Lindbergh Cross Country

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

Thursday, Sept. 22nd we will run at Tyee High School. The course starts and finishes on the track behind the school. The JV boys run at 3:30, the girls run at 4:00, and the boys varsity run at 4:30.

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.

Our next meet is the Fort Steilacoom invitational Saturday, Sept. 17th. The meet website has directions to the meet and lots of other meet information. It is: http://www.fortsteilacoominvite.com/Fort%20Steilacoom%20files/fort_steilacoom_information.htm

The schedule for the day:

7:15 team arrives at Lindbergh
7:30 bus leaves school
8:30 arrive at the park and set up team area
9:00 coaches meeting
9:20 Open race (Jeremy, Alex, Cesar, Ravtej, Viet)
9:55 youth race (younger brothers and sisters can run in this)
10:15 Boys JV “team” race (Grant, Endalkachew, Eugene, Colton, Westerling)
10:40 Girls JV “team” race (Cindy, Stassney, Ashley, Ashley, Giselle)
11:15 Boys varsity flight 1 (Omelyan, Mitchell, Ben, Travis)
11:20 Girls varsity flight 1 (Brenna, Liz, Ariel, Thuong)
11:50 Boys varsity flight 2 (Nathan, Mo, Mark, Luke)
11:55 Girls varsity flight 2 (Jasmine, Anna, Sarah)
12:30 Boys JV race #2 (all remaining boys)
1:05 Girls JV race #2
1:45ish Awards
2:30ish leave park
3:30ish back at school

Be sure to bring extra clothes, healthy snacks, water, etc. Bring money if you want to buy a meet t-shirt.

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