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.
Nike sponsors a cross country meet every year where the top runners from Oregon and Washington race. It is called the Nike Border Clash, and it is one of the coolest races you will ever see. A large cannon acts as the starting gun. A helicopter flies over head filming the entire race. Spectators can watch the race on huge TVs that are at various places on the course. Drummers walk along the course drumming in rhythm during the race. The course is run on the incredible Nike World Headquarters outside of Portland. It is quite an experience.
Based on his finish at the state meet, Chris was an alternate for this race. Yesterday, however, he received a phone call from Nike informing him that someone had to drop out, and that he was in.
The race is Sunday, November 20th. Good luck Chris!
It was another great day for the Cross Country team this weekend as we competed in the Mt. Baker Invite north of Bellingham. Everyone agreed that it was one of the coolest courses we have ever ran. We had a great time staying the night in Bellingham, and we lucked out on the weather. Here are the individual results.
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We had a great day at the Bellevue Invite–lots of PRs, great weather, fun. Here are the individual times and team scores.
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This Saturday is our first cross country race. It is also our team/family BBQ. Here is the schedule for the day.
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The girls and JV boys ran in the Hole-in-the-wall invite at Lakewood HS near Marysville yesterday in pretty poor conditions but were able to manage quite a few PRs on the 5k course.
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Results for the spokane valley classic.
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The boys had their best ever team performance at the Bellevue invite this year. We placed 5th overall and were the 2nd 3A team behind Seattle Prep. We beat out #5 ranked Bellevue, #7 ranked Mercer Island, #9 ranked Hazen and #10 ranked West Valley.
The course this year was an actual 5km; last year’s course was short because of the parasailing taking place off the beach.
The JV boys started off the day with a strong performance and every runner PRed. David Rice led the way with a PR of 18:24. Ryan Kellberg, who was feeling sick, ran a strong time of 18:40. Billy Doyle and Eddie Ramsey followed with 18:56 and 18:59, both breaking 19 minutes for the first time. Erik Fisher had a huge race, PRing by over a minute to break 20 minutes for the first time, running 19:44. The boys JV placed 9th overall, beating out the Hazen JV which took 10th.
Andy Dean and James Turnbull started the varsity boys team off with its best ever 7,8 flights. Andy Dean placed 4th to earn a ribbon and T-shirt in a time of 17:39. James Turnbull went through the mile in about 20th place and by the finish had moved himself up to 13th. He ran a 26 second PR and was a key factor in our team scoring. These two blew the Bellevue, Mercer Island and Hazen runners away.
Ranvir Sahota and Tor Ferguson followed suit in the 5,6 runner flight placing 12 th and 14th. Ranvir ran a PR and Tor was really close. With both placing in the top 15 we had a feeling we were going to beat some top schools.
In the following heat, Chris Miland and Mike Williams went out in a more conservative pace, going through the mile in 5:23 and coming through around 45th place. Chris and Mike placed 32nd and 33rd in their flight. Mike’s time was a PR.
Sam and Javier ran in our 1-2 flight. Sam had us nervous at the mile mark as he came through in about 10th place – he had it all under control though. He nailed his mile split at 4:56, dead on his race plan. Javier dug down deep and decided today was his day to prove something. His first mile was 5:09, but he went out hard and to compete. He wasn’t going to let the main pack and most importantly the Hazen runners go. He fought hard through the next mile to maintain pace. Sam meanwhile had moved up into 4th place but was around 60 meters behind the Eisenhower duo out in front. By the last 600 meters Sam had moved into 3rd place and closed the gap to about 40 meters and had pulled away from the rest of the field including defending state champion, Brian Govier. Javier was struggling coming in but was doing his best to stay strong for the team. Going into the sprint Sam had almost caught up with the Eisenhower duo and finished in 15:38, his 5K PR. Javier came in 47th place with a PR of 17:12.
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Lindbergh boys finished 6th place with 220 points, 6 points of ahead of 7th place Hazen. The boys team had a strong showing from Sam Ahlbeck (top individual, 16:10), Chris Miland (17:12) and Tor Ferguson (17:34). The boys need to step up their performances. Had this been a dual meet Hazen would have won 27-29.
The “future stars” team consisting of Kei Revius (2nd, 18:08), James Turnbull (14th, 18:35), David Rice (20th, 18:42), Eddie Ramsey (36th, 19:17) and Billy Doyle (45th, 19:32) took 5th place and was beat by 4th place Hazen.
The girls started the 5k season off with strong times. Madeline Platt was the top girl for Lindbergh, followed by Tori Swanson, Patty Harvey and Olga Sievers. The girls official times weren’t posted by the end of the meet.
All the JV boys ran PRs and/or significant improvements over the time trial times. In his race, Stephen Root, set a mile PR (6:36) going through his first mile, this comes two days after he set his PR on the third mile of mile repeats. Many runners improved or came near their two mile times set just Tuesday going through the second mile. We expect this group of guys to go undefeated in JV races for the second straight season.
Click read more for results. The rest of the mile splits will be added Monday.
We have a good week of training ahead of us before the next big race at
Sammamish.
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