Wow, Coach Martinez is Girls Cross Country Coach of the Year! What a great honor and evidence of all your hard work and success. You ladies did everything Coach M asked and more. There were ups and downs and you never gave up on yourselves or each other. You should all be extremely proud of yourself and your teammates. It all came down to your embracing UBUNTU and never giving up. When you all become coaches one day, you will be able to look back to this season for inspiration and an endless stream of stories. In the end, I am certain Coach M would be the first to say that he is, (coach of the year) because you are (awesome).
What a fantastic day. You all ran your hearts out and I could not be prouder of you all. I am really excited about Andrea and Alex qualifying for State and earning First Team Metro honors! The girls, oh so close. Just a measly 3 points! However, you should all be proud of yourselves and gave Westview all they could handle. The squad improved a so much over the course of the season. Good packs, aggressive racing, and never give up attitudes. Kmart and I have already started doping out next season and are getting excited! Only 285 days to go! Check out some of these improved times. Reid & Joe 2:00? Chelsie 3:30?!? Janelle 4:10?!?!? Deanna 4:20?!?!?!? Wow. See what you can do when you train over the summer and stay healthy? It is so much more fun, huh, girls? Here are your splits, your finish time in orange, and your time from last year’s Metro meet in (parens).
What a fast day on Wednesday. It was a lot of fun watching Andrea and Alex lead out the Jesuit runners and mix it up with them. It was almost as fun watching everyone else mix it up with all the Jesuit runners around them. So many races to watch and soooooo many fast times. Big Ed in his first V race, Deanna under 22, Matt and Becca dropping over 1:00 from their prior times, Jaclyn dropping 2:00!!!, the Seniors getting a little misty going up 185th for the last time, etc, etc. I can’t wait until next week. In fact, I was trimming the ‘stach the other day and wondered if it would be the last time I would do that for a while. Anyhow, big pat on the back for you all. A good job and good racin’. Here are your splits, your finish time in orange, and your time from last week in (parens).
Hey! Claire found her camera and then it took a day to find the cable to download the photos.
Here are some of my favorite shots from Claire's camera. If you have photos you want to share, send them my way and I'll get them on the blog. No Cheetah Sparks or Napoleon Dynamite Sparks photo's will be accepted or posted!
Wow, what a weekend. We had a first flight, a jelly bean overload, aggressive California driving, Sparks humiliation, a bridge run, Blue Angels, aggressive City driving, Andrea weeping with joy, a run on a major fault line, more Sparks humiliation and that was only the first day! I will post some fun photos of the trip for everyone’s enjoyment and my continued humiliation.
raced 2.92 miles rather than the regular 3.1 miles. That will skew your season stats a little bit. Regardless, all of you should be pretty proud of yourselves. You all raced very well and your times prove it. We saw a number of you challenging yourselves and demonstrating that you are beginning to understand how racing works. I, for one, am very optomistic about upcoming meets and for the boy's program in the future. All in all, a good day. Here are your results with your splts, your final time in bold, and last year's time in (parens).
Anyway, there were a lot of happy girls out there yesterday. Lots of fast times on a course that was closer to 5K this year than last year with the corner cutting. And look at your times! There were a lot of improved times. Samantha, 2:57, Janelle, 2:44, Taylor, 1:19, and Andrea 1:18! Deanna improved by 4:46!!!!! Awesome! The splits were good too. Blossom and Taylor were very even and Clare negative split!! If you want proof on how much you can improve by running over the summer, look no farther than these results. You all did some racing yesterday. Didn't that feel GREAT?!?!?!? BTW, the Sunset girls were doing some crowing at the finish yesterday. I think we will steam roll 'em again come District meet. Bring on Westview and Beaverton!!
Hey everyone!. Do you get the point of the photo? Subtle huh? Anyway, how about those races today? Excitement all over the place. I am having a hard time coming up with another example of a meet where both of our teams were doing real racing for the entire 5K and the matter was in question the whole time. Guys, we can beat these fellas. Pack running and breaking up their pack is what we will do. Girls, what more can any of us say? Awesome and we'll just be getting stronger. Congratulations to all of you. Here are your times and your mile splits.
Hey wait a minute! That’s Crystal! I have been running around for a couple of weeks and guess who all of a sudden has an office by mine! It took me a while to recognize her because she doesn't show up for work in her running clothes. Anyway, I had nothing to do with her being hired here and if I had known she was available, I would have hired her in a New York minute. That is really fast for those of you that are geographically challenged. Trent seems to think he has an inside track on the position next summer but with Crystal as competition, I’m not so sure.
Boy Howdy!! Was that some fun or what?? You all did awesome and started the racing season in fine form!! Andrea can rest for a little bit. She turned aside Coach M's challenge fairly easily. Andrea, Jose, Jessica, Annalise, and Coach P will all have fun playing with their awards. Here are your times (check out the improvements from last year in parens):
Hoooo-boy, I am excited about this evening's race. I am especially excited to see if K-Mart can hang with Andrea! He's been doing some secret training and Andrea has been looking good. If I were a betting man (and, surprise, I am), my hard earned nickel is on Andrea. One piece of advice Andrea. If he is anywhere near you with 800 to go, you had better start the kick big time.
