Lancer Invite Re-Cap

A very long, very warm, very successful day for CHS distance, in my mind.

After four hours of sleep the night before, (BTW, never go see “The Ataris, very underwhelming in a love setting. But maybe that is because they had already played a free show earlier that day. But, it still sucked.) I was at CHS at 5:20 to get ready to load the bus for the meet. Even though I had very little sleep, I was still excited that we were going to do well in this meet.

Let’s go through each race. We opened the meet with the boys and girls 4 x 800 relay. We won the girls race, with Kelli putting in a fantastic first leg, with a kick that surprised everyone, and Kirsten running her usual winning self to get the meet going with our first win. The boys ran very well two, with two new guys in the middle, and Will running a blazing last leg to get us a point and come in 8^th. Results can be found here.

I made the crucial error in the next race. I simply miscalculated how long it would take to run the 4 x 200, and I warmed the women up for the mile way too early. We warmed up too much, and the temp was increasing rapidly. Even with that coaching error, the women still ran very respectably, all coming close to their PR’s for the season. The boys didn’t make the mistake of “too much warm-up, and they all PR-ed huge, led by Zach coming in 5^th in a time of 4:43. He ran with the big boys to start, by the end of the year, I think he will be finishing with the big boys too. The mile results can be found here.

Later in the day, it was very hot, and I felt the team was a little flat. The half mile was up, and I instructed the girls to run with good form, and not to worry about time. Well, both of them had great form, and both had great times as well. Kelli was 3^rd by a nose, due to the fact that we have done very little speed work so far this year, and Kesley ran awesome to get us an additional point in 8^th. The boys did their part as well, with Zach coming in second in a even-splitted 2:02, and Alex and Taylor finishing strong as well. Results can be found here.

A few minutes after the half mile, the two mile race began. The women, as opposed to the mile, had a perfect warm-up, using ice, shade and GU to get their muscle ready to go. Caroline was in the lead pack the whole race, finishing a fantastic second, and Lexi and Katelyn ran very well as usual, to allow all three of our freshman to score points in the race. The men’s race was a fast race too. Steven ran awesome, especially for this early in the year, to beat his time from this meet last year by almost 20 seconds. This shows his is very physically fit, and he has recovered fully from his shin episode earlier this spring. Josh showed his internal toughness in running with a balky knee, and he and Ethan represented CHS with aplomb.

The last race of the day for the distance contingent was the 4 x 400, and wouldn’t you know it, the two skinny distance runners had the fastest spits of the day. I think yellow shoes can be attributed to that! Results for both the two mile and the 4 x 400 can be found here.

Overall, the girls came in second, and the boys came in third. I am very pleased with these results, because we did not have a lot of our top “stars” for both them boy’s side and the girl’s side. Once we get everyone healthy and healed, I think that our team is going to be one to be reckoned with!!!