Cross Country Awards Banquet
Tuesday, November 14th 6:00 – 8:00 pm
This will be a potluck dinner. Your families are invited. Everyone needs to bring something—see the list below.
Freshmen: Salad or Side Dish
Sophomores: Desserts
Juniors: Drinks
Seniors: Main Dish
**I will provide paper plates, plastic forks, cups, etc.
The 2006 boys team is now officially the best team in the history of Lindbergh cross country. Prior to this year, no team had placed better than 7th at state.
Some interesting Lindbergh Cross Country statistics: We have competed at the state meet 5 out of the last 6 years. Out of those 5 state meets, we have place (in order) 11th, 9th, 10th, 8th, 6th. This year we beat the 7th place team by 63 points, but we were only 22 points from the 3rd place team. This team (the best in school history) had two freshmen and two sophomores on the varsity, and one of the those sophomores is a first year runner. Trevor was the fastest freshman in the state, and Nate was the 9th fastest freshman in the state. This year's freshmen class, with 6 strong runners, is the best in Lindbergh cross country history.
Hard work over the next year from our top 8 or 10 runners + the talent we already have on our team = hardware at the state meet
Go to www.jcrawford.net for the complete state meet results.
This Saturday, Oct. 28th, is the West Central Distict Meet at American Lake Golf Course. The 3A Girls race is at 1:30, and the 3A Boys race is at 2:30. For directions to the course and other information, go to the West Central District Meet website: http://www.wiaa.com/Dist3/b_Cross_country.htm
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Wednesday, October 11th, we have our all-city meet at Seward Park. The race times are the same as previous meets (3:30, 4:00, and 4:30).
The start and finish on the course at Seward Park are at the highest elevation level of the park. The start is near the amphitheater. You can either park down below and walk up the hill, or you can wind your way up to the top and park near the start. The finish is off the road on the main trail a little ways–about 200 meters from the start.
See you there.
Several people have asked about the race schedule for the league and district meets. I will post more information about them later. However, here are the times of the races. Remember that everyone runs in the League meet, but only the top seven boys and girls run at districts.
Madeline Platt, Chris Miland, and Matt Miland all ran the entire half-mile, 5 honk Road Warrior today (Sat. Oc 7). For anyone who doesn't know, a Road Warrior is where the coach drives his car at a constant speed (15 mph for the guys and 12 mph for the girls), honking his horn every tenth of a mile. Runners, in groups of 3 – 5, run along side of the car for as long as they can. Once a runner drops behind the back bumper, he or she has to stop. The goal is to see how many honks you can last. The road we run the Road Warriors on is 1/2 of a mile. The guys who make it the entire way run the 1/2 mile in 2:00. The girls run it in 2:30.
Chris was able to run two Road Warriors today. He looked like he could have run all the way to Lake Washington at that speed.
Everyone on the team ran awesome and had a lot of fun. Check out the photo gallery for pictures.
The All-City meet was scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 12th. Due to conflicts with Seward Park, we had to change the meet to Wednesday, Oct. 11th. The races times are the same. Spread the word.
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This Thursday, 10-5, we run against Highline and Evergreen. Highline is the host of the meet, but the meet is not at their school. It is also not at the location that they used to use (North Seatac Park).
The meet will be run at the Seatac Community Center. Here is the address so that you can Mapquest it:
13735 24th Ave. South
Seatac, WA. 98168.
The race times are the same as always:
3:30 JV Boys, 4:00 Girls, 4:30 Varsity Boys
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.