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Lots of positive additions/changes to this season! First off, with Mrs. Weir having her baby in January, donations looked a little different! While she was unable to collect and return cans, the needs of dues coverage, tennis shoes, a water bottle, and a bag for each girl was met through some fabulous donators!
Shoutout to: Phillina Rios, Lexee Grace, Kelly Johnson, Arianna Aber-Towns, Emily Judstra, Kendra McNees, Jessica Pankratz, Anne Pawlowski Kennedy, Cassie Jastrzembski, Sarah Molter-Kovar, David Hendley, Andra Derringer Schooley, and Susan Merchant Karnik for donating our needs!
Shoutout to our school as well for covering our running buddy dues and end of the year pizza party costs!
Running More
Last year, the girls noted that they had made so much running progress, that this year, in addition to working on start quality social-emotional skills, they would want to run more! We upped our practice running times from 15 to 20 minutes per practice. The girls pushed themselves weekly to get a better lap time than the previous practice!
Loving Ourselves and Others
This years lessons focused on the kind of friend we are to ourselves and one another. We focused on our star power and keeping our physical, mental, and emotional health in tact. This also includes surrounding ourselves with the right situations and people. To do so, we need to be a good friend to others as well. We discussed the 5 love languages to better understand our friends needs from us and how they need us to treat them in order to feel our support. Often the way we show love to others differs from how we ask them to show us love. Some need hugs, words of affirmation, quality time, or someone to simply help them out/take care of them. Knowing how we all differ helps us better understand and support one another on the team.
We also took time this season to ask ourselves where we see ourselves going with our running careers. Is short or long distance running our thing? What interests us? What do we feel we have better success at?
Shine Bright, Use All Your Might!
Tradition was created last year when our girls spent the last practice before the 5k with a little self care and motivation. Mrs. Weir gave all the girls manicures!
They did this while watching yet another inspirational running movie!
Last year we watched "Sisters On Track", an inspirational true story about three New York sisters experiencing homelessness while striving to reach their track goals. This year we switched it up and watched another inspirational true story called "McFarland USA" about cross country athletes coming to see their true potential despite their busy lives in their economically challenged small town.
We had some excellent running buddies this year! Thank you to Mr. Rios, Mr. Sealock, Mrs. Tanner, Ms. Kuelbs, Ms. Bell, Ms. Rolling, and Mr. Miller for participating with us. Our homemade running buddy shirts were quite the hit! Mrs. Hamilton stepped up as an assistant coach this year and our team had a special addition, Mrs. Weirs new baby Avery! This meant our anchor at our race, Mr. Weir, had a new assistant anchor. They helped make sure our team stayed together and supported any who were slowing down past their goal pace. Our girls set bigger goals than ever this year and will continue to next year!
The race this year was much earlier in the year than any before. This meant 49 degree temps! All the girls met their goals and finished the official race in less time than last years 5k times!
This year, Mrs. Weir decided to complete a secret challenge for the girls as last years practice 5k was "too easy", said the team. The track created this year measured at 59 laps around being a 5k. Because more running was the unanimous ask of this season and we were used to figuring out our lap times by taking our number of track laps and dividing it by the minutes we ran, we did the same for our practice 5k. The lesson here was, each girl can clearly run more than a 5k, and man did they prove it! Not one girl gave up or seemed even a little tired at this special long run practice. It was incredible!
1st Place - Aniah Clouse
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
120 Laps in 75 Minutes
6.31mi
Final 5k: 27:00 Minute Finish
16 seconds faster than last year!
2nd Place - Lydia Petsovich
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
97 Laps in 75 Minutes
5.10mi
Final 5k: 31:15 Minute Finish
(no score from last year)
3rd Place - Kylee Sealock
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
100 Laps in 75 Minutes
5.26mi
Final 5k: 34:59 Minute Finish
1 minute and 5 seconds faster than last year!
4th Place - Madison Bridwell
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
93 Laps in 75 Minutes
4.89mi
Final 5k: 39:29 Minute Finish
5 minutes and 48 seconds faster than last year!
5th Place - Liliana Rios
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
89 Laps in 75 Minutes
4.68mi
Final 5k: 40:14 Minute Finish
4 minutes and 13 seconds faster than last year!
6th Place - Alannah Miller
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
98 Laps in 75 Minutes
5.15mi
Final 5k: 41:56 Minute Finish
(no score from last year)
7th Place - Stephanie Wells
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
81 Laps in 75 Minutes
4.26mi
Final 5k: 42:35 Minute Finish
1 minute and 43 seconds faster than last year!
8th Place - Elsie Tanner
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
93 Laps in 75 Minutes
4.89mi
Final 5k: 42:39 Minute Finish
1 minute and 49 seconds faster than last year!
9th Place - Lilyen Daniels
Practice 5k Laps/Minute
88 Laps in 75 Minutes
4.63mi
Final 5k: 42:41 Minute Finish
2 minutes and 35 seconds faster than last year!
10th Place - Anneliese Horton
Final 5k: 45:22 Minute Finish
37 seconds faster than last year!
Truly another incredible season here at Riverside, with the best girls!
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