Updated Top 18

With our meet being postponed this weekend, it gives us an opportunity to rest up, and to really set ourselves up for some great racing on Wednesday. Below are the 18th place times in all of the distance events we are involved in. Even though this is our last chance to qualify, I think we can't just sneak in at 17th or 18th. A lot of other schools have their league championships on Saturday, and they could potentially knock us out. Getting a time that is further up the rankings would make all of us sleep a lot easier over the next few days.

18th Place

Boys 400 - 50.54
Boys 800 - 1:59.33
Boys 1600 - 4:30.77
Boys 3200 - 9:58.97

Girls 400 - 60.60
Girls 800 - 2:23.66
Girls 1600 - 5:26.91
Girls 3200 - 11:43.40

Boys 4 x 200 - 1:31.50 (Our best is 1:33.23)
Boys 4 x 400 - 3:28.77 (Our best is 3:29.15)
Boys 4 x 800 - 8:21.39 (Our best is 8:06.84)

Girls 4 x 200 - 1:49.05 (Our best is 1:49.20)
Girls 4 x 400 - 4:15.48 (Our best is 4:15.89)
Girls 4 x 800 - 10:10.35 (Our best is 9:47.49)

We have a lot of kids in the top 18 in a lot of events, but we have a lot of relays just on the outside of the top 18. Anyway you look at it, we need to have lots of personal bests this Wednesday at Hinkley. The training is there, as we had 5 or 6 personal bests at the JV meet on Friday night. And that meet was in the cold drizzle, this Wednesday is looking like 75 degrees and sunny!

The bottom line essentially is this. All of you have been working towards your goals for a long time. Some of you started in December, some of you in August, some of you in June. And, it all comes down to one meet, one afternoon. Your training has been excellent, your mental preperation is awesome. Now, you just need to ignore all the distractions, block out any disturbances, and make your legs burn like they have never burned before. We all have the potential to lay down some super fast times, so let's go out there and do it. Remember, we just gotta get to State, cause once we're there, we know anything can happen!

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