On the topic of XC teams, while I'm out for the season (and wasn't varsity anyways), our team is pretty good, if top three scored instead of top 5. We've got one guy my age who ran a 15:53 last Saturday, and a freshman who ran a 16:10 the same race. Our team goes, in descending order: "holyballsthatkidsfast", "whaddyameanhesafreshman", "Not too shabby", "Meh", "Varsity?!", "Spots Contested"
Unfortunately, the second place team from last year didn't graduate most of its top seven, so we don't have much chance.
Dang. My team has 5 runners (including me) who are far separated from everyone else, so when one of us gets sick (IE: me.) it's not a good thing. It consists of a senior who's aiming for 15:21 this year, who finally trained over the summer after three years of riding on talent, a sophomore who's aiming for 16:00 (he has 16:25 as a freshman last year. He was our "whaddyameanhesafreshman".), a pair of juniors aiming for 16:30, and me, a senior, who will try to catch up to said juniors and hopefully beat one or both of them. Right now I'm expecting to run a 17:20-ish pace at the invitational this Saturday. Should be fun, it's a fast course.
We're currently locked in a deathmatch against a nearby school that we only occasionally get into the same league as. Due to constant changes in the classifications of both schools, we're only ever in the same league for a couple years at a time, with breaks between. Usually the league tends to fall back as our runners attempt to slay one another. Last year they barely beat us in League matches, Regionals, and State, causing us to take second in all of them. In 2005, apparently we did the same to them. This year, it's close. If our top 5 can stay healthy, we figure we can stick all of our top 5 in before their 4th, though their 1st has the possibility of beating ours. It'll be interesting to see their reaction when they find that we voted to change our course for this year. (We usually run it on a neighboring golf course.) We had to go to their track last year, and they edged us out by a single point. Our course has subsequently changed to a brutal mountain trail full of innumerable switchbacks and cliff-like hills. It's three miles of hell, but at least we've practiced on it before.
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