HVAC 4/28-4/30

It's been a week. Sorry for the delay. Exams and Papers and Epic Flooding around Nasvhille!


Championship Time:
Overall a really nice effort with some stand-out performances.
In three events, 4x8, 1600, 8, the distance guys scored 41 points, almost a third of the teams total points. You can only enter three per event so we did quite well. Here is breakdown per event results-
4x8-3
1600-1,4,7
800-1,3,7
4x4-3 (only one leg was a distance guy but he did have the fastest split)

All times are FAT, place in parenthesis.
Micah-Great meet. Scored 26 points as an individual and ran the fastest split on the 4x4.
1600-5:01.47 (1)
800-2:14.08 (1)
4x4-58r (3)
Pretty fantastic stuff. It was his slowest 4x4 of the year but nice to see him gassed at the end of the meet. He has all the tools to be a 4:15 or better guy in high school and maybe even a 1:52 guy. Oh and he long jumped too.
LJ-17-10.75 (3)

Garrett
1600- 5:12.19 (4)
800- 2:19.32 (3)
Really nice meet. Got fouled with 350m to go in the 1600 and fell hard. Got back up and finished like a champ. I'm still seething over it. He runs 5:05 without being taken out. 800 was a PR and a really gutsy race.

Andrew
4x800- 2:29 (3) (anchor leg)
800- 2:24.69 (7)
Andrew anchored the 4x8. He got the stick in 3 probably 100m behind 1 and 2. He ran tough, just hard to make yourself race in that situation. PR in the open 8 on the double back. We ran him on the 4x8 to win the race, not his fault he got the stick 100m behind (I'll cover that in a second).

Brandon
1600- 5:25.68 (7)
GREAT race. Big PR of 11 seconds or so (last ran the mile on the 4x1600). He's just a 7th grader and looks like a guy who will have a shot to run 5:10 or so next year. He could be very good.

Graham
4x8- 2:25 (2nd leg)
In some ways the highlight of the meet for me. Not a spectacular time but it's a PR and he had pneumonia in the middle of March. 10 days ago he wasn't close to being on the 4x8 team either. He ran really well last week to make the team, and this week he set a pr and ran the fastest leg.

Ben
4x8-2:28
Good race. He's come a long way in one year. Just a 7th grader he'll be a guy next year who can turn in good results from 400-1600 in most meets and will be a really good 4x8 and 800 guy come championship time. Better yet he's developed a passion for running.

Zach
4x8- 2:27 (first leg)
Not a good day. Ran 2:22 earlier in the season and 2:27 in the very first meet of the year in AWFUL weather conditions. It was not the time but more that he never put himself in position to race. After 200m the leaders were able to run away from him and our day was over. He handed off 6 seconds back. Hopefully he'll learn.