Canandaigua

A very nice team effort for the boys' win in Canandaigua on Wednesday! The Distance Team contributed quite substantially.

In the 400, AJ and Justin M went 1-3 in the tough wind conditions. We followed that up in the 1600 by taking the top 5 (or was it 6?) positions. Geoff tried his hand at the 400 hurdles and came very close to completing the sweep with Eric and Juan - I think if he knew how badly the Canandaigua competitor was going to fade in the wind, he would have caught him.

The 800 was perhaps the most exciting race of the day, as Canandaigua's runner jumped out to the lead, with a pair of Justins and Ben in pursuit. Coming off the last turn, they went by en masse, for another distance sweep. The perfect distance score was kept quite easily in the 3200, as the lone opposition runner dropped off the very slow pace set by Geoff, John W and Adrian during the first mile (attempting to pull along some of our youngsters).

We completed the day with a pair of relay victories, with Ben, Will, Justin M and AJ taking the 4 x 400 by a sizable margin, then the 4 x 800 crew of Justin R plus the 3200 runners came within meters of lapping Canandaigua's entry.

It reminded me of old East Aurora track meets, where the distance team would score all possible points and the sprinters, jumpers and throwers would net just enough points to pull out the win. I don't think this is the trick to beating R-H (or even Victor) next week, though!

The girls meet was quite exciting, but there were not quite enough points to be had. Val split the 1500/800 with Canandaigua's top runner, and Amanda made a valiant effort to beat the twin sister in the 3000.

Unfortunately, both the 3000/3200 and the 4 x 800 relays were run as combined events, giving the girls less recovery time before the 4 x 800 relay. I thought they had a shot at knocking off Canandaigua, but couldn't quite stay close enough to give Val a shot in the anchor leg. I am looking forward to a rematch at Counties, Sectionals and/or State Quals.