Stinger's First Race!

Here are my thoughts and results from the race today. Also, who made THE CUT!

I think everyone ran well, everyone learned something, and everyone feels like they have more to give. That's exactly what we were looking for. Here are the results, with a few notes. Eventually the full results will be on www.mcgilltrack.com. Note that last year's women's course was cut short, so this year's version is a bit longer.

A few of us old men ran under the banner of Almost Retired. We managed to beat all the CEGEPs but one, and we beat UQTR out of the universities, so that's not bad. I take responsibility for us not being a bit higher, or at least not beating the CEGEP, as I was a good 20 spots back of where I should have been, based on my fitness before I got this cold...

Team Scores:
Men 3rd with 93 points. 23 points behind Laval (16 points back if you just count Q teams). Beatable.

Women 7th with 166 points. 4 points behind Sherbrooke. I suspect that if we swap in Dom, Kelly, Megan and Amanda, we can make up a good 80 points. So likely we are around the 94 point Laval team. McGill with 53 is impressive, but not unbeatable.

Women 4.2k
13 Coralina Tse 15:41 (3:44/k) (6sec faster than last year)
19 Brenna Walsh 15:47 (3:45/k) (ran as Fleur-de-Lys)
33 Gabrielle Thompson 16:30 (3:55/k)
34 Elizabeth Mokrusa 16:33 (3:56/k) (46 sec faster than last year)
39 Megan Anderson 16:37 (3:57/k) (ran as unattached)
75 Lucianna Dykstra 18:06 (4:18/k)
THE CUT
104 Jade Ostiguy-Robillard 19:18 (4:35/k)
135 Sarah De Montigny 20:26 (4:52/k)
161 Rasna Mantha 21:23 (5:05/k)
183 Samentha Govindarajan 23:46 (5:39/k)

Men 6.3k
4 Ryan Noel-Hodge 19:44 (3:08/k) (16sec faster than last year, tempoed
two laps, past 15 guys on the last lap)
5 Steve McElligot 19:46 (3:08/k) Almost Retired
9 Stephane Colle 20:06 (3:11/k) (tempoed two laps, only one workout under his belt so far)
26 Sofiane Guend 21:04 (3:20/k) (20sec slower than last year)
30 Eliot McKinnon 21:12 (3:21/k)
37 James Coulton 21:24 (3:23/k) (52 sec faster than last year)
54 Ken Douglas 21:56 (3:28/k) Almost Retired
63 Jean Marc Laforest 22:19 (3:32/k) (1:13 faster than last year)
64 Glen Cowan 22:21 (3:32/k) Almost Retired
68 John Lofranco 22:26 (3:33/k) Almost (very likely) Retired
81 Vincent Morasse 22:59 (3:39/k) (2:11 faster than last year) Wow.
83 Peter Iacino 23:03 (3:40/k)
85 Didier Morelli 23:06 (3:40/k)
97 Clifford Reid 23:29 (3:43/k)
THE CUT
130 Colin Riendeau 24:54 (3:57/k) (15 sec faster than last year)
145 Dan Plouffe 25:19 (4:01/k) Concordia Alum
161 Charles-Smith Metellus 26:06 (4:08/k)
162 Jordon Choo 26:18 (4:10/k)
188 Francisco Checa 28:11 (4:28/k)