Heps Cross Country 2011

wejo wrote:

You can give your Heps predictions in our NCAA polls.

http://www.letsrun.com/ncaa/ncaaconf/ncaa-voting.php

We need a few more votes to get a good enough sample. Usually we get a lot more Heps votes.

Thanks for the suggestion and link. First time I heard of this poll! I did enter, though I don't know much about most of the Ivy teams and was pulling some of the places out of thin air...

1. Princeton

2. Columbia

3. Brown

4. Dartmouth

5. Cornell

6. Harvard

7. Yale

8. Penn

Mens race will be a battle for last place between Penn and Harvard. Princeton overwhelming favorite to win - the only question will be how low a score they can achieve.

From weather.gov:

Saturday: Rain, mainly after 7am. High near 44. North wind between 11 and 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

I know in my commute to the race I have to deal with snow, so whoever is coming out, be careful and be sure to stay warm!

C/M Runner wrote:

From weather.gov:

Saturday: Rain, mainly after 7am. High near 44. North wind between 11 and 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

I know in my commute to the race I have to deal with snow, so whoever is coming out, be careful and be sure to stay warm!

Well, at least Cornell will have had experience in similar conditions this fall. That race at Rochester was a mud bath, I'm told, and CU had to jury-rig a course this fall because their regular home course was under too much water.

GO BIG RED!

Man, I'd give anything to be able to once again sit in the team meeting tonight and listen to William Wallace speak. We would walk out of that room willing to die for that man and each other.

denouement wrote:

Mens race will be a battle for last place between Penn and Harvard. Princeton overwhelming favorite to win - the only question will be how low a score they can achieve.

That won't be a battlee...Harvard put 7 in front of Penn's 1 at Paul Short. Even if they don't run Cotton they will still blank Penn.

I'm really interested to see how the Yale women do with everyone running their best teams.

After years of being eighth only because they're weren't more teams in the conference to make them ninth or tenth, they look likely for a top three and the gap to a higher finish is not that big.

Amazing turn around.

lollll wrote:

That won't be a battlee...Harvard put 7 in front of Penn's 1 at Paul Short. Even if they don't run Cotton they will still blank Penn.

Harvard's A squad hasn't run in a month, mainly due to injuries. Maybe they'll run tomorrow, but who knows with the cold, wind, and rain.

Is anyone else feeling a little hoagie in their haven? I'll tell you, the last time I was in princeton, I threw up from tobacco ingestion. Straight down the esophagus and back up. Yikes. But after a niec 16 inch egg and steak concoction, I felt good as new, or at least good enough to do some window shopping (and actual shopping, at ethan allen) around town.

The results on the men's side will be as follows: Cabral will have an unusually muscular frame, Leung will do something weird either while celebrating or being upset, and Kyle Merber will not drink.

The results on the women's side will be as follows: No one will pay attention.

The after party will take place in a Rita's ice cream parking lot, where Nate Edelman will eventually be arrested for loitering.

Good luck.

Run without them occasionally, I was on a trail this past weekend, I was about 6 miles deep into the woods, nothing around, no one near me for at least a mile. I stopped to take a leak, and everything just got real quiet after not hearing my footsteps anymore. I don't want to sound like a sap but it was truly surreal. It was so quiet, then I started running again and just hearing the rhythm of my feet hitting the ground. It was really cool, one of my best experiences while running.

Matthew Chamby wrote:

Run without them occasionally, I was on a trail this past weekend, I was about 6 miles deep into the woods, nothing around, no one near me for at least a mile. I stopped to take a leak, and everything just got real quiet after not hearing my footsteps anymore. I don't want to sound like a sap but it was truly surreal. It was so quiet, then I started running again and just hearing the rhythm of my feet hitting the ground. It was really cool, one of my best experiences while running.

When I was dealing with John Calhoun (a time in my life I'd rather forget), he had similar things to say about the flip-cup tournament the whigs invited him to each year, the murmor of voices and crisp sound of cup connecting with table. Truly special, he said.

Look for the Penn men's team to perform very poorly this weekend and spend much of the pre-race warm-up arguing with the Dartmouth women's team about which school is more fun to attend.

Stop trolling Andrew Jackson! You're not alive anymore!

Did somebody say Andrew?

Right, I'm off to Princeton.

I already don't feel good, so the weather shouldn't bother me too much. Good luck to all participants and travelers.

Talking about participants. Is the list out?

is anyone doing live blogging of the race? I assume there's no live video feed.

It's now snowing in Princeton...

rabid mom wrote:

is anyone doing live blogging of the race? I assume there's no live video feed.

Try here: