Atantic Region XC - D3

Does anyone know how the course is looking at Geneseo for Pre Regionals?

You boys like Mexico?!

any word from pre-nats yet?

Geneseo wins both the womens and mens pre national race. Women do it with a 33 point win over #2 ranked Washington (MO).

Men do it with a 38 point win over North Central.

Individual winners were Leer on the mens side and Montgomery on the womens side.

Complete results available at:

http://finishtiming.com/2006/09-22/ev2f.htm

and

http://finishtiming.com/2006/09-22/ev1f.htm

Geneseo is nasty. Berube had an off day and finished as Geneseo's eighth man. Put him back up front where he has been running and you can knock off at least 20 points for Geneseo. Watch out.

Another National Championship season for the Lady Blue Knights of Geneseo? I think so...

Two top-ten men's teams run tomorrow at Williams. Should give us a sense of NYU's (current) true strength. Makes it easier to understand why the NYU men "cruised" to victory at Vanny last week...

FWIW I just realized that both schools' team color is purple.

couple things from pre-nats. first geneseo both men and women appear strong like expected. I have no idea about how hard the course is but from the results it doesn't look like geneseos men had a tight pack like we have seen. And get berube back up where he has been and that is a blow out win. RIT looks like they are going to be pretty strong this year. I don;t think they will be this close to geneseo at regionals though. Also Jared Burdick was 151 first and RITs 11 man, whats up with that, injury, bad race, or what. And also ryan kolb was 44th and ports 2 man. That is two weekends in a row that his results haven't look good at all. Whats the deal with him.

Williams never runs their full a squad at that meet which is a shame.

Nice to see that Nate Lockett is putting up some solid races. Sure, he's not Geneseo's 1 man, but the fact that he's finally contributing is good. Strong showing by RIT, they just need to hope it's not to strong too early. Kolb is running number 2 becuause Beringer is a strong kid. He has gradually been making good strides forward since his freshman year. Seems like Kolb always races himself into shape anyway. Too bad cortland wasn't at this one. It'd be nice to see them toe the line with other sunyac and state teams before sunyacs.

If you look at last years regional races on the very course you will see that nobody's times were very impressive, whether it was wet or not. Big time race for Finke.

Cross country isn't football...could you imagine running a race with a helmet?

Jared isn't injured or anything, just went out hard and had an off day, same deal with Andy Varble(although he wasn't quite as off).

Pace was kinda sedate through two miles(there were probably 15-20 guys in the lead pack), then it dropped down pretty quick and the top guys pulled off right around mile 3. Not the speediest race ever, but certainly not a bad one.

On another note, I don't know who it was, but one of the Geneseo guys gave me a pretty hard and completely unnecessary shoulder in the first 200m of the race. Big open field, shooting for a 10 foot wide trail about 400m out, and he almost freakin knocks me over, doesn't even look. Glad I beat him (whoever it was).

Forgot to mention, the course was really nice. Very open and almost completely flat, just a couple of muddy spots, and they was mostly just standing water, almost completely grass. You cross a pavement path 5 times total, and each one is no more than 8-10 feet. I hope to see that course again, becasue I really like it.

RFXCrunner wrote:

On another note, I don't know who it was, but one of the Geneseo guys gave me a pretty hard and completely unnecessary shoulder in the first 200m of the race. Big open field, shooting for a 10 foot wide trail about 400m out, and he almost freakin knocks me over, doesn't even look. Glad I beat him (whoever it was).

Suck it up, it's a cross country race, stop being such a girl.

it's cross country wrote:

[quote]RFXCrunner wrote:

On another note, I don't know who it was, but one of the Geneseo guys gave me a pretty hard and completely unnecessary shoulder in the first 200m of the race. Big open field, shooting for a 10 foot wide trail about 400m out, and he almost freakin knocks me over, doesn't even look. Glad I beat him (whoever it was).

Chuck Terry?

Some words of advice to RFXCrunner. If you can't handle being bumped in a small race like this, then don't plan on running at nationals, or suck it up, stop crying and run. This is cross country not bowling.

I wouldn't have complained if it was just a bump. I can deal with bumps and elbows... that stuff happens, I'm fine with it when there was a reason for it. If it was accidental or if it was crowded, then I could understand it, but it was neither. I know it happens, I've thrown my fair share of elbows, but I don't go out of my way to do it, and I don't do it when theres no reason to. You're right, this isn't bowling, but it isn't hockey either, just run the race.

"This isn't hockey, Donnie, it's cross-country--there are rules!"