in Uncategorized by coach mike on 05 Sep 2009
Wasn’t sure if it was a cross country meet or a swim meet. It rained all day-the whole time-never stopped. Never let up. This is why we have tents at cross country meets! We didn’t have one- we need one but how do we transport it? Was not enough room in the school van. Anyway-I thought the kids ran well for the conditions and for it being our first meet. We have to keep in mind that we are running against mostly 4 year schools, which means there is a big age difference. Jordan Jones ran well, ran very well in the mens’ race. Josh for being sick for the last month ran as well as he could-I just hope we don’t loose him because of his physical problems. Tyler and Colin had good first races, I’m sure Colin has not ran in many races of this size and with this amount of talent, not that Tyler has, but the Peoria Invite is pretty big. Camrod keeps getting better and had the best socks of the meet. I’m sure Wes was totally overwhelmed by all of this, but he should just keep getting better. Corey is still working to get in better shape and he will, if he can get past his shin problems. On the women’s side-Danielle had a great first race, you can tell she was been putting in the miles, Mollie looked real good, as good as I have seen her in years, you can tell she is into it. Carie was a little overwhelmed, she works real hard on the coarse and now that we have that first race, she will get better. I was proud of Shannon, she raced very well, and looked better with her form, she will get better. Jenn did very well for that first race, and we are talking since grade school, she has the most room to improve and if we can get that improvement the team will be better. Once we get her up to Shannon. Lindsey under the conditions had a good race. New Lindsay-tough way to start but at she has a good outlook on it and should improve as she gets in better shape. Bad news is after looking at the results-some of our runners were not listed, not sure if they had problems with the timing chips or what? So as of now we did not have a team score because some of our runners didn’t get times!
We can get better-we will get better. Monday needs to be a distance day, on your own. Then I’ll see you at the school on Tuesday.
Coach