Districts, and on to State!

Silverton cross country showed up to the District meet on Wednesday ready to roll.

Girl's Varsity Race
Maddie Fuhrman from Silverton ran a dominant race, extending her lead from the first mile and just adding to the gap with ever mile that ticked by. Maddie ended up running an 18:38 (compared to her 18:05 PR at Sandelie) and was able to secure the new school record from Morgan Anderson that was clocked at 18:54 on the State course back in 2011. Corvallis was able to win overall for Girl's and was followed up by Lebanon and Crescent Valley (56, 66, and 67 respectively). Central high school missed the berth to state by a mere four points.

Boy's Varsity Race
On the Boy's side, the race was very fast paced. The first mile was clocked around a controlled 5:00 for the leaders and was led by Marcus Corbett and Gustavo Lopez. Trailing behind were Sam Roth and Gavin Bomber, two who would eventually end up battling in the last 400 where Gavin would secure the district title. Corvallis managed to secure another district title, with Silverton and Crescent Valley taking second and third respectively.

Since William (my Sophomore brother) was running in the Varsity race, it was exciting to see how it played out. Unfortunately, Silverton was ranked 1st but wasn't able to compete with Corvallis in scoring as low as they did. However, the Mid-Willamette Conference (being one of the bigger conferences) allows the top 7 individuals to qualify for State and the next three teams. This allowed the boys team to qualify for State two years in a row, a feat that hasn't been matched for over two decades.

This Saturday at Lane Community College, Silverton will try to push out Corvallis on the State course. Sure, Silverton has a very consistent team, but Districts showed us that Silverton doesn't have the experience it needs to compete at a larger level. State will be interesting to see; Corvallis has been here pretty much every year for as long as I can remember. Silverton can make the podium if they run smart and pick people off, and it's up to these boys to decide their fate.

Boys posing in front of the Foxes Flag.

Back?

So I'm back at OSU (yay) and totally just tonight remembered that there was something called "Minute Rice Runs at OSU" that I was writing about. I guess my Engineering curriculum last year really had my hands-tied for free time like this.

So to the few (loyal) people who read this, thanks for reading! I'll try to be more consistent and maybe more running-oriented.

With the mushy part out of the way, I want to share the following picture with you:
This is my studly brother running a 5K (at the Sandelie Golf Course I believe) out in the Portland Area.

Back to learning how to tie shoes

Somehow he managed to lose his shoe in the course of the race yet picked it up and continued on to get a PR. Now I'm super proud of this kid because he's moving on to Varsity Districts this week and there will be some photos up because it's going to be close by in Corvallis (I'll probably end up running there).

After districts, if his team places top 3, they move onto State, and the odds seem to be in  their favor because they are currently ranked 1st in the district according to Athletic.net.

So yeah! Super cool, super exciting, and a big congratulations to see his hard work pay off. 

In other news, I dragged my wonderful girlfriend Allyson into volunteering at the Portland Marathon Expo a couple weeks back, and it looks like we are invited back to volunteer for TrackTownUSA at the Portland Indoor World Championships! So in March, keep an eye out for some amazing photos, autographs (maaaaaybe) and other cool running related things. For now, peace out Oregon. It's time for me to go review some anatomy vocabulary. Like bones. And cool stuff like MITOSIS and CELLS. YEAH. 

(Disclaimer: I know this post isn't my usual 'quality' but it's going to help me get back into the groove. So stay tuned).