The boys finished 3rd and the girls finished 4th. 20 out of the 29 athletes running for Leesville today ran the best time they have all year. 
The girls team had 2 All-Conference runners:  Lauren Strapp and Emily Putnam 
The boys team had 5 All-Conference runners: Andrew Byrum, Brian Jackson, Christian Klute, Bilo Hoese, and Aaron Smith 
Today's TEAM places do not truly show how good we are by any means.  It just shows how good the CAP-7 is. 
Our boys had 6 runners under 17:00 mins.  and our number 7 runner was at 17:02.
We were the only team to have 5 All-Conference runners. 
We had all  5 scoring runners in before any other team. 
4 out of our girls top 7 ran PRs and all top 7 were under 23:08 which is better than last yr's team that finished 3rd at the CAP-7 meet.
Our top 2 girls average time was around 19:40 which is better than any top 2 LRHS has had in at least 7yrs.

Here is a list of the CAP-7 Team scores.

Here are the results from our last regular season meet, a Tri-Meet with Wake Forest Rolesville and Wakefield. Results of this meet will help determine who will race in the Varsity race at the CAP-7 Championships on Oct. 20th.

Here is a table showing all the race results for LRHS athletes so far this season.

Here is an article from the News and Observer showing the highlights from the Great American meet. Full results can be found at 'www.ncrunners.com'.   You can also go to the meet website 'http://www.nationalscholastic.org/greatamerican'. 

The Great American meet had its ups and downs.  We had several athletes run PRs again and we also had some athletes that were off their normal races.   I keep reminding everyone and the athletes that they can not PR every race!  That would basically be impossible to do.       We can just hope than everyone can put together a good race all on the same day.   We have less than month before conference and regionals.  Everyone needs to keep working hard and do everything they can to prevent sickness and injury.

Congrats to the boys team for finishing 2nd in the Championship Race on Saturday (9/19) at the Reebok Wolfpack Invite.   We were only 2pts behind 1st. Here is Saturday's News & Observer article, and the complete race results for...
Girls JV
Girls Championship
Boys JV
Boys Championship

Lauren Strapp ran a PR of 18:30 and is now the top female 5k runner in LRHS history.  
Aaron Smith ran a PR of 16:24 and moved to 16th on the All Time Top 25. 
Andrew Byrum also ran a PR of 16:43 and moved to 22nd on the list.

I talked about weekend invitationals several times this season so far and I have NOT had any athletes tell me that they needed to miss a weekend meet.   Please look at your calendars NOW and let me know ASAP if you will not be able to attend any of the weekend meets for XC.  Entries and Entry Fees are due to these meets way in advance and we can not afford to enter an athlete and then have the athlete back out of the meet.  I can not substitute athletes once someone has been entered.   SO, please look at the following dates and make sure you can attend these dates.   Realize that not all of the athletes will go to these meets.  Only the top 14 runners will go to invitationals.   The top 14 can easily change from week to week.

I am slowly phasing in new uniforms for cross country and Track & Field.  I was only able to purchase 10 new uniforms for this school year and that means that the majority of the cross country and Track & Field team will have to wear the older uniforms.   I am making it possible for athletes to purchase their own new uniform which can be worn for cross country, indoor track and outdoor track.  The cost is $60.00 for the uniform which is pretty cheap compared to most uniforms.   I really encourage as many athletes as possible to purchase these new uniforms so they will have their own uniform and they will no longer have to worry about getting a bad looking uniform or getting a size that doesn't fit them properly.    I will make an order for these new uniforms on Friday for anyone who would like to buy one. Here is an order form.  You can use this or you can just bring me a sheet of paper with your name and what size you would like along with $60.00.  If you pay by check, please make the check out to Johnson-Lambe.  It takes 4-5 weeks to get these uniforms in, that is why I am emailing all the track athlets/parents as well as the cross country athletes so you can have a new uniform before track season starts.   I will make another order once track season gets here, BUT you will not get the uniform until half way through the track season if you wait to order one then.  Here is an image of what the top looks like.

 

I would like to thank everyone that has volunteered.   The cross country parents are great and you play a very important part in the success of the program.

 

Athletes will be keeping a training log that they will update each day.  I will keep these here at school.  I will provide all the paper.  The kids need to bring the binder.

 

Athletes need a watch for training...   They MUST bring a watch to practice EVERYDAY!!

 

***   Please make sure all athletes stay hydrated!!  They need to drink water when they get up in the morning and continue to drink water throughout the day to stay hydrated.  DO NOT DRINK SODAS!!!!

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