Saturday was our first meet of the season and we started off both very in-shape and very tired from some hard training! Regardless, the Flashes Boys XC Team finished third place, just ten points behind LC and 39 behind a talented Bloomington South squad. Both of these are conference opponents and we see them multiple times throughout the year. "Races of the Day" went to Newcomer Joey Butcher for running his first 5k in 18:03 and Evan Shuck for scoring his first Varsity Points as a Flash!
Jason Crist started his season with a win, battling up front all day with Carl Smith from Bloomington South and Matt Dorsey from LC, sealing up the win in the final 1,000 Meters for the Flashes!
We still have quite a bit of work to do in preparation for the Semi-state and State meets, which are of course the focus of our season. This summer's training went well and the Flashes found themselves heading to McCormick's Creek for a ton of running, euchre, and lots of team building. At McCormick's Creek we set our sights on an outstanding end-of-season performance. The barn is being filled with hay right now and the boys are doing an outstanding job in practice.
Here are the results from Saturday's meet.
The FCXC Girls Team put forth a dominating performance to win the Early-Bird invitational. It was an awesome display. Congrats to Coaches Spence and Sweetman, runner-up Carolyn Talhelm, and the rest of the FC Girls team on an outstanding start to their season.
