A good portion of the team travelled to Castro Valley yesterday for the Trojan Invitational. The course was in excellant shape and the weather was sunning and warm (but not hot).
The first race of the day belonged to the coaches. Our very own Coach Soares tried his hand (er legs) at the rugged hills of the Canyon Middle School course. Although he was obviously suffering from a couple weeks of limited workouts, he ran respectably in the middle of the pack. He complete the 2.1 miles in 16:11 and finished 19th out of 31.
Our next group up on the course was the F/S girls. The four girls began somewhat conservatively and attacked the course as other girls were walking from going out too fast. Sierra finished a very strong 6th place (52 sec faster than she ran on this course last year). Roccio crossed the line in 19th, giving Downey two medal winners. Karina also also had a big improvement from last year (40 sec), and Abby looked very strong crossing the line in 41st place out of the 128 finishers.
6-Durham 14:56.2 (last year 15:48)
19-Ramirez-Castro 15:55.1
28-Redding 16:38.3 (last year 17:18)
41-Homan 17:13.8
The F/S boys ran next. Pierson had an opportunity to run in his true age division, and he took full advantage of it by finishing 25th out of 177 in a very strong field. Emanuel was Downey second finisher, and he had a huge (1:47) improvement over last year's time here.
25-Devers 13:18
84-Garibay 14:46 (16:33 last year)
93-Bingham 15:02
113-A. Urbano 15:35
137-Solorzano 16:25
142-Heltne 16:38
154-Foreman 17:17
In the Varsity Boys' race we had 4 runners. Andrew O., who probably has gone out too fast in his last couple of races, began a bit more under control. Much like the F/S girls, he was able to pass many runners in the tougher, later stages of the race. He finished a very strong and respectable 20th place. Ernesto caught Kenji on the last major hill, but Kenji would show his determination as he battled back over the final 1/2 mile to beat Ernesto. There were 118 runners.
20-Osgood 18:12
90-K. Soares 21:07.7
92-Limon 21:12.9
95-Holloway 21:48.7
The JV girls was the final race of the day that Downey participated in. Reyna led the group from Downey acroos the line. Aly improved her time from last year by 1:12. There were 52 runners
33-R Urbano 19:19.7
38-Reynolds 19:53.8 (21:06 last year)
52-Mora 22:57.9
HERE IS THE LINK TO PICTURES OF THE RACE:
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