Today, August 31st 2013, is the first Cross Country Meet of the 2013 Season for the Granville Blue Aces. The meet is a home meet and held at the beautiful Mansion at Bryn Du. This year we only have one runner. Stephanie has stress induced asthma and will not be racing her senior year. Jonathan is a Freshmen this year and will be competing in his first 5K race today.
The morning didn’t go so well as Jonny was unable to find his race uniform. There was a lot of frantic searching for it going on, and we still haven’t found. He went to meet anyway and had to borrow a uniform from one of the varsity runners, who raced right after he finishes, so he could compete. After that drama ended, he was able to stay focused on the race. He looked relaxed during warm ups and looked ready to run. At the start of the race he was able to keep himself positioned near the front 1/3 of the pack. At around the 1K mark he was moving up in position already and was about 10th out of the 250+ runners and focusing on the leaders of the race. By the 2K mark he was about 4th or 5th and keeping pace with the leaders. At 3K he had positioned himself in third and the top three runners were clear of the pack. He ended up about 13 seconds behind the leader and finished a very strong race in 3rd. I think there were 23 schools invited to this meet with about 1/3 or more Division I schools. There were over 250 runners in the Boys HS Open 5K race.
The race video can be seen here on You Tube.
As always you can view official race results either from www.baumspage.com or from aces.almostmy.com