Lindbergh Cross Country

Our boys had a solid run at the Richland Invitational. We finished in 8th place out of the 30 teams that were in the elite Division 1 race. There were great teams at the meet, with 5 ranked in the top 50 in the entire United States! We beat all of the teams that we should have beaten, and almost beat a couple of nationally ranked teams. All in all, it was a great racing experience and a good result for our team. Good job guys. Now we have three more weeks to keep getting better.

This weekend our varsity boys are running in the Richland Invitational. Here is the schedule and info.

Richland Invitational
Carmichael Middle School
Directions:
Highway 240 to Highway 182
George Washington Way Exit
Left on Lee
Left on Thayer
Friday:
2:15 Leave Lindbergh
5:45 Jog the course
7:00 Dinner at Casa Mia in Richland
8:30 Check into Kennewick Super 8 Motel
10:00 In your own room
11:00 Lights out
Saturday
8:00 Breakfast at the hotel
9:30 Grocery stop for snacks and lunch food
11:00 Check out of hotel, leave for course
11:15 Arrive at the course, set up camp
1:55 Division 1 Boys Race
3:00 Awards
4:30 Dinner at Miners in Yakima
8:00 Back at Lindbergh

Complete meet information can be found at: http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=45316#433

We had a great weekend at the Mt. Baker invitational. Everyone had a blast, and we ran great. We didn’t have our full team with us this year for a variety of reasons. Our varsity boys took the weekend off, because they will be running next weekend at the Richland Invitational. A few other team members had to take the SAT. Inspite of this, our team was impressively competitive at the meet. In the JV boys race, we took 9th place. Our girls finished 5th, and in the varsity boys race we finished 8th.

Here are the times of the people who ran this year AND last year, with the amount of improvement:

Ashley P. 25:19 -3:23
Evan F. 18:12 -:40
Titus 19:20 -2:03
Evan L 20:00 +:45
Jasmine 19:16 -:45
Liz 22:10 +:26
Brenna 23:23 +:43
Westerling 17:06 -1:21
Mitchell 17:10 -:39
Colton 17:15 -1:55
Grant 17:20 -2:10
David 18:40 -2:12

The complete results can be found at: http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=46286#433

This Friday, Sept. 30th, we are leaving for Bellingham and the Mt. Baker invitational. We will stay at the Bellingham Travelodge (360) 733-8280. We will leave Lindbergh at 2:30 Friday. After we check into the hotel, we will go for a run at nearby Lake Padden. Dinner and freetime from about 6:30 – 8:30. In your rooms by 10:00 p.m.

The meet takes place at Silver Lake, up Mt. Baker highway about 30 miles. The JV girls run at 11:45, the JV boys run at 12:30, the varsity girls run at 1:15, and the varsity boys run at 2:00. On the way back we will have dinner in Bellingham. We will be back at Lindbergh around 7:30.

Because the homecoming dance is Saturday, we will send one of the vans back as early as possible with the people who are going to the dance. Hopefully the dance van will be back by 6:00 (we will do the best we can–be flexible dancers!).

Remember to get your run-a-thon pledges turned in by Tuesday to Coach Rettmann. It is going to be fun running around Lake Youngs with everyone!

It was in the 80s in Portland Saturday, and there were teams from all around the country there for the Nike Pre-Nationals meet. The Lindbergh runners overall did very well. Here are the boys and girls times, with the amount that each improved over last year at this meet (if they ran last year).

Luke 16:14 (-:56), Mohamud 16:22 (-1:38), Travis (-:43), Mark 16:41 (-:24), Ben 16:53 (-:50), Nathan 16:57 (same), Omelyan 17:30 (-2:23), Mitchell 17:52 (-:43), Grant 17:59 (-1:43), Endalkachew 17:59, Colton 18:11, Ishmael 18:54, Eugene 19:03 (-:10), Westerling 19:07, Anna 19:12, Jasmine 20:14 (-1:29), Thuong 21:28, Liz 22:48 (-:23)

Our boys team finished a very competitive 8th place. Great job everyone.

This Saturday the top runners on our team will compete in Portland at the Nike Pre-Nationals meet at the Portland Meadows race track. This is a huge meet with teams from around the country. Here is the schedule for the day:

8:00 arrive at Lindbergh and pack the vans
10:45 light lunch at Subway in Woodland
12:00 arrive at Portland Meadows
1:45 JV race (Mitchell, Westerling, Colton, Grant, Endalkachew, Eugene, Ismael)
2:50 Girls Danner Champs (Sarah, Anna, Jasmine, Thuong, Liz, Ariel)
3:10 Boys Danner Champs (Mark, Luke, Mo, Nathan, Ben, Travis, Omelyan)
4:00 Awards
4:45 Leave Portland
5:45 Stop for dinner
8:00ish Arrive back at Lindbergh

The forecast is for 80 degrees in Portland. Be prepared. Bring money for food, drink, t-shirts. Pack healthy snacks, water, etc.

The meet website with all the info you could ask for is:

http://www.runnerspace.com/NikePreNationals

We had a great meet at Ft. Steilacoom over the weekend. Our boys varsity finished 2nd overall and 1st among the small schools. The boys JV easily won the JV #1 race and finished second in the JV #2 race. On the girls side, we finished 7th overall and 2nd in the small schools category. We had many individual PRs and lots of great races. Complete results can be found at:

http://www.fortsteilacoominvite.com/2011_results.htm

Congratulations to the following team members for qualifying for one of the Lindbergh Cross country mileage clubs. Runners can only earn the 250 Mileage club one time (otherwise we would have many more in this category). This summer we set a record for the number of team members who reached the 500 mile mark in three months of summer training. This summer also marked the first time we had a girl reach the 500 mark! Great job everyone.

500 Mile Club
Travis Downen, Nathan Haley, David Huff, Titus Owen, Brenna Fisher, Mohamud Abdi, Mark Garcia, Luke Garcia, Ben Platt
250 Mile Club
Grant Haley, Eugene Pioquinto

After a slight delay due to technical difficulties, the pictures from the Class meet and the Tahoma Coed relays have been posted. Check them out.