Hale XC Week 7 Lakefront!

Runner Up finish at Kettle Moraine!

The men had an awesome Homecoming week that capped off with a strong 2nd place showing at Kettle Moraine only behind #2 ranked in the state Hartford.  

Our goal for the week was to reflect our races off of our training, and coming off a great Tuesday effort allowed them to go perform some great race plans.  Our guys did great overall moving up or keeping hold of positioning on the tough Nagawaukee course.  Kicking off the meet was our two varsity races.  Caleb got his first varsity racing experience and for the second week in a row worked great along side Preston to finish with identical times and a 22 and 23 place finish!  Leading the 4-8 race and almost coming back to finish runner up at the end was Joseph who finished 3rd and scored as our 5th man overall.

​In the 1-4 race, Elijah, Ethan and John planned to run smart early together, remain steady through 2 miles and then move the third mile.  They moved up a ton and collectively dropped 9 race positions from the year prior!  Kai finished 13th overall with his plan to mix it up front again this week after experimenting leading the race last week.  Collectively the team dropped nearly two minutes off of last year's time to help them take 2nd and take home our first trophy at this historic meet since winning it in 2013!  Congrats to all the guys for trusting the race plans this week and delivering a positive team day headed into our off week.

Pretty neat last week that the emerging varsity was the final race of the day!  This allowed a role reversal where our varsity guys could really go nuts out on the course for them.   Brody  took charge up front early and ran the strongest race of his career to finish 5th overall!  Iker went out this week with Ethan M sticking close behind throughout.  They finished 26th and 27th.  Henry also got out strong and picked up our final medalist position of the day finishing 44th.  Damien battled as our 5th man in 54th.  Shout out to Nate SP and Payson for dropping huge personal bests!  It was awesome watching all of our guys out on the course supporting each other.  Nate dropped nearly two minutes and Payson almost a minute!

I'd like to recap our team athletes of the week as picked by the previous week's winner!

Palmyra - Kai Bruner (Chosen by Elijah Sayeg).  B&G - Joseph Ventura
Betz - Henry Roemer.    B&G Nate Siepe-Pick, Payson Vahovick
Druckrey - Ethan Plier
Muskego - Iker Robles.  B&G Preston Plier, Caleb Jensen
Laser - ?? (To be chosen by Iker)

​2024 Results Workbook
​
This week - No meet!

The men have an off weekend of racing this week.  We do have one of our traditional runs this week with tomorrow's run to Lake Michigan.  We will stagger the start (drop off athletes nearer to the destination) based on where their long run distance is at.  Do plan for this to go a bit later as it depends on traffic when we drive them back after.  It is usually around 6 p.m. we return.  If this is too late for anyone just let the coaches know and we can assign a run near campus!

We will practice Monday through Friday after school this week.  The weekend won't have a team meet up but likely an assigned run for veterans.  We will come back on a short week racing the following Thursday October 10th at Mccarty Park!

Photos are October 3rd!  These are head shot photos only and we will ask guys to bring their team jacket.  We will likely share the same style for the photos and share the jackets as needed for each photo.