You don't lose those kinds of individuals and have your team go unaffected. But you build a program that allows younger runners to develop and take the place of those who graduate when they're called upon to contribute, and we have that here.
We are pretty sure that the boys were seventh and the girls tied for fifth, but I don't even know who we tied.
The best thing for the boys was that they began to feed off the success we had (last year) and believe they could compete.
We'll have more to talk about in a couple of weeks, really. At this point it's all conjecture, but in a few weeks we'll know more about what's possible and what we need more work on.
I originally had everybody running only two events each. But with college testing, some injuries that occurred through the week and some that day, we ran some people in races we hadn't planned.
The girls sprint crew is inexperienced, and the boys distance runners are young.
We're not as good as we're going to be, but we saw some things that give us an idea of what we might do. Some of that was good, some not so great.
