Saturday, August 15, 2015

Premier Invitational Results

We had some encouraging performances this week.  A few kids had some huge PRs today which is very encouraging.  Both varsity teams finished 3rd.

I have quite a few pictures to add to the slideshow.  If you have any, please get them to me.

Complete meet results are at athletic.net

Mens Results

2.9 Mile 4A Varsity Boys  
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Official Team Scores

1.Timpanogos19
2.Woods Cross48
3.Hillcrest73
4.Murray92
 
 
12Peter Christiansen16:04.9Hillcrest
11Braden Hastings16:55.6Hillcrest
12Connor Guldner18:28.0Hillcrest
11Alvin Tsang18:44.2Hillcrest
10Justin Canals18:48.9Hillcrest
10Laran LewisHillcrest
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2.9 Mile 4A JV Boys  
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Official Team Scores

1.Timpanogos15
2.Woods Cross60
3.Hillcrest81
4.Judge Memorial102
5.Murray124
 
 
9Zac Hastings18:37.6Hillcrest
10Keller Willhite18:51.7Hillcrest
11Jonathan Kaseda19:02.6Hillcrest
10Alec Parent19:51.9Hillcrest
12Zachary Barton20:41.3Hillcrest
10Spencer Rolfson20:51.7Hillcrest
10Joshua Jessop21:53.0Hillcrest
10Bridger Welch23:34.8Hillcrest
9Curtis Johnston24:55.3Hillcrest
10Alan Andrade26:14.4Hillcrest
10Jonathan CroftHillcrest
10Zachary StoutHillcrest
11Luke CobabeHillcrest
11Tristan PageHillcrest
11Luke CobabeHillcrest
11Luke CobabeHillcrest
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 Womens Results

2.9 Mile 4A Varsity Girls  
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Official Team Scores

1.Timpanogos15
2.Murray59
3.Hillcrest77
4.Woods Cross81
 
 
11Gracie Otto21:12.4Hillcrest
11Danielle Coccimiglio21:15.0Hillcrest
9Caitlyn Webster22:27.4Hillcrest
10Emma Timmerman23:05.0Hillcrest
9Emma Kofoed23:10.8Hillcrest
11Isabella Oliver24:20.4Hillcrest
11Melissa Regalado24:21.6Hillcrest
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2.9 Mile 4A JV Girls  
Upgrade Meet Host
Stansbury

to see charts & hypothetical scores

Official Team Scores

1.Timpanogos15
2.Woods Cross60
3.Murray85
4.Hillcrest91
 
 
11Sara Diggins22:22.5Hillcrest
9Julia Johnston25:22.1Hillcrest
9Moira Paul29:51.7Hillcrest
11Grace Williams31:18.3Hillcrest
9Tess Jorgensen31:18.3Hillcrest
12Alicia Hatch37:33.8Hillcrest
9Renee Smith37:33.8Hillcrest
9Lillian Rose41:23.0Hillcrest
11Emily JohnstonHillcrest
11Kayla KelseyHillcrest
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Spike Night!

Wasatch Running Center is hosting a spike night for us starting at 6 pm Tuesday August 18th at their Sandy Store.  They will have staff on hand to answer questions about XC spikes and training shoes and any other type of accessories they carry.  Our athletes also get an increased discount during the event.

2015 XC schedule

August 15            Premier Invitational Settlement Canyon Tooele 10:00 am
August 20            Highland Invitational Sugarhouse Park 4:00 pm
August 26            Region VI Pre-Region Cottonwood Complex 6:30 pm
August 29            Grass Relays American Fork High 8:00 am
September 4      USU Aggie Invitational 4:00 pm
September 12   Westlake Invitational  8:00 am
September 19   Wahsatch Rendezvous Cottonwood Complex 8:15 am
September 25   Wasatch Invitational Soldier Hollow 4:00 pm
October 2            Park City Invitational Quinn’s Junction 4:00 pm
October 9            Region VI Championships Cottonwood Complex 2:30 pm
October 21          Utah State Championships Sugarhouse Park 4A girls 1:30 4A boys 3:00
November 7       Pre-Footlocker American Fork High 8:00 am
November 21    NXNSW Casa Grande AZ
December 5       Footlocker West Walnut CA
December 5       NXN Portland OR

December 12     Footlocker Nationals San Diego CA




Premier Invitational

The bus will be leaving Hillcrest at 7:30 am Saturday.  If you are planning on coming to watch the meet, here are directions to the site in Settlement Canyon.  There is road construction on Main St. pretty much the entire length of the town, so give yourself time.  Hopefully, there won't be too many locals out and about Saturday morning. This is probably the least spectator friendly course that we will run this year, but the kids usually enjoy this meet.  I can give you ideas of where to watch the races Saturday morning.

Schedule:

Varsity Boys 10:00
Varsity Girls 10:30
JV Boys 11:00
JV Girls 11:30

Eligibility:

All athletes must be registered on registermyathlete.com before they can compete.  They need to register on the site and complete the four forms as well as have a completed physical.  If athletes have previously registered for other sports through the site, they don't have to register again, just check cross-country and complete the forms.The participation fee for the season can either be paid online or at the school. Athletes must also have had at least a 2.0 gpa 4th quarter last year, which usually isn't an issue with cross-country teams.

Photos:

I will be taking some photos at the start line and then again with less than a mile to go in the races.  If  any of you get photos at other points in the race, especially the finish line, please get them to me so I can start building slide shows of meet photos.




Sunday, August 02, 2015

HARC Week

We are about to start HARC Week! This is an important week for our preparations for the upcoming season.  Every day we will be challenging the team with higher altitude runs.  Because we are heading up the canyons each day, we will be getting back to Hillcrest later than we have been.  Because each morning run will start at higher elevations than we are used to, runners will probably want a light jacket or long sleeved tee or sweat shirt before we start the runs, it will be chilly.

We will also be holding practice twice each day. We will meet at Hillcrest for all practices this week.  Morning practice will be at 6 am and evening practice will be at 6 pm.

Monday:
morning practice: Lamb's Canyon Trail.  We will carpool to the Lamb's Canyon trail head.  To get to the trail head, we will caravan up Parley's Canyon to the Lamb's Canyon exit and then head up the canyon until we get to the trail head.  For breakfast we will be meeting at Washington Terrace Park near Mt. Dell Golf Course.  The park is a short drive back down Parley's Canyon from Lamb's Canyon.

evening practice: Hillcrest.  Evening practices will be short recovery runs with some frozen treats after the run each day.  Each evening practice should be done by about 7 pm.

Tuesday:
morning practice: Silver Lake Trail We will carpool up Big Cottonwood Canyon to the Silver Lake trail head parking lot.

evening practice: Hillcrest Evening practices will be short recovery runs with some frozen treats after the run each day.  Each evening practice should be done by about 7 pm.

Wednesday:
morning practice: Albion Basin We will carpool up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Alta Ski Resort for our run.

evening practice: Hillcrest Evening practices will be short recovery runs with some frozen treats after the run each day.  Each evening practice should be done by about 7 pm.

Thursday:
morning practice: Dog Lake We will carpool up Millcreek Canyon to the Big Water Trail Head for the run to Dog Lake and back.

evening practice: Hillcrest Evening practices will be short recovery runs with some frozen treats after the run each day.  Each evening practice should be done by about 7 pm.

Friday:
morning practice Park City Rail Trail We will carpool up Parley's Canyon to the rail trail.  To get to the trail head we will be using, we will take I-80 to US - 40 and then turn east toward Promontory at exit 2.  The trail head parking lot is across the street from a Park City Fire Station.

evening practice: Hillcrest Evening practices will be short recovery runs with some frozen treats after the run each day.  Each evening practice should be done by about 7 pm.

Saturday:

Time Trial Day.  We will not have a second practice today.  We have had to change the location of the time trial due to construction at Crestwood Park.  We will carpool from Hillcrest to the capital grounds where will run our 3 mile time trial.






Monday, July 27, 2015

Last week before HARC week.

List of where we are meeting for practices the rest of the week.

Tuesday - Hillcrest

Wednesday - Hillcrest for carpooling or at the park and ride lot at Little Cottonwood Canyon

Thursday - Hillcrest

Friday - Cottonwood Complex 4300 S. 1300 W. Meet in the southern most parking lot on 13th.

Make sure you are tracking your mileage on the tracking sheet and do your evening runs.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Friday July 24

We will not be having official practice because of the holiday and the DesNewsClassic 10K.

If you are running the 10K, I will meet you at the corner of the cemetery behind the start line and behind the porta potties at 5:15.  After the race, let's meet in the trees near the corner of 7th E and 9th S.

Everyone who is not running the 10K, or a different race, needs to do a progressive run.  For a progressive run, each mile is faster than the previous run so you end up running pretty hard.

For Monday's practice, we will meet at Hillcrest and carpool to the Orsin Smith Trailhead in Draper to run the corner canyon trail.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

A change to Monday's run.

We will be meeting at Hillcrest and carpooling to the Millcreek Canyon to run the pipeline trail.  Here are directions to where we will be parking.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Weekly Schedule

The schedule for this week will be a little unusual.  Tuesday will be a day with out official practice, so you can either work out on your own or meet with some of the captains at the usual time and place.  Coaches will be back for Wednesday for our usual Wednesday trail run.

Thursday will be at Hillcrest and Friday we will meet at the NE corner of Draper Park.  Let the captains now if you need to carpool from Hillcrest.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Sandy City Classic 5K Information

Make sure you register before July 1st to avoid the price increase for late registration.  You can either register online or in person at the Sandy City Parks building 440 E 8680 S.

The race starts at 7 am on the Sandy City Promenade.  We will meet at the NW corner of the Target building in the small parking lot adjacent to the building.

We have had many age group award winners over the years and a few overall winners. Here is to hearing Hillcrest runners winning medals.


First Travel Run

Wednesday will be our first travel run of the season.  Make sure you have your travel waivers filled out and signed by your parent/guardian.  Most of us will meet at Hillcrest like normal, but if you live close to the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, you can just meet at the park and ride lot and wait for the caravan to arrive.  It will take us about 20 minutes to get to the park and ride lot from Hillcrest.

Remember we have a young team, so we need plenty of parents/older runners to drive.

We usually finish trail runs at about 8:00 and make it back to Hillcrest at about 8:30.  If picking up your child that late is an issue, we usually have plenty of friendly teammates to give rides to runners who need them.

A link to directions to the park and ride lot.

Our second travel run will be Friday.  This run will be on the Dimple Dell trail and will start from the Wrangler Trailhead on 13th East.  For this run, we usually just have everyone meet at the trailhead rather than carpool up from Hillcrest.

A link to directions to the Wrangler trail head.


Make sure mileage tracker sheets are being filled out.  The evening runs are important to help legs get recovery between our harder runs (like trail runs).

We had a good first week of summer practice last week.  We had more kids show up for the first day of practice than I believe we have ever had.  Keep up the good work, log those miles and no zeros.



Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Cross-Country Athlete/Parent Meeting

The Athlete/Parent Meeting will be Thursday, May 21st at 6:00 pm in the Hillcrest cafeteria.  We will introduce the coaching staff, captains and talk about what cross-country is all about.