Beating your Seed Time

When competing in track, one way to measure yourself is to try and "beat your seed". For the kids going to Orlando, I had to enter seed times, let's see if anyone could do better than what I thought they would do.

Alexis Grimm - HJ - Seeded at 4'6", 21st, came in at 4' 8", 12th place I believe. Check!

Josh Lake - 3200 - Seeded at 10:30, 8th place, came in at 10:13, 5th place. Check!

Katelyn Wojan - 1600 - Seeded at 6:00, 8th place, came in at 5:38, 1st place. Check!

Melanie Bergen - 1600 - Seeded at 6:00, 9th place, came in at 5:46, 2nd place. Check!

Alexis Grimm - 100 - Seeded at 14.5, 64th place, came in at 13.88. Check!

Ashley Hertzler - 100 - Seeded at 14.5, 65th place, came in at 14.46. Check!

Alex Balsiger - 1600 - Seeded at 5:15th, 27th place, came in at 4:40, 1st place. Check!

Tyler Brost - 400 - Seeded at 53.00, 22nd place, came in at 53.22, but 7th place. Check!

Alex Balsiger - 800 - Seeded at 2:02, 8th place, came in at 2:02, but 4th place. Check!

Not only did we have some great performances, we learned a lot down there about how to attack meets of this magnitude, and how to run within ourselves. It was hot, it was a long meet, and we were a slight disadvantage because this was our first time there.

But, we came up with some good strategies to handle the long meet at the end of the year (State), we developed some new techniques for getting ready for races, and all of the athletes repalced their Hyundai engines with some Ferrari engines. Now we just gotta learn how to drive them. :)

I knew this would be a learning experience for us, and it was, but it was a very successful meet, and I am very glad we went. This is going to be a springboard for some amazing times later on down the road!

SEP