Hoka One One Recap

 10/23/2020

For a season that wasn't a season, the Hughson Cross Country teams finished off the 2020 fall campaign surprisingly well. We  competed in the Hoka One One virtual 2 mile competition.  The event allows teams to run a time trial and then submit their results to the meet organizers who will rank the teams from all across the nation.  Teams  have until the end of the month to submit results.  As of this writing, here is where we stand in the competition.

Boys 94th out of 268 teams  nationally

Girls 102nd out of 200 teams nationally

Link to Hoka One One Nationals Page

We are clearly not where I believe we can be and we need to bear in mind that we are competing against teams from other states that are running full blown cross country seasons right now.  In short, I'm satisfied that we are making progress toward our goal of being ready for the CIF season which kicks off in December.  

Girls Recap

Taylor Scheuber showed the results of a great off season of training and soloed her way to a PR of 12:48.  Taylor is running times now that indicate that she will be at least top 5 in the TVL and will threatend for an individual berth at the state meet.   

The rest of the girls team continues to make progress from where they were 2 months ago, but are nowhere near where they want to be nor where they can be.  Camille Haupt impressed by running her fastest time in 2 years after a long road back from injury and 6 of the 7 girls ran faster than they did at our 2 mile intrasquad meet at the beginning of October. 

Boys Recap

6 of the 7 boys we had in the varsity race ran PRs and Joe Lighthall impressed mightily with a 10:34 for 3200m, running splits of 5:34 / 5:00 en route.  the 5:00 for the second mile is, for Joe, a PR in and of itself. Owen Bullock also ran a fine race, demonstrating the fitness he's gained by running a 20 second PR over the PR he set 2 weeks ago and doing it on splits of 5:52 / 5:28. As a matter of fact, all of our boys ran significant negative splits on the evening, this shows that there is definetly plenty of improvement still to be had.   

HHS HOKA Time Trial Results

All in all, we've had a decent fall campaign despite all of the headwinds we've had: COVID 19 shut downs, frequent shut downs due to wildfire induced air quality, record heat that has lasted well into the fall, and the uncertainty of trying to train through all of this madness.  We're not where I'd hoped we'd be at this point when we finshed the season of 2019, but we are way ahead of where we otherwise would have been had our kids not borne down and gotten to work.  

I'm proud of our kids for what they've done and looking forward to see what they can do in the upcoming months.