The boys and girls XC banquet will be Thursday, November 17th, in the CHS commons (the enclosed one, not the new one) at 7:00 pm. The boys will go first as I know there are a couple of gals in basketball, which goes until 7:30.
Please bring a dessert to share.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
Sectional Recap
As I told the girls the week leading up the race... qualifying for state was going to be very tough In cross country, there is no defense. You can only control your race. The top 2 teams advance, and for the rest (besides the best 5 individuals not on an advancing team), the season is over. Unfortunately our section has teams that were ranked 6th (EC Memorial) 7th (Menomonie), 12th (Hudson) and 20th (Central).
In order to compete with these teams, our gap was going to have to be really tight - our team would have to have some incredible PRs to put us in a position. I gave the girls some goals of who to run with. In hindsight, even if they could have ran those incredible PRs, we wouldn't have made it. Eau Claire and Menomonie ran that well... it'll be exciting to see them run at state. The girls ran very tough and gave great efforts. Jane and Violet tried to stay with Sophie from the start of the race, while Megan chose to try to chase them down. Interestingly, they all ran about the same time. The girls ended up 3rd. I'm proud of their efforts, and the efforts of all members to the CHS XC team this year.
But the season isn't over! Bruley squeaked into a qualification spot, running at lifetime PR. Bruley ran at State last year and I'm excited to see her run the course having some experience under her belt. Brekke went for the win. She came up 5 seconds short, but ended up with a huge PR, running an 18:50!!
Perhaps the proudest moment for me was when our team congratulated Menomonie on their state qualification. I know the girls had high hopes that came up short, but the ability to congratulate the victor's amazing performance shows true class.
Someone should tell Bruley to stop running ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwGOvWlg9c&feature=youtu.be
Results https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/2016/gchipfallsectional.htm
Congrats to the Boys!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTFfrMAfJ4&feature=youtu.be
State Info https://www.wiaawi.org/Sports/BoysCrossCountry.aspx Note the state meet parking and shuttle link to the right on the wiaa page. I believe the meet costs about $6 to get in.
In order to compete with these teams, our gap was going to have to be really tight - our team would have to have some incredible PRs to put us in a position. I gave the girls some goals of who to run with. In hindsight, even if they could have ran those incredible PRs, we wouldn't have made it. Eau Claire and Menomonie ran that well... it'll be exciting to see them run at state. The girls ran very tough and gave great efforts. Jane and Violet tried to stay with Sophie from the start of the race, while Megan chose to try to chase them down. Interestingly, they all ran about the same time. The girls ended up 3rd. I'm proud of their efforts, and the efforts of all members to the CHS XC team this year.
But the season isn't over! Bruley squeaked into a qualification spot, running at lifetime PR. Bruley ran at State last year and I'm excited to see her run the course having some experience under her belt. Brekke went for the win. She came up 5 seconds short, but ended up with a huge PR, running an 18:50!!
Perhaps the proudest moment for me was when our team congratulated Menomonie on their state qualification. I know the girls had high hopes that came up short, but the ability to congratulate the victor's amazing performance shows true class.
Someone should tell Bruley to stop running ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwGOvWlg9c&feature=youtu.be
Results https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/2016/gchipfallsectional.htm
Congrats to the Boys!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTFfrMAfJ4&feature=youtu.be
State Info https://www.wiaawi.org/Sports/BoysCrossCountry.aspx Note the state meet parking and shuttle link to the right on the wiaa page. I believe the meet costs about $6 to get in.
Friday, October 21, 2016
Sectional Information
Bus leaves at 9:00 sharp
The boys race at 1:00
The girls race at 2:00
Awards around 3:00
Back around 5:30
Cross country members who are not racing may ride the bus, they just need to be quiet and respectful of the races while on the bus and before the race. There are concessions up there but no indoor facilities.
The boys race at 1:00
The girls race at 2:00
Awards around 3:00
Back around 5:30
Cross country members who are not racing may ride the bus, they just need to be quiet and respectful of the races while on the bus and before the race. There are concessions up there but no indoor facilities.
Chippewa Falls Cross Country is pleased to host Sectional #1 for Division 1 as part of the WIAA tournament series at Lake Wissota Golf Course.
BUSES: Please have your bus drop everyone off by the clubhouse and then park at the boat landing back near HWY S. This is to the south of the Old Abe State Trail parking lot.
PARKING: Please encourage all spectators to arrive early and park in the parking lot near the clubhouse.
BATHROOMS: Restrooms will be located in the club house and port-a-potties will be by the starting area.
PLEASE STAY OFF ALL TEE BOXES AND GREENS AND LEAVE ALL PETS AT HOME.
COURSE MAP: Course map can be found online at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5GrTgZJceoBd0pwVTIzMHlPWkU/view?usp=sharing
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Conference Recap
http://www.accuracetiming.com/results/mvccc_2016g.pdf
It’s that bittersweet time oft the year. All that tiring, hard work the gals have been putting in for weeks and weeks comes to an end for JV runners. For many, their race times have been dropping throughout the season. For all runners, I hope the good times and memories were building throughout the season.
It’s that bittersweet time oft the year. All that tiring, hard work the gals have been putting in for weeks and weeks comes to an end for JV runners. For many, their race times have been dropping throughout the season. For all runners, I hope the good times and memories were building throughout the season.
Central hosted the Mississippi Valley Conference meet this year at (the former) Maple Grove Country Club. We thought it would be a slower course (or coarse, if you are into reading t-shirts) due to the bumpiness of the course. I know the distance wasn’t short of 5k, and there were some hills and the ground was a bit bumpy…. so I don’t think it could have been too fast.
That said……
Wow!! The team ran very well! There were a lot of PRs set by the gals. The many individual efforts led to impressive team victories by the JV and varsity teams. The JV team won with an impressively low score of 30. The varsity earned an amazing 27 points.
Improvements: Scout (or Ivanta Gohrun in the standings) 0:02, Brekster 0:06, Violet 0:06, Ehlers 0:09, Leinfelder 0:10, Jane 0:30, Degenhardt 0:32, Fellenz 0:37, Kernozek 0:38, Bruley 0:39, Adams 0:41, Kammel 0:48, McCallson 0:57, Quackenbush 1:02, Hannum 1:20.
The JV team was led by an individual victory by Kaia, followed by Kenzie, Emma, LaKiah, Nicole, Maddie and Heleyna.
The varsity team was led by an individual victory by Sara. Alex finished closely. Then Sophie, Megan, Jane, Violet and Ally.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Chileda Classic Recap
Onalaska Luther hosted a meet at the beautiful Cedar Creek Country Club (where I worked as a groundskeeper for a while in college) this past Monday. It was perfect day to run. The course was very flat which made for a pretty fast course. There are way more turns (many sharp), however, than the average coarse which hedges at bit of the quickness of the flat terrain.
I held the our top 7 runners out. They will get at least one more race than JV. They did a threshold workout with Coach Andersen. There are many newer runners on the JV and while coming off of a race last Thursday is tough, getting more race experience is very beneficial.
Results are found at http://www.accuracetiming.com/results/luthcc_2016g.pdf
Despite a couple of races back to back, there were some impressive performances.
LaKiah improved her all-time PR by 19 seconds and ran 2 minutes 41 seconds faster than she did at Cedar Creek last year!
Macey improved her PR by 1:03
Marley dropped 1:06 from her all-time PR!
Tessa dropped her PR by 0:27, Heleyna by 0:04, Streeton by 0:50, Ehlers by 0:19, Freshman Herling by 0:21, and Banasik by 0:52.
As I’ve mentioned to the girls, they’ve been working hard all season and each week we have at least one hard workout and a race. We now enter our taper, where we still have intensity in our workouts, but workout distances decrease a bit, as does mileage in general. Our runners’ legs will start to have a bit more pop for this last race of the season.
Friday, October 7, 2016
MVC Details
Mississippi Valley Conference Cross Country Meet hosted by Central at (the former) Maple Grove Country Club W4142 CTH B, West Salem, WI 54669
1:30 Dimissed from class1:45 Bus leaves
3:45 JV Boys
4:15 JV Girls
4:50 Varsity Boys
5:20 Varsity Girls
Practice Update
Friday: School cancelled. If runners feel safe getting in their normal mileage, they should.
Saturday: 8:30 meet at Pischke's (633 23rd St N.) DRESS WARM. It will get cold tonight. We will go out and run the conference course. This will be an untimed easy run with some up-tempo (yes, heavy breathing) mixed in. Gals mentioned going out for hot-chocalate / coffee / smoothies afterwards.
Monday: Intervals
Tuesday: Slightly lower mileage with some speed. Address any spike needs.
Wednesday: Shorter mileage. Address any other spike needs.
Thursday: PAYDAY!! One final meet for JV to go out and Rock. Varsity's opportunity to win a conference championship.
Friday: JV no practice. JV will have a Mandatory meeting the following week.
Saturday: Varsity TBD
Saturday: 8:30 meet at Pischke's (633 23rd St N.) DRESS WARM. It will get cold tonight. We will go out and run the conference course. This will be an untimed easy run with some up-tempo (yes, heavy breathing) mixed in. Gals mentioned going out for hot-chocalate / coffee / smoothies afterwards.
Monday: Intervals
Tuesday: Slightly lower mileage with some speed. Address any spike needs.
Wednesday: Shorter mileage. Address any other spike needs.
Thursday: PAYDAY!! One final meet for JV to go out and Rock. Varsity's opportunity to win a conference championship.
Friday: JV no practice. JV will have a Mandatory meeting the following week.
Saturday: Varsity TBD
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Chileda Classic
Onalaska Luther hosted a meet at the beautiful Cedar Creek Country Club (where I worked as a groundskeeper for a while in college) this past Monday. It was perfect day to run. The course was very flat which made for a pretty fast course. There are way more turns (many sharp), however, than the average coarse which hedges at bit of the quickness of the flat terrain.
I held the our top 7 runners out. They will get at least one more race than JV. They did a threshold workout with Coach Andersen. There are many newer runners on the JV and while coming off of a race last Thursday is tough, getting more race experience is very beneficial.
Results are found at http://www.accuracetiming.com/results/luthcc_2016g.pdf
Despite a couple of races back to back, there were some impressive performances.
LaKiah improved her all-time PR by 19 seconds and ran 2 minutes 41 seconds faster than she did at Cedar Creek last year!
Macey improved her PR by 1:03
Marley dropped 1:06 from her all-time PR!
Tessa dropped her PR by 0:27, Heleyna by 0:04, Streeton by 0:50, Ehlers by 0:19, Freshman Herling by 0:21, and Banasik by 0:52.
As I’ve mentioned to the girls, they’ve been working hard all season and each week we have at least one hard workout and a race. We now enter our taper, where we still have intensity in our workouts, but workout distances decrease a bit, as does mileage in general. Our runners’ legs will start to have a bit more pop for this last race of the season.
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