What a difference a week makes! More teams, more runners, still a multi lap course, with this one actually being a bit soft from all of the rain the past few days, and a few degrees cooler, but everyone was in a better mood, came into their race more positive, and it made a difference, with nearly everyone running faster than they had the week before. Overall team places in the Varsity and JV races aren't going to show high placings, but they are going to show improvement from the last meet, which is good considering there is still a lot of little things and a lot of workouts that still need to be done to get where we may be able to end the season on.
Both the Boys and Girls Varsity teams were short handed, but both were able to finish in 18th place and were faster as a team than last week. It still is far from our best, and in fact on the Boys side we were faster our first meet, but we've been doing some harder workouts, so the legs may not be at their best. The JV Boys were able to grab a 14th place finish with a lot of runners that are still inexperienced and learning what their race pace is and the best way for themselves to get through the miles.
The C Races were where we put a lot of our runners, mainly due to the age of our teams and that many of them have not had many races against other runners that are near their age. We wanted to give them a different experience of racing, one in which they may be in a different place within the race and to possibly contend for individual and team titles. Well, I think the plan worked out pretty well with the Girls winning their race that had 14 teams in it and the Boys coming in 3rd out of 20 teams!! To go along with that, both teams had two individuals in the top 10. Ruby D and Stella B both raced to the finish and ended with the same time to take 2nd and 3rd overall, while Cole B grabbed 8th for the Boys and Kjell N lead the whole field and won by over 30 seconds!!
It was a positive day and one we will want to build off of and show us some possibilities for the future. But, we need to continue to put our time in and stay positive each week. Next up will be the Griak Invite for our Varsity on Friday and the Milaca Mega Meet on Saturday for those that don't run on Friday. These rosters will be posted on Sunday to give everyone time to plan.
Thanks for all of the fans that came out to support the runners!!
Denny
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