Announcement
2012 Overnight Relay - Results
It's mid season. The nights are crisp. The team is trained and bonded through all the hard work at practice. Everyone needs a little break. So that can only mean one thing... IT'S TIME FOR THE OVERNIGHT RELAY!!!
And of course, it was an epic night. The team started assembling early, bring enough food and snacks to fill three full tables. The grill was ready. The lights were on (well, most of the time). Footballs, soccer balls, frisbees, stereos, game consoles, card games and more were quickly unpacked. The neon and crazy outfits set a new standard - aided greatly by Coach Zach's huge stockpile of costumes!
Before the event, the coaches privately hoped that the team would simply break 100 miles and potentially beat the 102 miles from the previous year. However, the 2012 team had other ideas, quickly jumping way ahead of pace and never letting up. It became clear early on that the upperclassmen would turn the baton over to the sophs and freshmen with a nice cushion over the 2011 team. As the juniors finished their miles, the projected pace was at 107 miles.
Typically, that is when the pace slows and the projected miles drops quickly. Not this year. Not with this squad. Running in the chill of the evening, from 3am until past 6am, the younger teammates did not slow down at all. In fact, the pace actually improved during the wee hours - an unheard of development! Showing great depth, the group hammered solid miles one after another. Coach Mandee read off split after split - and in the excitement of the effort, completely forgot that she wasn't going to stay all night.
At 6:30, anyone sleeping was awaken to help cheer as the clock ran down. Running through the tradional team tunnel, Sr Captain Cameron Somers powered through the last few laps - hitting the finish line of his last lap exactly as the clock hit 0:00 - to the cheers of the tired but proud team. When the clock was checked - 108.75 miles were run! Full results in the text file handout below. Some photos from Coach Davis here.
The clean up was the fastest ever, with very little of the usual crackers and skittles ground into the field (Great Job team!)
A big thank you to the MV administration who once again enabled the team to hold this great tradition. As well as thanks to the parents who purchased the food and drink, and of course, the parents who came at ALL hours of the night to help us run the timing system and keep things flowing at the start finish. EVERY runner got accurate mile times without a hitch!
GREAT JOB MUSTANGS - WE'RE ALL PROUD OF THIS EFFORT!
