October 3, 2017
On a splendid day for running, you earned 11 personal best times and 5 medals!
Margo led our girls, finishing in 4th place, earning a new personal best, and moving up to 2nd place on our all-time best girls list. Izzy Q. finished in 11th place, also running her personal best, and moving up to 6th best all time. Katie ran within a few seconds of her best ever time. Emily B. ran just her second 5000 meter cross country race, and cut about 3 minutes from her best time. Sarah finished as our 5th runner, earning a personal best. Skylar was only seconds behind, and close to her best time.
Emily W. sprinted to the finish with a new personal best, just seconds ahead of Ana, running her best race of the season. Izzy G. ran her best ever time by over a minute. Grace sprinted past a couple of other runners. And Mari ran her personal best by almost 2 minutes.
The girls’ efforts resulted in a 4th place finish out of 19 teams!
Declan led our boys, winning in a new personal best time. The plan was to run even paced, but plans don’t always fare well against reality. His competition went out fast, so he went out fast, in 4:47. His next mile was much slower, but he sped up for the last mile.
Tanner ran his best time of the season, not far from his best ever. Matt ran his best race of the season, thanks to regular iron cocktails to restore his iron levels. He gave us that Bourne grimace as he sprinted to the finish. Isak was only a few seconds back, running close to his best time, in just his first 5000 meter race of the season. Henry P. was right behind Isak, running a personal best time by over a minute. He ran so fast that his coach didn’t see him finish! Sumner sprinted to another personal best time, but only by 40 seconds this time.
Peter broke 20 minutes, running his best ever race. He outkicked Evan P., running his first full 5000 meter race. Dylan ran his best race of the season. Aneesh, wearing the wrong number, ran well. At least I think it was Aneesh! Ben ran his debut 5000 meter race and ran quite well. Travis ran his best race of the season. Pranay and Soren wrapped things up for the boys.
For their efforts, the boys also finished 4th out of 19 teams.
Your outstanding efforts should serve you well as we move to the IMAC championship next week, where all conference honors and more will be at stake.
Complete results are available at Milesplit.
