Beautiful weather, however very hot and windy today for the runners.  As a fan, great weather for a tan!  Both teams ran well today, however we must remember this is only our first race.  Some athlete’s put in the summer training and it showed!    Many athlete’s today ran a Course PR today compared to their last year time.  Last year the weather was perfect.  Today it was more difficult and challenging in the heat.  Remember to drink lots of liquids during the week.  We had several members from other teams not fair well because of lack of hydration during the week.  Overall team performance today (Very Good)

It’s not how you start, but how you finish -Tony .T

 

The Champions!! Lylia & Jackson (Congrats:)

Temp:  88 and Sunny & Windy
Course:  Flat and Fast
Site:  Empire Park, East Moline Illinois
Distance:  3.0 Mile

Moline Finish:  1st of 6 Teams
Top Maroon Finisher:
Lylia Gomez, 1st Place Champion (19:31) Out of 100 runners
LG Wins

Maddie First Race MEm 1st Race M

Moline Top 7
Emily Lopez, 4th Place (20:09 -39 sec)  Madison Lodico, 10th Place (21:06)  Eryn Robertson, 13th Place (21:12)  Grace Vinzant, 18th Place (22:07)
Deborah Arul, 24th Place (22:46) Alyson Benson, 29th Place (23:09)

Distance:  3.0 Mile
Moline Finish:  2nd of 7 Teams

Top Maroon Finisher:  Jackson McClellan, 1st Place Champion (16:05-16 sec)  Out of  133 runners

Jackson Wins
Jackson and TimJon first race M
Moline Top 7
Tim Wolf, 2nd Place (16:24-47 sec)  Jon Hutton, 8th Place (16:57 -80 sec)  Zach Hemmen, 27th Place (18:23)  Austin Garmon, 29th Place (18:32)
Jonathan McMillan, 33rd Place (18:38)  Emilio Perez, 35th Place (18:50-51 sec)
(Faster time on this course than last year at this time in red)