Time Trial #2 and Updated All Time Lists

Labor day weekend, time to catch up on some of the team's early season activities.

Time trial #2 was a huge success.  We really shook up our All time top 10 list, putting 3 new boys on the board and 5 new girls.  We also ran the top ever team times for both the boys' and girls teams.  This bodes very well for us for this season as the previous #1 girls team went on to finish 2nd in section and 17th at state (last year) and the previous #1 boys team was 3rd place in the section in 2013, just missing state in perhaps the toughest D4 SJS finals ever.

Boys TT
A large pack of 5 boys reached the mile mark together in 5:22-5:23.  Dalton, Jaymie, Carson, Josue, and Christian all were rolling together like a TEAM!  Dalton was just coming back from a tweak to his calf, and had missed about 10 days of running. At the mile it was apparent that he was feeling the effects of his time cross training on the bike.

After hitting the mile, the boys decided to really get after it.  Josue and Carson accelerated hard to clock 5:07 and 5:10 for the second mile, finishing in 10:29 and 10:32 respectively, to move to #3 and #5 on our all time lists.  Christian pretty much helt his pace during the second mile and finished in 10:43 to move to #7 on our all time list.  The 2016 boys were better than the 2013 boys at every spot in  the top 5 except for the #1 spot (Zach Morrett, the 2013 section champion, was top at the TT that year).

2013       2016
10:11      10:29
10:36      10:32
10:57      10:43
11:04      10:58
11:18      11:16

Girls TT
Abbi Mitchell was well ahead of her teammates by the 1 mile mark, while Kinsey and Esme ran close together, followed by Jessie and then Elizette.  Abbi, Kinsey, and Esme more or less held their pace through the second half of the time trial, finishing in 12:35, 12:58, and 13:01 respectively.  These are the #2, #3, and #4 times on our all time list!  Jessie was close behind Esme and Kinsey at the mile and stayed close the rest of the way, to finish at 13:14 for #7 on our all time list.  Elizette, who had been a little further back at the mile, ran a nice negative split to finish in 13:23, for the #8 spot on our all time list.

Comparing this year's team to any other HHS girls team is like comparing apples and oranges.  Suffice to say that Ellizette at #5 this year was faster than our last year's #1 time (Kinsey ran 13:26 as our top girl last year). The 2016 team is a full 4 minutes better than was the 2015 team, that placed 2nd in the Sac Joaquin Section.  Our girls averaged just outside of 13 minutes per runner, without the services of top runner Emily Fife, who is on the mend from a lower leg strain.