🚨WOODBRIDGE! 🚨 A few slight updates to entry lists for Saturday night's featured races! Am also hearing reports of the sickness bug hitting a few teams. Take care out there! Dont want to miss class or practice time. https://t.co/9crIczOAxB 📸: @mrpotatojimmypic.twitter.com/g7o7MtfMKD
Rylee Blade was 9.5 seconds behind the winner last year. This year, Blade ran 42.1 seconds faster than she what she ran at the Cool Breeze Invitational last year.
Based on that piece of data, Blade is a good pick for the win. However, I don’t know enough to comment on who wins if it comes down to a tactical kick. Last year, Leachman was there to pace it hard, nullifying the kick of Englehardt.
Possibly Blade, with her superior fitness this year, will be the pacesetter. Is she fast enough to hold off Hednegren and Englehardt, running a course record in the process?
Blade for the win, and the Woodbridge board melts down.
It's hard to believe anyone could make another leap this year after making a huge one last year, but that girl is a beast. She deserves to be celebrated along with Sadie, Leachman, Hedengren, Thomsen, etc.
Bozeman in the rated race is kind of like the Austin Vandegrift scenario last year.
Bozeman was put in the rated race probably because they lost a lot of seniors including Nathan Neil.
But they truly reloaded and only have 1 senior.
I think Redondo Union will beat them because their whole varsity is seniors (so they will have more experience and leadership), and they will be racing in their home state so I think they will have a slight advantage
I'm thinking Redondo, Bozeman, Herriman for podium in that order. But I think for whoever wins, the total scores for those teams will be very high. Like 150+ for the winner.
Too many rated teams with great 1-3 or 1-4 and just missing one good runner, but all those guys will really disrupt the scoring for the top teams.
I actually have Vacaville rated higher than Redondo and Bozeman (#8 in my Cal rankings), and that was before they added a freshman who might be top 5 caliber. But they haven't raced a full squad yet, and I haven't seen their #2 3200m runner at all yet, so I have no idea where they are at right now. I assume they are one of teams that asked to be in the rated race, not sweepstakes.
One of the most extensive previews I have ever read for a high school sports meet. Very impressive for the writers and clearly a lot of research went into it.
Also, notice the author’s name in the article. He seems to know every detail about every top team in every state.
If you listen to the Evan Noonan dyestat interview, which presumably was conducted at some point over the last week, Evan Noonan sounds sick / nasal congested.
Wouldn’t it be great if, for next year, they start measuring the course after this year’s Woodbridge is over?
Just to clear up any misunderstanding being put out there, the Woodbridge Classic course is NOT YET set up nor finalized. Final version (marked and measured) is still to be done. This was my prior understanding & it was just again confirmed by the meet director a minute ago. pic.twitter.com/viwSFh64c0
Poman exactly what the course will look like tomorrow. Looks a pretty standard woodbridge course for today and tomorrow. Anyone got any news on the many coaches going out there measuring it with their wheels
Poman exactly what the course will look like tomorrow. Looks a pretty standard woodbridge course for today and tomorrow. Anyone got any news on the many coaches going out there measuring it with their wheels
I’m a 47 year old coach/dad and just time trialed it before the races started and run only 8-sec slower than my 3 mile weekly tempo but in a track. It’s a bit windy. But it’s good.