American River Open Never Disappoints!
REMINDER: This week we will ALL meet in West Sacramento for practice on Monday at 5:30. The meeting location is Stonegate Elementary. We will do our warmup run from there to the Lock Hills trails on Locks Drive, where the workout will take place. On Wednesday we will hold practices at both locations – in Davis (on the Greenbelt in the Northstar neighborhood, near the Baja Mini Playground) and West Sacramento at the Bridgeway Lakes Boathouse off of Southport Parkway south of Marshall Rd.
This past Friday our Hawks lined up to fly at the first of the Sacramento Running Association’s Youth XC races, the American River Open. What a great time had by all, despite the surprisingly warm conditions! First, the “6th Grade and Under” races took off and the Delta Hawks really shined. In the boy’s race, Hugo once again led the way, with William and Mac right on his heels. These boys scored low enough to finish in 13th place out of 36 teams. Jayson and Rudi finished together, and then Ben Vaage and Dalton wrapped up our younger boys race. On the girl’s side, Betsy and Mia finished in the top 10, earning medals, and Rosalind rounded out the scoring for the team, earning the Hawks a 5th place finish out of 29 teams! Rosie was right on Rosalind’s heels, followed by Cypress, Kailey, and Kelsea.
In the 7th/8th grade races, we unfortunately only had two boys and two girls competing and therefore didn’t have full teams to score in the team competition. On the girl’s side, Josie just edged out Amelia to finish 58th and 60th respectively. On the boy’s side, Will had a strong showing, finishing 24th overall and improving by 45 seconds over his time last year, with Jack also running faster than last year and finishing not too far behind. Overall, we loved seeing the effort and the excitement of the team and look forward to the rest of the meets this year!
Speaking of our next meet, this Saturday we are competing at the Josh Ruff Memorial Invitational at Johnson Springview Park in Rocklin. This meet has a lot of history, but this is the first year it is at this new location. Like last week, there are two age groups – 6th grade and under and 7th/8th. The first race starts at 8am, so we need everyone to arrive by 7am so we can hand out bibs and warm up the runners.
Also, we need to know if you’re able to attend by Monday night. In order for us to register your athlete for each meet, you must indicate your intention to attend on the TeamSNAP app. This is a helpful blog post describing how to register for each meet (you can skip STEP 2 for the cross country season).
This week’s schedule is as follows:
MONDAY – 5:30pm
All Hawks in West Sacramento at Stonegate Elementary
2-4 x 1000m at Lock Hills
TUESDAY
Stretch and Recover
WEDNESDAY – 5:30pm
Meet in West Sac or Davis
Fartlek Pyramid
1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1
THURSDAY
Run On Your Own
2-5 miles
FRIDAY
Stretch and Recover
SATURDAY
Josh Ruff Memorial Invite
Rocklin
Please arrive by 7am
SUNDAY
5-8 mile long run
Any questions, let us know!
Coach Eric
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