The Mane Event

Time once again for the "Mane Event" at Lisle High School.  Typically there are over 140 runners per race from schools of all sizes, so the competition is steep.  Thankfully the rain that we had experienced all week finally decided to head elsewhere and we had a beautiful, though somewhat chilly, fall day. 

As usual, I could not resist getting in some of the fall colors.

One of the hills that is climbed during the race.



And as usual, Lisle's favorite caption (posted at the bottom of the previous hill!).

Girls' Varsity



You've been planked!!!!



Warming up.



(Is anyone praying for no bees?????!!!!!)



If you look closely you can see one of our runners.





There's actually 2 Walther runners in this picture.  Can you find the 2nd???





She's sometimes known as the legless wonder!



This was posted on the final run before the finish line.

29th place-well run! (21:27 for a 5 K)

55th and 56th places.  They actually crossed the line together and share a common time of 22:18.

Sandra improved her time from last year's Mane Event by 1 minute 51 seconds.

Sonja cut off 3 minutes and 8 seconds from her time!!!

Crossing the finish line in 24:04, a 2 minute, 7 second improvement from last year's run.

Final time: 25:58

Holding her ribbon for 29th place.



As a team they got 13th out of 21 teams.  153 girls ran in total.



Boys' Varsity

Racing toward the finish line...in 23rd place!!!  Total time 17:46.

Finishing time: 19:22.

Finishing time: 19:48, an improvement of 1 minute, 22 seconds from last year.

20:18

20:19

20:29

The boys got 12th out of 17 teams.

Great job, everyone!!!!!

See you next week at Elmwood Park.