Hey guys, I've got 2 exams this week and 4 essays due, so I'm pretty swamped. I will be at Paul Short this weekend to compete and watch some races, so that should be fun :) I'm on Muhlenberg's team, so if you see our tent feel free to swing by and say hello! I will bring a camera for interviews if anyone is interested in talking. All of this being said, here are some quick thoughts of mine on the Weekend. There are obviously way more story lines than I wrote about (like Webb being right under 15 minutes for 3 miles was left out). I am working on a Top 50 and will attempt to put it out on Thursday or Friday if I can get my work done early. If not I will just wait till next weekend to put one out. Sorry for the slacking!!!
Carlisle was absolutely crazy and totally mixed up some
rankings race wise. Jaxson Hoey went down due to dehydration despite having a
sizable lead of 15m or so on Zach Brehm with 100m to go. Hopefully he recovers
well and will be ready to try and break 15 minutes with Abert and Power this
coming weekend at Paul Short. York Suburban looked fantastic and Brady Wilt was
their top guy at 20th place. Wilt can do better and this team has a
really surprising 4-5 punch, which is awesome to see out of a AA team. Carlisle
had a tough day overall despite Brehm winning the meet and taking his home
course record. Van Kooten and Gebhart didn’t look amazing, but it’s still early
in the season for both of them and I’m not worried in the slightest that they
will be top 15 if not top 10 performers come the state meet. Sappey is really
coming up big for the DT West team, but they’re going to need some guys to step
up if they want to place top 5 in the state this season.
Andrew Marston took a huge step in my mind this weekend with
a big 14:31 result for 3 miles. He beat out one of the top guys in NJ, Bryce
Millar by 2 seconds who is a speed guy, but Marston wasn’t afraid of his
finishing speed. It’s #2 All-Time on that lay-out apparently, which is great to
see from Marston. With 5 guys breaking 16 minutes for 3 miles translates pretty
well, in my opinion, for them to run about 30 to 40 seconds slower at
Districts. Marston seriously does look like a low 15 minute guy right now, and
he’s going to need to with Power, Brophy, and Comber all looking great this
season. Webb has a little ways to go still in order to get that credit from me.
The 3200/4x8 is still different from XC where he placed worse last year in the
state meet than he did the year before.
From the CRN meet we saw more than I expected. On a very hot
day Casey Comber ran 1 second off of the tied course record by FL Finalists
Chris Campbell and Keith Capecci. He’s one of two undefeated runners this
season for invitationals (the other one is Griffin Molino who continues to run
15:43). Comber went out in 4:55 and held it very well for the whole course. CB
West looked very solid with Fortna getting the best of a very tried Brian
Arita. The CRN boys had a race against Bensalem on Tuesday, ran 16 miles on
Wednesday, 11x1k tempo on Thursday, and 7 miles on Friday as a pre-race. These
guys had a huge training blog this week and were really tried. This was their
last big invitational before leagues, and oh man I can’t wait for them to drop
bombs. My sleeper Seth Slavin got into a bigger invitational and didn’t look as
good as I would have hoped and still has a bit to go.
--ForrestCRN
That's some serious overtraining.
ReplyDeleteYeah, dude.
DeleteForrest, I knew you'd find a way to put a positive spin on what was a very average race from CRN. Did they even beat Bensalem in their dual meet?
The fact of the matter is that these guys aren't really looking like state qualifiers right now, and it might be a little better for the respectability of the blog and for the team itself if you laid low on hyping them until they actually prove themselves.
CB West. DT West. Stoga. Maybe Henderson, given the Carlisle results, and maybe CB East. These are the teams out of D1 who probably deserve a little more talk on here, not to mention NA, O'Hara, LaSalle (who is surprisingly very good this year), and some others across the state.
Just my two cents
Hey you buddy. That's a very stupid pair of cents. They say a penny saved is a penny earned, but fuck that. CRN actually beat Bensalem by over 10 points five days ago. Year after year they have done this same training and it works out come the ONLY three weeks that matter of the season. Does any other team have more footlocker finalists? Who has the current reigning 3200 state champ and state record holder? This "overtraining" has continuously worked and leads to all CRN runners having success in college. Although they happen to be my team's league rivals, it is ridiculous to have them downplayed like this year after year. Let forrest talk about what he knows. Last year people didn't think they would place top 5 in district 1, yet they placed top 5 in the state, 4 points behind fourth state college. Year before, they finished third behind the tied O'Hara and Henderson and beat a fantastic NA team. So yes to answer your question, they beat Bensalem handily. Just because a team doubles doesn't mean they overtrain. Also what is "respectability" of the blog? It's what forrest knows and works every year. Can't wait to see the end, although I still hope to finally get the best of CRN this season for once, but the way they are talked about on here is horrid. Keep it up Forrest, as you should.
DeleteWho ever thinks their overtraining right now... What do you think teams like Henderson, O'Hara, NA etc do at this time of the year? All the great teams In the state train through most of this time of the year to get ready for the meet that matter so CRN is definitely not the only team going hard like this right now... They know what they're doing
DeleteCRN will go nowhere on tired legs. Check back to this post on 10/24 around 12:20.
DeleteJust saying from last year :
DeleteDTW the weekend of carlisle to districts, most runners dropped on avg less than ten seconds.
Crn on the same weekend, at districts they dropped on avg 35-40 seconds.
Henderson at carlisle to districts, 35-40 once again.
You do the math. LOL
Paul Short race assignments are up. Wowowow the Brown race is going to be absolutely insane. Preview?? I hear Conestoga is not sending the 'A' squad.
ReplyDeleteLink:
http://www.lehighsports.com/documents/2014/9/29//PS_HS_Boys_Race_Assignments_for_release.pdf?id=916