Following Week of Saturday, September 19
This is the first State rankings of the season for MileSplit, and it follows a very exciting weekend that saw Monroe-Woodbury hosting the Pre-States meet course preview during the Crusader Classic. Other major meets were held at New Hartford, Galway, Bob Pratt, East Syracuse-Minoa, Suffern, Ballston Spa, Fort Plain, McDaniel-Baxter, and Villa Bears, among others.
This early part of the season is especially tough to get a handle on for the girls. In addition to the usual factors that many teams have either not yet run or just competed with partial squads, we have the added issues of the conditions at the huge Crusader Classic Pre-States meet last Saturday. The heat and hills were ferocious and made dozens of runners head to the sidelines to recover even in the first varsity race. But the ordeal was especially tough in the later races when the shade cover disappeared and some of the teams just seemed to melt away. A majority of runners and teams saw their speed ratings dive by anywhere from 10 to 30 points from the previous week's marks. Because of these issues, making comparisons between Crusader and other meets is tough, and even using the merge results has its problems. We've tried to do the best we can, but there will certainly be a lot of disagreements, especially about the teams that only brought partial squads to the Crusader.
We have tried to factor in the varying circumstances for the teams. The shy squads who have not yet run remain pegged at their preseason estimates. The teams that braved the rigors of Crusader are hopefully not punished too greatly for their ordeals on the hills there, but the teams that busted out big-time are recognized. The team results merge place for the Crusader is included in parentheses after the race results for each team that was at Monroe-Woodbury, but they need to be used carefully because the teams in the later races were at a sometimes severe disadvantage as their shade completely disappeared. Note also that a Week 2 (W2) mark next to a meet result means that the event occurred on September 12.
A couple of Classes have new leaders, and a some new teams have announced that they will be making statements this year. Should be exciting.
Cheers to all.
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