All things considered, I think he's happy with that. |
He's a lot more consistent than he was last year and that's got to be encouraging for him. |
It wasn't that bad early it was just raining a little. But the wind had really kicked in by evening. |
It's encouraging seeing some of these younger kids have some success. Hopefully they'll stick with it and get better. They're working hard. |
Probably with 350 meters left of the last lap he made a turn to get ahead of third and held on to it and finished. |
They had one patch with one or two feet of standing water. You could choose to go around it or right through it. |
We didn't compete as a team as well as we needed too. We've got a lot of work to do, but we look back and see that we're not loaded with a whole lot of junior and seniors. Though that doesn't matter, whether you're a senior or a sophomore you still have to go out and win the race. Look at Hansen. He was going to go out and run a good race, that's what it's all about. |
We looked at it and we decided that maybe we haven't been doing all the right things. He came away with the mindset that 'I can still do this, maybe I just need to work on it more.' So that was encouraging. |
We weren't in the cellar. We got some points from different people so that was good. |
We've been talking about trying to get these girls down below (13 minutes, 30 seconds). They're going in the right direction. We've running with a pretty inexperienced group, but if they keep going, they're going to be right there. |
You figure you've got about 175 meters out of 400 straight into the wind. He ran pretty good. |
You got to give him that. It would've been easy to fold when the weather got bad but he didn't do that. |