Snavely wrote:
This meet was very bad timing for the Cali kids coming 5 days after their state championship. Combe ran 5 races last weekend , Zavaleta 3 races, and Dailey one race.
I think all 3 would have performed better with more rest, especially Combe (although she PR'd and placed second). She may have had more in the last 200 with more rest.
Props to those 3 Cali kids (Zavaleta, DAiley and Combe) for having the guts to toe the line 5 days after a crazy ambitious weekend at State for each of them.
Combe's disappointment in running "only" 4:09/4:30/4:32 after being right with Lincoln through 1400M is understandable, knowing that a couple more days of rest would have changed everything - with that matchup happening at Brooks instead of Hoka.
Dailey had a rough race at Hoka and battled back 3 days later to win the 2-mile. She could have run wayyyy faster on fresh legs, of course - especially if Barlett was healthy.
Paige Sheppard and Ellery Lincoln chose quality over quantity, and it worked for them. The quantity of running that Combe did afforded Aelo Curtis (who didn't even run her senior track season) to swoop in and win a diluted mile at Brooks. A fresh-legged 13-year old ran faster than the Elite high school girls. Yeesh.
The competition at Hoka would have been so much better if it was held over the weekend instead of Thursday, and Brooks would have been so much better if it was held this upcoming weekend instead - and they wouldn't have had to lie about how many PR's were being set. The scoreboard showed almost 100, which was silly since we could just look at Finished Results to see that the real number was something like 35 total PR's on the day.