Lindbergh Cross Country

Today was a perfect day for a run through the lake followed by a picnic. Everyone ran well. Our top relay team finished in second place. The members of this relay were: Nathan Haley, Anna Patti, Ben Platt, Sarah Reiter, and Mohamud Abdi. Great job everyone!

We had a great meet today in the heat at the 2011 Seamount League class meet. We had several race winners (Omelyan, Luke, Mohamud, Sarah) and lots of top-10 finishers. Additionally, almost everyone made huge improvements over last year’s times. And we had new team members compete very well.

Pictures from the meet will be posted in the Photo Gallery soon.

The complete results can be found at http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=47551#433

Boys 2A
1. Lindbergh
2. Sehome
3. Cedarcrest
4. Squalicum
5. Ellensburg
6. Deer Park
7. Selah
8. Mark Morris
9. White River
10. Bellingham

Girls 2A
1Sehome
2Cheney
3North Kitsap
4Interlake
5Lindbergh
6Bellingham
7Kingston
8Lakewood
9Cedarcrest
10Burlington-Edison

This Saturday, Sept. 10th is the Tahoma Coed Relays and the team/family potluck. This is a very fun meet and a great oppotunity for parents, coaches, and team-members to get to know one another. The meet takes place at Lake Wilderness Park in Maple Valley (go out Petrovitsky to Maple Valley highway. Go South on Maple Valley Highway. Turn right on Witte Road. Follow signs to the park).

Here is the schedule:

6:45 Team arrives at Lindbergh and loads bus
7:00 Bus leaves
7:20 Arrive at the park/unload
8:30 Open Race (this is most of our team)
9:00 Relay (Sarah, Anna, Mo, Nathan, Ben and Brenna, Thuong, Mitchell, Westerling, Eugene)
10:45ish Awards
11:15 Team and Family Potluck
12:30ish Leave park to return to Lindbergh

What to Bring to the Potluck:
Freshmen: Sweets (cookies, brownies, etc)
Sophomores: Main Dish type thing
Juniors: Drinks
Seniors: Salads/sides

This Thursday we will run the Class Meet at Evergreen high school. The first race is the freshmen race at 3:30 (boys and girls run in the same race). We will start each race about 25 minutes apart. After the senior race we will hold a short awards ceremony where we call up the top ten boys and top 10 girls in each class. Let’s get this season started!

Evergreen High School
830 SW 116th Street
Seattle, WA 98146

Alyson spoke at our running camp this summer about nutrition and diet for high school runners. Videos of her presentation, along with other great information on diet and nutrition, can be found at http://www.winforum.org/. Here is one the short video clips of her presentation.

We will meet at 2:30 on Monday the 22nd under the skybridge. In order to come to practice you first must get your athletic clearance taken care of. Do this as early in the week (starting Monday, August 15th) as possible. Here is how you get your clearance:

1. Get a physical. You can either get one from your family doctor or go to a walk-in clinic such as the one by the Benson Fred Meyer. There are NO phyicals at Lindbergh this year like there have been in past years. Bring a clearance form with you to have the doctor sign. You can get this either from one of our team captains at Tiffany Park or stop by the main office at the school. If you don’t have a form, have your doctor give you a printout that he signs.
2. Go to school and see Mrs. Koch in her office next to the student store. You need to pay for your ASB card ($30) and you need to pay your sports participation fee ($75 unless you qualify for free or reduced lunch, then it is half).
3. Go to Mrs. Clark’s office in the attendance office. Bring her the reciepts showing that you paid your fees. She will check on your academic eligibility and make sure that you don’t have any fines. Also, bring her your athletic clearance form with your physical form. You are not officially cleared until Mrs. Clark says that you are.

We have about one month of the summer left until we start the first day of practice. The first day of practice is August 22nd. This means that you need to get your athletic clearance done prior to this day. Your clearance requires: having a physical, paying your sports fee, buying an ASB card, and filling out all paperwork. Get your physical ASAP. Your can do all of your clearance stuff the week of August 15 – 19th at school. In the meantime, KEEP RUNNING!

The 2nd Annual Eagle Running Camp was a success. We had about 35 people everyday. The weather stayed dry for us. We had lots of fun, ate great food, went on some good runs, and became more knowledgeable. Thanks to everyone who participated. I will be posting photos and other information from the camp, but this will have to wait until I get back from my trip (mid-August).