Intersquad Meet - 8/31/12 at Spring Lake

Due to confusion about meet dates, we originally thought we would be attending our first competition on Friday, August 31, but later found out that it was scheduled the following week.  So we decided to have our own informal "intersquad" meet at Spring Lake on the 31st instead, and we are sure glad we did.

One big objective this week was for everyone to learn our warmup procedure and the Spring Lake Course. Objective accomplished.

We divided the the boys and girls into two teams apiece - the "Gold" and the "Green" teams.  We scored the top 10 runners on each side. 

Our instructions to the team were pretty simple.  We wanted them to be diciplined in their pacing in this effort.  Go ahead and race, but you need to be able to run your last mile at a pace that is at least as fast as your first two miles.  If you fade too much on the third mile, your placing will not count for your team.  This clause forced them to run their first two miles in a more conservative and "under control" manner.  In other words, we wanted them to save themselves for the third mile a bit more than they might naturally do when they race.

As of this writing, we still need to complete the analysis for who met the pacing objective - we will update final adjusted meet results soon.  In the meantime, we are posting the unadjusted results here:

• Unadusted Boys Results
• Unadjusted Girls Results

Most everyone did a great job of following instructions and executing the race plan.  We even had some very nice PRs today (we were not expecting this at all).  The coaches were very pleased with what we saw.

Here are the PRs:
-123 seconds Kevin Moe
-86 seconds Kelly Fitzgerald
-63 seconds Ryan Anderson
-55 seconds Shannon P
-50 seconds Alex Morrison
-15 seconds Nick Jensen
-15 seconds Zac West
-8 seconds Samantha Perry
close call: +8 seconds Evan Drake

Finally, here is a short clip of our first 20 runners coming through the 2 mile split (more video to come)