Heps was now over a week ago, so my apologies in the tardiness of this post. For those of you who follow DXC, you probably saw the results. For those of you who somehow, in a series of fortunate events, stumbled across this blog but are not fans of DXC, here are the team results from last Saturday in Princeton.
Team Scores
1.
Columbia 48
2.
Princeton 56
3. Dartmouth 64
4. Harvard 103
5.
Yale 116
6.
Penn 150
7.
Cornell 181
8.
Brown 253
Dartmouth finishers were:
John Bleday '14 (9th)
Sundance Gorman '16 (10th)
Willy G '14 (13th)
Hank Sterling '14 (14th)
Old Man Mangan '14 (18th)
Silas Talbathius '15 (22nd)
Chief Masterson '16 (37th)
Nat Adams '17 (38th)
Curtis King '16 (61st)
Ziggy Herzig '17 (64th)
Dylan O'Sully '15 (70th)
Rigatoni Anzivino (90th)
The feeling on this race was on the bitter side of bittersweet, particularly for us seniors. It was our best team effort of the season. We finished very close to two teams who have been nationally ranked all season, in a race that always brings out the best in every guy on a very fast course (12 guys under 24:00, 27 under 24:30). At the 1 mile mark, we were up 36 points to Columbia's 58, and at 3 miles, 44 to Columbia's 47. But then....the wheels came off a bit over the last 3K, with us finishing in third. As Willy said post-race, "The peleton always has its man."
The good news is we feel that our best team race is yet to come. It may have seemed from the outside that we ran a really aggressive race, but to be honest, we just felt like we went out right where we belonged. On a different day (Regionals) and with Dylan not getting tripped up and taking a digger, we know we'll be moving up the last 2K. So, next up is 10Ks of fun with the best teams from the Northeast at Van Cortlandt Park in NYC this Friday. Things are looking good for us to make it to the Big Dance in Terre Haute. The energy has been palpable here in Hanover all week. Hope to see you there!
Photos:
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| Lest the old traditions fail (Mom photo). |
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| Willy and John approaching 2mi with Harvard's Maksim Korolev (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| Dylan, Hank, and me chasing (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| Ziggy, Dylan, and Curtis a little after 2mi (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| John and Sundance nearing the finish (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| Pain faces (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| The Chief and Nat, stellar underclassmen (Tim O'Dowd photo). |
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| Obligatory '14s! photo (Dad photo). |
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| A huge thanks to the parents for bringing enough food to last us all day and through the next week's post-run snacks. This photo depicts about a quarter of what was there. |
Until next week,
-Steve
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