9/5 Meet Recap

Team Rankings:
  • Girls 1.5 Mile Race: 8th Place (out of 8)
  • Boys 1.5 Mile Race: 1st Place (out of 6)
  • Girls 2 Mile Race: 6th Place (out of 8)
  • Boys 2 Mile Race: 3rd Place (out of 8)
More details below and full results are in the downloads.
As a reminder, top 5 runners score points for the team with 6th and 7th serving as tiebreakers. Here were our scoring runners in each race:
  1. Boys 1.5 Mile: Runners 1-3 were 5th graders, Elliott Karpinos (6th), Booker Ammons (21st), James Keiper (22nd), 
  2. Girls 2 Mile: Amelia Wilson (22nd), Layla Jahangir (27th), Charlotte Shinohara (44th), Addy Benton (46th), Rosemary Brandon (58th), Charlotte Burgener (63rd)
  3. Boys 2 Mile: Ben Scretchen (10th), Abe Boehler (11th), Joe Newman (12th), Adi Jain (15th), Kireet Annam (22nd), Ram Chitale (29th), Ike Tift (37th)
Returning for week 2, I think that many of our runners assumed that the weather would feel better than it did last week. However, it's easy to forget that we ran much later last week, and the sun was a huge factor! Not going a PR is not a cause for concern-- many of you tried different strategies or just learned something as a whole about yourself as a runner. All races are good races as long as we reflect on our performances. That being said, I think for the first time that I have ever seen, every 6th grade boy who ran the 1.5 race achieved a PR! That's incredible! Here is our list of new best times:
  • Arnav Mohan dropped 7 seconds in his first race of the season (11:20)
  • Elliott Karpinos got under the 10:00 barrier for the first time (9:55)
  • James Keiper improved 12 seconds (11:09)
  • Layla Jahangir dropped 15 seconds (16:53)
  • Rory Freiberg shaved 22 seconds off (11:13)
  • Booker Ammons improved 32 seconds (11:06)
  • Tyler Princehorn is down 38 seconds from last week (11:48)
  • Connor Mulron dropped 42 seconds (11:47)
  • Collins Spangler improved an incredible minute and 37 seconds (11:48)
  • Mark Braun dropped the most time on our team for the meet: an impressive 2 minutes and 17 seconds (14:20). 
We had fewer negative/even splits this week, which might mean that some of us went out a little too hard (doesn't mean too fast-- just maybe a bit too much effort in it). However, yet again, all our 6th grade boys in the 1.5's last half mile showed impressive pick-ups in their pace-- we love to see a strong finish! Maybe most impressive of those was James Keiper's 45 second pace drop for that last half mile. Additionally, Layla Jahangir maintains her status as a steady-eddy runner, only adding five seconds to her second mile in the 2 mile. Marcelo Saoud ran a season best thanks to his more even splitting-- going out slightly slower, but only adding 5 seconds on the second mile helped him along! Kireet Annam was just outside of that range with an 11 second decrease.
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