We have now completed our first two weeks of practice, and we are off to a great start. On Friday we ran our team time trial on the Lindbergh course, but we only ran 4,000 meters (not the complete 5K course). As you know, our course is hilly and slow. Click below for the race results and splits:
Saturday morning we ran our annual team time trial. We ran yet another version of our home course at Lindbergh (more construction). The distance was exactly 3 miles. Conditions: Sunny, hot, no wind, about 75 degrees. Because it was a three-day weekend, several people were out of town. The times at the time trial are slow every year compared to the times people will run during the season. This is in part because it is the first race of the year, and in part because the course at Lindbergh is the slowest that we run on all year.
Click below for the results.
Every cross country season on the Monday of the last week before state our varsity runners race a mile on the track at Renton Stadium. The purpose is to get the sensation of running very fast and to get the confidence boost of running a PR or close to it, even though we have been training for 5Ks and not 1600s. Usually a few people on the team manage to run a PR. This year, every one who ran accomplished a PR. Here are the mile times (only the guys ran).
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Time trial results posted at the request of Joel.
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