As a fan of competitive running and a parent of younger kids in the CDA community, I’ll second this: not only are those boys self-deprecating and humble, they are kind and supportive of the younger kids who do look up to them. They are real life role models, not idols. They come out to middle school races to cheer on siblings and club teammates, and truly do lift up the youth running community here.
I’d agree that we stick to performance analysis, predictions, and general promotion of how awesome Idaho running looks to be now and going forward, and not make personal judgments of the kids themselves. If you think their videos are fun and like watching their journeys, great. If you don’t, don’t watch them. But adults criticizing kids doesn’t look good on any of us.
Sheesley, Lucas, and Ringert all in what should be the best open 3200 on Friday and Helder, Max CS, and Landon in the seeded 3200m. The break between is interesting, especially with Ringert missing out on the Saturday night race. I would be curious to see how far apart Helder and Ringert were in drop down performance lists.
I’m biased towards Boise but I think the broader Idaho running community should be aware that the 1600m last night was probably the best non state final 1600m in Idaho history. For those unaware Stadtlander showed up with Kemper, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley.
With 600 meters to go Lucas dropped the hammer and went for it hard - he had built about a 10 meter lead with 300 mark and then Kemper came on like a freight train with the two of them in full on sprint mode down the back stretch. Kemper just did not relent and in the end Kemper, Stadt, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley finished an all time classic race.
add Heemeyer and the cda boys and the state final is going to be fire.
I’m biased towards Boise but I think the broader Idaho running community should be aware that the 1600m last night was probably the best non state final 1600m in Idaho history. For those unaware Stadtlander showed up with Kemper, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley.
With 600 meters to go Lucas dropped the hammer and went for it hard - he had built about a 10 meter lead with 300 mark and then Kemper came on like a freight train with the two of them in full on sprint mode down the back stretch. Kemper just did not relent and in the end Kemper, Stadt, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley finished an all time classic race.
add Heemeyer and the cda boys and the state final is going to be fire.
great job boys
Lucas did the mans work to ensure it stayed fast when nobody really was eager to ensure they all ran great times, but Stadtlander hammering a 61-62 first lap was key as well.
Great tactical racing by Kemper and Helder, pacing their kicks really well.
Hopefully with Heemeyer trying to run the kick out of everyone they can stay on the 61-62 rhythm the next time there is a stacked field
I’m biased towards Boise but I think the broader Idaho running community should be aware that the 1600m last night was probably the best non state final 1600m in Idaho history. For those unaware Stadtlander showed up with Kemper, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley.
With 600 meters to go Lucas dropped the hammer and went for it hard - he had built about a 10 meter lead with 300 mark and then Kemper came on like a freight train with the two of them in full on sprint mode down the back stretch. Kemper just did not relent and in the end Kemper, Stadt, Helder, Lucas, Sheesley finished an all time classic race.
add Heemeyer and the cda boys and the state final is going to be fire.
great job boys
Don't forget Ringert in that equation as well. I don't know that he's actually raced all that hard yet just looking at some of his workouts.
I think probably Thursday or Friday of last week. Just recently.
He’s run 4:28/4:29 in practice a couple of times with more stuff before and after it. If you follow someone and go to their laps on an actual computer you can see what someone splits for the distance and the recovery.
