Pueblo Goals

It's that time of the year where I have my student aid create these charts. (I'm not smart enough to do it myself.) Using MaxPreps.com, she figured the out the 18th place in 5A as well as 8th place in the Cont. League as of right now, May 1st.

These need to be our goals for the meet this Friday. We need to be either shooting for top 18 in the State, or top 8 in our League. The closer we get to those numbers in every event we compete in, the better off we will be for the next two weeks!

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Freshman/Sophomore Championships

This Thursday, up at Regis HS, at 3:00 is the Freshman-Sophomore Championships. This meet has turned into a pretty prestigious meet, with state qualification riding on the line. Whereas before it was a meet that we just filled up sparsely  now we are stacking it with kids in hopes to get them a time that would qualify them for the State meet. There is no distinction between varsity and JV, we are putting our best freshman and sophomores out there to get them race experience.

It really is a lovely run.

CHS T&F FR/SP Line-Ups

The FR/SP meet starts at 3:00, rolling schedule. No bus home, so make sure you have aride home from Regis. (Although the Cherry Creek Trail is nearby, so you can always run home. It's not that bad of a jog, I think I have done it once or twice in my younger years.)

The bus leaves CHS at 1:30. This is a little earlier than we would like, but we have no choice. I strongly recommend athletes to bring some school work to do while we wait for the meet to begin. I know I will be plowing through some grading while I sit there.

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Pueblo Twilight Information

The entries for the Pueblo Twilight meet are now posted over on www.milesplit.com, and from first glance, it looks like we qualified everyone we entered.

Pueblo Twilight Acceptance Lists

Here is the entry sheet that I submitted, like I said, at first glance, it looks like we got everyone in.  I will look more closely later today, but I am very proud we are representing so well at this meet.  So are the other coaches, just got this email from Coach Lib:

I was just looking at the accepted Pueblo entries and I am pretty fired up for this one, I think we will represent pretty well. Looks like a good meet. Coach Lib

2013 Pueble Twilight CHS Line-Ups

The bus will be leaving from the school at 10:15 or so. It is about a 100 mile drive, and takes about 90 minutes or so. We are competing at the newly revamped CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl Stadium, which is going to be awesome. The weather looks to be pretty conducive to some good performances, looking like a high in the upper 60's and low winds (knock on wood). This is an all day event for the athletes, so everyone must have at least two bottles of water, plenty of snacks, a good healthy lunch, and probably some extra cash as well.

There is no bus back form Pueblo, as most of the athletes going informed us that they could get rides back to Parker that night. If you are entered into this meet, and you are unsure of how you are getting home, you must tell Coach Bowman or I immediately.  We can get you home, but the sooner we know the better. We do not want this to be a deterrent to you attending the meet.

This is a meet I have been looking forward to all year. We are resting up this week, in hopes that we can really lay down some fast times. Next week is League Champs, so I think this meet will show us where we really stand. Let's start thinking positively about our running, and go into this meet on a big fast wave!

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JV Championship Results

Wow. That meet was one we will not soon forget. Everyone who was there knows what I am talking about. But, even though that was the slowest run meet I have been to in a long time, the weather held up remarkably well, and we had 36 (thirty-six!) new season bests on the distance side! That is unheard of, everyone was running so fat, faster than they had ever done before, and I am so proud of all of them.

Here they are, in no particular order.

Landon (55.7), Darin (60.7), Austin (62.1), Britney (69.7), Gavin (59.0), Patrick (65.1), and Mark (60.8) all got new best times in the 400.

Gavin (2:15.4), James (2:26.3), Chelsey (2:57.5), Emily (3:27.9), Kelly (3:28.5), Ellen (2:43.7), Cory (2:35.8), Spencer (2:40.3), Art (2:45.6), Johnny (2:52.5), Zack (2:57.1) and Darin (2:24.4) all got new best times in the 800.

Emily (7:16.1), Kelly (7:21.0), Taylor (6:27.7), Ashley (6:21.9), Ellen (6:15.2), Kat (6:19.1, Mariah (6:12.1), Landon (5:02.5), Austin (5:03.9), Cory (5:32.4), Spencer (5:38.4), Alex (5:23.2), Zack (6:27.6) Art (5:57.9) and Johnny (6:03.3) all had new best times in the 1600.

Finally, Jack (12:02.7) and James (11:55.9) had new best times in the 3200.

While the meet was not scored for teams, I am very confident that we came out on top. It was a great day for running fast, and I am very proud of everyone. Excellent work, ladies and gentlemen.

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JV Championships

2013 JV Championships Line-Ups

Here are the line-ups for the JV Championships. This meet will be after school on Thursday at Highlands Ranch HS. Hope to see a lot of first place finishes, I think we have a pretty good team this year!

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Liberty Bell Line-Ups

2013 Liberty Bell Line Ups

Due to some AP testing in the morning, as well as two entries per open event, we have some normal varsity kids not racing at this meet. However, we hope all of you come over to Littleton HS anyways to cheer on and support your teammates.

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Looking Back and Looking Forward

The start of championship season

-Great performances by the team this weekend. 2nd for the girls at the Rock Canyon Invite, 3rd for the boys. With a few exceptions, this was essentially a league championship meet, and I am very proud of both squads. We had a table full of medals and ribbons to give away on Monday, that is always a good thing.

-We had quite a few kids reach new season bests this weekend. Over at Dakota Ridge, Dom got a new best in the two mile, and James did in the mile (9:45 and 4:29). I know Matty got a new best in the two mile, and in the mile, so did Steven, Whitney Erika, and Ciara. Caleb got a new best in the 800, as well as Jill & Ellen. And there were a slew of new bests in the 400, lead by Alek going sub 50 in the open
race. Wow!

-This week is a pretty crazy week. For some, it will be the last week of racing. For others, it is the springboard to the State Meet.  On Thursday, at Highlands Ranch HS, we have the JV Championship. Same rules as usual for the transportation. We will have a bus to Highlands Ranch, but not one back.  Dismissal at 2:05, bus leaves at 2:15 sharp. We will be running lots of kids here, I think we have a good chance to win the overall trophy.

-On Friday afternoon/evening and all day Saturday, we have the Varsity Liberty Bell Invite at Littleton High School. This is the biggest invitational of the year, and it only allows two entries per open event. This is a big time meet, I am hoping we run well there. For Friday prelims and elite 3200, there will be no bus. For Saturday, all participants will ride the bus to Littleton and it will leave CHS at 8:15 am.  This is our first real bus ride of the year, I am looking forward to it! There will be no bus back, so you must arrange a ride home when you are done.

-Because of weird rules that disallow JV Champ kids from participating in Var. League Champs, and because Lib Bell only allows two entries, there will be some kids who are not racing this weekend. There really is nothing we can do about this. We cannot risk running those third and fourth event ranked kids at JV Champs, as we will need them eligible for Var Champs. All we can say is, you get a day off to rest and recover for the upcoming weeks!

-The following week, we have Freshman/Sophomore Championships at Regis HS on Thursday. This is a state qualification meet, so we will be running the best freshman and sophomores we have, regardless of JV/V status. Same thing as JV Champs, dismissal at 2:05, bis leaves at 2:15, no bus back from Regis.

-Friday we are heading down to Pueblo all day for the Pueblo Twilight meet. This is an elite meet,  with strict qualifying standards, and it's really our last chance to run some state qualifying times. We have been preparing all year for this meet, so I hope we will be at our best. Participants will be dismissed from school at 10:15 am for the meet and are responsible for any missed schoolwork. We are still trying to figure out if we will need a bus to come back, that will be discussed today at practice.

-Finally, the Saturday afternoon after the Pueblo Meet, we will be holding our annual pep rally BBQ banquet at Chaparral. More details will be forthcoming, but it is a low key, burgers and dogs, pep rally to get kids psyched up for League Championships. We will be handing out team awards and senior gifts, playing some games, and generally having a good time reflecting on the season so far and the season to come.  We will certainly need some help from parents pulling this off, but I hope everyone and their families can make it out, it is a really fun time.

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CHS Top 30 (Third Week of April)

Coach Whitneack sent me his template for the top 30 in the State. I modified it to fit the best marks that CHS has. This is a fluid document, I hope it changes for the better in the upcoming weeks. Gives you some marks to shoot for, certainly  but also shows that we are well on our way to having a bust weekend at State!

Competition Pictures

We have so many awesome people that take pictures at our meets. I want to give some of them a shout out on the blog.

Kevin Keyser came and took a ton of pictures at our meet Saturday. Go to his website to check them out. I hear there is a good one of Chloe and Reid somewhere. Future track stars I hope.

Mrs. Young (Zach's mom) is at every meet taking lots of pictures as well. She has a link on the side, so you can go to her shutterfly site and check those out as well.

Finally, Mrs. Jenkins (Evan's mom) has been at all the JV meet taking tons of great shots. I have posted a few of them below, but I have tons more on CD's at home. You can email me or email Mrs. Jenkins and we can hook you up with them.

I am so grateful that we have all of this support at our meets, it is fantastic, and thanks go out to everyone who supports us.

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April 22 Weekly Distance Schedule

Easy week this week, but we have three days of racing.

Monday - Varied Tempo Intervals & Off-Road Repeats
Tuesday - OverDistance Run (90+ min)
Wednesday - Roll of the Dice & Hand-Off Practice
Thursday - JV Divisional Championships
Thursday - Easy Stonegate Run
Friday - Liberty Bell Prelims/Strides @ LHS (No JV Practice)
Saturday - Liberty Bell Invite @ LHS
Sunday - Beth's Birthday

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Last Day of Ski Season

I got first tracks on the last day of ski season this morning, and I has almost the only one out there. This guy joined me for a few minutes.

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Ryan Whitenack's State Qualification Analysis

Why re-invent the wheel?

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Rock Canyon Varsity Line-Ups

Here are the finalized RCHS Invite varsity line-ups. Refer to the schedule in the previous post for exact event starting times. See you all Friday afternoon for a tune-up practice.

And here is a picture of Chloe watching Reid eat his first birthday cake last week at his party.

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Real Quick Points

Loveland is canceled for this weekend. Actually postponed to Wednesday, but we will not be attending.

We will be at the Rock Canyon invite, at Parker Stadium.  It is a varsity only meet, so unfortunately, the JV kids do not get to compete this week. That sucks.

Here is the schedule for the meet on Saturday.

2013 Rock Canyon Invite Schedule

Athletes are expected to be at the meet at least 90 minutes before their race. The earlier the better.

Our entries will be posted later tonight. We are still finalizing them.

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Loveland (R2-J) Invite Line-Ups

This is going to be a really fun meet.  Look at all of the exceptional athletes we are bringing up there. I am really excited for this meet. Not sure whether it is going to be Friday or Saturday just yet, so keep your calendars open. AS soon as I find out, I will let everyone know when we are heading up to Loveland HS. We cannot have anyone cancel out on us from this point forward. If you cannot go, that probably screws up a relay as well as an open event. You must be the best teammate you can be, you must show up and race as hard as you can this weekend.

We will not be having a bus back, it is too expensive. You must arrange for a ride home with one of your friends parents. If this is an issue for you, you must speak to a coach about it immediately and they will help you out with the situation. While you do not have to stay for the entire meet, we encourage you to, to help cheer your teammates on.

Your race day diet is super important as well. You should be bringing a cooler filled with healthy easily digestible food (and plenty of water) with you to this meet. We have some kids competing in four events, spread out all day long. You must eat well and stay hydrated throughout the day.  For more tips on eating, click back to the post I wrote about a year ago on it.

EATING

Congratulations to everyone on this list, I am so proud to be bringing such a strong and deep team up to this meet. We won the boys title last year, let's try and do it again on both sides this time!

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