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Note that a few names are mispelled in the results (Winn=Wuu, Nwar=Nijjar, etc) Also Alex Ecker and Maddie Dippel had fine runs going leading the pack in the Girls JV but their results are not included since they veered off course. Also note that team scoring is not official - this was done by Jim Crowhurst just for fun - no official team scoring was kept for this meet.
The coaches were very pleased with the performances overall on Friday (even with those that lost their way on the course!) The training we've done so far was not conducive to racing fast on September 3rd -- in fact, we would have expected less racing speed than we saw. This is a good indicator of our base aerobic fitness that will be the foundation for the racing fitness that we will continue to build gradually over the next 6 weeks. We run this course again on October 20 - so it will be fun to see how we've progressed over that time!
Many upperclassman were encouraged with their early season career PR's on Rancho's course -- 22 of the 37 who had run this course before posted best times! Schuyler Mortimer led the pack with a whopping 1 minute, 37 seconds (8.2%) improvement over his best time from last year. Many others came very close to matching their previous bests. Here's the report on the 22 PR's:
Name/New PR/Time Improvement/% Improvement
- Schuyler Mortimer 18:12 01:37 8.2%
- Austin Lynch 20:06 01:12 5.6%
- Myriah Smith 23:24 01:22 5.5%
- Drew Gallagher 18:59 01:01 5.1%
- Lauren Kraus 18:12 00:53 4.6%
- Kelly Birkland 20:42 01:00 4.6%
- Tyler Jones 18:27 00:45 3.9%
- Martyn Henderson 16:38 00:36 3.5%
- Harrison Luft 16:21 00:33 3.3%
- Jessica Halverson 20:52 00:31 2.4%
- Steve Puruganan 16:57 00:25 2.4%
- Brynna Thigpen 19:20 00:27 2.3%
- Gretel Petrie 19:47 00:24 2.0%
- Emilio Horner 16:43 00:20 2.0%
- Daniel Hauptman 15:31 00:18 1.9%
- Sophia Ramos 20:35 00:17 1.4%
- Taylor Graham 19:43 00:11 0.9%
- Colin Gibson 16:01 00:08 0.8%
- Sam Herniman 19:30 00:07 0.6%
- Gus Murray 17:39 00:06 0.6%
- James Nicklas 17:43 00:04 0.4%
- Dalin Lowder 20:09 00:01 0.1%
