Review of Thursday

It was a long day for me yesterday, with set up, take down, work, the races, etc, but it was a good day and fun to watch the runners put out such a great effort and show continued success!  The weather was good, there was a great fan support, not only from our parents and families but from CRHS students, and the energy on the team was positive!

Centennial did beat us in both races, but they are traditionally a deep and strong team.  But we are not looking at it as we lost, we as coaches are looking at the improvements, the effort, and the attitudes of the team and we are moving in the right direction.  Times individually and as a team were the fastest they have been this year, which shows we are moving in the right direction.  It's been a tough couple of last weeks, but they are putting their time in coming together more as a team while having fun (well, as much fun as COVID allows us to have!! lol).  

We did have one race winner however, despite it not showing in the results posted last night on Gopher State.  Congratulation to Lily who was the top JV runner on the day (the top 3 from Centennial only ran 2 miles, so they were supposed to be out of the results).  She helped the very young Cardinal runners in JV show major improvements as they continue to work together and learn about themselves and this sport.  The youth of both teams is looking very good, as Judah and Lachlan tied for the top spots for the Cardinal boys in JV.  Andre and Ilsa led the way for the Varsity teams, and even though both of their streaks were broken, both of them ran their best times on the season and are starting to get closer to where they want to be!  Great work to all of the runners!! 

Over the weekend, I will put up a Season best list on the blog and make another page that will show all of their times so far to show the progress they are making.

Here is a link to some pictures taken by one of our parents, which I also included in our picture page on the right side of the blog: https://benberndtphotography5137.zenfolio.com/p328648687  Thanks for the great pics and if there are any others that parents/fans took that you'd like others to see, send them my way.

There is a change to our next meet.  It was supposed to be on Thursday at Rum River Central, but we were told earlier this week that we were not allowed to have our race there.  The other teams and us looked at other options, but came down to having to move our meet to Wednesday, Sep 23rd, and the location will be at Anoka High School again.  Not the most ideal thing to have a 3rd race there already, but it will allow us to continue to see if the work the runners is putting in is helping them improve.

Thanks again for the great fan support yesterday!! It made a wonderful weather day all that much better!!
Denny