Ridgeline Results

Ridgeline was a tough course for the team! Many mentioned it was as hard as soldier hollow! It was warmer, quite hilly, and on asphalt.. with that being said we did fairly well.  The boys fought there way to 2nd place only squeezing by Logan by 2 points. Region Championship will be a huge battle for 2nd place between us and them! We had more injuries and lost Jacob to the river of death. Or baby stream of fury if you will...

The girls side faced injury as well as Shelby is joining Bella and is now on crutches because of her ankle. I think we learned a lot about our team at this race. We have a lot of work to do in the next 2 weeks.

We will be jogging our course tomorrow at 6am (meet at the golf course) and then doing practice as well after school hard. Then Monday we will be running our course again but race pace at 6am with a really light workout after school... we need time and mileage on our course and this is when we can get on it. Please be there!!

The following link is the results from Ridgeline:
http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=125520

Ridgeline Meet on WED

This Wednesday (09/28/16) we will be racing at Ridgeline up in Logan.

Here is where the start and finish are:

Millville South Park
510 East 300 South
Millville, UT

4:00PM - All Girls
4:30PM - All Boys

Course Map: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6954109

The course is on ROADS so No Spikes. Lots of elevation changes and hills. This course is NOT spectator friendly. You will probably only see start and finish. It shows on the map that it is over 3.1 miles as well.

RESULTS FOR BEN LOMOND AND CITY MEET PREVIOUS POST

Weber City/County Meet & Ben Lomond Results

Sorry for the late post. Been crazy busy lately and haven't found a minute. We had a couple flat shorter races the last couple weeks after a series of harder hillier courses which was a nice change of pace. Both races were completely opposite as far as competition goes though.. At the Weber City/County Invite you raced against some of the top racers in the state as well as Western United States! This let you put things into perspective of where we are at and where we have come from as well. The team pushed hard and fought to run against those big schools and we learned a lot about ourselves.
At Ben Lomond however, we ran against a couple Varsity teams but mostly JV teams. We went in with goals to push each other on our own team. I told the girls I wanted them to finish top 7 and get a perfect score. They did just that. The boys equally were told to run WITH the person who normally beats them on our team. We had some great times on that short course and minus 1 Varsity Logan boy we swept that race as well.
I would really like to see each of you take care of yourselves over the next month heading into State. With cold weather and the tendency to each junk food regularly at the HS, this is something that I would really like to control the rest of the season. And even with the weather cooling down I would still like to have you carrying around a water bottle and drinking regularly! Lets take advantage of all the hard work and mileage you guys have put in and FINISH STRONG!!

BEN LOMOND RESULTS
Big D Sports Park - 2.95 Miles

GIRLS
Ericka 20:23
Natalie 21:41
Shelby 22:10
Jayda 22:19
Hailee 22:20
Elaina 22:21
Addy 22:24
Kimmy 24:06
Briglyn 24:25
Cart 25:12
Kaitlyn 25:25
BrookE 25:28
Kallie 26:33
Olivia 27:08
Brylie 27:27
Rachel 31:52

BOYS
Carson 16:35
Payton 16:42
Verl 16:50
Jackson 17:24
Dredge 17:44
Ford 17:53
Benaiah 17:54
Chris 18:15
Mason 18:16
Max 18:25
Connor 18:31
Trenden 19:07
Alex 19:38
Colin 19:50
Nick B 20:15
Ammon 20:31
Isaac 20:37
Caden 20:44
Seth 20:50
Michael 21:01
Carson 21:07
Kayden 21:08
Jack 21:22
Chad 21:52
Nick 22:19
Jacob 22:23
Nathan 23:07
Raen 23:09
Parker 23:15
Dexter 24:10

WEBER CITY COUNTY MEET RESULTS
Weber County Fairgrounds - 3.05 Miles

GIRLS
Ericka 20:33
Natalie 22:29
Jayda 22:48
Shelby 23:04
Addy 23:10
Hailee 23:27
Elaina 23:31
Cart 24:26
Briglyn 24:48
Kimmy 24:59
Kaitlyn 26:06
BrookE 26:27
Kallie 27:42
Brylie 28:48
Rachel 32:04

BOYS
Carson 16:48
Payton 17:50
Verl 18:04
Jackson 18:11
Dredge 18:13
Ford 18:30
Benaiah 18:34
Connor 18:37
Max 18:57
Chris 18:57
Trenden 18:58
Braden 20:09
Nick B 20:12
Alex 20:13
Colin 20:13
Carson 20:34
Caden 20:54
Ammon 21:07
Isaac 21:15
Michael 21:45
Seth 22:16
Raen 22:18
Kayden 22:35
Nick 22:59
Parker 22:54
Jack 23:18
Chad 23:43
Dexter 24:30
Nathan 24:39

Today (Saturday's) workout

For those that missed yesterday, today we want you to go for an hour run, the first 15 minutes, you are using as a warm up. The next 30 minutes is a power run, 90-95 percent of race pace. The last 15 minutes is your cool down. You should be getting between 6-8 miles today. Make sure when you are done to stretch especially were it had been cooler these last couple of days.  This is the grind, before we know it,it will be time for region and state. Keep up the hard work.

Murray Results

I am so freakin proud of this team. Again, 2 days after a pre-region full out race, we went down to Salt Lake and threw up TONS of PR's... It was a shorter course between 2.85 and 2.9 miles but with a few good hills and really good competition I saw our team open their eyes and realize their potential. I know we go hard early in the season with these back 2 back races but I LOVE how it shows your strength and desire to push and compete. It makes me so excited how great you all can be and what direction we are going. This year is hard! We have a couple teams in our region that are top 5 or 6 in the State... But all that means is that we can run with the top 5 teams in the STATE!! Thank you for running so hard today. We have a lot of work to do. Keep your goals in your mind and set new ones if needed. It will be hard but one thing I learned very quickly from you hooligans is that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!

WE ARE MORGAN!

GIRLS
Ericka 19:30
Jayda 20:42
Addy 21:55
Shelby 22:16
Cart 22:42
Elaina 22:45
Hailee 24:34
Kallie 26:07
Kimmy 26:11
BrookE 26:26
Brylie 28:38
Rachel 29:58

BOYS
Carson 15:35
Payton 16:35
Verl 16:37
Jackson 16:58
Dredge 17:07
Mason 17:08
Ford 17:11
Max 17:39
Benaiah 17:49
Connor 18:04
Chris 18:17
Trenden 18:32
Braden 18:35
Heyden 18:37
Caden 19:03
Alex 19:33
Nick B 19:38
Isaac 20:06
Michael 20:19
Nick N 21:06
Raen 21:09
Parker 21:16
Jack 21:21
Seth 21:21
Kayden 21:25
Nathan 23:07
Jacob 22:54
Dexter 23:09

Pre Region Results

Cottonwood Complex at about 74 degrees. Saw some real strides and improvements on the course we LOVE!!! We are setting ourselves up to surprise some teams!! Very proud of how you all ran as a TEAM! 1 month to kick butt and prepare to come back to this course! Here we go!

GIRLS
Ericka 20:22
Jayda 22:21
Natalie 22:28
Hailee 23:23
Elaina 23:24
Shelby 23:44
Cart 23:48
Addy 23:53
Katelyn 25:36
BrookE 25:47
Kimmy 26:55
Brylie 28:07
Kallie 28:26
Olivia 30:39
Rachel 36:06

BOYS
Carson 16:19
Payton 17:15
Ford 17:35
Jackson 17:38
Verl 17:45
Mason 17:54
Benaiah 18:05.28
Max 18:05.55
Dredge 18:27
Connor 18:36
Trenden 19:10
Chris 19:14
Heyden 19:37
Colin 19:39
Alex 19:59
Braden 20:06
Caden 20:15
Carson S 20:23
Nick B 21:15
Seth 21:41
Michael 22:08
Raen 22:12
Ammon 22:50
Dawson 23:32
Parker 24:05
Chad 24:08
Jacob 24:25
Kayden 24:34
Jack 24:41
Dexter 25:42

REST OF YEAR SCHEDULE

Parents, we have had a lot of questions on schedule and that is because we have had to change a lot of schedule. I was informed last week that the school district is not going to pay for all of our invitationals anymore and that they will only cover 2 in our season. This is very hard since MOST of our season meets for the year are invitationals. So anything over the 2 we have to pay for out of our XC account.. Which honestly is dismal. We have worked out and paid for the 4 extra Invitationals this year and I am battling with the district to make this right since it is what makes up our schedule. To be honest, XC hasn't been much of a priority at Morgan and it makes it hard as they won't even pay for a full assistant coach for me, I don't even make a full head coach stipend, and we have grown the program to 50+ runners... So because of all of this and our limit of 10 meets before region we have cut out Park City this year. To help offset all these costs and paying Coach Weir as an assistant we will probably be starting to sell Ridleys gift cards again starting in the next week. More info will come. I appreciate all your support for this program as we have excelled and become a real threat in our Region and at State!! We obviously don't do this for money! ;) 

FRIDAY September 9th - Murray Invitational - Bus leave time of 1:00PM.

Murray Park

296 E Murray Park Ave 

Murray, UT 84107

3:45PM - Open Boys JV Race (Jr & Sr Boys)
4:30PM - Open Girls JV Race (Jr & Sr Girls)
5:20PM - Soph Boys
5:35PM - Soph Girls
6:10PM - Fresh Boys
6:30PM - Fresh Girls

 

WED September 14th - Weber County Meet - Bus leave time 1:50PM

Weber County Fairgrounds

1000 1200 W St 

Ogden, UT 84404

3:00 JV GIRLS

3:30 JV BOYS

4:00 VARSITY GIRLS

4:30 VARSITY BOYS

WED September 21st - Ben Lomond - Bus leave time of 2:45PM - Races start at 4PM (prob 2 races)

Big Dee Sports Park

1375 Park Blvd

Ogden, UT 84401

WED September 28th - Ridgeline - Bus leave time of 1:45PM - Races start at 4PM (prob 2 races)

Ridgeline High School

180 North 300 West

Millville, UT 84326

WED October 5th - Morgan Home Meet

4:00PM - Girls Race

4:35PM - Boys Race

WED October 12th - Region Championship - Bus leave time of 12:00PM - Races start at 2PM

Cottonwood Complex

 4400 1300 E 

Holladay, UT 84124

WED October 19th - State Championships - Sugarhouse Park - Bus leave time of 10:00AM

Sugarhouse Park

1330 E 2100 S

Salt Lake City, UT 84106

Pre-Region Tomorrow!!

Cottonwood Complex

4400 S 1300E

Holladay, UT 84124

Bus leaves @ 9:00AM

That's before school since it's late start. 

11:00AM - Boys JV

11:30AM - Girls Race - varsity and JV

12:00PM - Boys Varsity

USU Results and Labor Day

Before I rant.. Monday I would like you to get 6 to 8 miles in. We haven't had a good long run in awhile and we need it to offset all the hill/interval work. With 2 races this next week we will only have this day to get some distance in. So wherever you are for the holiday, please try to get it in no matter the time or night.

To say I was happy about the results at USU is an understatement. The course ended up being closer to 3.2 miles than 3.1 miles. Which would be take off anywhere between 1 - 2 minutes from your time.. What I want you to look at is your avg min/mile on your card. This will show you where you were at. We also just ran Como hard with only 1 day rest in between.. which was my choice and was hard but I knew it was early in the season and we need endurance and to learn how to fight when we're sore, hurt, and tired. And that is exactly what I saw. I have been asking you every time after the race if you gave me everything you had... I've been lucky to have a few of you raise your hands but never more than 7 out of the 50 runners on our team. But not this race! Not anymore... I saw so much heart and push in that race. And the best part about it is, I know you will all be able to push even more! We made huge strides against Ridgeline in this race. At first I was bitter about them being in our region as we have been losing to them.. After all the races we have been 2nd in our region behind them and I hated that thinking we should've been region champs this year.. But then I looked at Bella storming across the fields on her crutches with our "injured" crew, they would give anything to be running with their team. And I heard the girls varsity team say to run for them that wish SO badly they could be out there. You guys would do anything for each other. And I KNEW that I was stupid to think we were going to lose to Ridgeline.. I know because of you guys that ANYTHING can happen and that there is a lot of season left. So that being said... I believe in you.. Let's go surprise some people!  

BOYS
Carson 16:56
Verl 18:26
Jackson 18:42
Ford 18:48
Mason 18:50
Dredge 18:53
Max 19:42
Benaiah 19:49
Connor 20:27
Chris 20:53
Heydon 21:17
Caden 21:39
Nick 21:46
Alex 21:57
Ammon 22:31
Raen 24:37
Michael 24:37.9
Parker 25:18
Nathan 25:31
Chad 25:34
Nick N. 27:32
Dexter 27:32.9
Jack 29:35

GIRLS
Ericka 22:18
Jayda 23:24
Natalie 23:45
Addelyn 24:08
Shelby 25:31
Hailee 25:46
Cart 25:50
Elaina 25:54
BrookE 27:40
Brylie 30:37
Kallie 31:38
Olivia 31:52
Rachel 40:39