Seems like Saratoga Boys had the best sectionals performance from what was posted so far. They had a 38sec spread from Isenovski who won the race and has run 182 SR this season.
I don't think that Fairport will even be in the top 4 with their performance today, the times almost make me wonder if some of them were tempoing given that Letchworth is a relatively flat course.
That was my bad, the section V website linked to last year’s results. New results are posted tullyrunners:
182-176-170-167-166-163-161
Missing their normal number 3 who ran 177 last weekend.
Here is a quick merge scored off of speed ratings. It's cool but it's apparent that some teams either didn't run runners or have runners that aren't running their best. States will be the big finale before nxr.
I don't think that Fairport will even be in the top 4 with their performance today, the times almost make me wonder if some of them were tempoing given that Letchworth is a relatively flat course.
That's a tight grouping. Hard to pick a favorite.
I actually knew it would be hard to pick a favorite before looking at these section speed ratings.
I actually knew it would be hard to pick a favorite before looking at these section speed ratings.
It comes down to which team can get good races from their back-end scorers. Any one of 5 teams could take it, if you throw MW into the mix - though they'd need an out-of-nowhere performance from their #5.
Auburn has the home-course advantage. Can they get their Seniors to step up?
Seems like Saratoga Boys had the best sectionals performance from what was posted so far. They had a 38sec spread from Isenovski who won the race and has run 182 SR this season.
I don't think that Fairport will even be in the top 4 with their performance today, the times almost make me wonder if some of them were tempoing given that Letchworth is a relatively flat course.
Last year, Fairport performed very well at McQuaid and then it went downhill for them. It’s looking very much like that this year
Sectionals are through, and States are on the horizon. To get a better view of the landscape, we took all the Speed Ratings from each of the Sectionals, and me
If you use the TullyRunners rankings (best season SR), you get a different result (but the same top-2):
Fairport - 70
Auburn - 72
Ithaca - 80
Saratoga - 94
MW - 105
Using season's-bests is also flawed... doesn't take into account injury, recency, season trajectory, etc. Ithaca has a guy coming back from injury... Howard's 181 SR is looking increasingly like a one-off... in fact, outside of that one race, Auburn's seniors have generally performed as if they didn't run a step all Summer. Still, I'm going to pick them to come up big on Saturday.
Don't sleep on MW and Saratoga, those two programs historically have peaked at the perfect time. Auburn and Fairport both underperformed at the state meet last year. Ithaca didn't qualify as they share a section with Corning, but looking at their individual qualifiers performances it doesn't seem like they performed great either (although they have had a coaching change so I'd put them as the biggest wildcard.) Really any of these teams could take the win, especially if FPs 3rd guy is really out.
Don't sleep on MW and Saratoga, those two programs historically have peaked at the perfect time. Auburn and Fairport both underperformed at the state meet last year. Ithaca didn't qualify as they share a section with Corning, but looking at their individual qualifiers performances it doesn't seem like they performed great either (although they have had a coaching change so I'd put them as the biggest wildcard.) Really any of these teams could take the win, especially if FPs 3rd guy is really out.
MW had a couple of guys off at NXR last year (Jibb and the older Catherwood)
