Broadalbin-Perth Cross Country

One year ago today, our girls probably had our worst race as a team at this very same invitational. Beaver River edged us, as our team ran as individuals rather than in our usual pack. Today we redeemed ourselves, as the girls learned from last season's loss and used it as motivation. Our pack was back and the results reflected this as we edged out Beaver River in another close contest. Despite our number five runner (Cadey Nolan) rolling her ankle our packs stayed tight and put distance between themselves and their Beaver River counterparts. We had our number one in front of their one and our number four in front of their number three. Despite this, it was close and actually came down to Cadey. With about 800 to go she was behind Beaver Rivers 6th runner. Somehow she fought through the pain and found enough at the end to pass 10 girls, including Beaver River's sixth to secure the win. Her effort today epitomizes what our team has been about this year. There is a true sense of team as all will do whatever it takes to ensure that we our victorious. Hopefully this attitude will continue as we hit the second part of our season. On the boys side we ran well but still have far to go. Like the girls we don't have the front running and instead must rely on the pack. Today that pack was to spread out. In a big invitational like today 30 second gaps can be 30 places and 30 points. We had a 2 minute gap from our number 1 to 5. This equalized to 80 runners between Alex (our number one) and our 5. That is too big of a spread to be competitive. We looked good through two miles but the last mile seemed to really hurt us. I worked them very hard this week, though, and am confident that they will do as the girls did today - recover, learn, and improve.