrong.  Robert ran this summer and was in shape, and of course we even sent him to camp for a week.  The very first meet of the year he developed blisters on his feet, and honestly, it never really got better.  He has had some cramps in a couple of races, and one race he told us he fell twice.  He is coming in about 10th on our team and running about two minutes slower than we would have expected.  We had really thought our team could be competitive at league this year and I do think it can, but Robert isn't really going to get to be a part of it.  Barring some sort of odd miracle, this Saturday at league will be his final race because only the top seven runners on each team get to run at districts.  The season sure feels like it has gone quickly!