WSU recap

we had our first meet of the season on Saturday. I was very pleased with how we competed. This was a very competitive meet but I thought we got in there and mixed it up well. This is a great place to start this phase of the season. We had two lifetime PR’s, Kyle Smith split a 17:10 for 5k which is a PR, what makes this even more impressive is that he still have another 1000 meters left in the race. Paula Carpenter also set a PR for the 4k with 14:52. We had 7 people run better than their goal times, which it a great sign. We also had 8 people run around or better than there time from our 3k time trial and once again we had another 1000 (girls) or 3000 (guys) meters left in the race. Our theme for the team is SUCCESS and making sure each day we try to be as successful as we can. After looking at these results we were successful this past weekend.
Yesterday at 6:30 am we got right back to work with a long run. This week will be a down week in our training to let them recover from our “camp” weeks. I have them on two weeks up one week down training cycle. Then next week we will gear up for Missouri Southern, which should be a big meet for us. I have been very happy with the enthusiasm and effort the team has been putting in day and day out. If they continue down this path we will have a very SUCCESSFUL season.

Place, Name, 1 mile 2000 3000 3 mile 5000 6000
1 Kyle Smith 05:25.0 06:44.0 10:04.0 16:34.0 17:10.0 20:24.0
2 Shaun Griffin 05:25.0 06:46.0 10:11.0 16:44.0 17:22.0 20:40.0
3 Matt Brown 05:46.0 07:19.0 11:15.0 19:10.0 19:55.0 23:45.0
4 Dan Meibaum 06:28.0 08:11.0 12:23.0 20:52.0 21:38.0 25:54.0
5 Fred Miller 06:58.0 08:46.0 13:15.0 22:10.0 23:01.0 27:15.0
6 Ben Denton 09:19.0 11:50.0 17:44.0 29:09.0 30:14.0 35:15.0
Place Name 1000 1 mile 3000 2 mile 4000
1 Brittany Delker 04:13.0 06:47.0 13:08.0 14:01.0 17:06.0
2 Katie Logan 04:13.0 06:47.0 13:18.0 14:17.0 17:39.0
3 Kati Beam 04:17.0 06:58.0 13:48.0 14:46.0 18:19.0
4 Torey Fry 04:19.0 07:07.0 14:13.0 15:11.0 18:44.0
5 Paula Carpenter 04:37.0 07:30.0 14:52.0 15:51.0 19:39.0
6 Krissa Fuentes 04:56.0 08:00.0 15:31.0 16:34.0 20:21.0
7 Alycia Faust 04:57.0 08:01.0 16:08.0 17:19.0 21:26.0
8 Katey Taylor 05:19.0 08:57.0 17:34.0 18:52.0 23:37.0

First meet this weekend

As we are 64 days out from conference we are getting ready for our first meet this weekend at the Wichita State J.K. Gold Classic. Information on the meet can be found http://www.goshockers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=61295&SPID=2840&DB_OEM_ID=7500&ATCLID=204782375. The Men will be running a 6k and the women will be running a 4k. I wanted to find a meet that had shorter distances to open up with to give us a chance to get our feet wet and race without having to dive in head first. This should be a good meet for us to do that. I am excited to see what both teams can do.



Training has been going well, we got some solid miles in this week and had a great Tempo run on Tuesday, we have also been in the weight room twice this week. For a lot of the athletes this is there first time in the weight room and I am excited to see the gains we get from spending time in there along with our core circuits. These two things alone should help with injury's and fixing imbalances. Overall I feel we are ready for our first test. This will also mark the first time in many years that the McPherson College Cross Country program has two full teams at a meet. Hope to see some of our fans out there as we get started on our 2009 XC Campaign.