Official Idaho HS XC 2023 Thread

Looking at the course map and last year’s times, would it be fair to say Dani Bates is flat but not super fast because it’s run on long thick grass at the new course?

Does anyone know what the Grizzly sufferfest is??

athletic.net

Track & Field, Cross Country Results, Statistics

Meet results and team scores.

Link:www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/229...

Probably an intersquad race over the same course as Bogus. It's a great way to show kids that fitness is improving from the first meet of the year.

Fun to look back on this.

Looks like the correct order at this moment is CDA, Boise, Rocky, Centennial, Timberline, and MV for the boys and Boise, Rocky, Timberline, TR, Owyhee, MV for the girls. OP did a good job on their predictions.

The East Boise Classic was cancelled so it looks like Rocky is heading up for an intersquad race up at Bogus.

I like the coaches and runners that get on here and post like they don’t have an affiliation.

Sure, and that’s no different than any thread on Letsrun. Mass downvotes tell which teams have a lot of runners on here, but it’s not something that doesn’t happen all over these forums.

I know it's a fill in meet and teams may not necessarily race their best squads, but it looks like Mountain View, Boise, and Centennial are racing fairly complete teams at the Willow Lane meet. It will be nice to see how Centennial fits in with those 2 schools 3 weeks after racing has started.

Predictions for Ringert in the sweepstakes??

I think he'll be in the 35th-45th pocket, at around 14:30-14:45.

He's run 9:12 for 2 miles, with a handful of sub 9:30 races. 15:28 at State last year, and got 15th at Bob Firman last year, which is probably his biggest accomplishment.

yeah hes more of a track guy so he will do well on this course. i predict 14:45-14:40 range

I predict top 50, 14:48

Charlie Goss, IFHS took home wins at Dani Bates

The race ended up being a little slower than expected(probably due to the heat, as it was about 85 degrees when the race started). BK's Charlie Goss narrowly beat Owyhee's Carter Burdick to win the race with a 16:22.41. This was also Luke Athay's first official race back, and shook off the rust quite well with a third-place finish in 16:26.13. Ben Browning of Kimberly (16:30.17) and Russell Frampton of TF (16:36.44) rounded out the rest of the top 5.

Looking at the 4a race, it became clear that Charlie Goss is the #1 individual seed going forward (at least until someone else from 4a beats him). Luke Athay jumps right up to the 2nd spot, after a really solid first race back that only saw him finishing 4 seconds behind Goss, and ahead of all other 4a runners in the race. TF's duo of Russell Frampton and Preston Dopp take up the 3rd and 4th spots after their solid performances here and at Caldwell Twilight. After this, the waters get a little muddier, with guys like Sandpoint's Nathan Roche and Preston's Luke Visser(Faster times but didn't run at Dani Bates) and guys like Skyline's Alexander Renna (7th place at Dani Bates), Burley's Ryan Gerratt (9th place at Dani Bates) and IF's Caleb Boyle(11th Place at Dani Bates).

Team placements were more or less what I expected out of this meet, with IF, BK, and Burley running away with the top 3 spots. IF took a 13-point win over BK, who in turn beat Burley by 13 points. All 3 of 4a's top teams finishing within 30 points of each other should make for a really interesting state race in Pocatello. However, it is worth noting that BK was without Jack Tobin (BK's 3rd runner at Caldwell Twilight). With that being said, I'm still giving IF the edge over them, as they put 4 guys in front of BK's second runner at the meet, and overall ran a consistently better race than BK did.

Here's my 4a individual and team power rankings as of right now:

Individual:

1. Charlie Goss (BK)

2. Luke Athay (IF)

3. Russell Frampton (TF)

4. Preston Dopp (TF)

5. Nathan Roche (Sandpoint)

6. Alexander Renna (Skyline)

7. Luke Visser (Preston)

8. Ryan Gerratt (Burley)

9. Caleb Boyle (IF)

10. Jaiden Liddle (IF)

Team:

1. Idaho Falls

2. Bishop Kelly

3. Burley

4. Skyline

5. Sandpoint

6. Twin Falls

7. Preston

8. Jerome

9. Century

10. Moscow

Would also be interested in seeing the speed ratings are for the top finishers from the meet

I think Dani Bates was also slow because it was long. The one strava measurement I found had it at 3.2.

Yep! Take off 25-35 seconds for the top boys and girls and it was about where everyone should be on that course compared to last years results.

Tons of chatter on other threads that the Woodbridge course is long this year. Looks like a lot of athletes are measuring 3.06-3.09.

Skyridge Utah beats Lone Peak Utah (a top 20 team, and a preseason southwest top 3 favorite)

Skyridge will be at Bob Firman, so any teams that can beat them will look good.

Eagle girls won their heat at Woodbridge. It looks like they would have been around 6th in the rated race. Their grouping got a lot tighter… 2-5 at Caldwell was almost 90 seconds, 2-5 was 54 seconds here. The gap between 2-4 was 26 seconds here vs. 1:03 at Caldwell. Who is their freshman? Her athletic.net says she ran 5:51 last year in track. She was 4th at Bogus but way back at Caldwell and then 18:09 here. That’s a big improvement.

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