Maybe they don't want to travel? A lot of coaches aren't a fan of Woodbridge for various training-related reasons. Some coaches have their athletes doing more base-related training/races in September and believe a fast course like Woodbridge could peak their athletes too early.
Thronson is coached by the GOAT Bill Gregg. I'd love to hear his reasoning for not going to Woodbridge because he probably has good reasoning, but I do believe he knows what the hell he's doing with his athletes.
A fast course does not peak runners, not does any course. The training plan as set up by the coach creates the peak.
A coach may simply want to avoid Woodbridge, if their team was still in base building phase and was looking for competitive meets closer to section and state meets.
Non competitive garbage meet. Why would anyone go to that?
Not everything is about Woodbridge, Cool Breeze, and Clovis my guy😭
Actually you are pretty wrong about that. Don’t expect to be one of the best if you aren’t willing to go take them on. Can’t just sit home and do races below your level to get any better.
Okay good point but it’s a running thread, like I just want to shed light on other meets besides the biggest competitive ones. This is coming from a guy who never had the opportunities to go Woodbridge in hs or other big meets cause they were too far or our coach simply hated us (now it seems like after my class graduated, my school started going to Woodbridge)
Hell our coach was really stingy about where to race and didn’t want to go any further than Sacramento or Angels Camp.
I get it, not the kids’ fault. They can only race what they are taken to. Just pointing out that if you have a top team or individual and you are winning low level meets when everyone else has left town that it’s not that impressive.
Good point too. I still think Thronson beating someone like Alijah Murillo is still impressive considering Murillo is also another top CCS returner who also ran sub 14 on Montgomery park
Matilda Torres’ 5th runner is pretty far back, and even if he was capable of being up there with their #4, they still would have lost to Jesuit, Redondo Union, Mira Costa, and Woodbridge
honestly huge thanks to jesuit and redondo union. If it wasn't for those two teams we would have been completely steamrolled just like last year. They somewhat made us at-least look ok not terrible.
If Totenson or Kitchen couldn’t do it, Spencer won’t be able to either. At this point, Fernandez’s record is not going down any time soon. I’d be shocked if it goes down in the next 5 years