A skeleton crew of Downey runners traveled to Folsom today for the Bella Vista Bronco Invitational. This was a HUGE meet that included runners from 47 large schools from Visalia to Reno to Redding and another 48 small schools. We were barely fielding full scoring teams (5 boys and 5 girls). With the difficulty of the course and the competition, it is important to note that attending this high powered meet was a step in planning the competitive future of our very young teams. This is the course that the Sac-Joaquin Section meet is held on. If we are going to have aspirations of qualifying for the section meet next year, we must be familiar and prepared for this course and this environment.
The varsity girls were first up on the 5K double circuit course. There were 205 runners in the field. The entire field had to funnel into a 6 ft wide path a mere 200m into the race. Sierra started a bit too slowly and was struggling to find space to move up for the first mile of the race (a learning experience to be sure). She would ultimately and gradually move forward to finish in the top quarter of the massive field at 43rd place. Sierra's time of 21:26 would have placed her 30th in last year's section championships and was an improvement of 1:27 over her time on the same course 6 weeks ago. Natalie who broke her nose and cheek bone barely two weeks ago had a solid return effort finishing 117th. The trio of Karina, Abby, and Rory all had good efforts on a tough course that they had never run on before. Abby nipped Rory at the line for bragging rights. As a team they were sorely missing Rocio. They still finished 19th out of the 23 scoring schools.
43. Durham 21:26 (improvement of 1:27 on this course)
117. Franco 23:39
142. Redding 24:39
147. Homan 24:56.4
148. Jimenez 24:56.8
The boys took on the dusty, hilly course next. This group was even larger, 252 runners. Andrew went out under control and look good for the first two miles. For runners from our county he was in second and in about 35th to 40th overall. Then he said he just had nothing left in his legs for the final mile. He eventually dropped to 66th. Pierson, Guadalupe and Kenji spent much of the middle part of the race close to each other in about 140th-150th. Just prior to the 2 mi mark Guadalupe turned his ankle. He bravely tried to continue, not wanting to let his team down, but his day was over. He is such a tough competitor that it broke my heart to pull him out of the race. The other four Knights pressed on over the difficult course. Kenji's 20:19 was a 38 second improvement over what he ran on the same course six weeks ago.
66. Osgood 18:29
141. Devers 19:50
160. Soares 20:19 (improvement of 0:38 on this course)
187. Limon 21:12
LINK OF COMPLETE RESULTS:
http://bvtrack.com/2010BVICCresults.htm
LINK FOR PHOTOS OF THE MEET:
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