Activities for our 3rd meet of the season, at ICCP, actually started the night before with our 1st official team dinner.

Thanks to Chris' parents for providing a delicious dinner!

It also just happened to be David's 18th birthday, so we had to celebrate that too!

With our single girl out waiting to see the doctor, our first race was the boys' varsity at 9:30 a.m.  

6 of our runners were on the course today.

Team shot

Someone always has to be the wise guy!

Final words from the coach

Go Broncos!

Off they go!

 

Darryl eventually worked his way toward the front of our boys, finishing 28th overall with a time of 18:30.  Last year at this time he was still running in the 20's for a 3-mile race, so he's starting off significantly better this year.  Way to go, Darryl!

Nate worked his way up to cross the line 2nd for our team (34th overall), finishing in  18:45.  He ran this race in 20:52 last year, which means he took off over two minutes this time around.  Wow!!!

 

Christian was less than a second behind Nate, finishing in 18:46. He took off 15 sec/mile from last week. Great job!

David finished right behind Christian with a time of 18:58.  He improved his mile pace from last week by 11 seconds/mile.      Keep it up!

Jacob was 39th overall, finishing in 19:13; this was 5 second/mile improvement from last week.  Superb!

 

 

Quang was 6th for the team to cross the line.  His time was 19:36, which is over 2 mimnutes faster than when he ran this course last year.  What an improvement!

 Next up came the JV boys:

Guided by their fearless leader.

Again, another wise guy!

Xavier ran like a machine today...finishing the course in 21:17, over 3 minutes faster than last year's time at this course!  Powerful!

Isaiah showed off his improvement by taking more than 4 minutes off his time last year at the beginning of the season. He finished in 21:37.  Impressive!

Rafael took off nearly 1-1/2 minutes from last year's time at this course  His time was 21:40 today.  Way to go!

 

This was Jonathan's first race of the season.  He finished strong with a time of 22:41.  Great job!

Aaron completed the run in 22:51.  He took 2 seconds/mile off his mile pace.  Woohoo!

This was Lars' first race of the season.  He completed it in 22:55.  Great start to your running career, Lars!

 

Andrew was our next finisher, crossing the finish line in 24:41.  This is significant because he took off 1 minute, 31 seconds, not from his total time, but off his mile time!!  Andrew, you've been holding back!  Way to go!

Chris was another first-timer today; he finished the run in 27:52.  Way to finish strong, Chris!

Coach Goffron managed to squeeze in some family time between coaching obligations!

Our next meet will be at St. Francis in Cantigney Park on Friday (NOT Saturday) at 4:00.  Hope to see you all there!