Recap:

It was a tale of two courses at Harrison Lake State Park.  The forecast called for a possibility of rain showers in the morning, and that’s exactly what we got as we endured at least a good inch plus of steady rain.  We were thrown a curve ball right from the start as they changed the course from previous years, essentially running it in reverse.  This turned out to be great for the middle school…not so much for the high school.  The first mile of this course is very fast; but where the middle school ends with a pretty decent second mile, the second mile of the high school course is a brutal battle uphill for what seems like the entire mile.  So whereas the middle school athletes were turning in PR’s left and right, the high school athletes were running split differences of +1:00 to +1:30 from the first to second mile.  To add to the difficulties, we had five high school athletes out with injuries or illness.

That said, it was still a solid effort by our varsity runners, both during an excellent first mile and some excellent finishing surges.

Here are the results for the High School:

From what I heard, the Middle School races were fun to run (even if they weren’t quite as fun to watch) thanks to the rain.  We ran very competitively, finishing sixth as a team in both races. Both teams ran well, and eight out of the eleven runners set a new lifetime PR, including Savannah breaking her own Middle School girls record. Here’s how big the day was for those eight runners:

Full Event Results are available on Baumspage.

As we look towards the next meet at Widewater Park, we’re hoping to see our missing runners return to health. We have some great workouts planned for this week, so hopefully we’ll get past the injuries and illness and press on for a great Homecoming weekend!