This Saturday, Sept. 30th, we run in the Mt. Baker Invitational at Silver Lake, which is north of Bellingham. The team will leave Friday after school and stay the night in Bellingham.
Click below for information on the hotel, meet schedule, and directions to the meet.
Saturday, September 23 was our team run-a-thon fundraiser. Not only did we raise a record amount of money, but more importantly we had a record number of team members run the entire Lake Youngs loop–a hilly 9.3 mile run that is a Red Badge of Courage for our runners. We have never had this many people run the entire loop at one time.
Click below to see who made the loop.
Thursday, Sept. 21 was our first dual meet of the season. We ran at a very muddy and wet Tyee course against Tyee and Mount Ranier. Hazen was also in the meet, but we did not score against them. The boys JV had dry weather during their race. The girls, however, were not as fortunate. It rained about as hard as possible during the entire girls race. This explains why I have almost no pictures from the girls race. The boys, amazingly, had blue sky and sunshine while they ran. The course, however, had an extra inch or two of standing water all over it.
Both boys and girls teams ran great. Everyone competed very hard. Our girls lost a heart breaker to Mt. Rainier, but they ran their hearts out. I was very proud to be their coach after that race (or I should say, even more proud than usual).
Click below for meet scores.
Over 40 teams participated in the Fort Steilacoom Invitational this year–the largest number ever in the history of the meet. The weather was perfect. Even after a very difficult week of training and having already raced on Thursday, the Lindbergh runners performed very well. Lots of people ran PRs and competed strongly.
The boys team, still running without the injured James Turnbull, threw down an impressive third-place finish, behind Eisenhower and Olympia (both 4A teams). The girls team placed 22nd. The J.V. boys top 5 placed 10th. The J.V. boys #2 team placed 13th.
Great job everyone. Click below for individual splits and finish times.
The class meet this year was a smashing success for the Lindbergh Eagles. In each race, we placed at least one person in the top ten. We had three individual winners (Anna Sinclair, Trevor Thompson, and Matt Miland). Trevor set a new freshman course record by :18 seconds. Almost everyone was greatly improved over last year's times. If we calculated the team score, our boys would have easily taken first place, while our girls would have finished third (behind Renton and Hazen).
Click below for complete individual splits and times.
This Saturday, Sept. 16, we run our second invitational at Fort Steilacoom State Park. Click below for information on this meet.
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The 2006 Tahoma Coed Relays were a success: the weather cooperated, everyone had fun at the BBQ, and our team ran very well. For the first time we had a relay team place in the top ten. Trevor Thompson, Madeline Platt, Matt Miland, Patty Harvey, and Chris Miland placed 10th.
Click below for the complete Lindbergh results.
This Saturday is our first cross country meet–the Tahoma Coed Relays. We will also hold our team and family BBQ after the races are completed. Everyone is invited. This is a very low-key but fun meet. It is the only time all season that competitors in the meet get to run through a lake for part of the course.
Click below for Saturday's schedule.
Saturday morning we ran our annual team time trial. We ran yet another version of our home course at Lindbergh (more construction). The distance was exactly 3 miles. Conditions: Sunny, hot, no wind, about 75 degrees. Because it was a three-day weekend, several people were out of town. The times at the time trial are slow every year compared to the times people will run during the season. This is in part because it is the first race of the year, and in part because the course at Lindbergh is the slowest that we run on all year.
Click below for the results.