Way too early Woodbridge predictions

I had a dozen plus athletes measure the course between 2.96 and 3.03

Wheels slip on grass

Niwot is 8-deep at least.

Herriman was 6-deep yesterday but what happened to Tripp? He ran a 15:34 5k last year at 4200 ft at the state meet and was their 4th man on the team at some time trials this summer, but for the last couple of meets he was far behind their scorers

Gps always measures long on courses that loop back on themselves like this one. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I'd guess an actual 3.0mi course like this would measure 3.1mi with gps.

The course was wheeled at 3 miles exactly multiple times this year.

Great analysis. Herriman & Niwot are NXN locks. American Fork is a likely third. Looking at this weekend’s results, I’d have Taylorsville, Coronado, Cheyenne Mountain, Hamilton in that order as most likely for 4th. But the margins are so thin that any injury or any single runner being slightly better or worse than expected could dictate the result. Among those teams or a half dozen others.

Usually the opposite as GPS “cuts corners” as periodic pings. A straighter course GPS can sometimes add as it “wanders” slightly left to right although runner going straight.

Sad that only 4 of them can go, but remember there’s always RunningLane

What a visionary, aye?

i don’t know how i feel about Herriman now, they have two transfers in there top 7, seems less special than the last two years where it was all locals. any thoughts?

Soles didn't recruit them. I don't blame them either. If you live in the area and the new rules in Utah allow athletic transfers, why wouldn't you go run for arguably the greatest HS coach of all time.

Still incredibly impressive in my IMO. If the transfers hadn't come in, Herriman would be at the very least, a lock for a NXN top 5, if not still the favorite to win.

One of the transfers was far behind everyone else on the team at Woodbridge, so sitting him out wouldn’t have changed anything.

When I saw someone create a tread saying that he transferred to Herriman, I was kind of disappointed. Because Skyridge had the potential to be good this year after 5 nonseniors going sub-10 last track season. They probably had another shot at placing top-4 at NXR.

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Just noticed that Mcdaid didn't run for Hamilton. Hopefully he isn't injured. Hamilton could have beaten Southlake Carroll and Crater with him in the lineup(9:14 3200, top runner in their last race).

Woodbridge is a good course

With the 2 new transfers, the score would have been a little higher at Woodbridge but not by much. And they still would have dominated this meet. They would have been 5-deep though, which Niwot isn’t, so not much room for error in that case. But a better group of top-5 than Niwot

Also, remember, their #4 guy transferred in the summer before last fall too

Their #5 guy*

yeah, i understand soles doesn’t recruit. I’m also sure they would still be really good without the transfers, but i think it takes away some of the glory in building a dynasty.