Lindbergh Cross Country

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

Lindbergh's top team finished 2nd place today at the coed relays–our best finish ever.  This team, made up of Nate Tandecki, Sarah Reiter, Nate Reitz, Ericka Galindo, and Trevor Thompson, ran very well and was only a few seconds behind the winning team. 

We also had a great time with the team / parent potluck.  Thanks everyone for bringing stuff.  I enjoyed getting a chance to meet parents.  For the second year in a row we lucked out with the nice weather.

The length of this course is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.0 miles.  Since we don't know the exact distance, and since you run through pretty deep water for 80 meters, the times don't mean much.  The course is always a little different from year to year as well, so comparison between years is not useful.  Most of our team members were about 35 – 40 seconds faster at this course than at the class meet on Thursday.  If you were more than 40 seconds faster, then you had a much better race here than at the class meet.

Click below for times.

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Tahoma Coed Relays Saturday, September 12^th 

Meet Location:  Lake Wilderness State Park, Maple Valley

 Times in Bold are set times.  Everything else is an estimate. 

6:45     Arrive at Lindbergh 

7:15     Arrive at Lake Wilderness by bus 

7:45     Begin Warm-up for people in the Open Race 

8:15     First Leg of Relay begins warming up 

8:30     Open Race Starts  (everyone who is not on a relay team runs in this race) 

9:00     Relay Race starts  (all team members check in at the start) 

10:45   Awards ceremony 

11:00   Begin Potluck/picnic 

1:00     Back at school 

Potluck Information:  All family members are invited to watch the race and join in on the potluck.  It is a great chance for everyone to get to know one another better.  We will also have a mini parent meeting to talk about up-coming meets, fundraisers, etc.

Frosh               Main dish type thing

Sophs               drinks

Juniors              plates, cups, forks, napkins, etc.

Seniors             snacks/desserts/fruit

   

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The season is off and running now that we have had our first meet.  The weather was perfect.  The lake was fairly warm to run through.  Tons of parents came to watch the races and participate in the potluck.  And everyone ran great.  Our top relay team of Trevor, Sarah, Matt, Anna, and Joseph placed third, the best ever for a Lindbergh relay team at that meet.  In short, it was a good day.  I have no idea exactly how long the course actually is (somewhat less than 2 miles).  The times don't mean much.  Some people got caught in the bottleneck and had to slow down.  Some people fell in the water and lost time.  Some people ran most of the course without anyone around them to pace off of.  If you want to see your time and compare it to other team members, however, click below. 

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The season has finally started, and we are off to a fantastic start.  Everyone has a great attitude and is working hard.  We have about 40 people on the team this year, and since we played the name game today everyone now knows all of their teammate's names.

Our first meet is coming up soon–Saturday, Sept. 6th at Lake Wilderness State Park in Maple Valley. This is a fun practice meet where the runners actually run through the lake in one section.  The meet starts at 8:30 a.m., and the awards ceremony will be over by about 11:00.  At that point we will have a team / family potluck.  This is a great chance for parents, coaches, and athletes to meet one another, and it is a fun tradition we have had for quite a few years.  Everyone on the team will be assigned to bring something to the potluck.

Freshman     main dish type thing

Sophomores     drinks

Juniors     snacks/desserts

Seniors     plates, cups, napkins, plastic forks, etc.

See you there.

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Saturday was our first meet of the season–the Tahoma Coed Relays.  For the first time in several years the weather was nice for this meet, and we didn't have to have our picnic in the rain.  The purpose of this meet is to have fun, to gain some experience racing in a low-key atmosphere, and to do a little team bonding.  We did keep everyone's times in the race, however, which was roughly 3,000 meters.  Click below for the times.

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This Saturday, Sept. 8th, is the Tahoma Coed Relays at Lake Wilderness State park.  At the end of the meet we will have a team/family potluck.  Everyone is invited.  Team members have all signed up to bring something.  Here is the schedule for the day:

Tahoma Coed Relays Saturday, September 8^th 

Meet Location:  Lake Wilderness State Park, Maple Valley

 Times in Bold are set times.  Everything else is an estimate. 

6:45     Arrive at Lindbergh

7:15     Arrive at Lake Wilderness

7:45     Begin Warm-up for people in the Open Race

8:15     First Leg of Relay begins warming up

8:30     Open Race Starts  (everyone who is not on a relay team runs in this race)

9:00     Relay Race starts  (all team members check in at the start)

10:30   Awards ceremony

11:00   Begin Potluck/picnic

1:00     Back at school

Relay Teams

Team #1  Matt, Anna, Nate, Michelle, Trevor

Team #2  Brian, Ivy, Stephen, Sarah, Craig

Team #3  Kevin, Whitney, Nate T., Rachel, Scott

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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.

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This Saturday is our first cross country meet–the Tahoma Coed Relays.  We will also hold our team and family BBQ after the races are completed.  Everyone is invited.  This is a very low-key but fun meet.  It is the only time all season that competitors in the meet get to run through a lake for part of the course. 

 Click below for Saturday's schedule.

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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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