Last week, we had a very mixed set of results at the TVL Championship meet. Our JV boys captured the league title for the 5th straight year, yet none of those wins by the young guys have yet translated into league titles at the varsity level. At the varsity level, we ran our best ever team time on the Legion Park course (better than the 2003 section championship team), but were beaten soundly by a very good Riverbank team.
On the girls side, we had a number of PRs and season bests, but lingering injuries and illnesses kept us from running all of our girls. Our first meet of the season at the VG level running a complete team resulted in a 5th place finish out of 5 complete teams. Fortunately, we were only 6 points out of 4th and only 9 points out of 3rd in the varsity girls race. As we move forward, I believe that a very realistic goal for us will be to pass up the two teams (Orestimba and Escalon) that finished ahead of us at the TVL finals meet.
Yesterday, we took a huge step toward making an improvement during the post season. We had our best workout of the year, as a team. Without going into too much detail, we ran 400s with short rest to try and simulate some of the late race fatigue that sets in as lactic acid accumulates. We are now 2 days out from the section meet, and 9 days out from the section finals. The timing of this strong workout should serve us well as our bodies absorb the quality training and adapt to it.
