For a track meet that had a weather forecast of “heavy rain, thunder, shower and fog,” it wasn’t that bad.

The annual Daily Astorian Invitational track meet has gained a well-deserved reputation as an event that always seems to bring out the worst in typical spring weather on the North Coast.

But the 31st annual “Daily A,” held April 6 at Seaside High School, turned out pretty good, all things considered. Especially for some Seaside athletes.

No rain, thunder, showers or fog, but the wind still made an appearance — every race, jump and throw was either “wind-aided” or “wind-resisted,” or sometimes both.

But that was expected, with hundreds of athletes competing on a track that’s less than a mile from the Pacific Ocean.

For the first time in two years, one meet record was broken in the annual event, which features schools from all across the Lower Columbia region, and originally started as a meet to showcase track and field in the newspaper’s readership area.

Seaside’s Gretchen Hoekstre posted the only meet record of the day in winning the shot put, breaking a 10-year-old mark (46 feet, 11½ inches) held by Astoria’s Laura Bobek, who went on to set records at the University of Oregon.

Hoekstre’s first throws Saturday weren’t going well, so the senior — who will be attending Brigham Young University at this time next year — made a little technique change halfway through the competition, which resulted in two huge throws.

“I had been doing the rotational (spin technique) in the shot all season long,” Hoekstre said, “and so I thought ‘that’s what I’m going to do, that’s where I’m going to build.’ But today I just couldn’t get behind the shot, so I decided I would try a ‘glide,’ because that’s what I practiced all summer long. And I’ve done probably 5,000 throws in the shot, for how much I’ve worked on it.

“And the first time I came out with the glide today, I knew I was going somewhere,” she said. “The first one was 46-something. It just felt great. I watched some film of it after my coach took a video. The next throw I handled a little better, but I still wasn’t all the way behind it.”

But Hoekstre finally put it all together, and made a throw of 47-8 to break the meet record.

Bobek was a volunteer in Saturday’s meet, recording all the marks for the shot put competitors.

“Laura Bobek has all the records, and she’s so much fun to watch,” said Hoekstre, a big fan of Bobek. “So it was really cool to have her there. And even she was super excited, even though I think I broke her record. It felt really good after all the hard work I’ve put into it. It’s paying off.”

In the discus (which Hoekstre also won, with a throw of 124-7), she said, “The wind has been kind of crazy all day, so I assumed it wouldn’t be a huge throw, but it definitely felt good.”

Astoria’s Kes Sandstrom, the defending 4A state champion in the discus, was second at 116-2.

On the boys’ side, Seaside sophomore Henry Garvin was the sprint champion of the day, winning the 100 meters in 12.25, and the 200 meters in a personal best 24.44.

Seaside teammate Levi Card circled the track twice in 2:06.18 to win the 800.

Seaside’s fourth win on the track came from junior Luis Moreno, in the 3,000 meters at 10:23.36.