Lindbergh Cross Country

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.

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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.

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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.

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Thursday, 10-05, we ran at a crazy new course at the Seatac Community Center.  Although we left with a few knee bruises and scrapes from the many holes and obnoxious sharp turns at the bottom of steep hills, we managed to remain relatively healthy.  At the same time, we finished the day with two more wins under our belts.

 Click below for scores and individual times.

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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

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Lindbergh went to another big invitional Saturday, 9/30, and came away with yet another plaque.  The J.V. boys finished 5th overall, which is a huge improvement over last year's 16th place finish.  The girls results have not yet been posted, so I am not sure what place they finished in.  However, our girl's team placing was certainly ahead of last year's.  The varsity boys finished in 3rd place, but were the first place 3A team. 

Burlington Edison (now 2A) was the defending meet champion.  They were also 3rd place at the state meet last year in the 3A division.  They didn't graduate a single varsity runner last year.  They took first place again this year at Mt. Baker with 85 points.  Lake Stevens, the second place team with 99 points, placed 4th in the 4A state cross country meet last year.  Most of their varsity team returned as well, including the defending 4A 3200 state champion.  Lindbergh was 3rd with 115 points. 

Almost everyone on the team who ran at Mt. Baker last year ran substanially faster this year.  Lots of team members ran PRs.  The course was only 3 miles, not 5K, so the PRs are based on average mile pace.

 Click below for splits and finish times.

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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.

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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.

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Thursday, Sept. 21 was our first dual meet of the season.  We ran at a very muddy and wet Tyee course against Tyee and Mount Ranier.  Hazen was also in the meet, but we did not score against them.  The boys JV had dry weather during their race.  The girls, however, were not as fortunate.  It rained about as hard as possible during the entire girls race.  This explains why I have almost no pictures from the girls race.  The boys, amazingly, had blue sky and sunshine while they ran.  The course, however, had an extra inch or two of standing water all over it.

Both boys and girls teams ran great.  Everyone competed very hard.  Our girls lost a heart breaker to Mt. Rainier, but they ran their hearts out.  I was very proud to be their coach after that race (or I should say, even more proud than usual).

 Click below for meet scores.

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