Another year brings another warm and hilly race at the St. Francis Retreat Center for the Michigan Catholic XC Invitational! Our Falcon boys took advantage of a cooler early race on Saturday to all hit solid times! Charles Brooks was the 1st of the five varsity and hit more than a minute PR, 18:43! Senior Andrew Bajdek’s cross country debut led to a 19:01 and 2nd for the varsity boys! Charles and Andrew worked in tangent which helped them to move up well in the race. Also running in tangent were Tim O’Brien (20:15) and Evan Murphy (20:16)! In his senior year Matt Bouwhuis ran a 21:58 surpassing what he ran at this last year, hitting his goal for the day! 

We also had two of our guys in the 2 mile race. Noah Ysasi was 4th overall and hit a 2 mile PR! While sophomore Frankie Pelak was 6th overall and ran a tough race! They both took home top ten medals because of it! Nice work boys!

We’ll have a lot of good training until the Ottawa Hills Invitational on Friday September 16th. That is the race where the training wheels are off, and everyone runs a 5k! But the boys were about spot on to what we had planned for the race. We’ll continue to work on those fundamentals of the sport; improving our pacing, while fine tuning the elements of starting and finishing a race. We have a tight group of kids that will push each other to help reach their goals! Can’t wait to see how it takes shape!