Blinding Speed, or Unorthodox Distance? It's all about the team.
Our first duel meet came and went with a victory over a school that beat us at Canterbury when we had a weaker team.
The Mustangs galloped to a strong team finish at Gunnery to open the dual meet season in style. The athletes’ hard work was rewarded with satisfying results on Wednesday. How satisfying? Well, the times were so impressive more than one parent thought their runner was ready for the Olympics. By the end of the recap, we’ll answer the question: if it seems too good to be true, was it?
Archer Biggs-Chiropolos had his 2013 debut race with a strong showing, but only finished five seconds ahead of John Norfleet who had a great showing himself. They finished 2 and 3 respectively. Sheldon Freeman had a slow start but passed around half the pack to come in a 5th place finish, out sprinting a Gunnery runner to put us in a great place to win. David Westcott and Evan Williams came in 7th and 8th, rounding out our scoring runners (as top 5 score) and cementing our 25-30 win.
Other stand out runs came from Owen Kelly in his first race, finishing 6th for the team and showing himself as a strong contender to be in the Varsity race in New England's and Matt Rachminov, who narrowly out sprinted an opponent at the finish line, showing true guts. Alex Wattles (our Mustang of the Week last week), Ryan Downes, and Trevor Burt rounded out our varsity team and alternates.
There was no disappointment with finish times with the rest of the team, Jack Roach, Ben Marr, Arthur Xiao, and Alex Chalk all showed significant improvement from last year while Derek Brodeur and Max Morse-Golub both had strong first races with Millbrook.
Tyler Schmalz and AJ Wallace were both out sick leaving us a weaker team but we still beat Gunnery by a decent margin, a team that beat us at Canterbury when Archer was out. This leaves us in even higher hopes for a strong New England finish.
That question from above? Sure enough, Gunnery's course distance was around 2.7 or 2.8 miles, not a full 5k (3.1mi) and times were odd (aka, paces so impressive as to give our runners reason to dial it back in training were this a full course). Accordingly, we’re not providing times in this write-up, but might be able to dig them up on request – or you might ask your athlete what he clocked on the short course.
Other stand out runs came from Owen Kelly in his first race, finishing 6th for the team and showing himself as a strong contender to be in the Varsity race in New England's and Matt Rachminov, who narrowly out sprinted an opponent at the finish line, showing true guts. Alex Wattles (our Mustang of the Week last week), Ryan Downes, and Trevor Burt rounded out our varsity team and alternates.
There was no disappointment with finish times with the rest of the team, Jack Roach, Ben Marr, Arthur Xiao, and Alex Chalk all showed significant improvement from last year while Derek Brodeur and Max Morse-Golub both had strong first races with Millbrook.
Tyler Schmalz and AJ Wallace were both out sick leaving us a weaker team but we still beat Gunnery by a decent margin, a team that beat us at Canterbury when Archer was out. This leaves us in even higher hopes for a strong New England finish.
That question from above? Sure enough, Gunnery's course distance was around 2.7 or 2.8 miles, not a full 5k (3.1mi) and times were odd (aka, paces so impressive as to give our runners reason to dial it back in training were this a full course). Accordingly, we’re not providing times in this write-up, but might be able to dig them up on request – or you might ask your athlete what he clocked on the short course.
Congratulations to one and all for a solid outing!
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